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S[PTlMBER 27, 1969

30 years · of

Frank

T HIS w ck, tho MELODY M AKER is proud to

s lut Fronk S1no tro in a special supplement devoted to his 30 years of stardom

In turn. Fnmk him self pays tribute to Bnt1sh music fens 1n e specia l message to 1ho MM from Los Vegas. whNe he is curr •ntly 3tar ring He so ys

- I D LIKE TO lAKE A MOMENT TO SALUTE THE BRITISH MUS IC FAN WHO HAS Al. WAYS BEEN WITH Ir AND WILLING TO GIVE ALL SOU NDS AND STYLES A HEAR ING

IT'S SUPPORT AND APPRECIATION LIKE THIS THAT HAS HELPED TO SO BR IGHHN THE WHOlf M USIC SCFNE-FRANK SINATRA ~

Now turn to page 18 for t ho s tart of th full atory of ~111 n k'1 30 momentous years a-s a star of 1ntornet1onal rcput

special supplement inside

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;, ••...: HUMBLE PIE are to t our Britain. The

.. Natural Born Bugie .. group, featuring Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Greg Ridley and Jerry Shirley will make their first ever nation-wide tour together from October 8.

They will visit nine major cities and give one show a night, starting at 7 .30 pm.

Apart from concerts on the Continent, it will be the first public appearance of the group which was launched last April from ex-members of the Small Faces, Herd and Spooky Tooth groups. MARRIOTT

This week the group put the fi nishing touches to their second album due for release at Christmas.

Writes MM's Chris W elch: ·• The second album is much tighter than the first and brings out the voices of Peter and Steve more forcefully .

.. It also highlights the line guitar playing of Peter Frampton, which has been underrated in the past.' "

The full Humble Pie tour dates are Coventry Theatre ( October 8) , Leeds Town Hall (9), Birmingham Town Hall ( 1 0). Brighton Dome ( 11 ) . Bristol Colston Hall (13), Queen Elizabeth Hall, London ( 21 ) . Edinburgh Usher Hall (23) , Manchester Odeon (25) , and Liverpool Empire (26) .

Supporting groups have yet to be finalised .

I T was a perfect day for Christine Perfect . the day she got her Top

Girl Singer trophy at the MM Pop Poll Awards presentation in London last week. More pictures on pages 2 and 6 . Raver's report, page 6.

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1 ( 1) BAD MOON RISING . .. . . Creedence Clearwater Revival, Liberty 2 (4) DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER . Bee Gees, Polydor 3 (3) JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, Fontana/ Major Minor • 4 (11) 5 (2) 6 (5) 7 (8) 8 (6)

I'll NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN . .. Bobbie Gentry. Capitol IN THE YEAR 2525 . . . . . . .. Zager and Evans, RCA NATURAL BORN BUGIE .. ............ Humble Pie, Immediate GOOD MORNING STARSHINE ... . .... Oliver, CBS TOO BUSY THINKING ABOUT MY BABY

Marvin Gaye, Tamla Motown 9 (7) VIVA BOBBY JOE . Equals, President

10 (24) A BOY NAMED SUE . Johnny Cash, CBS 11 (22) THROW •DOWN A LINE ... . . . .. . Hank and Cliff, Columbia 12 (9) MY CHERIE AMOUR . . ..... Stevie Wonder, Ta(l\la Motown 13 (12) CLOUD 9 . Temptations, Tamla Motown 14 (21) IT'S GETTING BETTER Mama Cass. Stateside 15 (13) SAVED BY THE BELL Robin Gibb, Polydor 16 (10) HONKY TONK WOMEN Rolling Stones, Decca 17 (20) SOUL DEEP Box Tops, Bell 18 ( 16) BIRTH . .. . . . . . . . . . . . Peddlers, CBS 19 (30) HARE KRISHNA MANTRA Radha Krishna Temple, Apple 20 (25) LAY LADY LAY ..... .... Bob Dylan, CBS 21 (14) MAKE ME AN ISLAND .. Joe Dolan, Pye 22 (26) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE .. Isley Brothers, Tamla Motown 23 (19) MARRAKESH EXPRESS Crosby, Stills and Nash. Atlantic 24 (18) l'M A BETTER MAN . Engelbert Humperdinck, Decca 25 (23) WET DREAM Max Romeo, Unity 26 ( 15) CURLY Move, Regal Zonophone 27 (-) I SECOND THAT EMOTION

Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations, Tamla Motown 28 (28) TEARS IN THE WIND Chicken Shack, Blue Horizon 29 (17) EARLY IN THE M ORNING . Vanity Fare, Page One 30 (-) LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Sounds Nice, Parlophone

• This record has now been withdrawn by Philips. and reissued by Major Minor.

POP 30 PUBLISHERS 1 8urlm91ern 2 Ab•11••• · 3 Sh1poro Berntie,n. 4 81111' SH / he 5 Eue11 . 6 tmm•d••le, 7 United An,,i. 8 Job1u•/ Carlm 9 Gr•nl 10 Copyn11h1 Conuol. 11 Shadow,11. 12 Jobel •/C•thn. 13 JoMt•IC•,lin 14 Sc•••n Gen,,. 15 Sah•r•t. 16

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4 f-J LITTLE WOMAN Bobby Sllet~•1~romedu,

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19 (-) THE WOl'IU> OF VAL DOONICAN Vil Coomc•n . Oec:c.,

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5 f6J I ' ll NEVEA FALL IN LOVE AGAIN ~ Tom Jon11 ..... ., p.,,ol

7 (3) GREEN AIVEA, Creed1nc• Ct11rw•lH A0YIY0I . " ...... •·••····• F•m•sy

I (10) THIS OIAL IS A WOMAN NOW G,ry Pucket! .. • . . . . . . Columbie

9 (91 I CAN'T GET NE)CT TO YOU Tempt,110ri s Gordy

10 (-~ EVERYBODY 'S TALKIN ' Niluon ACA

'~ndThe Sun Will Shine"

~ c/w "Rain" RCA 1871

J ~ A big hit for Jooo! He arrives in Ose Britain next Tuesday

Feliciiifto And two of Joses LPs you11 be"souled" on "A Bag Full Of Soul" "Souled" • INTS 1025 • SF 8008 • RO 8008

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BRITISH TOUR PLAN FOR WILSON PICKETT AFTER THE success of his sell-out London concert on Friday (see page 15), Wilson Pickett will be back in Britain for five days next month and plans a tour here in 1970.

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Pickett flies back into London on October seventh and will spend four days rehearsing and then do a guest apprarancc on the Tom Jones TV show on October 11, for screening on November 30.

• A SUMMIT meeting of top group mueic,an .... poll winner• all--at the MM Poll Awwdt •t London'• Waldorl tut wHk, g•v• • chanc• for • m•u awoppia,g ~ of anecd;CJtn and drink•. From left are • bHrded Eric Clapton, Peter GrHn, JoM McV1• and M1c9' Fteetwood (etanding). Jack Bruce. Glenn Cornick . Jeremy Spencer, John Entwhlatle, Denny Kirwan. and Tht.Jn<Mrcl• p Newman with young l•dy escort. (SEE PAGE 8) .

O'Donovan is currently finalising plans for the Brit• ish tours of Zager and Evans and Joe Tex.

MOVE DELAYED

Bert died the previous Saturday (13) aher • Iona il\nut, culm1nallntt with seven weeks in h0tp1t1l with. n liver romplaint . He leave, a wife, tenorist Kathy Stoharl. and three son,

THE MOVF'S first US tour nl:hlT~~bu~~i~: Boer~a~~~Jtl:~ ::~re~~ dl'~~~ed i~~1e~~ vi~, thi: 100 Club on October 20 opening IL the FIilmore East ~.~:;p~~i ~,~~ellr~y;~!!:

~~olup ~:;1k th~: w~!tn:~:· 0;~ ~ify~oceeds wlll go to Bert'• in Boston today {Thursday) Humphrey Lyttelton told Dates mined at the beginning the MM . "The memories or of the tour hove been added Bert Courlley that wlll live to the end of the visit. with those who knew and

Rumours that the Move's worked with him are of a fine Bev Bevan was propos ing to Jazz trumpeter, a thorough join Steve Ellis, Love Affair craft.Iman and , perhaps above lead singer, 1n a new group all, a perfectionist. wert: denied by the group's " lt is no o..,er-state.ment to management on Monday. say that Bert's perfectionism

Two solo album projects by caused him considerable di1-members or the Move are now tre•s in relation not only to

ted from him a com ment which ) have alway~ cherlihed for Its ch•ra~1er1stlc blrnd or lnten,ie fttlina and na1ur1I humour· ' Give me £2:i0.000 ror promotion and I will att n Wall,, pork !HIUUIII(~ top of thf' hill ,11 tht• LonJon ~llo t11um · "

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"' YES TOUR U.S. Yt:S, THE only Rril1sh J;:f\l \1\l •laned to America·, Atlantk Records, are neaotiatina a massive American tour for No..,ember ur December.

A new .!!Ingle from th• &roup is heina plann"d for Bri1l.!1h rdcau in Ocloher

TOM PAXTON CONCERT goin,& ahead . Rick Price is co• his own music but to the writing an album wilh song scene in general. The spec- TOM PAXTON. who sror~ n

;:ritTo Nt::t\?;, .. Tl~:ie" :~~ ~!;~in~r r~;:~~:is:~d ai;::;ra~~ ~~~~tdr;:~ itc~j;ht lltMu~~~ Nickelby will jointly produce in the pop field once extra«::• Feiti-.,al , ki cks otf his ne,ct

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solo album , singinJ numbers by song writer David Moraan.

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COURTLEY TRIBUTE THE FUNERAL of trumpeter Bert Courtley took place at ~:~.ton(Jg)~rematorlum last

GRAHAM BOND ARRESTED

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ln cludtd On lh e h1ur will he Joni Ml1cht'II

CASUAL TAKEN ILL ~IUWARI) NEWCOMBE, h,•11;tl a;ul1ari5t with the Cuu1ls.

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POP SCENE ATTACK $ l ,\ROOROUG II ('\uh ow ntr and p111nl5t Gt•off l,ayrock, who i formlnt a hi& band \ncludina mu11clan1 from York , Lttds and Hull, has ln11hNI out 111 thf' pop 5ff'nf'

" I'm sick l,f ' !IOt'k It to mt"' type !lOU Tllb," ht to ld lhc MM .. Timfl hl\ll COffl(' for thr rr tu rn or th(I big -band sound I want w ht thf' flrst ,n Yorkshitt I think wt> havt a lot tu oft'rr toda) ·s you np:ste rs In vltw of somt of the ruhhlsh that rlnlm, tu be m11 .1 lr Wday,

"The co!lt of running n bumt llke mint' would he only nho ut ft third or lhl' ftes of some or the pop groups r h11vt tnijagcd • I my dub fo r n ne-nl&ht·Jtands ."

Laymck's bik•hlmd llnt-up wm comprise flvc brus. nvt

~:i~rs p\:;d /o~~w rhfi~~:ry a~1 s10.ndards plus Miginn ls.

HARDIN/YORK TOUR THE NEW duo or Ptte York and Eddif' H11rdin , lhe former Spencer Davl11 Group drummer and org11nist, mny tour wllh Led Zeppelin and th f' Nice in Scandinavia from Novemhtr 1 to 7,

On November 8 Hardin and York play • date In Btlgium

Two showings planned on !ht same bill 111 lht Milts Davi, Big Band

On Ofl{'lbtr I, 2 and 3, th ty appe11r at Edinburah Univtrs1ty and on Octohtr 3 play an a ll •nlght Sf'lls lon at 1he rcC'C'nl ly optncd Middlt Enrth

No{~~ l~u!dirab:rfhh~ Marquet, London, on October 17 and Novtmhtr I•, and on NovtmhN 19 Oy 10 Swit7.c rland for nve dnys of tclevlstcin and live •PJ'lf'&rancts

TINY TIM DATE RFPRISF recording s tor Tmy

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comn1tncin11 Octohtr 26 He w111 nlso appear on the David Frost show, on Lond on Wetk• tnd Television.

Sandit Shaw plays lht dub for a wetk from Monday .

BUMPER BERLIN TRIP RESPONSE In lht Mt\ody M11ker trip to tht Btrlin Jazz Fts tlvnl on November 7, 8 and 9, has been so good lhat it has be-en dt-cided to charltr ft !ltcond Britannt11 nlrcraft to nccommodalt' all those wh o hnve npplied .

As a resull there are now on cxl ra 30 seats avai lable. So, ir you would likt to hear Oukt Ellington, Stan Kenton, Liontl Hampton, Miles Davis, Snrah Vaughan and n host of othtr top Jan slnn, combintd

:~~h ~~~~e~~~fin~ rir~e~r b~~ now.

Tht norm• I ai r fare to Berlln and back Is over £58.

Tht" MM lrlp costs only 27 guintas - and that includes

b~~:kra;rll~~~or~lcke":.:d to ~h~ ronctrls.

You ca n leavt Lon don by roach at 9.30 am on Friday, November 7. Fly from Luton direct to Berlin. And we will have you back In London around 5 am on Monday, November 10.

For full details writt at once to Mtlody Maker Berlin Trip, Pagt and Moy Ltd, 22 1· 223 Belgrave Galt, Lei~ster.

BLUES IN ESSEN A NUMBER of top British groups have signtd ror the massivt, thrtt•day Esstn Pop And Blues Festival in Gern,any on October 9, 10 and 11.

Br1t:i.in'1 representativ@s will be Fltttwood Mor, Pink Floyd, Spooky Tooth. Keef H11rtley's Blues Band, Aynsley Dunbar Rttaliation, Hard Meat, Pretty Things, free, Yes, Milwaukee, Hardin-York, Taste, and Deep Purple

Othtr sta r attractions include America's Muddy Waters and Champion Jack Duprte.

NICE U.S. TOUR ? AN AMERICAN concert lour by the Nice and a full

:::::. fyh on~ nd~~ch e:~~~id ~1ratf ~~:

Th e group are due to go to Amer ic11 on November 10 for flve weeks of club dates. and the stcond tou r would be in February or Ma rch next year.

Tht tour would take place with the New York Symphony

Orchestra with condu ctor Joseph Eger, who Is flying 10 London soon for a conctrt with the Nice at Fairfield Hall , Croy don, on OC'tober 17.

JACK'S PLANS JA CK BRUCE is forming a group to tour Britain later this year. He pl•ns to open at London's Royal Festival Hall at a co ncert el thtr in Novembtr or December. Says Jack: " 1 11m now in the process of forming a new group, but it is difficu lt , !'II the people I would really like a re- alrtady in othtr outfits."

Jack's first solo album •· Songs For A Tailor " in• eludes such musicians as Dick Htckstall-Smith and Jon Hise• ma n or Colosseum.

Laurie Henshaw

STAFFMEN M ax J ones Chris Hayes Chns Welch B,11 Walker Tony Wil son Royston Eldridge Alan Lew,s Richard Wtlham s

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SOUNDS NICE TURN DOWN HUMBLE OFFER

BIRKIN

SOUNDS NICE, in t he chart this week at No 30 with "Love Al Fi rst Sight" - the instrumental version of the Jane Birkin•Serge Gainsbourg hit, "Je T Aime " - have hid to turn dow n an offer to tour with Humble Pie .

Says Sou nds Nice manager and record produce r Tony Hall : "The offer is n tremendo us break, but we (tit it advisable to tum it down nt this s tage until Sounds Nice is more firmly established "

Meanwhile, "Love At First Sight" has just been released in the States o n the n ew Tamla Motow n labtl, Rare Earth. The disc Is also a fast sellrr in Sweden, Germany, Bl!'lglum, Ho lland and France.

Sounds Nice have been in lhe 1tudi01 all o ver the weekend recordin11: a fol• low-up single a nd tracks for an a lbum.

More good music from Burt Bacharach

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OFFERS POUR IN FOR POLL Ct-lRISTINI:. Perfect has been Inundated with offers fo llo" Ing her winning of the M ~lody Maker Po ll's British Singer section las t week.

Among the offers was ooe to appear o n Humble Pie's Brit ish tour In October. But.. due to tte0rdlng commitments, Christine was unable to aC'cep t. She win bt cutting he r nrst a lbum and forming a new backln1t group or session mus icians.

One offer she is likely to

WINNER CHRISTINE accept however, Is a.n appea ra nce at th e f xpo ' 70 in Japan nex t year.

Although she wlll no t make any club or college appearances at thl!i s tage, Christine will do radio and TV dale.!i In connection with her forth cominK single-recorded last

Wttkend. Her ttrsl TecordlnR since

she lt ft Chicken Shack, It Is tltltd •• Whl!' n You Say," a nd was wrltt, n by Fleetwood

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cording.

The so ng come• from the Fleetwood Mac's latt•st album "Then Play On," and Christine's versio n b du• for release arou nd October J 7. It Is described as • "ballad-type ii;ong with • s tring backing," and will be oul on the Horizon Jabl!'I.

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ELLINGTON TOUR PLUS Love on

WILD BILL DAVIS ~!:.~~~I~: TRU !PETERS Cootie , illi,\ln nnd Cat Anderson are back with Duke Ellington 's orchestr.,. . And organist \ ild Sill Dnvis and trombonist Benny Grttn will come to Britam with the band when 11 makes a short tour here in late November. vttmber.

