JACK MASSARIK- St. Jackie, "Childish free jazz posturing"

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Passing thro WH Smiths and leafing thro the absurd "Jazzwise" (sic) I chanced on a review by our old mate/critic Happy Jacko Messowaki of a new book on Jackie Mclean, life and works. Jacko disputed some of the critiques and described Jackie's (CLASSIC) "Let Freedom Ring" and "One Step Beyond" as "chldish free jazz posturing", Jackie being far better when he was playing youthful smacked up bop with Miles in 1952.

Laugh or cry? Has Jacko ever got over meeting his hero but (hippy) fashionista Tubby Hayes with extra big facial hair (OK, it was bloody awful), puffing grass and playing "sorta free" in the late '60s?

"TORRENTS OF HATE" as Le Jack called late Coltrane.

BUCKETS OF.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i do not enter W H Smith now for any reason .... nor buy nor read the evening Standard ...one instinctively knows one will meet people of the wrong sort ...... and nasal hair is so unbecoming in a man ...

[burning dog]

Total misjudgement... To be expected at the time but sounds crazy to hold this kind of opinion now. He likes straight ahead bop, fair enough, but it's a plain insult and false to describe these albums as childish (or even "Free"!). According to this logic some of Wynton's mid 80s small group stuff must have features of "childish free form". It's like the trad fans who thought Louis Armstrong was too modern.

[Jazzrook]

Passing thro WH Smiths and leafing thro the absurd "Jazzwise" (sic) I chanced on a review by our old mate/critic Happy Jacko Messowaki of a new book on Jackie Mclean, life and works. Jacko disputed some of the critiques and described Jackie's (CLASSIC) "Let Freedom Ring" and "One Step Beyond" as "chldish free jazz posturing", Jackie being far better when he was playing youthful smacked up bop with Miles in 1952.

Laugh or cry? Has Jacko ever got over meeting his hero but (hippy) fashionista Tubby Hayes with extra big facial hair (OK, it was bloody awful), puffing grass and playing "sorta free" in the late '60s?

"TORRENTS OF HATE" as Le Jack called late Coltrane.

BUCKETS OF.

BN.

Some historic comments on 'Jazzwise' & Massarik:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/html/NF20065?thread=7525572

[Serial_Apologist]

Some historic comments on 'Jazzwise' & Massarik:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/h...thread=7525572

Thanks for this reminder, and for keeping these, JR!

[eighthobstruction]

We never did like Jack, did we....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The book in question is "Sugar Free Saxophone - The life and times of Jackie Mclean" by Derek Ansell c. £20.00. Ansell also wrote a biog of Hank Mobley. Looks good/will buy.

BN.

Chris Searle's review in the Morning Star..."So to read Derek Ansell's exuberant new biography of "Jackie Mac," called Sugar Free Saxophone, brought back evocatively hearing him for the first time in that Romford bungalow.

And a powerful read it is too, full of life detail and critical nous, with a portrait of a new jazz age when the post-bop glories of the Blue Note label became the signature sound of much that was new in the music, marked with surprise, risk and excitation. To get a full appreciation of Ansell's fine book it helps if you've got some of McLean's Blue Note gems next to your stereo - restlessly swinging albums like Jackie's Bag (1960), Bluesnik (1961), A Fickle Sonance (1961) or Destination Out (1963) among many others. Truly, you'll never want to stop."

[Serial_Apologist]

The book in question is "Sugar Free Saxophone - The life and times of Jackie Mclean" by Derek Ansell c. £20.00. Ansell also wrote a biog of Hank Mobley. Looks good/will buy.

BN.

Chris Searle's review in the Morning Star..."So to read Derek Ansell's exuberant new biography of "Jackie Mac," called Sugar Free Saxophone, brought back evocatively hearing him for the first time in that Romford bungalow.

And a powerful read it is too, full of life detail and critical nous, with a portrait of a new jazz age when the post-bop glories of the Blue Note label became the signature sound of much that was new in the music, marked with surprise, risk and excitation. To get a full appreciation of Ansell's fine book it helps if you've got some of McLean's Blue Note gems next to your stereo - restlessly swinging albums like Jackie's Bag (1960), Bluesnik (1961), A Fickle Sonance (1961) or Destination Out (1963) among many others. Truly, you'll never want to stop."

Romford eh? I wonder if Chris encountered Graham Bond, who sired from them parts (Collier Row actually), and who I'd have imagined would have been a bit of a Jackie fan too.

Thanks for letting us know, Bluesie - one to consider in conjunction with A B Spellman's chapter on JM in Four Lives in the Bebop Business, p'raps.

[grippie]

Here's looking at da board

cheeeeeeeeeeers jack

[Tenor Freak]

Oooh, getting all nostalgic for the old Bored.......


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[Tenor Freak]

BTW I don't suppose anyone has a recording of that episode of JLU where dear ol' Jack let that one slip?

<thanks>

[grippie]

Jack Massarik syndrome posts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5642773

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5519999

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5405280

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5397581

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5297472

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2...thread=5642773

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5519999

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5405280

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620065?thread=5397581

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2...thread=5297472

Many thanks for these reminders, grippie. Amazed to discover 1 or 2 of those links still work.

God, I thought I'd only been posting for 2 years!

Absent friends eh.

[eighthobstruction]

Tremendous cut up rap style editings by KK on his Japanese Knotweed website of Jack in full dolloping self confident critic burps ....

[Serial_Apologist]

Tremendous cut up rap style editings by KK on his Japanese Knotweed website of Jack in full dolloping self confident critic burps ....

Thanks for the pointer 8th - didn't spot that one...