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Mogwai in Glasgow tonight, looking forward to it, bar a local band in town a few weeks ago, will be be my first gig since March 2020.
 
This Sunday coming Herbie Hancock at the Usher Hall. Thanks my good amigo Bluetoon Larry @greencol for the heids up months ago. Possibly , even at 80 years of age the only living link with Miles, who I have had the privelage to have seen, and Coltrane.

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A week later in Leith Theatre the brilliant Sons of Kemet. Jazz is a massive genre. From Dixieland through Brubeck to stuff most don't recognise as Jazz like the splendid Pink Panther and Ironside themes, yes that's Jazz too.

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GORDONSMITH7 said:
This Sunday coming Herbie Hancock at the Usher Hall. Thanks my good amigo Bluetoon Larry @greencol for the heids up months ago. Possibly , even at 80 years of age the only living link with Miles, who I have had the privelage to have seen, and Coltrane.

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Age means nothing.
A legend.
 
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greencol said:
Age means nothing.
A legend.
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Age certainly means nowt amigo. Going to the refurbiished Leith Theatre will bring memories back, having seen the brilliant Son House there over 50 years ago @greencol


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Just bought tickets for a Smiths tribute band followed by the Complete Stone Roses at the Liquid Rooms on Friday the 4th of November. At 16 quid a pop an absolute bargain!
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
This Sunday coming Herbie Hancock at the Usher Hall. Thanks my good amigo Bluetoon Larry @greencol for the heids up months ago. Possibly , even at 80 years of age the only living link with Miles, who I have had the privelage to have seen, and Coltrane.

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I saw HH was playing and told my daughter about him and spun a few of his well known track for her including WM naturally, as you do.
 
Hibee Kev said:
Just bought tickets for a Smiths tribute band followed by the Complete Stone Roses at the Liquid Rooms on Friday the 4th of November. At 16 quid a pop an absolute bargain!
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That is a bargain mate. 26 notes I've paid to see an ELO tribute band in the Brunton Hall , Musselburgh.
To be fair they have picked up best Tribute Band for several years. Having a few refreshments in Staggs pre gig is a bonus.

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GORDONSMITH7 said:
This Sunday coming Herbie Hancock at the Usher Hall. Thanks my good amigo Bluetoon Larry @greencol for the heids up months ago. Possibly , even at 80 years of age the only living link with Miles, who I have had the privelage to have seen, and Coltrane.

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I've seen Dizzy Gillespie twice and Art Blakey both have played with Miles.
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
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Age certainly means nowt amigo. Going to the refurbiished Leith Theatre will bring memories back, having seen the brilliant Son House there over 50 years ago @greencol


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Seeing Son House in Leith, what a memory to have!
Strangely but not strangely for the time, Ally Bain was one of the supports.
Strange that Son House was only 68 at the time but it was billed as his last UK tour.
I guess long haul travel was not the cinch it later became and 68 was seen as old.
I had just turned 10 when he played that gig so no danger I would have known who he was for another decade.

Moving on 52 years and I will probably be the oldest person there when i attend the same venue with my daughter to see the very out there Ezra Furman, in a couple of weeks time. Walking in the steps of giants indeed.
 
moathibby said:
I've seen Dizzy Gillespie twice and Art Blakey both have played with Miles.
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Gillespie was in Cab Calloway's band in the 40's until they had a fight. Unlike Nisbet and Tait there was actual fighting and Gillespie stabbed Calloway in the thigh.
Dizzy got fired.
 
Looked a nice amiable guy when I saw him.First time up the Nite Club of all places during the festival.The second time was the Usher Hall.Art Blakey up the Queen's Hall,forgot I saw another connected with Miles,Coleman Hawkins.
 
Jack K said:
Seeing Son House in Leith, what a memory to have!
Strangely but not strangely for the time, Ally Bain was one of the supports.
Strange that Son House was only 68 at the time but it was billed as his last UK tour.
I guess long haul travel was not the cinch it later became and 68 was seen as old.
I had just turned 10 when he played that gig so no danger I would have known who he was for another decade.

Moving on 52 years and I will probably be the oldest person there when i attend the same venue with my daughter to see the very out there Ezra Furman, in a couple of weeks time. Walking in the steps of giants indeed.
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No you will not youngster. I am going too. I am proud to have been the auldest bam seeing Ramones in the late 70s and fabulous Cramps a decade later. My wife didnae thank me for taking her to see them, as in earlier post about Ellington . I thought they were fucking immence.She was unimpressed with 'Can your Pussy do the Dog' Oh well as Peter Green sang.
If you fancy a pre gig refreshment give me a shout amigo.

