A night out with Dave, Stroppy…and Ornette
Friends and fans of Mr Osler and/or The Stroppy One might fancy a night on the town in their agreeable company. However, it will also involve listening to this:
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQqizKMmYRY]
Look at that audience of fun-seekers…do you see yourself there? Even with Dave and Stropps? Quite.
But for those who fancy a good-time night on the tiles with this unlikely trio…
…contact Dave:
I’M OFF to Lisbon for a couple of days to, er, watch a building being opened. I may or may not post, depending on whether I can work out how to use the office laptop at the airport.
Meanwhile, a short commercial interlude. Because my mate Jerry couldn’t make it, I have one ticket spare for two of the gigs at Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown next week.
Best seats in the Royal Festival Hall – and no other seats in the RFH are worth having – are available for Charlie Haden (with guests Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt) on Saturday and the king of harmolodics himself on Sunday.
And you get to sit next to me and Stroppy. Going at face value if you are a genuine fan. Email me if you are interested.
Shiraz Socialist 
Dave said,
June 14, 2009 at 8:31 pm
But it’ll be fun!! We can all get pissed!!
Dave said,
June 14, 2009 at 9:11 pm
… and talk about prospects for far left regroupment.
stroppybird said,
June 14, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Well im gutted Mr Denham that you won’t join me on a night on the tiles 😦
Lobby Ludd said,
June 14, 2009 at 11:21 pm
That piece of music was horrible, I liked the look on the faces of the audience. I think that makes me some kind of ‘conservative’.
There is no good reason to pay for that.
Lobby Ludd said,
June 14, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Can you put up some Tommy Dorsey please? It’s like a warm blanket.
Lobby Ludd said,
June 14, 2009 at 11:41 pm
I particularly like ‘Song of India’.
We had a 78 of that.
They don’t last.
Jim Denham said,
June 15, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Just for you, Lobby:
…TD in 1937; Bunny Berigan on trumpet.
Lobby Ludd said,
June 16, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Thanks – are there any good ‘cleaned up’ recordings of TD available? The crackle is evocative, but I suspect not really what TD wanted.
Jim Denham said,
June 16, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Lobby: the ‘Naxos’ label, best=known for cheap but good quality classical recordings, also does jazz and big-band stuff and have available at bargain price (c. £7.00) two excellently remastered (ie “cleaned up”) TD CD’s, “Music Maestro, Please” and “Swing High”. Unfortunately, neither includes your favourite, “Song Of India” and as far as I know the only currently available CD featuring it is the RCA/Bluebird “Bunny Berigan: the pied piper” (07863 66615 2), but having said that, CD jazz re-issues come and go so quickly there are almost certainly other good re-issues presently available. Jerry Brown at http://www.jazznblues.co.uk is a good source, as is Crazy Jazz: http://www.crazyjazz.co.uk
Both are excellent, but Jerry might just have the edge because he welcomes you ringing him up for a chat on 01603 467777
Bruce said,
June 19, 2009 at 11:11 am
Jim,
I’d swap Ornette for Acker Bilk any day, you old curmudgeon.
By coincidence I was just looking for some early Ornette for a presentation I’m doing on bassist Charlie Haden, one of the few jazz musicians who let his left politics seriously affect his music (I don’t count Gilad Atzmon amongst their number for obvious reasons). Listen to the Liberation Music Orchestra recordings. I will concede he’s probably a bit soft on Cuba but he did get arrested by the Portuguese secret police for performing ‘\Song for Che’ at an open air concert when Portugal had a fascist regime.
So I would take up Dave’s offer but can’t be in London this weekend.
Bruce
Jim Denham said,
June 19, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Bruce: I’d agree with you that Charlie haden seems to be a good guy. I even once bought a record on which he plays: Pee Wee Russell and Henry ‘Red’ Allen (“The College Concert” – Impulse, 1966) .
Talking of Pee Wee, I heard Acker recently, and he sounds – these days – very like Charles Ellesworth Russell. Quite quirky and adventurous. There’s room, even in “trad” for that: Joe Harriott playing with Chris Barbber, for instance.
I may be an “old curmudgeon”, but believe it or not, I’ve absolutely nothing against Coleman or Haden. And I agree with you about Haden’s politics being quite good. I just don’t personally like their music.
I agree with the miserable old traddie reactionary who said, of Ornette Coleman:
“But if something sounds terrible, man, a person should have enough respect for his own mind to say it doesn’t sound good. It doesn’t to me, and I’m not going to listen to it. No matter how long you listen to it, it doesn’t sound any good.”
Col. M. Davis (rtd)
Tunbridge Wells
Sen said,
December 25, 2020 at 10:43 pm
“I agree with the miserable old traddie reactionary who said, of Ornette Coleman: ”
Fuck off kindly, you mouldy old shite nobody gives a fuck about your amateur opinions