Tht hand is e '-PC<'li."d to lb ,n from &rC""elona, via PaM . dtn.-ct t<'1 Brislot for th~ (>-~ninJ ccmcert at Col· i:ton H:1.H on 1\1esd8Y, No' t'm~r ::?5

T'h~ N'"' \l( thl" diit -><. on this ~h .• a, tl"'ur -'rt" frf't TradtHatl \t anl"hf'..;ttr (16), (' 11, HAU, ..... \'" <'~"lh· r.rn. \Vakil!'• fl(IJ 'fltco11t~ l'lut'I t2S), Lon• ,._ n ·.. OJ,,.,, Hammf'rsm 1th t~\ .and th~ \\ 1ntf'r Garden!-, fl rnt'~• \~urh {JOl

Lint up (\f rh"' band will he \ at Andtnon, WilUP Cook. COOtlf' \\ tlham, a~ Me~ El;•n.,1,,n tH>t~l. Lawrf'n« 8,,-.v. n. lknn\ Green and \. '1\u,('~ C(.•nnors {l.l'nhs), Johnny H,-.d,: j'-. Rusc:or-11 PJ'OC'l.'IM'• Har1:'ld "-s-hb' raul Gonsalves and Ham Carn'°y (reeds). Dltkt [lllttltlf"' (pnCI), Rufus J, -,~ ldrsl. \\ tlJ 8111 Oa\'1S (1 t1:anl .,"d Paul KN1dz1c-la l,-..'-..

EQUALS IN CRASH nn EQllAlS v. c-re aJI de• tat~ in h ... p1tal f?',llo"' mg a , ,:\lid 2c-.:.1dtnt 1n Grrman,, rarl\ on \ionday Tht> group h.a;:J rila} cd 1n Ou1sbrrg on $un<U.~ m1h1 Jtind " ere tu,-el-1•"1l t,, 6tt.nlt'n hl d i"' a TV .. he• "htn lht ,r Rf"nll t , wenl

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INSIDE STORY ON

BLIND FAITH

COOTIE: with Ellington band

proposed for the American act's appearan ce Is October 26 .

Another American act , Steppenwolr, make their o nly British appearance there on October 19 together with the Family.

NINA TOUR NINA S IMONE will play three Brit ish dates as part of a forthcoming European tour.

She has one show ot Birmingham Town Hall on November J 5, followed by two shows at the London Palladium (1 6) in aid of charity. and ends with a show at th e Palace, Manc-hester (17).

OLIVER DUE

ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL PLANS HIT OPPOSITION

AMERI CAN si nger Oliver , whose veTs ion of the Ha ir song " Good Morning Starshine" is r idi ng hi' h in the MM charts, a rrives 1n Britain on October 5 for four days of 1V and radio promot ion . Poss ibly li ned up for h1m is an appearance on BBC TV's "Top o r The Pops."

COUNTRY SHOW

COUNTRY PACKAGE CHET ATKINS and Skeeler Davis w ill head line • Country • nd Westtrn concert at London',; Albert Hall on No• v"'mbtr 17.

Pr~ding lh l'. concert will ~ a tour of Britain and the C1>nt1nl!'nt by Miss Davis,

~~ie ~!~~lto~11\~ .

5 i:~~r~ Snuth. the Hill:11dcrs, and Country Fever. All these art is ts. plus Atkins, will appur •t the Albert Hall .

Dates fo r the tour are the Qdeon. Birmingham (Octobe r 31), Clly Hill . Sheffield (Novembtt I), Odeon, Manchester (2), •nd conce.rt s in l I European cllles between No,,embn- 4-1-4

DELANEY DUE AMERICAN DUO Dela ney and Bonnie are almost certain 10 tour Bri tain in October, wh,le nc-.1otialions are 1\so in hand for the appearanca of Cn-edtnce Clearwa ter Revival and Or JObn.

Dtl•nt-y • nd Bonnie are scht".dult.d to appur al the l.)'Cf'I.IM Sunday nl&ht se•• 1k\na, wh,ch will begi n o n Octoh~r 5 wllh the Kinlc•, Chick~n Shack and Vandersraf GC'flr,....,or Thi date

Wainw11gh1s Gentlemen Denny larne Strmq Band The Shark Chris lamb & The Universals l,verpool Scene Mighty Baby The Neat Change Juniors Eyes The allack 32-20 Blues Band The Love Affair The Spectrum The Floor Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbuds The- Nice Joe E Young and The Tonics J1m1 Hendril Elpe,1ence The ~r

The Who The AcJ,on The H\ led Zeppehn Chns Farlowe Jun Eyes Jon H1seman·s Colloseum T1 Bonzo Dog Band Entire S1ou• N;,• Pure Med1t1ne The Plastic F-\ The Revelatmr Fa1rpor1 Conve Rich G11mes & Babylon Blossom Toes The Episode Six i Glass Menaqer1e The Eclewon Thl Marmalade The Stal us Ouo Aynsley Dunbar Retal1a11on The Ku lt and many other yroups

l' fd -~ 1h, •n, ,I\ ,d Hall ,;I «. "" !hr Nm .• S1mom , ., i-,,1 it , J ani, Jvplm

stars, arc to make a threeweek tour of Britain.

They arrive on Novcm~ 18 and dates set so far in · elude a c.>ncert at the Royal Albert Hall (November 21), Mother's, Birmingham (23), and Fairfield Hall , Croydon (December 7).

The group will also play London's Speakeasy and spend ove r a week o n the Con• tinent.

Elekt..ra Record!! are to relea11e the group's cu rrent US album, "Four Sail" to con• incide with the tour.

MARY FOR EUROPE MARY HOPKIN , discovery of Beatie Paul McCartney and international hitmnker with •· Those Were The Dnys " a nd "Goodbye," has been chose n 10 represe nt Britain in next yea r·s Eurovisio n Song Con• tes t.

Sixteen songs will be selec• ted, and Mary w ill then have the right to comm ission three songs from composers of her own choice.

The numbe r will th en be narrowed down to six songs, which Mary will si nJ! on six of the shows m the new Cliff Ri chard TV senes in BBC-I

eaw;/fln':ie of~he ~~~- ctition will take pl ace in Hotfand on Morch 21.

Big names at Newcastle

A MASSIVt, line up or jazz name haft t,.een

sf't f'or the NcwCUtl" festival , opening: with theGraham Collier Sextet 11t the GulldhnH on October

~hey a rc fo llowed hy F k Rlcotll (8), Peter K~~; (7) Alan Skidmore (0~, Chrl• McGregor Group ~10 , Haro ld McNa lrd <:u, Me:; cutle Big Ban d Don Westbrook (ll) an Qulntt:t ~~)~ell- la:he • roankworth 8rehestra will play the CllY

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Burton Quarte t on Octobe!r 17.

JOE d':u':n-r:c1:s, wW~g-tl::

~co~e~ LeQr\~a~~~d, ~~: d~!: been sick for 1ome time and the last seulon he played was at Preservation Hall with the BaJT)' Martyn Band during their recent tour.

TR~~PEJ!: ::;zzrc, ~T;; ~~':'u0r'J:; at ~:~l~•Yl,nd::,:

~:Yr•~ut~~m T~~ef:o~~~~~i back to bis home Jn the Sta tes. Tomorrow he appeara with the Tesldent trio - Phll Sea.men, Terry Shannon and Reg Pettit -with altolsl Joe Harriott added on Saturday.

THioc'i:t~d0k1t:szz o~"Yt!

winter season of concerts by presenting the Stan Tracey Big Band at the LO n d On SC h O O I or Econo mics, on October 16. The concer t will be the

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a :!~!~! ~t ~fn'1Co1~~~:y ci~fh~181rn October 3 .. .. Keith Tippett plays Mike Westbrook's new Crucible club tomorrow (Friday) followed by the Westbrook Conce rt Ba nd o n Saturday.

JAZZ NEWS

Worthlna Road, llnraham, , 1arlln1 on ()(tober 14. flt• for the cntlr11 courn I• Cl 11 nd deta lls can be obtained

,e~m c:!~~a p~~=~·ue,1ar:i:: a ham.

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(alto, flute), G•to Bllrblerl

~t:J'•ea~;;• A1'l:J~f (J~r') cu:!:10McG~::.~ alr~1 ~

Work•hop o n October S with a Une•Up of John Su.nnan, Mike 01bom1 and Evan Parker (saxes), Mon•

~e.'!1) fe:d (tp(J;ul~a~o;ou~ (drs) .. • . Grah,m Colller'• Sextet plays Liverpool'• Bluea:co•t Arts Forum on October 2,

BRIS~~~•:rat?.ld ,ira~~~ an nlve.rsary on October 10.

:,:b":re ~~1~c-m':!, J:;

Webster a nd Charlie Shaveu who will bf, rcalured betwe.c-n October 29 and November J.

TUB~:cord~•y•es~ro2~:;:: for Radio 3 tomorrow (Fri•

:~y)M:kl~n~!:d ~~;~~ ::it: Head, Dames ~), Rruntl

~;~vne1':!ty(1\~~lo Thel •~a~~: Bl& Band plays thr JtonaJt Scott C lub on October I.

THE Frank Rlcoul Qu• r• i.1 tel visits th• Goal, St A I b a n a on September Jl,, .• AnUa O'Dey has a dra.m atlc role In • new MGM ftlm, fals e. Witness. Al!lo filmi ng Is singer Jot WIiliams who htn. a rolt In Moonshine War.

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~Mew from CBS New Singles

4514 O.C.Smith Daddy"s Little Man

4527 Tony Bennett l"ve Gotta Be Me

4528 Linda Scott The Composer

4529 Sykes & Medina Everything·s Fine, Fine, Fine

4530 The Wolftones """"'" Uncle Nob by· s Steamboat 57-3162 Jellybread "' ' "'"""' Chairman Mao's

Boogaloo

New Albums (S)63741 Gordon Haskell

Sa,I In M y Boat

( M) 63738 The Immortal :• .. "•''""' Blind lemon Jefferson

(S)63735 Fred McDowell ,: ·· ,:·-" Long Way From Home

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IAN ANDERSON: 'We've got good studios here '

THE MELODY Maker Pop Poll results last week revealed a hefty swing to the progressively musical groups and singers although this was to be guessed at anyway looking back over the changes in the music scene of the last couple of years.

Success, but no musical sell-out The new a lbum wllJ be

wider instrumentally as far as the group are concerned. Martin Barre will be heard on flute, drummer Clive Bunker will probably use glockenspie l and various types of drums " and I'm lea rning piano, organ, balalalKa and guitar," added Ia n, who has already been seen playing mandolin on " I Don't Want To Be A Fat Man."

Although they are getting into other instruments,

While some groups prefer American studios to record in, J ethro Tun are happy to cut their sides in British studios. "We don't want to record in America," said Ian. "\Ye've got good studios here."

The demand for the personal appearances or Jethro Tull in Britain has made It impract lea I for them to play small clubs any longer and they now go out on

concert tours Instead. Ian thinks that this allows more people to see them at any one time and a dded, "The people in America. are worse off. They only see us once a year usua lly, wherever we plny.

The recording side of the Jethro Tull working life is one that Ian has thought hard and deeply abou t and believes there is more production in their records,

particularly sln&le than in most "-'C(Jl'ds. • side of rttJOl"din,1, that he sees as not M,ing enough tim~ pent on It.

Of the group's s.ingles, [an said, ·• \Ve aim at the commmercb.J marl:-tt but not to sell-out musically. Jt'J much harder to "'Tfte fo, a single bec:iu ttrta.ln requ irements ha, r ta ~ tnkrn into a.ccounL

•• W h e n )l o u w r I tr an album. } "OU ca.n ~t \\.Tlte th~ songs but " 1th the single,, you·v-e got to confine yourn.lI to lhrOf' or four m.inutt>:S.. lt rates a lot mon.- COnst.iOU5 effort becau l' l ou mu.st stJU a.ppl)• musical principles. I would imagiMpeople who '"TiCf' ror Engelbert or Tom. Jontt must han~ an e,· . harder J<>b beuuse the)r"H gol to think of St)'le- we don·t \\'llrT)" about styl'-.''

One g roup who did well in both British a n d International sections of the poll were Jethro. Their last single " Living In The Past," was featured in both sections' singles placings and the group was voted second most popular British group and in the Brightest Hope ratings.

the group don't want to make too much or i~ particularly on their live ap• peara nces. There are obvious difficulUes that prevent this anyway. " There's the danger that if you play all these instruments on stage, people will say ' Yah boo, multi-instnr mentalists.' We don't really play these ins truments but we play the desired thing given time e nough for rehearsal.

BY TONY WILSON Ws certainJy been a good

year for the Tull, " Living In The Past," having been a big hit and perhaps more import.ant, their second album .. Stand Up," high in the album chart, the group look set for an even better 12 months ahead.

They are currently working on a third album and a new s ingle, ·• Sweet Dream.'' is due out on October 3.

" lit~s :ee~~ s!rlt• :~~ people imagine us to be,'' said Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson, over lunch in a Fleet Street pub, when: his Jong hair and casual appearance caused raised eyebrows among the short bac.k a nd skies a nd grey suits of the .. normals."

" It has a good guitar solo rrom Martin Barre, and judJcious use of horns and strln3s. There's a very delicate blend of s trings. horns, two electric guitars and 12· s tring guitar, all playing a licht patrt-rn. Tl's nice to use extra lnstrumentaCion properly. The flute makes a brief appearance,. but there ls much more vocaL"

" I'd hate to add a piano

r:arnora_~~ ~ny::;t a~~ if we had a proper musician, I'd have no reason to learn. We have a sufficiently large enough variety of things . to use. The only things we can't play are the violins and cellos. Everything we play, we have complete control over."

The group have been busy with tours both In Britain and In America and have ano ther British tour, with Savoy Brown and Terry Reid, coming up. 1

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~~nyla~v~. P'::•1: J;~~; understand what Amer ica means to poups to have to play there, even with sb: or 1even months allocated. you hav• to ploy e,,ery day to cov• the. p-ouncl."

You' ve heard it in

" FROZEN ORANGE JUI CE" and even more on the other side!

It wos ployed br !tet•Wihhee-, Mall0ge1 oi 11\e 11.otolOund Showraom. who will g\odlr show you the uc,ting pon,bihti.. of 1ti. irntrumenl

It n uipe1blr built, dft1ori.d up 10 o ,tondord ond not down to o price ond includ. n10ny n .... ftMJh,,ru. h oho poc;h oway into o neat and lilurdy corryu,g ane Although eo11ly leoml by gu1tor11t1, P'.te W1lh~ w,11 be pi.o..d lo 01ronge tuition for you

So, c~ to where it't oll happening

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THE PEDAL STEEL

GUITAR

Pag~ 6-MFLODY M A KER , SeptemhPr 27, 1969

All the stars, plus Boozo The Wonder Drink THERE WERE those among the pop business who seemed a trifle

baffled by the MM Poll results this year - because they heavily featured musicians and artists from quality groups.

•· Never "eard of 'er ," muttered one piqued showbi z figure, when Christine Perfect accepted the award for the best girl singer in Britain .

ERI C CLAPTON: Musician of the Year

The poll results generally were proof of the tastes

• of the vast majority of young people in Britain today - they want pop that is progressive by musicians who are honest. And they don't want old•style showhi2.• type pop.

Gilt At the MM Awards at

London's Waldorf last week, many of the coun. try 's top group artists were s ipping the champagne once reserved for the gilt and tinsel brigade.

Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce were there on behalf o r Cream and Blind Faith to rece,v~ their silver cups and champe rs. And Keith Moon a nd John Entwistle were on hand to receive the award for the Who's " Tommy.. album which came second to the Cream's "Goodbye."

Th u n d e r c I a p Newman, sporting a cu rious ly. shaped wooden pipe1 was the next brightest hope to Blind Faith, and Keith Emerson, the Nice's amazing young organist, was delighted to find himself nex t to Eric Clapton in the best musi• ciao section.

John Peel, who walked away with the top d isc jockey awa rd , once again

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presented the awards which included one for Jimmy Savile, who came second.

John was ea rlier in one or those st range scenes which always seem to happen to him. A German photographer who saw him holding a cup pounced and in a display of shock tactics designed to obta in a showing of Peel t eeth shouted: "You sing don't you? Then smile!"

Jimmy Sa vile t ravelled overnight from Manches-

What could Charles do

if the family business folded?

ffllRROR fflAliAZIDE Starts Oct 1

Make sure of your copy of Mirror Magazine on Wednesday - Order the Daily Mirror now.

REPORTS ON THE MM

POP POLL PARTY

ter in a ca ravan driven by his green-haired chauffeur Dave.

The ca ravan was parked ove rni ght outside Bloomsbury's Adrian Hotel and Oavt! slept inside - parked on a meter bay. At dawn a wa rden called the po lice when they could not shift the van. They tried to break into t he van and says Jimmy: "The cop nearly died when he saw tha t green barnet waking up!"

Maurice Gibb accepted Lulu's award for top female TV artist, who had just flown to Las Vegas. Maurice a nd Lulu are currently setting up a new home nea r mill ionaire's row, a t Bishop's Avenue, Hampstead.

