‘Rawness, freedom, experimentation’: the Brit jazz boom of the 60s and 70s
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
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From Simon Spillett's blog, which is well worth reading more generally...
"Fast-forward a decade and a half and we have Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-72) which includes a good three quarters of Higgins’ selections for the never-released Impressed 3 plus a whole lot more, spread over two carefully (one might even say artfully) programmed discs, creating a collection that has some history too, to go along with its many echoes and shadows. The chosen names in themselves tell as story; Kenny Wheeler, Don Rendell, John Surman, John Warren, Michael Garrick, Mike Westbrook, Stan Tracey, Neil Ardley, Alan Skidmore, Dick Morrissey, Mike Taylor, Mike Gibbs – all key figures. But what about those who aren’t here? Some omissions, some mistakes, surely? Where, you might wonder, is Tubby Hayes or, for that matter, the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet, vital shapers in the style and sound of British jazz at this time?..." Good piece.
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Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostGosh I thought there must be yet another book out on that period in British jazz.
Can’t have enough of those babies…..I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Most of these musicians went on to develop long careers and reinforced the impression that good quaity jazz is a marathon and not a sprint. I think a problem today is the media's requirement for the "new" with the consequence that musicians are discarded by the press as soon as the next new thing comes along. It strikes me that we are particularly bad at this in the UK where jazz is either "contemporary" or took place between 1955- 1970. Quite staggering to count the number of British jazz musicians whose stock and profile has dminished over the last 40 years as the press has lost interest. Telling that The Guardian should revisit this particular generation of British musicians whose reputations are meritted but perhaps lose interest in those players emerging in the 1980s onwards. It is as if these players have not produced a legacy.
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Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View PostMost of these musicians went on to develop long careers and reinforced the impression that good quaity jazz is a marathon and not a sprint. I think a problem today is the media's requirement for the "new" with the consequence that musicians are discarded by the press as soon as the next new thing comes along. It strikes me that we are particularly bad at this in the UK where jazz is either "contemporary" or took place between 1955- 1970. Quite staggering to count the number of British jazz musicians whose stock and profile has dminished over the last 40 years as the press has lost interest. Telling that The Guardian should revisit this particular generation of British musicians whose reputations are meritted but perhaps lose interest in those players emerging in the 1980s onwards. It is as if these players have not produced a legacy.
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