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Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion at Yoshi's
by Harry S. Pariser
Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion Yoshis Oakland , CA June 15, 2014 Dedicated. Stubborn. Outspoken. Perspicacious. These are some of the descriptions which come to mind when considering the personality and legacy of legendary drummer Ginger Baker. Baker first came to prominence as a member of the rock power ...
Graham Bond: Wading in Murky Waters
by Duncan Heining
Organist and saxophonist Graham Bond was the most important and influential musical pioneer to emerge from British jazz in the 1960s. High praise indeed, but in his case it is warranted. His legacy might be defined less by the music he recorded and more by the impact he had on subsequent generations of musicians. However, that ...
Will The Real Joe Harriott Please Stand Up?
by Duncan Heining
The Jamaican saxophhonist Joe Harriott was, without doubt, one of the most important and innovative jazz musicians to emerge in Britain in the fifties and early sixties. He arrived in Britain in 1951 with Ozzie Da Costa's band, which was en route for an engagement in Germany playing US army bases. Much to his erstwhile boss's ...
Seamen's Mission
By Phil Seamen
Label: Proper Box UK
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1 (Kick Off): The Champ; Kick Off; Spain; Treble Gold; I.P.A. Special; Opus De Funk; Lullaby in Rhythm; Milestones; Swingin' In Studio Two; I Could Write A Book; Jump For Joe; Haitian Ritual; One Four; Five Four; Bongo Chant; Cherokee; Out of Nowhere.
CD2 (Big Top): Just Goofin'; Blues Original; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; Formation; Abstract; Seamen's Mission; S'Il Vous Plait; Jordu; Bang; A Night In Tunisia; The Big Fist; What Goes?; Monsoon; Bird's Last Flight; Big Top; Maenya; Blues In Two Modes.
CD3 (Wail): Jackpot; You Are My Heart's Delight; The Minor and the Major; Wilbert's Tune; Wail; Wailing Wall; Butch; Yardbird Suite; Scrapple From The Apple; Bluebird; Get Up.
CD4 (Free): Main Title (Nowhere To Go); The Escape and Chase; Free; Boo Bah; IfThis Isn't Love; Easy To Love; Whisper Not; Autumn Leaves; Too Close For Comfort; Yesterdays; Love Walked In; Like Someone In Love; The Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Sunny Monday; Unidentified 32-bar Theme.
Joe Harriott: The Joe Harriott Story
by Bruce Lindsay
Almost 40 years after his death in 1973 at just 44 years of age, Joe Harriott's talent, imagination and impact on the development of jazz in Britain are gaining greater recognition than ever. Indeed, The Joe Harriott Story, an exceptional 4-disc box set of music from the alto saxophonist, is both a reflection of this belated ...
Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission
by Bruce Lindsay
British jazz has produced many great players whose fame never came close to matching their talent. One such was the mercurial drummer Phil Seamen. Seamen's Mission a splendid 4-CD box set in the Proper Box series, is a great reminder of Seamen's skills across a range of ensembles from big bands to trios, from swing to ...
The Late Great Phil Seamen
by Michael Baird
INTRODUCTION Phillip William Seamen was born in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, on August 28th 1926 and died on Friday 13th October 1972--he fell asleep in a chair in his abode on Old Paradise Street in Lambeth, south London, and didn't wake up any more. The police were called in quite quickly and their pathologist began by ...
Splinters: Split the Difference
by Andrey Henkin
One imagines that there must be literally thousands of sessions like this, live gigs by groups that only a small handful of people got to enjoy. The record industry being what it is, only the smallest percentage of musical interactions are documented and released. Reel Recordings, focusing its efforts on a particularly fruitful period in British ...
Reel Recordings Presents "Splinters" - Long Lost Britjazz Supersession
Reel Recordings is honored to present legendary British saxophonist Trevor Watts with his recording of the all-star collective SPLINTERS. Assembled by drummers John Stevens and Phil Seamen in 1972, SPLINTERS united Stevens and Seamen with tenor giant Tubby Hayes, altoist Trevor Watts, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, pianist Stan Tracey, and bassist Jeff Clyne. Here is ...