The girls were a lso repre• sented by Mary Hopkin who came next to Christine Perrect, and looked s lightl y out o f cha racter clutching her magnum of champagne. It was a time for reun ions and Inter-group na tte ring. A triumvirate or bass players - Jack Bruce, J ohn Entwistle a nd Glenn Cornick of J eth ro Tull, the group which came second to the Beatles, stood swapping American stories and there was a happy if unlikely drink• ing team which included Eric Clapton, Thunderclap Newman, Peter

Green and Keith Moon.

In fa ct , a great deal of alcohol was consumed during lhe proceedings -which ran from midday to three in the afternoon

- a nd afterwards, much of it downed by the entire MM s taff, which turned up for the occasion, I o o k in g unnaturally sma rt .

Photographers kept wanting to know what layout man Bill Walker (i n his poof's shirt), had won. They seemed to believe it when they were told he was the famous Jiving K. Boots.

The silver cups were found to ho ld exactly two and a half pints of bitte r - and Christine Perteet was seen later filling hers up

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in that famous Jewish pub, the Kosher Horses, in Poland Street.

Much of the mob went to the Cottage Club, a haunt of musicians and journalists, whe re Roy Eklridge won a who•can-downa•ha lf •the•quickest contest .

Keith Emerson had to rescue his girl friend from Denmark, model and da ncer Elinor Lund from ce rtain MM staffmen, while Thunderclap cheerfu ll y chatted on abou t Bix Beiderbecke. ,,,,.,.,_.

Some or the ex plod ing galaxy of boozers ended up al Apple digging Beatles and Jack Bruce a lbums and others went to Chicken Shack manager Harry Simmonds' Bal-te rsea home with Christine Perfect and Stan Webb.

Many people pooh-pooh pop polls, (thus •· pQQQ. pooh "), but while some may argue over the results, or the validity of the exercise, !here is no deny ing it is a splendid way of indulging in compliments and appreciation, not to mention Boozo The Wondtr Dnnk.

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MAMA CASS ELLIOTT MAKES IT ON HER OWN

. . . and Julie finds a happier way of life

But it's a drag to work I under pressure. I'm going to put everything into it,

SINCE HER return from America some five months ago Julie Driscoll, now parted from Brian Auger a nd the Trinity, has been living in virtual seclusion.

But she did go to the Isle of Wight to sel' Bob Dyl.in, which has a pparently affec ted a chan1:w In her :.ind since th t.'11 she has been l na much happier framf ol mind.

·• I've felt so happy since then,'' Ju lie told me w hen J visited her at her South London homt.> Ja s t week. " I was rea lly nea r to a breakdown when r came back from the Slates. I was in such a sla te! "

On her return, Jullc wanted a complcle rest a nd change from the hectic, h lgh-prNsurc life or per• forming and traveJUng a ll over Europe and America with Auger .tnd the Trinity.

She wa,, however, com• milted to lclerecord a ploy. Titled Sea,on Or The Wil<h, it wlll be one or lhe 88C-TV's Wed• ntsday dra ma St.'l"les and J, exp«:(ed to he ~creenNI early in the New Year. II Is Julie's tin t serious ac ting role., In a pa rt :rpccia lly wdUcn ror her 11 nd ba5ed on htt)efr. ·1 he play is fn th ~ fo rm of a documentary.

.. J 1J tA rly did n't do the

r.~r.:~[ ih~ tl~~"t sa~ '1 Wll4n't .:u,ln~ Ct) do It Hut U had heen pl.toned for .1 year, It had tak t ri l!I whole yt·-1 r 10 K~t IO•

gtther . ,u I did It hut I wa,- gl:ad when ll wa,

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INTERVIEW BY TONY WILSON

months and the rest from working seems to have done a lot or good fo r Julie. She wa~ lookini! fresh and healthy and there was no trace of depress ion as we.- c hatted.

" It's ta ken a long time fo r me to gel ou t of the way I've been fee ling," sa id Julie. " l've had some Incredibly bad scenes bul

~ e ~:liv:~ c1~~~f;i ;?ve~ been to simila r things hut a lways as a performer and I was never relaxed. I was always thinking " J've got to get It

i~fiet~~;s~.1 :h~a~'j~s! smiling a t everybody. It was really nice."

During the time JuJle has taken off from singing, she has been doing a lot or songwriting. which, she says, has helped her during this obviously dffticu/1 period In her career.

"J locked myself away. I wouWn't sec anyone, I couldn't sec anyone. I wrote some sonJ(s which hclpt"<I with the unwind· Ing but 5fncc the tes tlval l ' \' e (cit grci'L"

Conllnuc-d Julie. ' ' I've bt'en v11ry ca lm a nd thing, have bt:Cn on a much nicer level. It's the Ur.IS i time I've reu fr~ for four ye:irs. I Ju~t foci that I want lrl d o whut I wa rlt lo. I :i tut ai n a lbum ln lhrc" week, and J .i.hall do fl In my own time, 1tlthou.w:h 11'11 not aolng to 11. kt: months to record .

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want to say. I don' t want to feel any llm!Ultions."

At the moment JuUe is not thinking in terms of live g igs. " I get moments when I want to be on stage," admitted Julie. "There's nothing like being on s tage and having people with you. In the studio, you miss t h e communication, which is beautiful when the audience is with you, but I can' t go on like I did, to that extent. I'm glad 1 did it because I learnt so much but that's behind me now. There were a lot of times when I was on edge a nd felt completely messed up.

11 Working with Brian was incredible and It was very strange to leave people who you've got so close to. It was weird but I had to. J just couldn't go on like that!'

When she does even tually get back to live work, Ju II, Is hoping to play guitar as well as sing. " And I have a few people in mind who I think will be nice to \\'Ork with. J want to find my own pace. With Brian lt was his pace, the pace of something beginning to happen. J want to find my own level, my own rhythm, nol musically, but of Jiving 11nd working. You can't work efficiently io someone else's music.

" And I want lo change the way I live. With Brian, I saw a lot of things and I dldn 11 see lob of things, I dldn'I see much, lr&velllng all the time, There's , o much to see and lea rn and flnd out, ouh, lde of worldns and belnK on &ht road ...

"FANTASTIC!" said Mama Cass Elliott when told over the transat !antic phone how well her single, " It's Getting Better " is doing in the MM Pop 30.

" The success of the record is important to me," she admitted. "It shows I am being accepted on my own -and that is something I've worrtied about ever since I left the Mama's And Papa's .

For one thing I don't have a bond together at tht moment.

"R;ght now rm buS)

~~to! ~i~~O:;-Pt:Vcb Jnr and a few days •£0 I did an Andy W1U1ams Show. I also have a new single out in the Stales next week. lt's called 'Make Your Own Kind Of Music ' and it was WTitten by the same people who dtd 'It's Getting Better.'

" I do miss appearing ut front of auclitnc6 but it's a bit difficult at the moment. I don't want to go on tour right now, I want to stay at home with my little- girl. And anyway I do en.JO) recording and doing tel~ vision. " Musically, though, it's

not quite what I want lo be doing. It doesn't satisfy me, It's a good recording for what it is, but you wouldn't exactly ca ll it social com• mentary and musically it's not very complicated.

CASS: difficult finding material

" I probably will do • tour again soon, though l can't say whffl . It will probably be a marnmouth tour taking in the States and Europe. The Mama•s And Papa's never worked over there and I don't know what the audiences are like. " It was relatively easy to

record, it didn't require weeks or time in the studios. If music is what 1 am meant lo do then there should be a little more in it to satisfy me.

BY BOB DAWBARN •• At least it doesn't look the same over there. In England I always have a great sense of freedom and it gives you a new per• spective on your own country when you leave it. That's particularly true of England where you don"t have any language problems."

" Bubblegum music is very pleasant to listen to, and maybe that is what J an supposed to be doing. But it's like they say about Chinese food - half an hour after tasting it you are

hu~ire•:ga~n·;~eory in the music business that it is always more difficult for a gi rl singer to find material because there just aren't too many songs written specifically from the female point of view.

Cass agreed: ' ' J do find it difficult finding materia l. My voice is very light and more suited to things like ' Dream A Little Dream '

than ' Natural Woman.• That's another reason I'm not totally pleased with the single. 1 just can't sing heavy material like Aretha Franklin for example - not that I particularly want to sing soul.

" It would be great to have the versatility of a Paul McCartney who can do a beautiful balJad then come on with a real heavy thing.

"The main problem in finding material is, of course, that there are more men writers and as they write from experience their songs really have to be sung by men."

In the days of the Mama 's And Papa 's, the

publicity hand•outs seemed rather fond of describing Cass as "cynical."

"I supposed that's more fair than unfair," Cass admitted. " I tend to be a little sarcastic, maybe, but with a kind of a humorous tinge to it. Actually, I'm very gullible and if anybody tells me anything 1 believe iL"

Will we be seeing Mama Cass in Britain now she has a new hit?

" I shall be over on October 16 to do a Tom Jones Show," she told me. " We seem to do it every year. I aim to be in London for around two weeks but I don't think 1 will be doing any personal appearance.

In view of her constant search for mate.rial, I wondered if Gass was

~ri.·::n.;0~t~:Orsf!~-thing for years." she- said. " I used to when J first started singing with a group called the Mugwumps, but my songs

w~r~~~~ ~!;; :i~ ,t~od~:s just being modest.

"I'm being dead accu• rate," said Cass.

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l'her lht." lhrtt Yt'lr~ of th<" ~"-\Ur·$ <', ,stt~nl' "'· ooly th 1<-.,dt"r 11nd Nss1st tt>,"e ~'"•llo\\ havt renained n,n tanl n,m,bt:-r t'f the Im(' tlf' Orummc-rs Bobby '1(~"<'S 1111J Ro, H11~ nes a n d ,wititnst, L•rry Coryell t1nd .lt"tr, Haho hJ.\'t' come nnd

gone. " J'\'e been in favour of

t'VC'ry cha nge expect when Jerry Hs hn left. '' said Gary. ·• Every time someone new arrived it added something to the music. But at the b~~inning o f this year, before Jerry le fl. we we re getting into some very int e res tin g things and I was sorry to see him go. ··

His replacement, o r only n few weeks standing, is D1we Pritchard, 11 young man from Los Angeles whom Gary met when the qua rtet played with Pritch a rd"s g roup in a concert at the guita rist 's college.

·• H e was writing a lot of in teresting m a te ria l for his htt le group, and 1 kept

bumping into him. He also sent me some tunes for ou r band, and when Jerry le rt I got in touch with him. In fact Jerry gave Dave some lessons s evera l yea rs ago in L.A.

" Dave has practically no experie nce at all in jazz, a nd he resembles Larry inasmuch as th ey are both basically self-taught, and approach the guitar from a harmonic, chordal standpoint unlik e J e rry, who is a mo re linear player.' '

The g roup 's o the r new boy is drummer Bill Goodwin, also from Los Angeles, who has played with Paul Hom, Art Pepper, and m any othe r bands in th e area.

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While Goodwin is by no means as brilliant a drumm er as Haynes, he seem s to fit the quartet bette r, and the music sounds more comfortable.

" That's exac tly it ," said Gary. " Roy and Elvin Jones a re probably the two best drummers around. I've played with th em both, but I didn't really like it. That kind of drumme r rea lly needs to lead hi s own g roup, which is what Roy left us to do.

" It was good musically with Roy, but it wasn't very well 1ntegrated - and that's Bill's central aim. Roy, be ing an older player, was a lso somewhat r eluctant to play the newe r materia l, most of which is not in s traight 4/4 jazz time.

"As that is the way the

obituary is nev er a pleasant task . When it is for somebody I have known as long. a nd liked as mu ch , as Bert Courll ey it is doubly- d ifficult.

Be rt died last week just a couple of days after his 40th birthday, arter three years of ill health .

Though perhaps never In Lh e very top flight or jazzmen he was, in one sense, ahead or his time in th a t during the major part of his career when 1t was expected of Briti sh musicians that they should sound like particulnr America ns he always managed lo be origin al and entirely himself

Taste Aga in, he wasn't an easy

man Lo categorise and his tas les ranged from his tlrs1 idol, Tommy Ladnier, through

~~nfr1~~et~f ~!i~~t;~~~=~~ e~o The last tim e I 1nterv1ewcd

him - can il really be over Lwo yean ago? - he told me: " Are we modern jazz? Or main i tr eam? It doesn'I ma tter

!:1/s ~~~:- fs~~n t!~nre:ic;:et from Bohhy Hackell. I don~ give a damn what you call it - It WOI jus t absolutely beaut 1fo1 music-. "

music has gone in th e p11st yea r, Roy began to nt in less and less, and th e time was coming when w e needed someone more .!lym · pathetic to the music."

Most of the numbe rs th e quarte t now play a re in an eight -to-th e-bar bnk- Docs Gary ever find this restrict ing?

" I find it very inter• estin g, and the way we do it the re's more freedom than there is in the normal 4/ 4. Of course, if we h ad a drummer just bangini out n solid eight wilh no varia tions it would be restric• tin g.

"But it 's no different if you 've got a jazz drummer playing ching-chin~a-ching on his top cymbal a ll night . That's just as bad.

" I'd played over n s traig ht jazz rhy thm for yea rs, a nd 1 got a bil fed up with it, so I eithe r had to play free o r to go in some o the r direction rhythmical • ly. This was 1l. We do still play the s tra ight jazz things occasionally, mostl y when we need a change.'1

This brought us round to the opening n ig ht at Ronnie's last week , when the first set consisted entire ly of the o ld reliab le numbers like "Walter L ," "Su n se t 8 e 11," a n d

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Aft er eig ht yrnrs , w ith RCA GAry hn !'I 111~nNI u cOn troc l wit h Allnntlc, nncJ his first nlbum fo r th t• lnbcl. "Throb," u, just uu,t .

" It's MOI the qunrl(•I with 0 violini st cn llN.I IUcho~t.l G rel'n , who 5tort1.•d ou t ,n country music nnd now

~~fud ~~hTr! in fine ~roup

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and my A & R man le ft In the reshuffle, one.I I found I d idn 't know onyone Al the compnny.

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thc tO let me go my own way -os long ns l d on ' t lose too much money for th em!"

Gary has one mojo r projec t in the offing : o new wo rk by Brit ish -bnscd trombonis t Mike Gibbs, who has bee n n cons tant contribulor to the quarte t' s library .

The piece, obout on hour long, wos commissioned by the Belfas t F'estivnl. and will rece ive its firs t per formance th e re by th e qua rtet a nd nn ensemble inc luding rock muslciuns a nd stnntts in November. If it goes well , soys Gary, It may be n .. -co rdcd next yea r.

RICHARD WILLIAMS

Bert-a true original

He was at th a1 time o. lll.'mpl . ing somclh int or o. comcbatk on lhe j11 t1. scene doin g duo d11t es with h is wire, 1enoris1 Knthy Stobnrt - th ey hod been m11rr icd s ince 1952. Like so many or the worthwhile th ings Berl tr ied, the come• back didn't quit e work oul

Bert was born in Mnnclll'Slcr on September 11 , 1929. nnd wns self-lnugh t on lrumpe;. He made his prnfcss1onal debut In 1946 and worked with mos1 of the .b iJ:: name ban di. of the 1950s including Gernldo Erie

ft~:re~~~ .Vic Lewis and' C:y rU

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~.~ pala is band but with O lo t o r fine jau creeping lhrough. Tht: bond broke up after n yea r and 1n 1957 Bert joined the Don Rendell group whi ch in• el uded o. yo un(l nlto cn ll cd Ronnie Ra.,s w11h whom ht' wus !O b<- frequentl y ai. :md Bled 1n lhe nex1 ten years

~ext came the Ja1;~tct , which he co-led with Ronni e Rou nnd wns certainly one of the . most original and pro• fe!ls!nnal Jan groups on th e Bn11sh scene or 1he 1m1e,

In 196 1 Bert formed o scxlCt with a lme•up that induded Kalhy Slobart and Dick Heck • s tall -Smith on lenonr. Gordnn Beck On pinnn, l)avc Wllllf

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Sessions

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MI\GGIL 1m1,rovl11nq 1lnc.,1r

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Hindemith's Metamorph,oles is very popular amon& concert goen. Its popularity in reperLOir e Is undoubted!f due to the direct accessabihty of the material - Its a ttractJve melodies and expert orchest ra t ion.

can Harp adds the unmistakable sound

~usl~ is w~Yfh ~! known and enjoyed al l ove r the world. The South Ameri can flutes wh ich com~ in various shapes and si zes a r e something which I have not heard much or in connection wi th South America, but this record featu res four types or flule with !l uch exotic

Unsophisticated, but something original

Pa ul Hindemith ()895- 1963) iJ" a notable ftgure: in modtrn music if o nly for his theort· tica l writings on music l.n wh ich he neatly sets down to basics. Hls somewhat abortin attempts at puttin& his theory into practice, however, have never really caught on an music generally. NevertMle:s.s he has a p lace. In musical history and his writings are thought-provoking material for any musicia n to re ad.

