Keith Tippett

[MrGongGong]

Just heard this

We are very sad to learn that Keith Tippett passed away today. Details have not been released. Keith, a gentle loving, vivacious, incredible spirit will rest peacefully now. Deepest condolences to his family and closest.
- Janinka Diverio

Terrible and sad news

Such a wonderful human being

[Tenor Freak]

Just heard about this on FB. Terrible news, RIP Keith and condolences to the family.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Just heard about this on FB. Terrible news, RIP Keith and condolences to the family.

Il Mattino (Italy, Google translation)...

"Keith Tippett, English jazz-rock giant, pianist, composer, bandleader and great improviser died a few hours ago at 72 years old.
Born in Bristol on August 25, 1947, he was the absolute protagonist, often with his wife Julie Driscoll, of the English avant-garde scene since the sixties, which he conquered as soon as he arrived in London with a creativity that led him to keep the energy of rock together, the fantasy of jazz and the freedom of the most radical and libertarian improvisation, going from the first three records of King Crimson to the organized anarchy of the blockbuster Centipede project (over 50 musicians). At Ronnie Scott he met the South African Blue Notes - Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo - while at 100 Club he staged for the first time with Elton Dean on saxophone, Mark Charig on trumpet and Nick Evans on trombone. In 1970 the first LP arrived, the second the following year, then he joined the Ovary Lodge, in whose ranks he found his future wife, whose voice pushed him to go beyond the genre patterns and the cages of routine. The death of his South African friends prompted him to the Dedication Orchestra project, but as an irregular he always had fun in moving from one project to another, putting on a resume from a meeting with Peter Brötzmann to a duo with Howard Riley, from Derek Bailey's Company dialogues with Stan Tracey, Andy Sheppard and Peter Fairclough, passing through film music, collaborations with Arthur Brown and Alex Balanescu, the free improvisation extremism of the Mujician up to the collaboration with the Italian Canto Generale....

Read the full article
on Il Mattino

RIP Keith.

[Serial_Apologist]

Terribly sad news. So glad I managed to get to see him perform alongside Matthew Bourne last year, when he had seemed on the mend, and snatched a few words after the gig.

Notwithstanding Centipede, Frames, and the 1990 Georgia exchange, Keith's crowning achievement was imv the Mujician project with Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin, arguably rightly coined that overworked cliché a supergroup but which couldn't have possibly continued after Tony's death in 2011. Keith preferred not to be described as a jazz-rock musician, nevertheless for me his most thrilling work was alongside Elton Dean on Hugh Hopper's "Cruel But Fair" of 1976, where he came closest to being an earlier edition of Soft Machine's keyboard player. Keith always said he eschewed electronic keyboards owing to a phobia about electronics which prevented him from even changing a plug - his unique pianist innovations involved on-spot internal "preparations" using mobilisable objects - yet on one track on this recording he duo'd on Fender Rhodes with Joe Gallivan's Moog synth to achieve some memorable sonorities, never to be repeated. I would say the 1970s was Keith and Julie's heyday - the era they were most at home in. Another recording from that era, which to my eternal regret went AWOL on my move here, was "Warm Spirits, Cool Spirits", under Trevor Watts's name, also with Julie and the great Scottish bass guitarist Colin McKenzie. Please, someone, re-issue this album.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's TIPPETT, btw - if someone could kindly change the thread heading please.

[MrGongGong]

It's TIPPETT, btw - if someone could kindly change the thread heading please.

Apologies ....typing on a phone ...

[Serial_Apologist]

Apologies ....typing on a phone ...

Just me being picky, I'm afraid.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

From the Guardian's obit today (full piece on their website)...

"Speaking to the Wire magazine in 1995, Robert Wyatt, who collaborated with Tippett in his group Symbiosis, credited him with bringing together prog rock, experimental jazz and exiled South African musicians in the early 1970s, describing him as “a west country bloke with a great big heart and completely UNLIKE the old boy network jazz mafia that was the London scene at the time”.
Wyatt said: “He had all barriers down, listened to everybody, open-minded, never put anybody down, and one of his things was to get all these different musicians from different genres together – particularly the South African exiles. He would get together these bands and get us into them and then we’d meet each other. So really you could put a lot of that down to ONE man.”

[MrGongGong]

Just me being picky, I'm afraid.

not at all ... who do we ask as it still is wrong ?

[Serial_Apologist]

not at all ... who do we ask as it still is wrong ?

I've just posted a request to one of our illustrious hosts.

[ardcarp]

The illustrious Host has tried to communicate via PM but sadly your message box seems to be full. The gist of my message was that, illustrious or otherwise, my Editing/Moderating writ does not run to the Jazz sub-forum! But I've forwarded your request to a man with a bigger writ. I think.

PS Done.

[Serial_Apologist]

The illustrious Host has tried to communicate via PM but sadly your message box seems to be full. The gist of my message was that, illustrious or otherwise, my Editing/Moderating writ does not run to the Jazz sub-forum! But I've forwarded your request to a man with a bigger writ. I think.

PS Done.

Apologies for that - it doesn't seem to matter how many posts I have to delete to make access, the number never seems to be enough!

[antongould]

Heartbreaking news that Keith Tippett has died. Feeling real gratitude for having witnessed so many of his performances at Dartington, both his free-wheeling, wild and inquisitive improvs with Julie Tippetts, and his generous, joyous holding of space for students to shine.

SMP on Twitter .......

Saw him at Warwick University decades ago when we were both young .... wonderful .....

[Serial_Apologist]

Heartbreaking news that Keith Tippett has died. Feeling real gratitude for having witnessed so many of his performances at Dartington, both his free-wheeling, wild and inquisitive improvs with Julie Tippetts, and his generous, joyous holding of space for students to shine.

SMP on Twitter .......

Saw him at Warwick University decades ago when we were both young .... wonderful .....

You've always been very circumspect regarding having any jazz connections in the past, Anton!

[Serial_Apologist]

Duncan Heining obit in All About Jazz:

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/keith-tippett-rip-keith-tippett?fbclid=IwAR1hLLsfXiGRT7ni18TfXG5U71SFm_roUeGShl9kGPnIEBmus2wJaQ7-OYI