I said Dudley, not Rab C; and Kevin, NOT Kelvin

[Alyn_Shipton]

And I forgot Curtis Fuller...nice man, talked to him for R3 back in 2000...

[Quarky]

6.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents a performance by Pan Jumby, led by steel pan master Dudley Nesbitt, recorded in April at the Jazz Line-Up stage at the 2016 Gateshead International Jazz Festival

I always thought Andy Narell over in 'Frisco was pretty good on the old pans - and lest we forget, our very own Orphy Robinson, eh?

No complaints about JLU this week - - so far --

[Rcartes]

Swing era trombonists were pretty numerous - inc McGarity on yesterday's Cootie track, but names that spring to mind (as well as Mr Green) include Vic Dickenson, Eddie Durham, Dickie Wells, Britt Woodman, Lawrence Brown, Trummy Young, Benny Morton, not to mention T Dorsey...
But there were plenty of bebop trombonists: J J Johnson being top of the tree, I think, but Melba Liston, Kai Winding, Frank Rehak, Frank Rosolino...the list goes on.

I'd second Dicky Wells, a truly great musician with some terrific work with the Basie band. But my favourite solos of his are on the Spike Hughes recordings (quaintly referred to by Decca as "Spike Hughes and his Negro Orchestra"): rather stiff Hughes arrangements but wonderful solos. Try, for example, Fanfare: Wells' solo there is amazing, and I always use it in a definition of what swing is because of the way Wells lags outrageously behind the beat, so much so he almost seems to be playing on the next one.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

And I forgot Curtis Fuller...nice man, talked to him for R3 back in 2000...

Yes, I was about to mention Curtis Fuller. Too often overlooked, again some excellent own name Bnotes with Mobley etc. , the later Jazztet and with the Blakey sextet. Strong interview with him on the Baroness Nica DVD re Prince Phillip being an offensive txxx when he played with Basie.

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

And I forgot Curtis Fuller...nice man, talked to him for R3 back in 2000...

Yes, I was about to mention Curtis Fuller. Too often overlooked, again some excellent own name Bnotes with Mobley etc. , the later Jazztet and with the Blakey sextet. Strong interview with him on the Baroness Nica DVD re Prince Phillip being an offensive txxx when he played with Basie.

Curtis, that is!

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'd second Dicky Wells, a truly great musician with some terrific work with the Basie band. But my favourite solos of his are on the Spike Hughes recordings (quaintly referred to by Decca as "Spike Hughes and his Negro Orchestra"): rather stiff Hughes arrangements but wonderful solos. Try, for example, Fanfare: Wells' solo there is amazing, and I always use it in a definition of what swing is because of the way Wells lags outrageously behind the beat, so much so he almost seems to be playing on the next one.

Yes, yes and thrice yes! I remember Paul Rutherford saying Dickie Wells was one of his all-time favourite trombone players.

[Rcartes]

Yes, I was about to mention Curtis Fuller. Too often overlooked, again some excellent own name Bnotes with Mobley etc. , the later Jazztet and with the Blakey sextet. Strong interview with him on the Baroness Nica DVD re Prince Phillip being an offensive txxx when he played with Basie.

Curtis, that is!

BN.

Well, that is disappointing: I thought maybe you'd stumbled across the one useful thing P. Philip had done in his miserable life on the dole (ie, as a royal consort).

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Well, that is disappointing: I thought maybe you'd stumbled across the one useful thing P. Philip had done in his miserable life on the dole (ie, as a royal consort).

At some Royal Command performance at which the Basie band played (late 60s/70s?) , they were fleetingly presented to Liz and Phil afterwards. Phil then mumbled highly amusingly, "Oh so you're the ones who play that Zulu music". Curtis Fuller was still enraged years after, contrasting the pillock with Nica Rothschild's grace.

BN.

[Rcartes]

[Rcartes]

I was struck as always by the dexterity and accuracy of Willie Johnson's slide playing. This is not "throw away" stuff but fully worked out. In a different 'blues' context Skip James was the same. I suggest therefore that the guitar is not the devil's work Not when there are fascist banjos still to torch and drive stakes through. And their reptile friends, the piano accordions... "One through the head, two through the chest", as an American jazz collecter once " jokingly" said because I wouldn't sell him a then rare Dexter Gordon record.

BN.

I rather suspect that BWJ wouldn't have described himself as a blues singer but a gospel singer - rather in the way that the wonderful Mahalia Jackson would never sing the blues because, she said, it wasn't sanctified. And she she could swing, too. But for sheer power, try Didn't it rain from Newport. Just glorious!