Jazz from
Geoff...The Blog
Tuesday, 07
July 2020
Well, this is an improvement;
it is at least still Tuesday! No, no more real news about when live music can
start at Hedsor or anywhere else, but it is looking hopeful. Hedsor Club
reopened for business on Saturday 5th July, obviously under the revised
social distancing rules.
Normally at his time of
year I would be down in Dorset, enjoying the hospitality of Swanage and looking
forward to its jazz festival. Sadly not this year. Even my usual B&B is only
able to offer a room served continental breakfast , not the usual energizing Full
English that was always such a feature of my stays there in the past.
Hopefully, Clare will be able by next year to re establish those happy norms. It
may sadly be that this year will finally close the Swanage Jazz festival for
good, it was struggling a bit last year.
However, some amazing live
music is held on recorded media (well, it was live at the time!), and my first
link is to YouTube and a really full concert given by Duke Ellington and his
orchestra in 1969
This will give you 80 minutes of great Duke, with a great
linup:-
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra:- Cat
Anderson, Cootie Williams, Ambrose Jackson, Mercer Ellington, trumpet; Lawrence
Brown, Chuck Connors, trombone; Russell Procope, alto sax, clarinet; Johnny
Hodges, alto sax; Norris Turney, alto sax, tenor sax, clarinet, flute; Harold
Ashby, tenor sax, clarinet; Paul Gonsalves, tenor sax; Harry Carney, baritone
sax, clarinet, bass clarinet; Duke Ellington, piano; Victor Gaskin, acoustic
double bass; Rufus Jones, drums; Tony Watkins, vocal (Personnel on Camera)
Recorded
in the Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2nd November 1969.
There is a more local find this week. Gaining strength
since my recent hospitalisation, I started to go through my CD collection,
trying to sift the wheat from the chaff and regain some storage space, and I
came across a plain brown envelope!! Inside were 2 cd’s with writing on them
by an unknown hand! I have “attended” to them, using Audacity software, and I
have put them up in my DropBox folder. I
have written up what they are on the CD cover that you can download, but as far
as I know this is an unissued concert from Hedsor Jazz in 2011 featuring saxophonist
Don Wright and guitarist John Coverdale. So, turn back the clock and enjoy.
This will get you the complete folder with both sets of
music in mp3 and the CD cover in both MS Publisher and JPEG format. See also
below.
I hope you enjoy watching and listening.
You are welcome to give comment and feedback via email to Octogeoff@outlook.com
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