First ever jazz single

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Jazz is never playing the same thing once" - Shelly Manne, drummer, band leader and wit. (He was sort of joking). Stick with the improvising, it will reveal itself to you. Adderley is an excellent choice/starting point. He was partly mine.

BN.

[Old Grumpy]

First jazz single? - Never had one (must be too young ).

First jazz LP (IIRC) Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia - Wilde Tales, bought at a gig in Southampton at the Solent Suite under the Guildhall* (or Civic Centre).

OG

* I see this is now the "O2 Guildhall" - sign of the times, I guess.

[Ian Thumwood]

First jazz single? - Never had one (must be too young ).

First jazz LP (IIRC) Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia - Wilde Tales, bought at a gig in Southampton at the Solent Suite under the Guildhall* (or Civic Centre).

OG

* I see this is now the "O2 Guildhall" - sign of the times, I guess.

Old Grumpy

The chances are that I might have bumped in to you. Back in the early 1980s this was one of the main jazz venues in Southampton and I regularly used to go to the Sunday lunchtime jam session. This is where I first sat in with a group albeit it was a total disaster. The good thing was that there was a community of people able to assist and put you in contact with other people.

The inaugural Southampton Jazz Festival was held there around 1985 and I caught Andy Sheppard, Paz and Trevor Watts around that time. The acoustics were pretty poor but the period up to the mid 1990s was a good one for jazz in the city. Later on, the venues changes but numerous attempts to resurrect the festival faltered despite so big names like Jimmy Witherspoon, Tim Garland and John Surman being booked. There no longer appear to be the venues around the city and I think many of the key figures have passed on. There was a time when you could go from Goblets to the pub next door and hear two gigs, one after the other.

There is a new Winchester Jazz Festival which has started up this year and which runs in 22-25 September. So far, the only gig announced is Claire Martin but I know that several London based jazz musicians live in the villages around about (including the one where I live) and it will be interesting to see how the line up pans out. Traditionally Winchester is big on folk music and a bit of a desert for jazz. It will be brilliant if this project manages to succeed.

[Old Grumpy]

Sounds like a good scene, Ian. I was at uni (as they say nowadays!) from 1976 and then in the Soton area until Feb 1983, when I moved to the East Midlands. Been up in the North East since 1984, so a bit out of touch with what's going on on the South coast.

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Old Grumpy

The chances are that I might have bumped in to you. Back in the early 1980s this was one of the main jazz venues in Southampton and I regularly used to go to the Sunday lunchtime jam session. This is where I first sat in with a group albeit it was a total disaster. The good thing was that there was a community of people able to assist and put you in contact with other people.

The inaugural Southampton Jazz Festival was held there around 1985 and I caught Andy Sheppard, Paz and Trevor Watts around that time. The acoustics were pretty poor but the period up to the mid 1990s was a good one for jazz in the city. Later on, the venues changes but numerous attempts to resurrect the festival faltered despite so big names like Jimmy Witherspoon, Tim Garland and John Surman being booked. There no longer appear to be the venues around the city and I think many of the key figures have passed on. There was a time when you could go from Goblets to the pub next door and hear two gigs, one after the other.

There is a new Winchester Jazz Festival which has started up this year and which runs in 22-25 September. So far, the only gig announced is Claire Martin but I know that several London based jazz musicians live in the villages around about (including the one where I live) and it will be interesting to see how the line up pans out. Traditionally Winchester is big on folk music and a bit of a desert for jazz. It will be brilliant if this project manages to succeed.

The last time I talked to Ray D'Inverno the Southampton Musicians' Co-operative was still in being - but that was a few years ago, when he was on a visit here doing a freebie lunchtime jazz trio in the National foyer.

[Pianorak]

Historical saxophone collection. Sorry, somewhat off topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-b6I1ihh2s&list=RDp-b6I1ihh2s#t=34