Alan Skidmore~TCB

[Jazzrook]

Good to have this one back in circulation(VOCALION CDSML 8481)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2umDhdthHg

[eighthobstruction]

Yep, your absolutely right...!!....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep Alan Skidmore is too readily overlooked ... that is a hard blowing track!

[Serial_Apologist]

Good to have this one back in circulation(VOCALION CDSML 8481)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2umDhdthHg

Good to know this is out, since it's one one big release of that time I never got hold of.

I once asked Skid about his dad, to which he replied, "Well, he's dead. At least, we hope he is. We buried him last week!"

S-A

[eighthobstruction]

There's some very rich suggestions in the margin....leading to even more interesting stuff....and then even more....Nice One Jazzrook

[eighthobstruction]

Actually the poster of skidmore on utube has a very interesting channel [alicealiasalibi]....http://www.youtube.com/user/aliceali.../2/ekJD-6dqm_M

[Serial_Apologist]

Many thanks Tim

[Byas'd Opinion]

The original release was well before I was old enough to be interested in jazz, so having recently heard it for the first time, without any sort of nostalgia, I have to say... what a great record! Skidmore's clearly been listening to Coltrane - a lot of Coltrane - but there's not the slightest hint of mere imitation about it, possibly because John Taylor sounds so unlike McCoy Tyner.

One of the interesting things about LPs is the way that their two-sided format could lend themselves to albums with a different line-up on each side, with half of this (side one of the original) being by a quintet, and the other half (side two) by a septet.