A!. lhe sleeve-notes say themusic Is for ~musement only; an in tellectual amusement, obviously, for music.al epheads But th is need not put off less academic listeners; the musk Is there fo r anybody whc cares to open an ear. It is worth adding as a footnote that a jazz feeling can be de-

~~;,e:,;i~i:~."1!ihict•i!' a 0~1~

result of Hind em ith's stay in America.

names us Sik u Pingullo, Ker:a. a nd Tarka. ·

As well as the norma l Spanish gui la r, others used an~ the T,p:c - a guitar with twelve s teel s trings tuned in groups of three, the central s t ring of each group being tuned an octave above the oth ers, the Charango - a kind or Mandolin made from Armadillo shells, and the Cuatro -a sma ll guil u . ra ther like a ukelele, with four gu t strings.

The differe nt t racks on th e record nre linked in genio usly by sounds of the countryside

~ n'ist'"1te w:i~d. tr!~d rbi5r~

calfs, all of which manage to convey the atmosphere of the South American Tundra :i nd provide a su itable backgrou nd to the music Unsophisticated music is always a plea.sure to listen to becnuse it always comes up with something

~~lji~!IW ~~e~eJ~r:o;he{~1~~~~~ ears

ROBERTO GERH AR D (b. 1896, Composer) - COLLAG ES (Symphony No. 3 for Electronic T::i pe and Orche.s tra) (1960); BB C S YMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by FREDER ICK PR AUSN ITl. PETER MAX WELL DAVI ES (b. l934, Composer); REVELATION AND FA LL FO R .!,Q PRANO AN D SIXTEEN INSTR UMEN TALISTS (1966); MARY THOMAS (soprano); PIERROT PLAYERS con• ducted by the composer. (HMV ASD 2427 li le.r to).

R00~=~~ M~::~~; d Da:,"e! a re two of the most pro· minent composers currently work ing m England ; this record gives a rurth er oppor~

i:~l:~ ii ::l~ri~~)i~i; r: ,~~~ been reco rded commercially. Both composers present individual sty les which are rasci• nating to lis ten 10 bul which requ ire at the same tim e a rai rly deep knowledge of the ln!t'llect behind the work. Without this f1ml}' detailed knowledge ll IS poss ible to say th at the1t works are difficu lt to come to term s with; a fa<'t which se~ms to be commonplace in most fo rm s of modtrn art It i.s c-erta mly t rue in progress ive pop and Jan, bu l also true I th ink ,, the fact that prolon~ed nposure tn th15 kmd of music un eventua lly w m ils acceptant't in 1.h1' e} es or the pubUc. even 1f 1t is a wa tered down vert;inn or the real 1hinp It ca n prove lhe vahdil) r,f the avant-garde by chan-1n,t tht> musical hac.k~rou nd 10 tiu r ll vts

Rober to Gerhard's Collages IS specially 1nlC-ft'Slln1 tr) the fol lowers of con le.mponry mus ic hecause it usf'S ex-

periment 11 1ly the techn iqu e of combi ning orchest ral and electronic sound . As the t itl e suggests the work is !Ike a picture made up by su per • impoa ing diffe rent qua1il1es of sound materia l on top of one another.

Revelation And Fall is something ent irely different. It 1s bn.se~ on a spine-chilling

G!r~!~1on~~tet prg!~-~ e~ ra~r. The music, in contrast to Coll.,ges, ls small and crysta lli M in Its sound nnd employ, specially constructed inst ruments like oi ldrum and knife gr ind er and glass sma• sher to achieve some q uite nove l effects Havi ng attended the premier of th is work 1n February 1968 l must say the work does lose something witho ut it!I visual effccl.

As I say, difficul t music to enjoy, but int erestmg to lis ten to.

shed new light when encoun · then Ca rre ll is always a eq~a~ly t~ello~e:or~~~e v!! ,!~ J:~~~g avant-garde pop or ~i!!:r pi:::,er

11;vnecehec~~se h~h! o f Janacek's Smfonietta.

coJ ~i~l coirte~~./f ~~~u~eec~tadt overall effect is often lost on~eo~,ia:.1cel~n~l85'otl9g~~ works for large groups of when transferred to disc. Nationalist composers which conventional instruments. The This record 1s anoth er in also has as members Dvorak first Gruppen, or groups , for lhe series entitled Avant• and Smetana, He was called a three orchest ras Is

8 seethi ng garde issued by the Gtrma n Na tionalist because, J1ke the

~oa: ~d1nt m:t1:i~~~ u{ean g?e~ ~ ~~~i.• nfhis ~~~I!f::~fr~':c~~d ~:~;ion~hf!~:;J• asinma~~:-, move.-. along, like 8 ka leidos- won the Grand Prix du Czech folk luncs and adapted cope, prese nti ng an e.ve r Disqu e in Pa ris and 1t Is a n them to su1l his own needs. chnns ing pallern of so und. excellenl record tng taking full Th is gives the music Hs

Carre fo r fou r orches lras f d;:~t~!~o~ ~;~~e~~j~ ~~~reif un iq ue sound

=~~ntubu~hf~~s ~sho~~m~~~ oi:. five reco rd ings who lehea r tedly m. ~~~fo;;ep~\~r is0,Pe;~ap!o: ~:. phe f th k · - they provide II com- I k by ~he°intr:du~~~n ~r h1~:=~ prehensive representat ion o r a be~a us~e~1mtir:h:t~tunei;., ;, voi ces wh ich adds a kind of ~~C::::ose';-! on~eihei r 1:;:upo,,•ctant his tunes. Orginality ui huma n qua lily to an other- a nother feature or hlS work wise. ra ther . c,::a ld soundi ng which contribute lowards the mus ic. The voices do not si ng feeli ng of fresh ness and

~a~~~a l •~: ~le, f~~ch ti~s o; ~ S~~~~5~1IJ H ~~~sot ..-ivac1l}' . significa nce a t all in the P HOSES ON TH EMES OF Considertng the re,co rd 15 a mus ic, the perts are phonellc, CA RL MARIA VON WEBER who le, it is full of enjo)ablt

~~Ot~~!y s6~~d u;~~rc~.mp ly as i1r::}b~1Af~~ f 0mf1°9s;;:: ~e101,rs·te~nd

t~~us Theple•;~

AVANl . GARDE KARI.- Gr~~P~hne ~;'obabi1~cet~a~~:fel C~OLAH~UDToo",NoA AsBvB:A~D:?o"~. ~ed(YD ECOCt ;~~~~1ct>'on:se~~~infhe i!ctu••~ HEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (b. have heard it live an d " perform a nce. 1s, of courn, :: r2s,

3 c::;g::t~1~ f1~~::s~ thert>fore kno w it a hit better SXL 6398 s tereo), ~~e~~~ltd'~y fi~~:t 1:r~e:i:S.of

COLOGNE RA DIO SVM- r---------------------.......... ::.:.::.:..:::::.::::::::. PHONY ORCHESTRA con- ~,--------·----------.. ...__ du cted by KARLH EINZ STOCKH AUSEN, BR UNO M A D E R N A, MICHA EL GIELEN. CARR E fo r 4 orchestras and 4 choirs (1958/ 59); NORTH GERM AN RADIO SYMPHON Y OR-CHESTRA conducted b)' MAURI CIO KAGEL, KARLH E I N Z STOCKHA US EN , AND R Z E J MARKOWSKI , MI CHAEL GIELEN. (DG 137002 s1ereo).

K ARl;: E:~ez mo~~oc~~: ~:~:i an d pe rhaps th e most well known modern composer opera t ing In Europe today . He is a lsei one who Is eb! olutely in control a nd cer tain of his direction in music: this ,s des pit e tht' derisfve comments and uproa r from in.sensi t ive cri t ics which have someti mes

~~~f tTi e h/:Ct 1:iem;7~s t~o:ic~~!

music iii st ill the subj ect of much controversy in musical circles . Some peo ple thi nk it a compl ete con while others herald Stockhausen as th e new me.ss i11 h. a second Bee thoven no less!

Stockhausen's music ab.I n• dons alto11ether th e Idea of tona l harmony and melody ; ins tead he thinks 1n terms o f pure sound and the dia-1r1but1on of that sound w1 th m the bound <1 f time and space If you can u nders tand thil concep t and I th ink this re<.0rd wf/1 help you , then you have ex tendt-d your 'range of a ura l o: per1ence and can. I hope, posuu a view 111 1:reat er perspect ive of nther more nr lest conve- n1 iona l snunds It rnay help you to

Ml l1 HtV MAK II( , 1·r11t1n1h11t Jl \!)(,11 l'A,:fl I

ROBERT · PLANT

th11t Kt'Hh Hel l h11(1 lf' h lht• Yar1llurd11, hul 111th1111gh I r e<i JU'l"tt•d thPm veory n111eh for thf'lr OflJl:lnnlity I dhln' t knuw thft l IIIH 1rt1•i.o; Wtrt' 1111 thf' <ia m ~ lin t'•

" Ju!'lm}' Pawe trnd ,~..il'f ,rant , our mana,:er, ca me

up tn u•.- ml' ln B1rmmaham "'htn I wa , wll h 8 wrnup nnd tryi n,t lo invade Smethwick whh I hf' Wes t coa,t sou nd'

NOW... A POP OPERA ., ' l .,, i'-.

, . " 1 hC'}' 5up1!1'<i l ed lhlll I 1tO 10 J1rnmy'1' house fo r a few d11y1 lo !ICC ir WC y,ot Ofl 1t1ge1her, and ii was fonta 1. t ic beeausc I rummaged I hruu,:h hi s record co llc-ction nnd every o lhum I pulled out was somcthin,: I really dug I knew then thnl we'd l.hCk .

A CONTEMPT ror the establishmenl

condi Honed people or 1969 has emerged all too c learly in the songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks. It has earned them a reputation ns intolerant mockers or the little man.

FROM THE KINKS . , .. . ' ' ... • .. ,,

- ' . , I '

:.l...- talks to "I play..-d ka7oo and

washboa rd in the sort o f ba nds which, if they had been bued in London in• stead or Birmingham, would

~~1~~~1~tlnaevs~ .. blj/c;'~:ed t~~ ~~n~he w~~~P~~un1}rl1~1:i~s Bukka White, and Skip James numbers which at

~~~: ~;;:· r!!~~t d:~~ hfi;; - and they are now, too.

"This sort of music turned my mind to the ideal that I could really express

~l:~~ btl~~~u~h h!~e a":::~:~~ freedom, and while othe r si ngers were copying all the pOp records I could get up o n stage a nd si ng blues w1th any ,troup.

"The Band or Joy was really a Jaunch-mf,t pad for my ideas,

~Jslc. mf lik1~eo~~ddy •~i;

very much - things like ' First Time I Met The Blu~ • - and that rough sound, coming after Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon on 1hose old Pye alhum-. , really

w~~ A~;v!!~~tin!i.lghtl y later on my manager got me soml' acetates or unrelea!ed materlal horn the States,

Richard Williams

t h I n gs like 13uffalo

Sp.~iTt:fd;,,ade mt: realise that crash-bang music, for want o r a better word, cou ld he combined with meaningful, heautifo l lyrics, and ii was a big pointer fo r me. You know the Springfield'!! 'Bluebird'? Thars the sort or thing I mean ,

"Then everyonf' began boos1ing th e Cream up os the greatest 1hing in the world, but I couldn't see ii . I'd rather listen to the Vounghl oods or Poco, who maybe aren't the great • es t musicians, to a virtuoso like Ginger Baker.

be~a~h~~ c~~~b~:nudp, ~~dJ~(i my hopes started to vanish.

·• I worked with Alexis Korner oc-casionally, in 11 band with Steve Miller o n pia no, and had a wonderfu l t1nie.

" The n Terry Reid told me

" Nobody in Britain wanted to know us, but Jimmy told us It'd hf' different in the Slates. The ft r, t tim e we went we started off right down the bill un tht' West Coast. but hy the tim(' we jtUl ove r to th e E:asl we we rr 111 the top ,

" I was very ncrvou11 when Wt' s tarted on. ht'CRUSC everything I'd done previous ly had more or less been a roilure . The first album wa11 done In a hurry, and we were 1111 reeling our way arou nd the group. Now, as we get more ramiliar wllh each oth er, better things wi ll come.

Robert is noted fo r th e ferocity and violencl! or his vt,ice, an d for lhe power he needs to ca rry 1l ove r the rest of !he bund.

"The voice reolly s tarted developing when I was 15, and we were si ngi ng Tommy Mclennon numbers and so fo rth . I don't really know why it's as powe rful ns it is,

" After the first a lbum I concentrated on developi ng

~hne d!~:~P~~1tft vs~ic~ha~n~ con do more things.

" I'm very hung up on the songs of Moby Grape and Arthur Lee, of Love. That's nice 11luff, and I'm beginning to write in thal sort or sty le.

"This grou p has re11lly woken me up from Inertia. Y~ors and years w ith no success can keep you si ng• ing. but it can bring you down an awfol lot."

" Plastic Man " altacked phoney people and now "Shangr•La" J, dovotcd to uro In suburbL'l. But it looks as If Ray's obsession Is drnwLng to an end with the release or their lntcs l singl e and new album "Artl1ur."

Bass plnyc r John Dalton, who replaced Pele Quaife when he left tho Kinks, cxplalnod: " I think tt's somethlnK Ray's had a bee In his bonnet for aboul a couple ot years but now the album's finished Ray will probably w;o onto something olsc,

" People may think that with our pop opera • Arthur • we've copied the Who as they've done a slmllar type a lbum but Ray started writing It years ago. We've been recordlng It tor ages.

"• Shangri-La ' Is one ot the tracks from the album. The.re are 12 tracks In aU and the album tells the story or a mlcldJe aged man named Arthur whose son decided to go to America . Thls makes Arthur realise what he's achieved in life, that he's still Uvln.g In the past ln some ways. He rcaltses what he's been missing all his Ille.

" There are a lot of good tracks on the album and they'd all make singles. Ray couldn't really make up his mind which track we should use as the single."

John, who had hls own group Mark Four betore

KINKS: underground in the U.S.A.

BY ROYSTON ELDRIDGE finally joining the Kinks, wlll be making his first trip lo the Stales next month when the Kinks start a two,. month tour or a country where they are regarded fn a totally different Ught than In Brltain.

" We're ,eaanled a, a

!M>rt or ' underground ' group In the States. Our last album I Village Green Preservatfon Society' 11 a big I ln ' record wtth the

hl'T~-u be playln1 all

Z,r._"'t.:'~:" 111e ~

J l'Vf'I JCIAt Ilk tht, Fllln1ortt'.11.rf n,Kf Wr t. It'• • complete oout to ~OH-f tour.

11,:: i?;a~~s~.~~tho!.1":~ WO Intend to USO hf1I.Q: and lt rlnJl• on thlt trip. Wl)'II ~ u1lng " Jol or mattrlnl from 'Ar1hur • IO wo'JI nerd tho btaN. It hould .,. gr .. ,

:~kA":..h,:J~ .. • ~'it ::ri a:,;.:re~Jr t-Okl~k'°:'t'~:::t honr.•'

Whllo In tho Stat,s John hopt,t ,. c.o do tho whole touris t blr .. 11

\I(' h .. rd ,0 much about ft from the other boy• " and to meet two ot hit blagcst Idol• Elvis Presley 11nd Jerr)' Lowil.

"Jt aec,ms to me that Tom Joner hU brouaht on thl• rotum by Elvis. I think pcrha1>9 F,h/11 Is o bit J .. lous and arnold that Tom Jones will tako over his crown."

Elvl11 apart,. John beUevH that dtc current return to rock by • lol of aroups has come abOut because ot • lack or orlalnal matertal.

"People have run out or Ideas or their own and there are so very tflW aOOd songwrltert around these days so dley've had t.o revert beck to the old s tuff. :1a~~a 0Jw. ':1:u::O~ ~: :me~= r':!':r:~· uJJ them.

" As lncltvlctuala they might be very Sood but they tend to cluh on •taa• and you end up with one pe....., trya,a lo dom.laak the-"

WHAT PETE TOWDSHEDD THIDHS ABOUT HIDri [Rimson

An uncanny masterpiece. An uncanny masterpiece. Title? Song titles? You might know more than I, but I've got the ace card cos I've the at bum weeks before release to review no less. What depths one has to stoop to to hear new albums before everyone else. How marvellous is the feeling when I walk in a room and say, "you haven't heard it? More 's the pity!" Cos I've heard it and its incredible.

But its also over careful, cautiously rampant guitar solos scream all over you but never miss a note. Silent drums drum and a million bloody mellotrons whine and soar like sirens down a canyon. Endless, or at least seemingly endless passages through extemporised classic non-effervessant secret-keeping become lx>ring. Drums click and sniff, mellotrons breathe, unidentifiable woodwind multiplies, a voice reminiscent of a Zombie sings. It s time consuming and expensive but somehow, even if you don't get into their complex m>.1sical fantasies and indulgences you have to stand and st raighten your back when out of all that comes THE COURT OF A CINSONGKRIM . ("The Ultimation" says Plum) Bob the roadie comes round, he is already a fan of KING CRIMSON and is extra eager to listen. He doesn't leave his seat until the album is finished , then, after having hung around for about two hours decides to leave. I know when he's had enough.

You must have gathered its good. Undeniably. But in some ways too good too soon if thats possible. You will only know what I'm getting at when you hear it for yourself, its akin to being a ritual it really isn't. The ritual is future worship. The adulation of unneccessary perfection. I hear it, and I know it had to cost at least ten thousand pounds to make. If they chucked out as much as I think they did in order lo embrace the remainder it could have cost twenty thousand. I can't tell if its worth it.

