Comments have been made on this forum trashing British jazz-rock fusion, which I have on occasion defended as having been no copy of the American model. Here's an example from the band Stinky Winkles:
I haven't been able to establish how old Simon Picard, the saxophonist fronting the band, was, but I would guess 20 or 21, so, pretty amazing playing, I think.
I've thought of starting this thread devoted to neglected or underexposed players still active on the scene for some time now. Here's Simon Picard at the Vortex 7 years ago, accompanied by another neglected great, the pianist Alex Maguire, who first became known for a duet with the drummer Steve Noble in the late 1980s - yet another, to me, genius who's pigeonholed in the Improv category - performing segues in spontaneously improvised profusions of different styles, sometimes coming to rest on a familiar but usually not-so familiar tune by the likes of Herbie Nichols. Here we have some lovely on-the-spot ballad-style improvising from Simon and Alex, who on this sounds like he'd found something to learn harmonies-wise from Alban Berg here:
Some may recognise the Picard name from his trombone-playing father, who was in Humph's band in the second half of the 1950s.
I haven't been able to establish how old Simon Picard, the saxophonist fronting the band, was, but I would guess 20 or 21, so, pretty amazing playing, I think.
I've thought of starting this thread devoted to neglected or underexposed players still active on the scene for some time now. Here's Simon Picard at the Vortex 7 years ago, accompanied by another neglected great, the pianist Alex Maguire, who first became known for a duet with the drummer Steve Noble in the late 1980s - yet another, to me, genius who's pigeonholed in the Improv category - performing segues in spontaneously improvised profusions of different styles, sometimes coming to rest on a familiar but usually not-so familiar tune by the likes of Herbie Nichols. Here we have some lovely on-the-spot ballad-style improvising from Simon and Alex, who on this sounds like he'd found something to learn harmonies-wise from Alban Berg here:
Some may recognise the Picard name from his trombone-playing father, who was in Humph's band in the second half of the 1950s.
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