Calling all Thumwoods

[Serial_Apologist]

From the latest National Jazz Archive Newsletter:

"A legend comes to Loughton

Buddy Greco will be our celebrity guest on Saturday 17th November, 1.30-4.00pm at Loughton Methodist Church. Tickets £15 from the National Jazz Archive ...".

National Jazz Archive
Loughton Library
Traps Hill
Loughton
Essex IG10 1HD

020 8502 4701

enquiries@nationaljazzarchive.org.uk

http://www.nationaljazzarchive.org.uk

(Nearest tube Loughton, on the Central Line)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

oh it was in the uk top ten when we were bairns innit

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... on the other hand

[Serial_Apologist]

According to Digby Fairweather's write-up from the above source:

Buddy Greco, despite his huge international reputation, has long and fond connections with Britain. The man who rightly claims to have 'played every major club in the world on at least two occasions' first arrived in this country with Benny Goodman at the London Palladium in 1949 and later in the 1960s and 70s cemented his UK relationship with regular dates at the West End's Talk of the Town; an appearance at the 'Royal Command Performance' (luckily - or possibly unluckily - on the same night as the Beatles in Novemnber 1963!) and an instrumental album with the London Symphony Orchestra. It's still a source of wonder for me that this legend of American music now lives just a few blocks from me in Westcliff-on-Sea in a pretty appartment overlooking the sea! ...

Digby has just devalued the phrase "Buddy have you got a Drachma" for me.

Grippie should still be told...

[grippie]

Just down the road, I walk along the front quite often, will have to keep my lugholes pinned back

[charles t]

'Calling All Thumwoods'

Is this a phishing thread?

If so, I've been phished...

[Serial_Apologist]

'Calling All Thumwoods'

Is this a phishing thread?

If so, I've been phished...

Fear not, my dear Charles - I intuit no resemblance.

[Ian Thumwood]

S-A

Not too fussed by the singing, by the duet with Billy Taylor is great. I think Greco has performed at the Concord Club in the past but I never went along as I supposed it would be "supper club" kind of music with little real jazz. I think he played with Goodman in the late forties but I am unaware of him working in a jazz context other than that. in the clip, he sounds a bit like Oscar Peterson but I prefer what billy Taylor is playing. The latter deserved to be more widely appreciated if for his contribution to jazz education if nothing else.

Thanks for the post.

Ian