A friend listening to the album from a room below says, " Is that a new WHO album?" Deeply I'm ashamed that it isn't, but I'm also glad somehow. That kind of intensity is music not Rock. Twenty first century schizoid man is e~erything multitracked a billion times, and when you listen you get a billion times the impact. Has to be the heaviest riff that has been middle frequencied onto that black vinyl disc since Mahlers' 8th. An American chick comes round with a friend and tells me, "They're all real musicians." I don't know where to look. I was never more aware of any other single fact .

Oh well. YINGY ANGYINGY ANGYINGYANGYINGY ANGYINGY ANGYINGY ANGYlNGY ANGYINGY ANGMYGGGGGGGGENERATION . OOH and by the way, THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN. Same to you.

ILPS 9111 .KING C1IIMl0N

I RELEASED 10th OCTOBER -SID !Ooh OCTONII

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National blues convention

REPORT BY MAX JONES ANO TONY WILSON THE SECOND National

Blues Convention took plnce at Lon don's Conway Hall on Snturd,1y and Sund. y and was, by general consent, an enjoyable occasion and ri success. There is t ttlk of nnother next yu1r, but no certuinty.

Alt lht> halls and byweys in us"°, a nd that includes tht> passage from Red Lion Square to lhe pub durm~ opfnintt hours, wf're regularly occupied.

Tiw- Blues Unhmued record and literatu re stall in the <-ntrance hall was well p.atrC'lnistd , and every passa~e and cubby-hole in

~:, ~~~--71~~~ii~h b'i~~~ buffs exc;hangm~ views or dC'lm; bu,.iness

R«1tals le<'tures, free discu.ss1ons a nd the like ''' l"tt> ht> ld in th t> Club Room (whe re tht> Big Bill 11nd Bo Diddley films wer e• sho\, n ) whi le Guitar W ori..shop proc eeded m

the Small Hall almost non-stop under the host· manship of Alexis Korner.

The Workshop, as last year, was a highly popular feature of the Convention , All the participants we spoke to seem to have dug it. Alexis swore that the musical standards were wholly admi rab le, higher than before.

Events Mike Raven was all about

the place again· introducing the main events with his customary cheerful air, and among the speakers and helpers were America's Nick Perls, or Yazoo Records, Britain's Paul Oliver, Liverpool's George Melly, Australia's Rick Milne and such BU redoubtables as John Broven, Mike Leadbitter and Simon Napier.

There were others, too, like Pete Brown (who runs the Down With The Game label). Ja mes Ha milton and Blues World's

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Bob Groom. And Charlie Gillet , whose recital on the Jump And Shout singers was said to be very good.

The first day of the Convention (on Saturday) was well attended, and from 10.15 in the morning, talks and recitals, the workshops and film shows kept blues fans busy.

In the evening, from 7.30, a concert featuring Mike Cooper, Alexis Korner, Jel\ybread. Jo-Ann Kelly , Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts and compere Mike Raven gave the British blues scene a chance to show its paces.

Cooper, a leading country blues stylist, scored with his s trident vocals and neat guitar work . Jelly• bread , a fairly new band. came over quite well but pianist, vocalist and leader, Pete Wingfield , was really outstanding . His "Boogie Sandwich " piano solo was a highlight of the evening.

Alexis Korner, playing acous tic guitar, was joined by a young Scandinavian guitarist, singer and harmonica player, Pete Thurup, and between them they provided a nice contrast.

Version With her spot, Jo-Ann Kelly

rea lly got thi ngs swing· ing. Backed by a band that included brother Dave, guita rist Putty Ryger, Steve Rye on mou th harp a nd pianist Bob Hall , Jo-Ann belted through an exciting set that fin ished with " Rock Me, Baby," Dave Kelly joining his siste r on the vocals a nd Putty Ryger playing some fine guitar.

The concert finished with Brett Marvin and the Thunde rbolts, a sort of blues version of the Bonzo Dog Band. A washboard a nd crossed sticks covered in bottle tops and bounced on a spring. soled boot (very bluesy) crea ted stomping rhythms behind piano, guitar, trombone and weird wind instruments.

While thi s off-beat s tuff upset some purists in the audience. it made a light • hea rted finish to the show, especia ll y when most of the a rtists came on stage to ta ke part in the fina l number.

Solid Sunday's p r o g r a m m e

again began at 10.15 or so, with the workshop -which included piano, ha rps and the rest as well as guita rs - in the Small Ha II and recitals in the Main Ha ll . The Broven/ Leadbilter duo conducted a discussion in the Clu b Room, and there was a fi lm show hampered by techn ica l troubles .

After lunch, with blues reco rds indoors o r beer out• s ide, the Sunda y afternoon concert got away to a solid start with the Chicago-type blues of the Ni,ththawk1. Number, by J . B. Hutto and Big Boy Crudup were 1un1 by

KORNER : standards were higher

Ron Skinner (bass gtr) . Stuart Witcher blew strong harmonica and Bruce Langsman played tough guitar.

Errol Dixon joined his backing group, completed by drummer Melvyn Wright , for " Back To The Chicken Shack," "Bartender," and one or two more, giv• ing a very pleasant show.

show. And when Jo-Ann jo ined in on "Let Me Love You Baby," the session got well off the ground.

A pity the set had to be cut off in its prime; likewise the New Church session with Ray Warle igh's alto a nd Nick South 's excellent bass. Korner had introduced Duffy Power, a, well , so reall y there were too many acts for the time. Perhaps it's better than too few though. '

BLUES ON RECORD PETER CHAPMAN , ltnown

r: ~I~ f $,t: I og~:, I ya ,::, :O"ogre woo,glt' lessons o~ Cl HI • CAC.0 BLUES (Xt n l ',a

Folk••:' In A~~~~:~nl 1'-;tleTh: ~~ ic::ids the rollo•lrg !!~~~t " Boog e !'~ogl~. ~\fa~~innl a n

:i~~l~:~~~.~,etw,~~t h Ml~~!~~;

~o~~:~~•;o "A!~: :-al~ty ,a~e~1 ~~::,•n,o~~~~~ "e1t':a:r ~a'tti~ !r

(~~\~o:i::gehde a::Y!th•:;!f!:)

~0an i~tnsnu:;.~er m:~to~!~ .. ~

0:i: bert.l " and " Between are

~1~~y bl:::~ l:hh:zt.;a~~gn,v:~~: or what the .,1nger learned from Big 11111 Broon:i)" arot.md J'40. More Important than the singing Is the strength and drama or Sllm's rlppllng . tremulant keyboard accompaniment and solo lnterlt.tdH . Here as elsewhere on the LP h• Is su pported somewh~t stolidly by Jump Jachon s dr1,1ms a nd Arbee Stidham's g1,1ltar , .. Scandinavian '' Is • rastlsh so lo with talk ng (dedl• c:ated to Rena) which roams through the barrelhouse styles wllh m1,1 skal rererenct"s to Plnetop Smith . Speckled Red and hair a doian more . " 46th Street" Is sl mllar but raster and devoid or spoken comment. The first track and last two are perhaps the most

:~1f:1

rl~inv M!':S,~1! .!::'o~r:e:~ •• Plano Styles " wh lie chat• ting about Leroy Carr, Mead1 LUii Lewis, Plndop and Pete Johnson and suggesting their styln. " Rent f'arty •• Is b1,1llt on the " Yan<:ey Spedal " bass pattern and honours Jimmy Yan<:ey In a distinctive

fohr~~:c"e wl:Y· a Th~o!~:~ri~:; ncltatlon in humorous-p rotest ve h ('" We don't serve Negroes .• .. " " Wonderful, I don't eat ·•m eith e r, give m e a hamburger") and It is notable for Sllm's violent b1,1t ve ry relaxed right-hand figu res in du,d-slow tempo. He h as made morll Impressive <1 lbums in this remlnlscie nt vei n , but u one of th e last convincing boogie expone nts he 's well worth hearing at Xtra's low price . - M.J .

A NEW Stol')'ville Spt"c al a I bu m , LOUISIANA

8LUES (UtOOS) , ls Im porta nt not only because or the variety of Gulf Coast sty les presented on It but because the first side contains eig ht early titles recorded by Weldon J1,1ke Boy Bonner who. paradoxica lly , is a Tex1s bluesman . Mik e Lead bitter, in a h et lpful liner not e, C'II· plains t hat in spite of tht' name. lhh anthology features artists who " belong properly to the C.ulf Coast and can be fou nd al one t ime or another

~~re:~:re a nbdetwee~alve,~:: Texas ," They came to Lale~ Charles, Louisian a. dur 119 t he late Fifties and l'llkl period to record ror the Cold band label's Edd let Shuler . J1,1 ke Boy, ulf-s tyled One Man Trio , sings and plays harmonic a and guitar , somewhat a rter the manner or Jimmy Reed . On a few tracks here - n1ost no t.a bly on " I 'm Not Jiving ., - t he highish, nanl si ng ing a nd luy sty le are much like Aud . But the nme ap p llu to Ashlon Savoy, who si ngs and plays guttar on the flru thru tracks or Side Two . For one of

~~~Icy ~~lc:"!~;s, ha~:"":~·: guitar are sup po rted by Kalle Webstu (pno) and Llghtnln ' Mltch•II (drs) . " • lue Rl\ler Rlsln,... .. C.ot To Tall • A Rid• , ' a nd the dance-worthy

MEMPHIS SLIM: boogie exponent

" Lat's Boogie " are all

~~~:1~~/t::-.,0:•~~~d d:::~=~ Little • rvther Crlffln, producetd an ••t•llent "Can't Hardly K•ep From Cry ng ." Some of the music by the assorted Texans and Louisia n ians on U,e uc:ond sld• Is unexciting . But It h•lps to fill In the picture of Gulf Coasl music, Includ ing Zydeco (or Zodlco) . Big Chenln, Hop WIison and Jay Stutes are the other artists on th e ut -M .J ,

FIVE BLUES artists, 11one or them well known, hau been assembled fo r 1ur

Inspection and, perhap1, r,• assessment on SUC.AR MAMA BLUES ( Biograph BLP1200t) . Th e singers, all of whom pl11 guitar or harp , are Dold Wylie , who recorded as Llltlt David In Atl,lnla arou nd 1'411/ SO ; Frank Edwards, who re• cords with harmonica (him• U lf, probably) aftd lWO 1ultars at the nme pl.ce and thne; Pee Wee Hughn, with h a,. moni ca , gultilr ar,d rhythm , New Orl ea ns , ' llt ; gu\tarh lslnger Curly Weaver (Atla nta ' llt) , about th e best know~ of these ; and Dennis HcMllllan (voe , gtr) , who recorded In New Jersey in 'llt. Wea ver worked and recorded with Willie HcTell . itnd one or two of hi s records hav• app•ar•d

~e~o:e~ o:n a;~:,,,o~rt~~ -~ti~ lnter ullng ono1,1gh lyrlc:s, Is

:;: orh1t1h e .~+:::~!h ls?:n hew~: man " h, a noth er ra,, ll•strlng Ceorglil blu .-, Item . Lhtle Oavid , whose guitar sho•1 Jos h Wh it e touc:hu , Is 10-10 on •· You Don't Meiln Me No Cood " and " Shilclc les Around Hy Body," while Hugho (whose '' Country Boy• • wu includt"d In Aeillm's " Llwln' With Th• Blu es" coll ection) has to s.tretch too thin a

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s:~=:~ra/w•; North Carollna slngetr llsl•d as Mc H ll\on In th• ll lu o Rec• ords book (and also on an iearllu anthology) , blow s am 1,1 sing , boastful lyrlcs on hi, two tall.es of " Paper Wooden

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neck - comes across wlwldly too, bu t five tracks or him Is a lot fo r all bu t dedicated blue, bu tts. So there are lo11· geur5 he r et , bwt It's v•rY •b· sc:ure stun and not, I thll'III , to b e belittled except as enlertainm1nt a t the high price of S2s ld ,-M.J .

This team was followed by the Blue Bloods - " How Long " a nd other traditionals on va rious com• binations of harp-guitar• piano - a nd later we had Davy Gra ha m and Paul Rowan (harp), the John Dummer Band with Bob Hall and Jo.Ann Kell y

As an after thought, the co_ncerts lacked a person-

ality such as one of the r--------------------~S bluesmen the organ-

guesting, Simon and Steve. Annette Brox (voca l) with Victor Brox a nd Liverpool 's Sam Mitchell (gtrs), then the Komer finale.

Before winding up the concert with his New Church combo, Alexis brou~ht on Jim James and Rafael Callaghan (gtrs, voe, harmonic.a) - two young musicians who had impressed at the Workshop ea rl ier.

"Quite incredib le." Korner told us. " They came up and produced a standard of music I've seldom heard here. When they'd finis h e d • e v e r y o n e thought: who's going to follow that.''

We must no te he re, in pa11. ing, that Dave Kelly's ex• citing bottleneck playing with Dummer wa1 • high1pot of Sunday'•

ise rs hnd tried for. This would have made a diffe rence to the atmosphere , also we guess to the c rowds which were less numerous than last year.

Re-make Still and all, the meeting.

~ps w~re rewarding and 1t was interesting, fo r ex. ample, to re-make the acq uaintance or authorrecorder Sam Charters over here with CounLr); Joe and the Fish and tak. ing in the Convention.

" I haven't heard music like moat or tha t for about te.n yeal'l,'' he Hid, " I like it myself, but you don't hear it in Chicaao a ny more. And lt'1 loude r than the Chlcaao banda. You 1et, very re.w of them can afford amptiften H bi& 11 thal."

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I'm a one gig man a week

says Dave THE AJM of most jazz musicians 1s 10 be able to play as often as possibl~. Not so Dave Holdsworth, lht trumpeter who is best-known for his wo rk with Mike Westbrook, and now leader of h,s own q uartet

" I'd !Ike to be able to play onl' gig a week with my •own ~roup," hr says, ·· 1 hat would kf'ep me qui le happy."

The 11..ason for this Otl1tude Is that Dove is not o professional musician In roct he's quite happy with hhl " dny gig," which is leclurinR in Liberal Studies al Woolwich Polytechnic. " But c.1t the moment I'm lucky 1r I get one gig a month for the quartet ," he add,; "The ne,n date in the book is sometime la te in October, nnd it does n' t seem to be getting better."

Born and ren red in Morley, nenr Leeds, Dave's fat her was a pianist, and when he was seven Dave began to play cornet in a brass band.

He was a trod enthus ias t at a fairl y cttrly nge, and at Keele Univeo;lly from 1960-6-4 he played with a variety of band,;.

Certainly

ln~;r-~a6r!h~e ~:•7.~he~~~~e:t"ala~f ~= Fairfield Ha ll with his own trio, a trumpet-bass-drums unit which didn't win anyth ing bu t which certa inly gave lho judges a shock .

" I'd never hea rd Ornettc or any or the free guys at th al time, but I had a good drummer and a lousy bass player or.d we just played three of my numbers in a pretly avant•ga rde fashion . Wo were lucky to get to the finals at all, really, because we got the las t place going and we wou ldn't have got it at a ll If Peter Clayton hadn't ~load up ror us.

"The things which turned me on at that time were the Gerry Mulligan quartets with Chet Baker. That was until I heard the ' Mingus Plays Mingus ' album, with Dolphy and Ted Curson ."

Holdsworth came to London in 1964 to teach and play jazz, and spent some time in the wilderness before HOLDSWORTH: A day gig at Woolwich joining Westy last year.

h · "I phoned him in 1967 nnd asked P __ o;_ry_te_c_n_,c ____ =::--::::::-:::::::-----, ~fe h~i;:.~~e~ a ;~~~Pr::;; b~~

ZAGER c.i llcd me and asked me to join him .

" Wes ty's a funn y writer. When you sec his charts fo r the firs t tim e you th ink 'Oh no, this'll never work,' but somehow it nlways comes out ,ouod;og <eolly g,eat. You',e

5 just permanently knocked ou1

EIIN when you' re in his band ." Dave is a bit of a rarity in

thnt he does not do commercial gigs .

& " I've done two comme rcial g;g, ;, five ye,,., aod I hoted them both I'm glad I'm not like some or these cats who hnve to take te rrible jobs jus t

U.S. GQLQ DISC to ta~~~:ni!v:~11~~ had any

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met a surprising response. Now.' the f1"rst LP n,:;;~;:' ,::? , :,u;;;;~;oulpa~: from Westy's t hings they don't seem to se ll , and I'm ,,2525,, not nt a ll su re that th ey do

~~: roonod :~~ t~n;1!:~~ia:~.~~ sti ll shatng the quartet down

0 SF 8056 aod I don't feel ,eady. " H's very difficult being a

leader. If you put your name on a group you have a certain

l'M IMAGINING t hings - imag ining for a mo• ment that I've never heard of Ornette Coleman. Then someone turns up with, let's say, "An Evening With Ornette Coleman " and plonks it on the turn table. What would my react ion be? Som"e members of the es tablishmenr would s till have us believe that the saxophonist is a musical freak, but show me the man who really loves jazz and wouldn't jump for joy at Ornette's happy urgency!

