JRR JULY- ART PEPPER/HAMP HAWES - Here's that rainy day" (1976)

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Comrade Jazzpeople... I have requested Art Pepper's "Living Legend" comeback album recording (Contemp 1976) of "Here's that rainy day" (Ms.Laurie Pepper's favourite tune) for the JRR 14th JULY.

Comrade Shipton will point out (no doubt) the wonderfully supportive Hampton Hawes piano solo and the essential contributions of Shelly Manne and Charlie Haden. One of Art's diamond hard ballad gems.

Dig this.

BN.
Alyn recently played a version of this tune with Art and a wacko accordianist - Art once sold accordians door to door so he could rob people. Only use for 'em. Accordianista robbers -Worse than Brit city bankers. Almost.

[Serial_Apologist]

Comrade Jazzpeople... I have requested Art Pepper's "Living Legend" comeback album recording (Contemp 1976) of "Here's that rainy day" (Ms.Laurie Pepper's favourite tune) for the JRR 14th JULY.

Comrade Shipton will point out (no doubt) the wonderfully supportive Hampton Hawes piano solo and the essential contributions of Shelly Manne and Charlie Haden. One of Art's diamond hard ballad gems.

Dig this.

BN.
Alyn recently played a version of this tune with Art and a wacko accordianist - Art once sold accordians door to door so he could rob people. Only use for 'em. Accordianista robbers -Worse than Brit city bankers. Almost.

One never seems to hear of accordians in Gospel music. Only in the Bible.

Eg: The Gospel accordian to St Luke... etc etc.

Er. I'll get me concertina.

[grippie]

One never seems to hear of accordians in Gospel music. Only in the Bible.

Eg: The Gospel accordian to St Luke... etc etc.

Er. I'll get me concertina.

A definition of a gentleman is someone who owns an concertina, but never takes it out of it's case in company.

[Serial_Apologist]

A definition of a gentleman is someone who owns an accordion, but never takes it out of it's case in company.

I know one - his name is Justin Case.

[Serial_Apologist]

By the way, grippie, I picked up a copy of Fisherman's Blues a couple weeks ago in our local market for £4 - just a couple of slight scratches on Side 2 - which I thought pretty remarkable. My original copy got lent and never returned. The same market where a year ago I picked up a slightly more scratched but still serviceable copy of Julie Driscoll's 1967 "Open", with its admittedly ghastly mauve and orange cover and unacknowledged fine solo from el Skid, for a fiver.

One hesitates to mention these little godsends, for fear of one of London's best-kept secrets getting out.

[charles t]

One of those 'second-hand-to-third-hand' tales that emanate from the Art Pepper repertoire:

I was told by a friend... who knew this guy ... who was in prison with Art:

That Art Pepper was the 'worst' [fellow-inmate] he met while in prison!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yeh the bad licks a cat plays wail long after he kicks out ... [lord Buckley said something very like that]

er just found this new post on youtube

[Alyn_Shipton]

Alyn recently played a version of this tune with Art and a wacko accordianist

Well the thing is BN old chap, I'm not going to play Art again less than a month later playing the same tune, even with the wonderful Mr Hawes...So I am afraid you will not be hearing Mr Pepper on 14th...at least not on JRR. It will, however, be possible to hear Albert Ayler on that date, who has not been featured overmuch on JRR on recent times.

[johncorrigan]

One of those 'second-hand-to-third-hand' tales that emanate from the Art Pepper repertoire:

I was told by a friend... who knew this guy ... who was in prison with Art:

That Art Pepper was the 'worst' [fellow-inmate] he met while in prison!

Apropos of not much I saw AP at Mayfest in Glasgow some time in the early 80s. I went on the back of the terrific (I thought) soundtrack for a film, Heart Beat about Kerouac and the Cassidays - he was pretty brilliant, but was the grumpiest guy I ever saw on stage, even grouchier than Van the Grouch.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

ALYN ~ Well the thing is BN old chap, I'm not going to play Art again less than a month later playing the same tune,

WHAT, after I expensively (Engish first class) mailed you a (fine) card of Art and Curtis Counce (a fine string bassist like you Alyn!). THIS would never had happened if Caroline Thompson (no relation) had got the TOP BBC job. YOU would have been ordered to play it or to spend a month depping with the (New) Clyde Valley Stompers summer tour of Lybia. Was it my comment about taking over from Johny Hodges on JRR? Surely not.

Well, I just hope YOU play my other request of Barney Wilen's "Porgy" sometimme? ANYTIME?

BN.

How could you paly that bloody awful accordianist in pref. to the GIANT Hamp Hawes?

"A NATION WEEPS"
and moves on.

Will listen up to Albert...a force for good in a corrupt world.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

ALBERT AYLER WRITES..."Hell, any R3 jazz program that doesn't feature Art and Hampton Hawes PRONTO should be regarded with deep hostiliity and reported to the watchdog. My running mate Elmo's only been on once in TEN years! And where's the fek is Frank Strozier? IT'S R3 BANJO MADNESS".

[Alyn_Shipton]

BN
The Wilen request is noted - and I did like the photo! I await the photo of Elmo with interest...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

another Parisian saxophone solo .... get Lucky El Senor!

[Jazzrook]

Well the thing is BN old chap, I'm not going to play Art again less than a month later playing the same tune, even with the wonderful Mr Hawes...So I am afraid you will not be hearing Mr Pepper on 14th...at least not on JRR. It will, however, be possible to hear Albert Ayler on that date, who has not been featured overmuch on JRR on recent times.

When Humphrey Lyttelton played my request for an Albert Ayler track on JRR back in the mid-'60s, after it finished he said, "that was Albert Ayler and 'Ghosts' and between the two of them they scare the daylights out of me!"

[Serial_Apologist]

When Humphrey Lyttelton played my request for an Albert Ayler track on JRR back in the mid-'60s, after it finished he said, "that was Albert Ayler and 'Ghosts' and between the two of them they scare the daylights out of me!"