Ornette Coleman & Prime Time playing ‘Dancing In Your Head’ at Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, 1990s(?):
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John Coltrane Quartet playing ‘Ascension’, France, 1965:
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Sonny Rollins with Henry Grimes & Joe Harris playing ‘Love Letters’ in Stockholm, 1959:
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Marc Ribot Trio with Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor playing ‘Fat Man Blues’:
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Zoh Amba Trio with William Parker & Francisco Mela, September 2021.
Albert Ayler reincarnated?
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Fascinating footage, including from 1986 in clip 2 of Art Blakey auditioning young talent for a new Jazz Messengers. Spot and name a few familiar faces to be! These included members of Gary Crosby's then-pathbreaking Jazz Warriors big band, seen in the first clip, who appeared at that year's Camden Jazz Festival, as also did Blakey. Apologies for poor quality VHS, but this is documented history.
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Two Jazz Warriors plus saxophonist Ed Jones with John Stevens in a tribute to Dudu Pukwana, at the 1992 Outside-In Festival in Crawley:
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Something I stumbled upon last night, an ITV detective series *Strangers" from 1982, partly centred around a jazz cub where "Sonny Boy" is playing saxophone. Sonny Boy being LOL COXHILL! Who also acts a bit... and the music is LOL.
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....convivial type of chap Lol....lol....played a sort of convivial set of around the houses notes....(the alexi Sayle of the sax....).....bong chingComment
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Also background excerpts from Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia - one being from her 1983 album "City Lights", the other, not sure. Mike Moran, who wrote the theme tune to the series (just before my TV acquiring time), still going, with an impressive CV...Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
..and would probably have had a choice in the musicians and the excerpts.
I wonder if the unattributed tap dancer was Will Gaines. A bit of sleuthing reveals that Gaines had done a Sounds of Jazz broadcast around that time with Michael Garrick's quintet with Norma Winstone; and Garrick had done several duet gigs with Lol, plus recordings (which sadly never saw the light of day) following their involvement in Dave Green's Mingus tribute band Fingers - alongside Bruce Turner ("dad") and drummer Alan Jackson.Comment
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On a tangent, but I once had a long conversation with Alan Jackson in the toilets! of the first (and last?) Jazz evening of the Porlock festival c.1987? He was playing with Mike Garrick's quartet with Jimmy Hastings, and a young Christian Garrick on violin. Fascinating stories about the all nighters at Ronnie's old place and Mike Osborne etc. I'm not sure if Alyn ever interviewed him, I knows he's played with him, but that stuff was gold.Comment
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The Jazz Warriors played one gig which was broadcast on a pirate radio station (might have been Starpoint? more likely JBC). They did one piece which, decades later I realised was "The Painter" by Julius Hemphill. I recorded it but lost the TDK C90 because I lent it to a mate.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostFascinating footage, including from 1986 in clip 2 of Art Blakey auditioning young talent for a new Jazz Messengers. Spot and name a few familiar faces to be! These included members of Gary Crosby's then-pathbreaking Jazz Warriors big band, seen in the first clip, who appeared at that year's Camden Jazz Festival, as also did Blakey. Apologies for poor quality VHS, but this is documented history.
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Here's a very brief clip of JBC getting raided by the DTI, including the legendary Eric Gotts who tried his best to stamp out pirate radio in the London area in the '70s and '80s.
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I agree with the Jazz Warriors being pivotal in the history of British jazz and it is a shame that this generation is not getting the kudos for their role in cultivating the current scene. In my opinion that generation including the likes of Tony Kofi and the seriously underrated Monsesir brothers were taken for granted and I feel are far better than some of rhe names being touted these days. Never a fan of the Jazz Warriors, though. I was loaned their album when it came out and felt Loose Tubes were better .
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Wonderful playing from Mal Waldron & Jackie McLean with Herbie Lewis & Eddie Moore on ‘Left Alone’ in 1986.
Pity about the disruptive ad.
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