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I mean, jus t fee l Lhl! al to's sing ing opening foray on "The Happy Fool '' in which Coleman has reached the ultimate in seJf. revela llo n . This is what jazz is

, a ll about, a nd if you can•

a~ Possible without It becoming chaot ic

" Jn our group we try to use the themes I write as a platform fo r improvisation . It 's not just a question or plo ying the theme a nd th e_n jumping off into freedom: 1r you're going to wr ite a Lheme, then you might as we ll use 1t , lh 1t t's wh.111 we' re trying t() do "

RICHARD WILLIAMS

not b e moved by his exultant approach, you d on 't love jazz as a liv in1i mus ic.

The very essence of th e ent ire Jon tradit ion is embo• d ied in Colema n's musir It's enti rel y spontaneous fo r a sta rt : it's highl y cmolionnl,

~:~s:~nlln ~h: hruo_;:erful, and

Now t hat the saxoph onis t ~:; ;::~s. rrcr:j",t r;:~,Jy~~ believe that people s till tulk or him ,u though he were 11 mulllCJ1 J ll111enilt-, but th ey do lron, cn lly, the PIISHRl" c,f \lln {" Is surh th111 he now sound, rl' ltlftve ly a1 nserv1tive alnnk

si de Albert Ayle r or Phorncih Sunde rs.

Like Cha rlie Parker and Louis Arm strong, Orncue 1s one of t he rew singlc-hnnded ian Innovators But wou ld music in fac t be the same 1oday wit hout his In fluence H It would have been with ou t thnt or t he late J ohn Coltrone?

The truth is t hat Colemun wa s lhe very firs t muslclun to come olong and kick a,lde : hord changes, barlmes and key signoturcs, leavlnK th e ~ay free r?r 10101 1mprovisat1on at D tnne when Jazz w a11 stu,anot1ng from too mu ch reho nce on cho rds as n hasls for improvisa ti on From o ut 01 th e South West he comu

~r:~~1.1"Pra!/~g °ti~sn h:~;~ .• ~j hcartc ry In imperious tcines

Whe re Col tron e':t comp ltx s tyle evolved gradually for al l lO see and follow the h()W nnd th u why, Ornette'!I uniqu e cnncept wns already fo rmed when he went into Contcmpo. rary's studios in 1958 to record •· Some th in,1t Else" and "Tomorrow 11 The Questiun " Unllk.e 1hr: academlt, In t rospect ive Col tr ane, t he rough. hew n Colema n bunt out of his Texas cocoon a, a perfect lmaso. Wh ere Cnltrnne th e vi rtuoso chost to cxperilnc nt in front of th e puhllc Coleman hRd been rnurkln,i 1 lme for yurs

Th e early alhum 11 with

gh;;r.:ter .?.~~nCh"~;d b•~j:~)~ Hl tut in s or Fdw1rd Bl1rkwell on drums art 11111 lhe btal ,

~~1~~~:r p~~~'r:'n°"1 sotdv.-i1~"~~~ l1 e ll'1 t111 -MnffeH lrl n. Th11 111 linncc ca n be heard on th ft

~fiJt!~ t ~:~uh~~1!1~f~~11 ·•,~~,~~~~~

Ill (1oydon And lh e two Ulu .Nt1tf'I f1 1J1n Slnc khulm', ,11hl1111 t 1r<l to Oflth thl, 1110

d1uervlce:. Apart from the

~:~~k Su~!~~pitf :ht>r: '- MJ; com poaer at.tually put pt:n ,., pape r fo r a lenglhy film •<-· rt h, 11 alwaya buraltn1 ..-,\A mernur•t;I tune,

A tornpl e tel,Y unulf (Ot'I ICHIUI a rti1l 1nil111Jy, Or neltt hH - h,r m, -het""omc lnuusln&ly .elf.u,r •cloua • inc• mall.Ing his lfl"" dnry Cro )'ll tm appur•nl-t 1r. 19&5 Dut rn Jln •• 1n much art Wt' , the ll1tcner-mUc:s often wl1h for our 1dul1 ICJ

;~m;~:n.,tt!~rc11 :S~d J:;: rt~; cum placf'ncy

W e e:lev31e 1he:m l'> • ce rtain levtl 1nrt then 1et dls trt11ed when they talk back and lnuu on doln c 1Jtf'it lhinx Now thal Ornette hu •

~~~~;~e•~~1;3 !g~n~~~?.~,: of thousanc.11. hl1 music bit moved •li1htly 1way from 1u earthy odgin• Man tnd m\RIC h twe changed

O r rather, the mu•lc hasn't cha naed tha t much. n'1 1i.~1 llOpped tl 1II The Hme ,tuna h11ppentd to Monk ten >U" a110, for tho,e, arti11s whotl' cr t.atlvity ,pan, a 1,1,-lfme trf' ra re a nywher• . But j f Ornellt Coleman never pl• )la anothC"t frt1h ldu, he hu al rdd)' made h11 contribution by f..iearfna the way for • myri1d freedom rna rche,1

Ornette ,_. Lht man whO brldaM the aap betWMft the conve n!luna l and 1he r,~ . H•

~tt al~~w '°Lh':rte" P:~{. ,ra~ Wha levtr 1h11 muru J irnow

~~-~~~O ~~It 1~!•Y~~3Jlj~ mokt- tny h .. ri 1ln1 IO. -

VALERIE WILMER

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,.r-~~~--:-CAUGHT IN THE ACT .

-ra !~~~•,~!. ~" s..;! allflil)t .t ~ artlat to ,...,.,.,. •""•U- or at leH;t 1.kc:lt•m•'" Un-twt11nat•IJ u11.,·11 .,... ,..., 1lne•n <•••ltle .,

::::.ud.:J.;•::1111 •-=~~ \.o WllNn t"l•d1otl'1 ap-

~~~~u:: •i:,~-.. ,u-:,:: nMfflhr ... mff to N Clwi"dll111 .

Inna Frat1.,Un, the VSt..r or Arttha, .-._. a IIIMppeh1tmu,t. She la.cl" ... , slrt•r•• atuick ll.l'ltl """" •ll-•n1 for .... Nclliftf mlstah1 Mr YOC411 cam, we, Mdty. Only hu hit sin•I• "Piece Of My Meart " &Ad h•r sister's

A vote for Wilson! ( Pickett, that is)

5h .. .iep,..., '' ""P.ct " made

a.n-h~"~::t:;~lr ... PlclteU'I -n band the Mldt1l9M Movers,

::'n"d °"~n~•~,.!:•d b:,:~: •::: ti"9ff D• nffy White wt\a did •

::-..1: .c.o~r C:'~:~:!"·• :~1; "C&n't Turn You Lo.so."

Nclteu thou1h wa. In a class vi his awn on thl1 ltlll . A Mip~ma lhow9"&n -d an excel. IH1l sln1v 119 had th• Alltart Hall en tta f•t ,,..... the tint n1,nnber " Y~•r• Loottl n1 Good ." Pl<k•tt built th• •u•ll•nc• 11p aftd up 1uttll •nn• 1u• 11, lhe sta1• WH Invaded by • nU111sJa1Uc soul rans to whom Pich" was llke ma nna fntm HN•nn •f't•r the ftrst half. " Hey J oe " and lh• ... u ... • " Hey Jude " wel'• Followtd by th• Pickell cla.HlCs .. In The Nldnt1ht HOYr " dur1n1 which r,e1')"9ne Hemlld lO b• dMng their thln1 A WIid Vffslon ., •• Land er a Th-sand Dance.s "

::~h J 1~':an1F!!t.tn°::rp~n:h~:

closed lh• Hl Soul , •• • , dead Jet.-11:0YSTOti IILDtUDCE.

THE WHO po1tCET Ule su.pe:rg,.upa. The

Who are now Ul e band •1•lnst wtltch th• rn:t of rock must h /ud1ed .

Tllelr two-llour COIIINrt at Fair. held H•II. Ctwydon on Sunday wu • $hatttnn1 c.our-dit-'111"C• • It wu axcltfnt , mevlnt, rright• • t1lng-and muslcally bril lia nt. And It their p.,.formance of

~ ~m!t"aJldu,::' .. q:::1rr h:: no meanln1 , Not that th• •ho a ra conc•rt1ed with anything sO a bstracL 1"helr mHNJe la excliem,nt end th e vlolent M • uly _,,. th• II' performance Aid av1ry\hln1 a-•111 youth, ..-ck, and r,valution,

Thia ••• _,,..t,. their nnu t • pp-• r• nce to date , Th e aca11st1cs ••re perfect, the ,..,nd came over wlUI stunning clarity, and the INUP w.n 511 tognher they ae•m•d to be sharing th• .,.m, nen,o11s 11• tam. ltlfft and p,a~"'s "uhed and exploded betwHn Town1 • hend , Moon and Entwistle Dalt,.,. 1• "1 with aln"gth and P"«l1lon and tho 1ravp's har• monl•• were perfttt.

Tho,y th11ndued lnt.o oldies like " Can't a11tplaln ," " Fortune Tellor " and MDH Alllton 's " Yown1 Man • l11n., " w"iich In• cl11ded a rew llnH rrom Dalt,, about the ,1ccadllly 11111atte" , Then cam• the mini-opera " A Quick One," " S11b1tltwte," " Happy Jack" a nd " I'm A !toy." • llt It W&• " Tommy" that th e p"ple had come ,..r, They performed tt In full . with a few addlllon1 an d an urto nd 1d overture .

A1 • rocord, " Tommy " It •

:!!:t•::':c:iun•:i~, ~ •• ":f:.~~ alon . Th e 1ro11p'1 ..-.uln1 movem • nt:s with ' •le mor• acr-ob • Hc ihan ner, 1an It added d,.• ma. Ewen tholr c lathH ••"• part of Ill• effect. with Pete In hl1 boll1n11lt and

:::r•,~b:!• n:~d fa"mi'1i:r ';,.j ~~••nd 1-• ther outfit , T im• and ogaln they pl"Owed their mastery of the l"Kk medhlm and • 11 ltJI eloctN"lc panphernalla . They p u.1hod their equipment and Lhelr tech~que to ffl•lr rurthnt limits b11t nOYor led control, At tJm._ It wa, dlfflcult to b• llew• the.re were only rour man Ctn st&I• •

SuddenlJ " Tommy " w• 1 we, and '" were lnte donnltlwo v.trJlons ., " Jummertlm• • 111•1," " Shakln9 All 0¥11' "

PICKETT: had the Albert Hall on its feet

a nd. or co...rM. " MJ Cenora• tJon "' wlUI thos. amnlng bus rvn, fn, m John , A •landing ovatJon bniught th6ffl back to do " Magic 8111," which .started with Just Pat••• 11111-Ar od K•lth on woodblocks ar,d 1111111 w a cruhln1 cllmu.

Thi• was their IHI •r1t11h • Nt .. r• nq, ,.., •-• tlm1. 8u1 no n Ir they n• ver play another not1 thl')' have Hrned th•lr plaee as Ule most dynamic 1roup or thtm aJI , - ALAN LEWIS .

OSCAR PETERSON ON FIIIIDA'f, Oscar ' •t•non·s

Trio - with Sam JonH (bass) a nd Bobby Durham (drt) -<&me to Wor1llln1·1 thousand• seater AIMmbly Ha.II W begin Ula ltH t.o1.tr ol lrltaln . Tho hall wun ' t t 11 11, but tho thr•~ qw.,.ur1 Cf"9Wd didn't take IOl'II te make ltt. enth111la1m clear.

Tlte pianist walked briskly on • s1•11•, bowed hl1 acknowledt•· m ent of th• appla11u. 1• t ._, th• keyboard t,nd IFOd lnta • ff nger• cracking vonlon or " The Lamp 11 Low ," compl1te with 1010 b• H and drum P• HagH of commen111 rato • glllty. The hall'a ncently acq11Jrff Stolnw•y 1••• out for the next hour and • h•tr or so the kinds DI ten-nn1•r•d ,ound planes were made toraomedmn thick and umpact

:!.~~t a ;~~~••• b::f,c:;•:,t•h sln11e.,.010 ombelllshmont.s, other tlmH fHt and Rorld or h•aYIIY bl11, .. tauch•d. but always charactulsed by 1wln9,

::~!"'Jr~~:s,ty.taato and ••· htonon I, M busln111llko In

tAchnlquo and manner th•t It Is ea.y to m lu what h•'• doln1.

~~:~.,~ •,P:':;~:u:: :~~:~ Number foll-• number wfth.wt ruu er r• IH bonhemlo, and too oft.11'1 wltho11t an announumant. Only the 9runtln9 and hummlnl which accompany m•nJ of hit nibalO ft l9h1' or ,m•men1, .t

hard lmprovl1lng on IIMCCOffl• pan .. d chorvna bear wltnes1 to Inner emotion, or ev-• n co r,fllct within t.ha power-packed t'r&mo,

An occulonal 11nldl'fttlfttd

~n~~,. ·Ti=r:g :!:ii.,-:::~ ti,=~~~ ~::,.·~::==:~; Craund," • solo " I C•nc• ntrato On You, " Jobhn'1 ·• Trista" and " W•v1," " Vou Look CGOd To Me " (t.awrln1 Sam Jonu), "Some Oay My Prince," "Ll'I Oarlln'," " Walbln1 11 Hip ," (futurlng • obby Dur111tff\), "CrNn Dolphi n Street." " Let's Fall In Levo " end, •• an encorw. 01car'1 " Hymn or Fr•• dom,"

The trle. It n1N hardlJ be said ..... 111 CIOHI)' •• a 1roup whether the dunand Is ror frisky Latin-American beat. or one et thou long crnc •n do

~-d•lt~,u~; lc;h~I!• :=~~~!rl~!71~ f11rlou,1y an two c:ymbal,. lach or the farnou1 partn,rahlpt hu affected Pat,non In • different

~~,,:;d • t~kf~:•~~11::r,• .':,~ ot groove which made th I for mo, tho m ofl onjoJ• ble o• all Peterson 1"rlo co nurt1. It ,ns th• Rrtt time tho Wor1hlnt Cor• poratlon had sponsored • Jo:n even t by a major ftguro and 11 1ho11ld b1 plHHd wit), th• reRllt , PaterHn c• rta.lnlJ 10Cked II ti1 •om.-MAX JONU

COUNTRY JOE ·JF A~!.~f0! ::'~:iu=:.n~h~~ ,ho11 ld try holdln9 • concert wllh C.11nlr)' Joe and th• Fllh, ,., they CU'talnly have the abllltJ to crHta and 1tlr man omollen1 H they proved at th, lhyal Albert Hall on Monday,

At tho and er tho concert

~=r~u-::::c,•':°'.'t.:! r:.·~t.:! w,,. ectu• IIJ ,1u1n1 In the auditorium . Thi, wlll 1lwe Mm • Idea af how peorly aH1nd1d the

concert was , However H th• bo1lnnln1 or

th• concert which was • tolo

f~0h,t '~w'"u~j.~nt'la:;; •~~1::: .,,.... the PHPI• In tho " 1• d1 " te come down and 1111 u, th• mar• ••ponalw• ldtl

which ··" .... ,1J'. Nwtlc• II)' Cavnt1'7 J• • IHI .... Fl1h .,, 111rprltln1 IJ 1ft'ecUve, swltchl n9 rrom huvy reek te co11ntry and WHte rn to Nrt ,.ock and •II polnU In betwoen , Hl1h polnu of Ule 1how w1ro Country Joe 's Mio """• ,wng to • ft co111tlc 111ltar accom•

::1:~n::u~ . ... ~=· .~.-,~,. 0~0 t·~ rarnlly ; ar,d •rw•nltt Mark Kap,. pne r'1 rnl•t11r• er Tiny Tim and J l rn l Hend rl• which lnv•lwad the 1lngln1 of • twee TwontlH son1 and the 1muhln1 and b11rnlt1g of the wkeltl• •

A Iona version of " 111:ock And Sowl " bN>wght the a11dlenu to Its rut.. and onto tft • st•.11, and by the t •me th, gro11p played their Rnal n11mb1r, " Flxln ' To Die 1ta1," the atage was packed with dS1'1cln1 people . Th, ...,.,,. Ing built 11p to thl1 point of tr•• t ••cll•m•nt • l'ld urtalnly WH one or the bell 1how1 IHn at th o Albert Hall ror a Iona time . - TONY WILSON .

HERMAN THI ,ophllllutad uttlng or

London'• Talk of th•

!:!i~111 '"'!~~u, "0

1,_/Pt.•,•:ma~~: H1rml&s , • 111 the 9ro11p 1howod

1:;•l~~•bl:.:.f11!;1b 11;,:pl~I•':;

thow1lrl1 and yo11n1 mal1 danun - who foat11red In an lmpr111lva sp• ceage pN1d11c:U•n complete with a,nndln1 rocket - end produced • well•b•I• • need •ct of '°"" hit• and cemady ,

Duplta ftve 1eart at tho top, Herman stlll l•ckt Hme of th• bruhntH of ll• U deportm1nt on, might ••P•d mm • 1 , • 1 • n , d pemrmor. 1111

HYDE PARK ECLECTION kicked off th• lut

frH concert to be •ta1ed In Hyde Par1l this y•ar. AIU,owgh their Ht •&& c-ompet1nt and had a nice summery IHI to It. there wa, no ,..., communication betwNn th•m and the audience.

The Edgar 8rou1hton lh.nd hold lh1 • lldlenee from tho start. • nd, • 1tho11gh dley tended to OHf"-,dO tho anti~ltabll•h• ment them•, tho audience H"'1· ed UI like It, Nplyh1t1 with ChHl'I of dell1ht.

