Keith Tippett is back on the road

[Serial_Apologist]

No official announcements that I can find, but the good news is that Keith is down to play two gigs in London this month.

Friday 12 at The Vortex: Keith, Julie Tippetts and Paul Dunmall - the improvising trio originally called The Dartington Trio, if I remember correctly. starting at 8.30. If I also remember correctly, the three did at concert as part of one of the Dartington summer weekend schools, during which the power was suddenly cut off in the middle of a violent thunderstorm, and they decided to just play on as an accompaniment to what people present said was a truly amazing experience!

Sunday 28 at the Purcell Room: Keith duetting with pianist Matthew Bourne, starting at 7.45. Tickets at £20, pretty good, in my view.

[MrGongGong]

Great news

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I've recently been listening to this on YouTube...it's very good: Elton channelling free-er period Jackie Mclean low tones on Naima and Keith T giving a nod to Wynton Kelly before moving out.

"They all be on this Old Road"
Live album · 1977
Filed under Avant-Garde Jazz
By ELTON DEAN

A.Naima (20:30)
B1.Dede Bup Bup (8:50)
B2.Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (3:12)
B3.Easy Living/Overdoing It/Not Too Much (8:00)

Line-up/Musicians
Bass – Chris Laurence
Drums – Louis Moholo
Piano – Keith Tippett
Saxophone [Saxello] – Elton Dean

About this release
Ogun OG 410 (UK)

Recorded live at the Seven Dials, Shelton Street, London WC2 on 18 November 1976

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

My copy of "They all be on this Old Road" is a second hand one I found in a shop in Islington High St back in the 1980s. It was already a bit worn, so I take great care not to play it too often. I agree with Bluesnik's assessment: Keith said the intention was to play standards as well as other straight ahead materials "for a change" rather than to indicate a move back to conventions, but of course it would lead to people approaching him and Elton asking, "Why don't you play standards more often?".

[Conchis]

Very pleased to hear he seems to be on the mend.

I'm a big fan of both Mr. AND Mrs. Tippett.

[cloughie]

Very pleased to hear he seems to be on the mend.

I'm a big fan of both Mr. AND Mrs. Tippett.

I don’t suppose that in my wildest dreams that Julie and Brian Auger and some Trinity line-up would ever do a mini tour!

[Conchis]

I don’t suppose that in my wildest dreams that Julie and Brian Auger and some Trinity line-up would ever do a mini tour!

I think that boat sailed long ago....

[Serial_Apologist]

I think that boat sailed long ago....

I was introduced to one of the Trinity drummers about ten years ago at the open air Ealing Jazz Festival. I think it was Clem Cattini. Brian Auger would supply his own bass lines, thereby not needing an extra player, and one of the band's best guitarists, Gary Boyle, occasionally pops back into the limelight. But I have a feeling that Julie would not be wanting a re-union - a few years ago, in that Britjazz series on telly, she said to the effect that "Brian started up something which he did very well, but he was happy to continue doing that for the rest of his life", whereas as we know, after 1969 Julie diversified into more challenging musical territories: firstly folk rock in her 1970 album of that name - and very fine it was and is, too - then guitar-led rock in company with her brother-in-law Brian Godding and the band he was in, Blossom Toes, and then free improvisation, beginning with John Stevens's Spontaneous Music Ensemble.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I've mentioned this before but there was a late 60s Play for the Day, "The Season of the Witch" , in which Julie plays the role of young secretary bored with suburbia, and who "hippy's" off to London to meet the revolutionary students and other assorted yoof. I think it was all filmed "verite", kind of Godard, and took in the LSE, the Traffic in the Park concert, and a trip to Brighton. It was very watchable and bits of it were up on YouTube.

I remember one (of the many) reasons that she gave up the pop "lark" is that girls especially used to forcefully demand to know why she didn't have all those stars and glitter stuff etc stuck on her face in the daytime...when she was down the shops buying milk. I have exactly the same problem.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've mentioned this before but there was a late 60s Play for the Day, "The Season of the Witch" , in which Julie plays the role of young secretary bored with suburbia, and who "hippy's" off to London to meet the revolutionary students and other assorted yoof. I think it was all filmed "verite", kind of Godard, and took in the LSE, the Traffic in the Park concert, and a trip to Brighton. It was very watchable and bits of it were up on YouTube.

