Dexter Gordon, Lars Gullin, Sahib Shihab & Co. live in Copenhagen, 1962

[Jazzrook]

I was glad to discover this atmospheric jazz film featuring Dexter Gordon, Lars Gullin, Sahib Shihab & Co. live in Copenhagen in 1962:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFjIvWEIFA

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I was glad to discover this atmospheric jazz film featuring Dexter Gordon, Lars Gullin, Sahib Shihab & Co. live in Copenhagen in 1962:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFjIvWEIFA

JR

I've seen that before and it's great, not least the audience! A friend of mind who lived and hung out in Copenhagen and the Montmartre
just after this time saw it with me and she said, "Yes, that's just how it was, men, all stroking beards and drinking beer!"

[Serial_Apologist]

I've seen that before and it's great, not least the audience! A friend of mind who lived and hung out in Copenhagen and the Montmartre
just after this time saw it with me and she said, "Yes, that's just how it was, men, all stroking beards and drinking beer!"

They would have been the Traddies over here though!

There's an "aetiology" of jazz and its associated fashions, that goes something like this:

1) Trad: beatniks, beards, sandals, floppy cardies and smocks, beer, pipes or roll-ups, regional accents. Suburban habitats.

2) Modern: gave birth to Mod fashions before the Vespa brigade took it over: slimline suits/jackets, button-down or tab collar shirts, college haircuts, naughty African Woodbines or smack, Whisky Mac, regional accents. Urban habitats.

3) Free/jazz-rock crossover: the austere end of Hippy informality - long hair, T shirts, weed, cocaine or smack (more rarely), beer. Regional or middle class accents. Habitat mostly urban but often of provincial origins.

4) The Great British Jazz Revival: well-groomed guys (especially black guys) in suits and ties, beer maybe, no substances. Middle class, good business sense or heading that way. Urban habitats.

5) Jazz today: sartorially surprisingly conventional - could be anyone passed in the street. Short or medium back-and-sides. Non-smoking, drinks of any sort including non-alchoholic. Urban habitats but origins unspecific.

Who have I missed out? - apart from women?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Duffle coats with the Trad, look at those films, from Ken Colyer's club etc. And big check shirts, think Richard Burton avec trumpet in "Look back in Anger". Most of the Trad gigs I saw (very early 60s) were at Art and Architectural colleges so there was a proliferation of breads (trimmed and goatee) and suede shoes. Cavalry twill trousers. The women, and there were some, wore jeans and big sweaters or aspired to the then Audrey Hepburn Capri pant look, fringed bobs and ray bans (prob Woolworths).

Nostalgia, it's another country!

[Serial_Apologist]

Duffle coats with the Trad, look at those films, from Ken Colyer's club etc. And big check shirts, think Richard Burton avec trumpet in "Look back in Anger". Most of the Trad gigs I saw (very early 60s) were at Art and Architectural colleges so there was a proliferation of breads (trimmed and goatee) and suede shoes. Cavalry twill trousers. The women, and there were some, wore jeans and big sweaters or aspired to the then Audrey Hepburn Capri pant look, fringed bobs and ray bans (prob Woolworths).

Nostalgia, it's another country!

I would have thought cavalry twill trousers and suede shoes were indisputably mod rather than trad though. Buttoned up as we were in the boringest imaginable of school uniforms, to which the tiniest modifications, like lower hairlines, were immediately singled out at the start of Assembly for humiliation (though we privately envied), and I can remember one ex-boy returning to show off his suede Russell & Bromley Chukkas and asking in nonchalant tones if anyone happened to have any suede shoe cleaner handy - when black polish was the only possible option. He had been the school bully, and he knew that, of course, and my few pals advised me to keep out of the way. But forgetting about duffel coats was a serious omission on my part. I have a great photo of Michael Foot leading the Aldermaston CND march in 1960, and the duffel coats on display in an early Channel 4 accompanying series on the 1960s. There are some musicians - a trombonist, trumpeter, and a guy with a side drum with cymbal attached , a sort of one-man-band, marching alongside the leading rank with its banner carriers each side of Footie and a gentleman in clerical collar, acting as outriders, sort of, and in all probability playing "When the Saints Come Marching In".

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Just looked at some of the online pictures of Cy Laurie's club at Ham Yard (later in my day, "The Scene") and some of the women in those are wearing those long colour banded "gypsy" skirts. A few of the men have crew neck sweaters complete with shirt and tie (not a good look!). As for cavalry twill, my elder brother wore those with suede brogues... definitely not a mod! We wouldn't be seen dead in them. The duffle trend I think was partly ex merchant navy stock.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just looked at some of the online pictures of Cy Laurie's club at Ham Yard (later in my day, "The Scene") and some of the women in those are wearing those long colour banded "gypsy" skirts. A few of the men have crew neck sweaters complete with shirt and tie (not a good look!). As for cavalry twill, my elder brother wore those with suede brogues... definitely not a mod! We wouldn't be seen dead in them. The duffle trend I think was partly ex merchant navy stock.

This rather wonderful period piece was there among the photos of Cy Laurie's club. Oh for the days when adverts really told you about the product, and when the product had replaceable parts! At one point this shows a woman, A WOMAN, no less - thought possibly to be Cy's missus - actually changing a wheel!!! - pretty unprecedented in 1958, I would have thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRcgE_Zek0M