OwlntHHnce tllCCoRded In fol• lowing U11 8roughton Band ••II with an origlnal epproach to tho Indian m11aJc ,cone and a lt.hough some or tho nuinb•re wore IDnl, no lnterut was lost. TIie cn,wd warmed to them, dancing In an almoet hypnotk way •• straln1 of Ruto. crhp guitar phrases. and stron1 vocal1 PO...r'ad out.

rr=xtJu • s,:::~•~,.:P~1:::: his n11mllon wwo 1d111wate, I think the u411uce ••" waltln1 for th• he• wl• r malul• t, next to 111 1uppll4"1 lly Iha D•~•nta. Shplo, hHwy beau wuh harth vocal, rrom Mick Farren 1•n the c,...d what tt wanted • nd a aurprl.. • uddy HMly nwmb1r rn.m them went

~011~i'c:,·;11r.c~r!1·, ..,.,, tf It ...

o."f::: t::n:!~:_ia. :~J. ~;:: Machine. ""· PnYed ..... UII 1re• tHt auCUIIJ dter Tho •d,.,. ......,,htofl .. nd . T'tl•W mwtk can ' t and lndHd noedr,•t Ille cat .. fflsN. Ju•t ujeyecl . Niko ••tlff1e lhOWOd Mme 1,11111 ... t

CARIBBEAN FEST W aMaUi'T'S lr.mplra PMI WH

takMi over on Sunday 11-y nearly t ,ooa people wtto'd tn• YOIIN tnm all ovar lrltalt1 to al.tffld lh• C.rlbbHr, Music FesUval •ut """'• WU • surpr1,htt '1adt of n:etu .. d onl~ • handt'ul ol .. lltlnhtads.' lnstaad we had • Yery Ill&• In• ftUIMIUtl sh.. and • N • llY

b':~t"' v~i!!:nc.:.mM out of piece playlnt p,...nnfn1 reek and ltoot a Jfflnle Jack...n ,.. ll• d hN¥tlJ .,. Cnpel material. Jlrnmy Jwnu IM.luded the Temptadens" " Ain't T .. PrOUd To aeg " u W911 .. 0th

~di:,;• .:,:,-v•hl~' ::97.:; Wlr,a. " Like TanJ Trlb• wha um• on aft...-.ant1, Jlmffl,1 had a AUlful Yoko and Ute buklf'II ••• mon: Memphl1 lhafl J a ma ica .

th~Ti.C:!t D:~~~~= ~w:-r: r=::• ."'onb~.e~~•t;.:;:

~-e:w•~,::-,. h::.;:;-.i~ ti..,.. long •, lha n u1JU • t. Jackie =~::r:: .:-n,or -~.-:-,.:.: and " com• On H0tn1 " r.r Wayne F••1&•na •an1 l,ottl thHO hit& but It waa " •• by Doll ., which showcHed his 'l'DUI nlffl• aftd o• niod h im th• l""tHt r•poftM.

Da"1ck Mo,..on •1 d t«:eu,oque hit " Seven Lotlef'S " ••• r .. celvod well - wore the ~•pely Mohawtt D• M'ff'J end • atrant• chn.t:ter' called Freddi• K1towlH •h• thrnn NfflUAUlt& an &UI•• Toppln1 th• lttll WU J .i.nny Nutt wh ... 1ll1Unctlwo voice cam1 ow..- ,.ally .,,.., ., .. T't!H Tou Can Toll No CNtl· bJ• •• and " Cwp4d.'' Un• doubtadlJ a aucc ... Ula F-utlnl ahawecl that CarMtbHft fflUIIC Is a ht-R• to b• n<kan•d wltfl,ltOYSTOM aLDIUDCII.

JOHN SURMAN LA.IT Monday al th • 100 Cl11b

Mitra accurred • no of thMI nl1hta en th• Lantlon Jan lnfte whldt CH tnlly ~ tennod hl•ric.

Tho~--.. wu Illa .. ,_,.._ .. " ....... "' ........ ,... .. , ttten,arod lly UI• u.,, • ., Jan Centro Society. S11rman, 1• ,vln1 next month to con11u1.r n•w world• an tho Centln1nt. to.k

::.~~:~t~,:~.: r::·::! m::~ fr1u'!': c.::.~ur 11nent'-n af

Tho ffrst halt ., tho HHln1 was ••-tad ta S11rmen's octet.. 111,ely •n• of UI• fflHt IJllmwlat· ln1 •11r .. • tlont around . Par•• doxlcally, the 1cene ••• Nltn from Surman dwrln1 thlt Ht by his lot11-tlme partner, oltoist Mike 01bern• , who11 solo on oi, tho IIP•t1mpo " SLand •y " was dollvend with such fnoc:10111 Intensity and pauton• te IYr• lc.ltrn Ulat It had the e ntire audience, me Included , on Its roet and roarln1 . 01borne can nldorn have played b1Uer.

Wh•t happened arter th• lnttl"'Y• I Un bar• lp be 1111 ..

~~~b~d -.~td ·::::;.~d m'::s1c~:~u,: town waa u, on tho stand, and Ula sound was rantaatk.

At •n• time th• atago hold Surman, OsNrno, Harry a•ckeU

::,~ ~~r.1~~ t:!t>~1:!· ,~rJ: mor• (t11r) , Ctlril Ncc,...or (pn11) , ••m Cuy and Jahnny :t::~ <:::•ul~._;:d u!:.°!1: (drs). T'tle fflUtlc kicked, ,..nod and pulaated U'l,w111h a kale.I• dHcopo aP ll,._v11d1 . Swrman WH amuhr1, mHlorfully PAmpllfll ltto entire b• fttl ar,d

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:~':nn, '~::•:. :: .. :i,:.11" 1

A packed hau11 sc"am• tl appr11val , • ft- It ff•ffl•d u

~::~:h •• U:: r::.•.,•.t:~~ ... ": .. ,~ did 1\e1t, •n• ntlaned •dlJ .,, the l • P Jurman•• d1p•rtun will trHle. - 111:ICNA•D WILLIANS .

TONY OXLEY

ATOMIC ROOSTER ATOMIC tl:OOSTa• W.N •

senNU• n ot LM•n·, Mar1111t .. ~:=rd ~;;tit,.• -:::1,xc:.:= "•• 1roup Nwnd .tac• Ur• Mica.

kHnUall)' an .,.. .. llai,td , '" the tt.dfUon ., Ula Nk• ...... tltQ' ._ • .,, a ••lt1•• .. ~di -how •Is• w.-ttri ttlo itft•111eM Vine.ant CNr,e at die _,.a,. al'ltf Carl Palm1r ... dl"IHftll?

Vlt1car,t'1 Pl"Yll'ltf I• ehen 1111alnt, bb• rTe, •wtra••..., IN\. alwap drlwlr,I afttl hletily orl1lnol. Tile,w a,- romlittl•n I• his com,-slOena ., ,am• af tho .... rk h• did with ArUtur .rw,m. They are pot\ of die c,... a1Ault en Music. Cart••

:~;:m•~: ~~=••~!7· ~ thuslum lllffftlows. Taltlft9 hi• llhlrt •II' IO l'rN tlle .... t, ... ... ,1• yl1t1 a ... """" .... ,. tleatlly 11CC11f1tCY, ..... , .. 91kb a,.••tll die ktt I ...... , 111:ldl't Pawourt1• Nit, cut .. 1onently toe much ,

Nick Cr.ham Oft "'"''· N•• guitar •nd "cals It •" la• 'f• luablo HHt t• whal MUI\ p,.YO U'le 1111 MW 11'9Up ., 191'0. - CN•Js Win.CM

STAN TRACEY

I I I I I I

Pa ge 16-MELODY MAKER, September 27, 1969

ROGER CHAPMAN of FAMILY on the latest sounds in Blind Date

COUN"IRY JOE AND THE FISH: •• Here I Go

Again" (Vanguard). What's this" It really re

minds mt: of someone. It has a very American sound, but nowa<tays lol.5 of Enitli!-1h groups have that sound In fact they cou ld be English. Whoever It is lhey'rc not doing much for me. The vocalist sounds a bit, like Tim Buckley. Who 1s 1t? Well they were doing some intcrtsting th ings about a year ago. But this is really weird.

GRIFFIN:, "I Am The Noise In Your Head" (Bell).

This rea lly doesn' t 1et LO me Oh. what! Give lhat one a nuss The. &ultar sounds a bit hkt' Luther Grosvenor or ~:ok\yhti ~~u~t~ 1~~11a ~ea~•~ ' drag because I knuw the tl~ger, Gr<1h:tm Be ll. I don·t think lh1~ make" It , whkh is a ~hamc for Graham ,

JJf'~::: Th;:NT\~g~;. (~~r~ Cl.lry).

Mnry Hopki n" No -- the "'-lew Vaudt"vi lle Band. 1 re. lly don't hke this at all 1 can ntver undf'ntand what these f'COple are lrylrig to get mto. fvtr since that Vaudeville ~cent thue have been ses.sion mt'n 1ryina to 1et a hit with 1hat sou nd , and the Bonzo• ar.-? tht only onu who ca n do it C ive it a Mank .

J'~! fiu~u:o~: .. "(;!1ido~). Uh lurn It up - what? Ha

ha 1 WhCJ CAN 1t be? Js il the Golden Shot - Bob Monk• hou:iie? I het I know \lthO II 1!1 - Uc, o·connor! No -,ts Jimmy - Jimmy what'sisn::ime, lhl· disc JOCkcy. h really is lt.rribll' I keep ex~ctlng him 10 ,tlve a 1edpe ror Sll'Wt:d TIC(' at any minutt

D':~6~HJ:ur ~~~';!~::,:. h It th e NDO lryl ng to be

groovy? Bands who try to play what they thjnk Is commercial pop never make it hecausc that's the way they think about it. This is a good old 1,eqnence. Yes, I think I have heard this tun e l,dorc.

noT~ s:r'!~~~~~J:~::t. You 've reai:y got J11ome

won ky ,Ingles here, you really hnvc. Ccn we leave this one? Who is Iii' Well that 's funny

~~~~u.~t a'nd'~~IA~/!!,1 "f~~; were very honcst and s imple.

R A:a~:~=(Atl:n~~? Me Ah, Is it Otis? This is some

thing like Lu Dorsey would do but not as good. It's a bit ordinary . ts It called "Carry Me Back"" It should be. Who

Transatlantic

'Wheredie CElectric

Children Play

\

is It? Rnlly? Th~ 're tryln&

to .Ji~ l:~ort:d s:~ ::r:ia some Incredible thtna, Ii k e " Groovy." This sound.I as If they arc lryln R to make a 1963 colou red vocal group record, and I'm afraid It dc.esn't make it.

Es~~~1~~!~1~:, ~~!~~~~ (Phillps).

Oh Phlllp1 - that looks promisJng. Ha ha! I hoven'l got a clue who this is. So man/ of these chides sound the ume these days. t dig Mary Hopkin, but I Just don't know who th is Is.

The Caravelles? Lt:t me think - oh, Esther Ofarim. She'• gol • a..cat voice. She reminds me of Barbra Strei• sand, but 1 don't dig this al all.

DOORS: " TIie Sort Parade" f rom thc LP The Soft

Parade (Eltktn). Jim Door• and the

Morrisons. I really llke his lyrlc,. Yeah , he's very ,uong this tellow. I don't till him on 1ta1e but he comes across well on record. This sounds a bit lik~ the Mothett.

There used to be an aura abou1 their total aound, but I :~:•~:l~~w n~..J. d+f,e7rh~~n:~; aren't what Doon are at.out. I like their old albums a lot bell.er.

B ~~~~ !- s : .. ·~~Ji,n!~; "MaxweU'a Silver Hammer," " Oh! DarUna," '1 Octopus'• Carden" and " I Want You She's So Heavy," from the LP Abbey Road (Apple).

I dc..n 't know - the Beatles are doing a Humble Pfc now.

~~s e'::'Se~~ ~~d ~h,!~~ thia tune " Somcthlna " before somewhtre. In the past the Beatles have been •blc to borrow things and put themstlves into it. Thia Is a bit 1~ n1v'i~.uia'!'~~ft~: doesn't

make ll for me. Thia Is really a draa , because r really di& lhe Beatles, This ls an In• ferlor version of "When I'm 6•." Shall wc try another track? "Oh Darlln1" doesn't

:~e u~ !~t~11so~i~;~, ~~ soon . "Octopus's Garden''? lt'a Ringo. Ha ha!

Now If any othe r group did this , It would be a oomplete washout. No, 1 can't get Into this at a ll . Let's hear the ntxt one, yeah? I know this one - lt'a llkc Mel Torme's hit "Comln1 Home"!

Ever since their last LP

~~err ~:r: ~~~t':;i~~n,i:~:~: to do because they arc Beatles. Maybe the whole thing has got btyond them. If lhis album had been by anybody else It would have been a completc w:uhou t.

The SH.tits have bee n a major lnffuence on lhe whole mu5lc sce ne, but I don ' t &ee them b~ln g an Influence any• more.

The Deviants

Jodx.Grlm , (. Circus ' f:.Little

I/ Free 1wck

·· 1· I • ...

"LOUIS ARMSTRONG? " . said the tough, grizzled white cab driver as we sped

through New York's Spanish Harlem towards the bridge from Manhattan to Long Island. " He's a great man, a credit to America and a credit to his race."

we drove on across the bridge towards Corona, where Louis has lived for more than 27 years now in an unpretentious, clapboard house in a qu!et, friendly suburb, with neighbourhood kids playing outside his front door, and thr!"' generations of friends scattered all over the wstrict. .

Louis and his charming wife Lucille had invited me to have dinner with them at their home--a great thrill for a lifelong Armstrong fan an~ a chance to see for myself and MM readers Just how Louis ls today, after month~ al illness. anxle_ty and doubt about whether he w1U ever play agmn.

TRIM AND FIT And I can report, after six delightful hours in

the company of Satchmo and Lucllle that he ls fit and well recovered from his serious kidney Illness, happy to be active again and already thinking of his first engagement wHh a new band.

The music world may not realise it, but I 969-Satchmo's 69th year-was almost the year when the obituaries were written for the greatest trumpet player the world has known. Louis knows that and appreciates his recovery. And so does Lucille, who told me, in their elegant, thickly carpeted loooge: "We nearly lost him. There were times when be was in hospital when we felt he was going to die. Thank God he didn't . Now see bow well he looks; he looks better than he has for years."

Weighing in at 136 lbs Oust under IO stone) Louis was Indeed trim and fit.

The Armstrong's home Is a detached, naTrow house stand.Jng ln around an acre and a ha.Ir of land. Steep steps lead up from the roadway to a finely carved wooden front door and you step Into a cool, tiled hall, with tall plants to the right and a thickly carpeted st a Ir c as e Immediately ahead.

On the left Is the loun1e; formerly two rooms ft Is spacious and comfortable with two sltllng areas -one at the front or the house, whkh has two larae, capacious settees facing each other and a nother sitting area at the other end near the sramophone. Large Portraits in oUs or Louis and Lucllle are on the walls a nd tha-e Is a bookcase full of a wide ranae or books, as well as a 1mall bar and a record cabinet.

The house has 1 O rooms. There are two bathrooms, one on each floor.

Upst.alrs, Louis' bathroom leads from their bedroom and Is colourful and lovely with gay, printed wallpaper and tiled walls.

Louis also has his den on the first floor with a verandah leading off. This verandah overlooks the front of the house and the street amd Louis can, and does, watch the kids play• Ing outside. The den ts wood-lined with a larae desk and several easy chairs. Behind the desk Is a huae cupboard. which houses his stereo player, a tape deck, • Jarae selection of records and books and a huge library of musical tapes.

There Is a.lso, or cours~ a TV let. It Is a colour set and Is one or seven sets In the house - four colour and three black and white - lncludlna a tiny tran1l1• lor Portable TV set In the bathroom.

Today, Louts al home Is a study or a man who 11 thankful to relax artw doc.,ciff of hvsllo and trntl, or late 1111 anct

Louis Armstrong is recoverin New York from a near fatal illness. Here, in an exclusive series, Louis talks to ALAN about his health, his homeJ hoP.es, his future early rises, or drau&hty cars and long plane f11&hts, with rarely enough tJme for proper meals. This, In a ,nutshell, Is the main reason why even a tough old constitution llke Satchmo's finally buckled under the pressure.

I asked him about his Illness as he stood shaving In bis bathroom, with the tJny TV twlnkllna by his left elbow. "Every now a nd then you know, tiredness and that rouah schedule ... 1 used to get pretty tired tnvelllng so much. So It's best that I aot It over with Now I'm home and restln ; The doctor said take It easy Ind that's what J did. In the future J won•t travel as much.

"My manaaer, you know used to think: • pab ii whlle you can.' So J used to play untH late at a ala. then have perhaps rour hours sleep, ,et up, take a car J>Uhaps SO miles to the airport; ride a plane aJI day then maybe, chanae and ride another, then 10 on the stand and play •aaJn ror the folks. Thal'• What caused It. I could reel It comln1 on; I uled to &et 90 tlrod ... my body, my lap :.'!:ty to w':k~ tired I coukl

" I was In Nd shape. A kidney aliment can do a lot 01 honn and olloct tho .,_. and l'w Men • many mu&ktane ,... alnu I WU.

lll<k lllot 1-.. luot antoflil lo bo .... onyway Whether I

play music or not. I'm still allve and that's happlnns and I feel aood. Just like I say, Iona u you're brNtltln'i you got a chance.