I remember one (of the many) reasons that she gave up the pop "lark" is that girls especially used to forcefully demand to know why she didn't have all those stars and glitter stuff etc stuck on her face in the daytime...when she was down the shops buying milk. I have exactly the same problem.

BN.

There was a TV documentary about 1967, "The Summer of Love", which included a short bit of footage taken inside Bibers, the fashion boutique in Kensington Church Street, and I'm pretty sure we saw Julie in there, trying on a hat. That was the place to buy your girlfriend something bang up to date. I'll see if I can find the youtube you mentioned, if it still exists.

[Conchis]

I've mentioned this before but there was a late 60s Play for the Day, "The Season of the Witch" , in which Julie plays the role of young secretary bored with suburbia, and who "hippy's" off to London to meet the revolutionary students and other assorted yoof. I think it was all filmed "verite", kind of Godard, and took in the LSE, the Traffic in the Park concert, and a trip to Brighton. It was very watchable and bits of it were up on YouTube.

I remember one (of the many) reasons that she gave up the pop "lark" is that girls especially used to forcefully demand to know why she didn't have all those stars and glitter stuff etc stuck on her face in the daytime...when she was down the shops buying milk. I have exactly the same problem.

BN.

Blind Faith, in fact.

The whole play was up on youtube at one point, but then the beeb issued a c&d. You can still see some excerpts, but they're without dialogue and in black and white.

I loved the play and found the central character (plays by JD) completely sympathetic. I'd say it was a prime candidate for a BFI reissue.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

There's c. 14 minutes, opening credits, maybe the highlights, with music and dialogue still up on YouTube under "the season of Julie Driscoll". Yep, it was Blind Faith. As you say, I thought she was very natural in it and it really is a kind of time capsule.

[cloughie]

I was introduced to one of the Trinity drummers about ten years ago at the open air Ealing Jazz Festival. I think it was Clem Cattini. Brian Auger would supply his own bass lines, thereby not needing an extra player, and one of the band's best guitarists, Gary Boyle, occasionally pops back into the limelight. But I have a feeling that Julie would not be wanting a re-union - a few years ago, in that Britjazz series on telly, she said to the effect that "Brian started up something which he did very well, but he was happy to continue doing that for the rest of his life", whereas as we know, after 1969 Julie diversified into more challenging musical territories: firstly folk rock in her 1970 album of that name - and very fine it was and is, too - then guitar-led rock in company with her brother-in-law Brian Godding and the band he was in, Blossom Toes, and then free improvisation, beginning with John Stevens's Spontaneous Music Ensemble.

Gary Boyle was the excellent Trinity guitarist on the Open album and I think also on ‘Wheels on Fire’ single. some of the tracks on that album are outstanding and particularly the first two ‘in and out’ and ‘Isola Natalie’ and ‘Season of the Witch’. I saw them at Sheffield University at the time of this line-up - beauty abd great music.

[Conchis]

There's c. 14 minutes, opening credits, maybe the highlights, with music and dialogue still up on YouTube under "the season of Julie Driscoll". Yep, it was Blind Faith. As you say, I thought she was very natural in it and it really is a kind of time capsule.

I only saw it once (in 2015) but it left a tremendous impression on me. It is one of the best remembered Wednesday Plays, judging by the comments on imdb and it really does preserve a vanished world on film. Really, 1969/70 seems as remote from today as the late Victorian era. Unlike that era, though, it looks incredibly appealing (especially to those of us who don't remember it first hand!).

[jayne lee wilson]

There was a TV documentary about 1967, "The Summer of Love", which included a short bit of footage taken inside Bibers, the fashion boutique in Kensington Church Street, and I'm pretty sure we saw Julie in there, trying on a hat. That was the place to buy your girlfriend something bang up to date. I'll see if I can find the youtube you mentioned, if it still exists.

Actually....BIBA...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPrdEDzHbm8

Wonderful clothes which I was old enough to admire... but too young to buy... (I infuriated my elder sister by borrowing her chainstore copies later though....the problem was - I was BIBA-thin and she was very curvy...)

But all I've got left is a gorgeous, glossy coffee table compendium ("The Biba Experience"), which feels like it weighs more than most of the Biba models.....as it says on the back:

"Biba fulfilled the rock & roll promise to live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse..."

Uh-huh.... I guess some ambitions are best honoured in the breach...