Turn Things Upside Down - Happy End

[Guest]

Who can tell me more about this Big Band?

"Source material was drawn from the political left: the songs of Bertolt Brecht (with both Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler), Maoist anthems, Chartist protest songs, Cuban rhumbas, miners' anthems, South African township jazz, Irish jigs".

http://www.dannymanners.com/happy.html

[Serial_Apologist]

Who can tell me more about this Big Band?

"Source material was drawn from the political left: the songs of Bertolt Brecht (with both Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler), Maoist anthems, Chartist protest songs, Cuban rhumbas, miners' anthems, South African township jazz, Irish jigs".

http://www.dannymanners.com/happy.html

I remember them as not my cuppa, but not why - were they too noisy, too jokey, was there not enough improvisation in what they did, was it of poor quality, was it Sarah Jane Morris's voice? It was one or a combination of these things.

This is the man who puts on a real combination of world idioms that somehow seems to work (most times)

http://www.grandunion.org.uk/tonyhaynes.html

Then there's Mike and Kate Westbrook for more nuanced, less "Proletkult" takes on...

[Pilchardman]

I only vaguely know of them, from a half-remembered collaboration with Robert Wyatt. Someone nudged my memory this morning, so obviously I thought of coming here for info!

[Serial_Apologist]

I only vaguely know of them, from a half-remembered collaboration with Robert Wyatt. Someone nudged my memory this morning, so obviously I thought of coming here for info!

I now recall them better as a satirical blast from the past, and of no particular relevance to the (then) present, P.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

oh those latin beats .....

[Pilchardman]

Cheers. Doesn't do it for me, I'm afraid.