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moathibby said:
Looked a nice amiable guy when I saw him.First time up the Nite Club of all places during the festival.The second time was the Usher Hall.Art Blakey up the Queen's Hall,forgot I saw another connected with Miles,Coleman Hawkins.
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He was but Dizzy liked to mess around on stage and it annoyed Calloway.
These guys were the shit back in the late 30's, Blakey was in Fletcher Henderson's big band at the time. Coleman Hawkins who you mention was in Henderson's band in the 20's. Suspect you didn't see Hawkins as he died in 1969.
I've been learning more about all this stuff recently and come up with 1938 as the most important year in modern music. It's the time of the great Carnegie Hall gig which signified probably the first straight jazz gig in a renowned classical music venue and the first time people came to listen to it instead of dancing to it. The Benny Goodman Orchestra including Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton headlined that gig on January 16, 1938 and the bill also featured Count Basie and members of the Duke Ellington big band. A wealthy guy arranged for the gig to be primitively recorded and only two acetates were manufactured. He gave one to his wife as a present and one to Goodman. More than a decade later Goodman's daughter found it and it was released commercially as a double album in 1950. This is taken from it, a glorious 12 minutes of "Sing, Sing, Sing" which was written by Louis Prima. Suspect Ginger Baker, for one listened to this many many times. Ignore the square picture and listen to the music as loud as possible.
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I also was there also to see the Sensational Alex Harvey Band who were support to Slade. Being a youngish utter musical snob at the time Harvey was on my radar big time, Slade anything but. Slade as was Alex were really brilliant.

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Jack K said:
He was but Dizzy liked to mess around on stage and it annoyed Calloway.
These guys were the shit back in the late 30's, Blakey was in Fletcher Henderson's big band at the time. Coleman Hawkins who you mention was in Henderson's band in the 20's. Suspect you didn't see Hawkins as he died in 1969.
I've been learning more about all this stuff recently and come up with 1938 as the most important year in modern music. It's the time of the great Carnegie Hall gig which signified probably the first straight jazz gig in a renowned classical music venue and the first time people came to listen to it instead of dancing to it. The Benny Goodman Orchestra including Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton headlined that gig on January 16, 1938 and the bill also featured Count Basie and members of the Duke Ellington big band. A wealthy guy arranged for the gig to be primitively recorded and only two acetates were manufactured. He gave one to his wife as a present and one to Goodman. More than a decade later Goodman's daughter found it and it was released commercially as a double album in 1950. This is taken from it, a glorious 12 minutes of "Sing, Sing, Sing" which was written by Louis Prima. Suspect Ginger Baker, for one listened to this many many times. Ignore the square picture and listen to the music as loud as possible.
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Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce were Jazzers way, way before teaming up with Clapton.It worked tremendously in my opinion

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I also saw the Scots born John Martyn in Leith, a purveyor of one of the most brilliant, quality, heart wrenching songs ever.

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GORDONSMITH7 said:
No you will not youngster. I am going too. I am proud to have been the auldest bam seeing Ramones in the late 70s and fabulous Cramps a decade later. My wife didnae thank me for taking her to see them, as in earlier post about Ellington . I thought they were fucking immence.She was unimpressed with 'Can your Pussy do the Dog' Oh well as Peter Green sang.
If you fancy a pre gig refreshment give me a shout amigo.

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Will do.

Your full of musical surprises Big G!
An industrial and undiluted lifetime dose of musical addiction if ever I saw one.

Not a surprise your wife didn't appreciate The Cramps hit single.
Saw them at the Barrowlands on the Stay Sick! tour. They started with a Jimmie Rodgers cover and finished with a Johnny Burnette one "Tear It Up". Both done in their own inimitable way.
Here's Albert Lee doing a great cover of the latter
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GORDONSMITH7 said:
If my memory serves me well, as Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger and the Trinity sang.
I think that Bridget St John was on the bill. She had collaborated with one of my all time favourites.Kevin Ayers with an unknown Mike Oldfield. A collaboration with the brilliant classical composer David Bedford. No the runner....
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Picture my dad took-Coleman Hawkins
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That photo location looks mare like MFI than The Queens Hall
Also looks 1970's, Hawkins died in 1969 and laterly was a bit bald which is nothing like your man in the photo. I don't think it's Ornette Coleman, David Coleman or Jock The Coleman.
Maybe Big G will know who it is. Game on
What year do you think the photo was taken and at what location?
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
I also saw the Scots born John Martyn in Leith, a purveyor of one of the most brilliant, quality, heart wrenching songs ever.

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I absolutely love John Martyn. Him and Nick Drake were the soundtrack of my acid comedowns in my late teens/early twenties!
 
aggie said:
I absolutely love John Martyn. Him and Nick Drake were the soundtrack of my acid comedowns in my late teens/early twenties!
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Completely passed me by, John Martyn, and I'm only a coupla years younger than big G.

Sounds immediately very James Taylor to me but I don't know the timeline here...?
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
Completely passed me by, John Martyn, and I'm only a coupla years younger than big G.

Sounds immediately very James Taylor to me but I don't know the timeline here...?
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Not too far apart time wise. JT was a touch earlier.
JM was more into guitar technique and effects though.
 
Jack K said:
Will do.

Your full of musical surprises Big G!
An industrial and undiluted lifetime dose of musical addiction if ever I saw one.

Not a surprise your wife didn't appreciate The Cramps hit single.
Saw them at the Barrowlands on the Stay Sick! tour. They started with a Jimmie Rodgers cover and finished with a Johnny Burnette one "Tear It Up". Both done in their own inimitable way.
Here's Albert Lee doing a great cover of the latter
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The truly great Albert Lee. I was introduced to Heads Hands and Feet by a friend of mine back in the early 70's.
The late great Chas Hodges was the bass player.
Saw Jools Holland say in a tribute to Chas..' to play with Albert you have to be able to play and play well'.
Albert, at the age of 78 , he is on tour at the moment in the US.
For anyone interested in seeing a legend, he is in Kinross in October.
 
Jack K said:
That photo location looks mare like MFI than The Queens Hall
Also looks 1970's, Hawkins died in 1969 and laterly was a bit bald which is nothing like your man in the photo. I don't think it's Ornette Coleman, David Coleman or Jock The Coleman.
Maybe Big G will know who it is. Game on
What year do you think the photo was taken and at what location?
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Looks a bit late 70'searly 80's looking at the haircuts and clobber.
Looks a bit like Stanley Turrentine, but I dont know if he ever played Edinburgh?
 
greencol said:
Looks a bit late 70'searly 80's looking at the haircuts and clobber.
Looks a bit like Stanley Turrentine, but I dont know if he ever played Edinburgh?
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That's a good call. Looks like him but I have no idea if he ever played in Edinburgh.
 
Jack K said:
That photo location looks mare like MFI than The Queens Hall
Also looks 1970's, Hawkins died in 1969 and laterly was a bit bald which is nothing like your man in the photo. I don't think it's Ornette Coleman, David Coleman or Jock The Coleman.
Maybe Big G will know who it is. Game on
What year do you think the photo was taken and at what location?
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That's definately the Queen's Hall as I was there.It's a well known saxophenist.It's the 80's couldn't be much later as my dad died the day before Jackson dummied the onrushing Swede at Ibrox to supply a goal assist.What's with the sarcasm?Does it give you a hardon proving people wrong?
 
It's Illinois Jacquet who played with his quartet at the Queen's Halls 1985.I'm sorry he didn't play with Miles.Just Lionel Hampton.
 
moathibby said:
That's definately the Queen's Hall as I was there.It's a well known saxophenist.It's the 80's couldn't be much later as my dad died the day before Jackson dummied the onrushing Swede at Ibrox to supply a goal assist.What's with the sarcasm?Does it give you a hardon proving people wrong?
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Sorry Moaty. It was supposed to be humorous rather than sarcastic.
 
moathibby said:
It's Illinois Jacquet who played with his quartet at the Queen's Halls 1985.I'm sorry he didn't play with Miles.Just Lionel Hampton.
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He played a famous solo on Hampton's "Flying Home"
Again something I learned recently.
 
Jack K said:
He played a famous solo on Hampton's "Flying Home"
Again something I learned recently.
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And he played a session with Miles.1947-50 ish,they appear together on several tracks including For Europeans Only.That photie dosnae look much like the Queen's hall because if I remember right he played in the bar area.The normal stage shot there was usually a background of a cartoon of a Jazz drummer and bass player.Still got a t-shirt of the bass player it's mainly in brown and black on white.Sorry for getting narky I'm a moody *&*^.
 
moathibby said:
And he played a session with Miles.1947-50 ish,they appear together on several tracks including For Europeans Only.That photie dosnae look much like the Queen's hall because if I remember right he played in the bar area.The normal stage shot there was usually a background of a cartoon of a Jazz drummer and bass player.Still got a t-shirt of the bass player it's mainly in brown and black on white.Sorry for getting narky I'm a moody *&*^.
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No sweat. Jacquet definitely played in Edinburgh in August 1985 and 1986.
He has a great history. Left Hampton's band for Calloway's orchestra and then onto Basie's. Was in a band with Charlie Mingus and played with Lester Young.
Even played with Clinton on the White House lawn at his inaugural ball in 93.
Had a history of activism with all sorts of good stories.
In 1955 he was arrested by vice cops after getting busted playing dice with Dizzy Gillespie in Ella Fitzgerald's dressing room. All three were arrested but after paying their fine at the cop shop were back for the second half of the gig.
An amazing life he had.
 
Heading off down to Blackpool in a few hours
Rebellion Punk Festival

The Interupters end of the month with the brilliant Bar Stool Preachers supporting
 
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