" The lllneu didn't effect my blowln' at all, It was Just my body was so lked."

LouLs was conftned to bed ror some tJme Min& his Illness, both In tM hospltal and arter- ht returned to his homt 111 Corona where bi, was nwsed by Lucllle.

The measure or his recovery Is that he 1ot1 out one or two nl&hts • -,rttk. While 1 was at his hoalt, 1

telephone call rrom a -• lnl Now York hold lrrilt4 him lo ao lo dloner .,.i hear lhe Duke Elliall°" Orehfftn. Luc:llle IICCIPl,td the Invitation and JAUII commonlN lhal k .-14 be n.lc.e to have cllnlMI' at the hotel and hear Dulce ap111. " Those two toaelM' ca•'1 be .. bad," be .,.,.ltd. With a pin.

He abo *--4 I• at oM or two Ntw Yaril .-,11o, lncludlnc tho R..... Tdli wbwe hll .,.,._ ,a,1" !~ Gloftn ._.a"°"

•t -'t waot JG_.. 1~,-.. --jllll:: ........ -114,... ~ =::,.~-:: -· tloo """ -- I _,.., ··•-•J•·

NEXT WEEK · L · t I · ou,,; ,llk., ,1ho11t 11~

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WALSH his

But he goes out and ls even thinking about business aga in - he recent ly re•s lgnr.d with his a gents Associated Bookings, the head of which was Joe Glaser, Louis' manager since 1935, who died ear lier this year just a fter Louis go t out of hosp ital himse lf.

Louis visi ted Joe in hospital. " But he didn't know me," said Satchmo, wi th genuine sadness at the loss of a man he a dmired and whom he regarded as "a good friend" as well as 11 business manager. At Joe's funera l Louis had a wreath wltlch contained a few ba rs of music In flowers

"The Inscription," said Louis sadly as he played me a recording or the news bu ll etin broadcast on American radio about the runera l " that was simply 'Till We Meet Again.' And I meant It."

One ot the Invitations Lou is accepted recently was to the birthday party of Count Basie a t the bandleader's home. Bas ie entertai ned a number of Injured 'Jtrvfceme n from a nearby militar)' hospital a t hi s "Wlmmlnrc pool and Louis and Luc llle went along to l~l' party. He didn't perfo rm on tha t occas ion however - Jus t "ate a lot 0 1 food and came home 10 twu packeu of Swls, l-.rl,!'' h H id

\1 the pa.t ty, the music

was provided by Brooklyn Bridge, an American heavy rock band. With his characteristic open-mindedness about music, Louis told me he really dug li stening to the band.

" I enjoyed It. Everyone was dancing round the pool or having a swim. It was real nice. The band were very young kids, bu t they told me they were earning 16,000 dollars a night and that ain't no Joke! I appreciate these young cats. They apprecia ted us when we was young. I thi nk It was nlce. They got something o n the ba ll . You wouldn't ex pect me to do a ll that but they used a valld style, and It a ll came rrom us anyway, you know. But I wouldn ' t say tt weren't good. I enjoyed listening to It.

BOOTIN' " Some people say It's

not mus ic. But It's got ta be music, but wha t kind of music? There's a ll kinds of music a nd the most of It ls two kinds - good a nd bad. I seen people swinging to it. Those boys were bootln' them saxes. To me It was something, you know, I'd been In 50 lo ng. I enjoyed It."

1 asked Louis If his enforced lay off and hospltallsa t io n gave him the chance to think about things _ about his life and hi s music.

.. I wasn't depressed or

nothJng llke that . My llte has a lways been the same whether l'm slck or well. So, no tears, I never have to ask nobody for nothing. I get three meals a day a nd that's more than I've been getting. Some people want too much anyway. See, I've been r ight In this neighbourhood fo r 29 years, seen three generations, a nd all my neighbours, we love each other.

" I go Into other neigh• bourhoods and every thJ ng's destructive a nd things are so bad, bu t here, every generation respec ted us. They all come back to visi t Aunt Lucille and Uncle Satchmo. Tha t's the warmth. People here knew that I wasn' t fe<! ll n' good. They didn't bother me. I Just had the friends I wa nted to come here. Tha t b irthday I had - a ll the neighbourhood kids came round. Those are the things I li ve fo r."

Outs ide the cries of the k ids had s topped as It grew dark. We went downstai rs and Joined Lucille In the dining room where she served a delicious salad and chicken meal, cooked by herself •1 Southern -style" a lthough she was born In New York City. And even though Lucille Is Catholic and Loui s Is not. they say grace a t every meal.

Dur ing the mea l, I asked Louis wha t his plans for the future were once he was g iven the okay to go back to work. He had a lready told me thal his chops were

-·-still in good condition Indeed, he proved It with a few bars on his favourite Selmer trumpet - and that he practised the trumpet every day without fall .

" Well, I always want to stay before the publlc. Music's my life. I'll always be around music. Maybe I'll teach and I was Just saying, J came from the church singing a nd I still have my lip sa lve, that keeps my lips s trengthened-as strong as the day when I finished before my illness.

PERFECT " But I'm warmed up

a nd I'm ready to go back to work a nyway. I do pla n to get the band together again and I'm hoping to start aga in round Christmas time or something like that. I don' t know whether I can get the same musicians as I had before, but there are a lways good boys about a nd around November-time I ' ll probably go Into rehear~ sa ls again to get things toge ther. "

After a perfect evening with two courteous human beings, Lucille called a hire-. car to take me back to my Ma nhattan hotel. With ma ny invitations to " come again soon,'' I left with Louis' parting remarks In my mind.

" Sure am glad you came, Popst he said, " You sure did bri ng me up tonight!"

Likewise, Sa tchmo, likewise.

b k_.· h" d h"is philosophy and New Orleans oo , 1s recor s,

DAVID IHIN I've Lost Everything I've Ever Loved Tamla Motown TMG711

MELODY MAl<ER, Septembu 27, 1969-~ 1

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EDITED BY LAURIE HENSHAW

BACK IN · '44 WHEN tilE BOBBY SOXERS RIOTED D~~.!ERr.1.2n~i. 19~~~~t •~ 1s • This week, the Melody Maker is proud to pay tribute to born to Martin and Natalie Sinatra. Frank Sinatra in a comprehensive review of his 30 years g;,:-.~~-b~i7~;m':k!r'.~n~~~~1.~'. of stardom. It opens with Milestones in the Sinatra Story -~~:ra'rrcs p~)i~~

1l!c~r:it~r.P1~~~ from birth to the present day - as compiled by Stan Britt. of birth for F. A. Sinatra - Hobo- M · ~·ru~•w o!';~~Y- thi, Cir, Frank Editor of .. Perfectly Frank, .. journal of the Sinatra USIC

t';:;~l lo:: ~•rtv~~.n~t Ar•~trn•tcur Society. travelled, too. in company with a local Impresario - the

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me5~C!~m:;r t~!h• v~':15: a~up~ the Hoboken Four Sinatra -he was lead 1in1ir--.appurt:d

t~:,\~!' -r:;.t:~.e ~:w qu!~~~ won firat prl:re on t~ Major Bowes Amateur Hour.

lt37..:18: ee,an sil\&ln& at the Rustic Cabin, a roadhouse on Route 9W near Alpine, 1951

~~:ry J6f'$ls : 1!:~k~ )'~1un: weds Ava Gardner i~~~~•c,1f::\h~0t1a!"h~ 0~ . ages, emceed - and some• times even waited at the tables.

February 4th, 1939: Wed· ding No. One: to childhood sweetheart, Nancy Barbato.

Sinatra's third ftlm was reeas~ - Revellle whh Bever• y.

Columbia on September 17th - a polanant, beautifully• sung " Why Try To Change Me Now?"

Ith January, 1151: Signed for role of Angelo Maulo in From Here To Eternity, for which he won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Player - the "Jprlngboard for the bl&&e.Jt sin&le comeback In ahowblz. history. Slaned with Capitol Records, the Award-winning actor engaaed in his first seulon for his new libel on April 2nd, 1953. Titles waxed at this session: "Don't Make A Begaar Of Me," "I'm Walking Behind You," .,. Lean Baby " and " Don' t Worry 'Bout Me" (this was Sinatra' s first coll•· boration with Nelson Riddle).

9th December, I 953:

1957: The Sinatra film roster for the year was The Pr ide And The Passion (with Sophia Loren, Cary Grant, The Joker ts Wild (another

1::n~~ti'c!rarn~fof'3;i~«,At~ and Mit7.i Gaynor also starr•

~~~ ~!s i~a}r~~?R~~r~•t!~d Hart was, In many V(llys, the eptiome of Sinatra. His whole performance. in this fllm -K Im Novak and Rita Hay• worth provided the feminine intert-at - wu wholly memorable. Particularly, the "Lady II A Tramp" scene. From Joker, came the Oscar•win• nlng song, "All The Way."

Great

sll&h tly-hilarious spoof on ~ Robin Hood saaa, Kt 1n Ganp terllnd, Chtt::q:fl Tbe Sinatra-Basie team got toaether for their second afbut11

i~nJ~n~o t:!s ~:e -~~~-~~~ (Neal Hefti charted the ft rst)

IK5: Fiftlet.h-birlhda)' year: The beaut If u I , auto-blographlcal "Septe mber Of My Yens·· album was easily

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ings in 1965. Fittin&IY. it was

~~;!fa1 ~tur:.mr:;r ~a~e!: (male Vocalist). Sinatra dlrttted his first film - None But The. Braw (he starrN m it, too). From a South Paci~ Marine picture to one set in war-time Germany - th is one starring a train: Von Ryan 's Express, no )61. Fr•nk S inatra made his debut, accompanlN by the Buie band, •t the Newport Jan Festival. And the 1V spectacular Sinatra: A Man And

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14th Av.guat, 19.U: First appea rance at the Hollywood Bowl. Thereafter, began work for RKO Radio in hi, first starring film - Higher And Hisher.

Recorded "Young At Heart,' ' which wen t on to sell a million,

April, IH•: Academy

1958: Durina May and June or this year, Frank recorded , In company with Nelson ,Riddle, one of h is all-time areat albums - the ma1nifi• cent "Only The Lonely."

11th April, Ifft: That was the date when Frank Sinatn entered the Reprlae studios and recorded a Bert Kampfaert tune called "Straniers In The Night ," Not only did it turn out lo be Frank 's fint• ever No 1 Chart-placer in the US, it topped pop cherlS In many ot.he-r countries, includ•

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July 13111, 1131: With the James orchestra, Sinatra cuts his first recordlnas . Titles were " From The Bottom or My Heart " and " Melancholy Mood ."

2.Sth January, 1940: Com• mencl!d career with the

~~~rmbors~or::a m~~cti,~'!r:s an offer for his services . First Sinatra recording date with

~~br~:;;id •~f~ .. ~~:es:; F~~ Down," 1• Too Romantic.") In all, he appear~ on record approximately 100 times in company with the Doney Orchestra .

8tlt June, 1940: First child born to Frank and Nancy Sinatra. Named Nancy Sandra,

1141: Frank's first tllm

~:~:;a(r~~it;;d ~eL~ayVc,:; in Britain).

111th Jllnuary, 1942: Sinatra cut "hi1 first solo recordlnas on this date. Though he was still band -singer with Dorsey, he made four titles - "The

!:i~~gthtWeA~lleia~,''a ~1h~ Lamplighter'• Serenade,"" Th e Son~ ls You " - with orches•

~=~1°Sio~lari~ia~~~trt:r~~~e Sinatra's own M.D. for many

i~;~!·refurlnftoa~~~!r Sin!~[~ Dorsey , et al) In his second picture - Ship Ahoy.

September 10th, 11142: Sin• atra ldt Dort:ey (In In· dlanapolis) to go ou t as 1 ,solo arti1t. (Dick Haymes took h ls place) ,

J0th December, 1142: The first Sinat ra solo appeara nce on leaving Dorsey took place at the once-famou, New York's Par•mount Theatre . Then, he wu billed a, " Extra Added Attraction ." Al,o featured : the Benny Goodman Orchestra / Sextet/ etc, Peggy

~~:ettne:' ,;/atr~al;:eW~a: i! walked on staae caused Goodman to ask . with Incredulity. " What the he.II 11 that?" The Swoon Aae wu upon us ... Si1ned by Columbia Records. Due to hi1 immense popu• larily, a Columb ia recording :,f " All Or Nothln& At. All" tNas reissued .. , and had told half a mlllion copie, by lune, 1943, Voted Top Male Vocalis t by Down Beat Maaa• tine .

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12th October1 1944: An appurance at the New York Paramount caused Columhus

D•ro~bbyN:.~.!.i,~~. riot.1144: Franklin Wayne Sinatra, born at the Margtret Hague Hospital, Jersey City. During 1944, another RKO tllm -Step Lively, starring Sinatra.

1945: For MGM, Frank

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fwei:~hlb·:~:.ec~: same year-In which he also cut 38 more sides In the re• cordin& 1tudlos-he starred In a tllm short on racial intoler~ ance. Titled The House I Live In , il won a specia l Academy Award .

17th December, 1946: After bein& selected by Metronome readers •• top male vocalist, Sinatra recorded with the Metronome All-Stars for Col umbia.

Classic ----13th October, 11147: Frank

Sinatra Day was a:lebrated in Hoboken. It Happened In Brooklyn (MGM), In which Sinatra uni Styne-Cahn sonas such u "Time After Time" and " I Believe," a• w him starrin1 oppotite Jimmy

~:;ear"1i:a~~~~~t g~:ys~r a;~ most prolltlc recordin& years, Sinatra made no less than sixty-n ine 1ldes durln1 19471

20th July, 11148: The Sin• atras' third child - Chrlat. In• (shortened later to Tina) - was born at the Cedan of Lebanon Hospital. Hollywood.

ln!ll~~r~a N;~ar • fo~rtlc~~:~I, Sinatra, either in the record · ina atud lo or on the tllm set - except for the dell1htful On The Town, to this day looked upon H aomethina or a minor classic.

July, 1150: British debut at

~~!ie~ndo;e~all•i!~~ly wh:~~ cellent.

7th October, IHI: Sinatra makes hl1 flnt TV appear• 1na:, courteay CBS.

30th Octobff, 1160: Nancy secu res interlocutory decree ot divorce.

7th November, IHI : Marriaae number two--to actreu Ava Gardner, In Phll•delphla

1112: Meet Danny Wil1on , with Shelley Winters, Alex Nichol and Raymond Burr, brouaht from f'nnk aood

::~:fi~;• 1!nd hl:n•:c,,~na a:-~ nlahtdub performar. He mad• hla laal nCONlhla tor

Award presented for Be-st Supportina Male Performance or 1953. Portrayed • sadistic gunman an d potential Pres!• dentlal usassm In Suddenly In "54 . The classic Sinatra album, " Songs For Young

~:r:::.••~e~=,d!d be~~~elre~~r 1955: Doris Day, Gig Young

and Ethel Barrymore are featured opposite a Garfleldinspl red Sinatra in Young At Heart. Apart rrom the big• aelllna title tune, Frank 9in,ts a new number - " You My Love" - and standards' like

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his role as a piano-praying cynic , Dr Frank Sinatra, toge ther with Olivia De Havilland and Robert Mitchum I• hospital-hued In Not As' A Stranger. And It's Sinatra In

~r.iifack~~~edba:r.;m•w:';~~ a.nd lon1•sufferln1 Celeste Holm, also doin& admirable thlna, In The Tender Trap. Debbie Reynolds helps alonf. ~::e \i~~e F~~~t 1

!,h~ :~~ h 1t both over the credits an1 to Ml11 Reynolds durlna the film . Still In fllmland, Frank s~ars u Nathan Detroit (Oppos ite Brando, Jean Simmons Vivian Blane) In the classiC Frank Loesse r musical Guys And Doll,. On record', completes the superb LP set, " In The Wee Small Hours." More tremendous 1ingle hits with " Love and Marriage " (from a much-praised TV. Our Town) and " Learn in' The Blues." Sinatra made a clean sweep or the musica l maga,;inu' readers· polls.

1816: The Man With The Golden Arm rates as his flnest ac ting achievement - Etern• ity notwithstandin&, Brllllantly portraylns a dru1-

b~d~nhJ(i;1: t:~~er w~~•c:l:g appeared in the film), Sinatra was at peak •cling form . Eleanor Parker •nd Kim Novak were the remale In terest. A succeuful failure wu

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production. Frank was the ctiwboy anti-hero. 8in1 Crosby, Grace Kelly, Celeste Holm, Louil Armstrona And The All Stirs ·and Frank

. ~~~~!~~. !~~~tl!:~~: fri!m i~~ Porter, and baaed on Th• Phfladelohla Story , A huae box office favourite , Durln1 '58, I.he unfor11ttable eJbum, "Son,1 For Swlnaln' Loven," 11 recorded and Nlll Ilk• the proverbial hot cue.

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1159: Some Came Running, A Hole In The Head (with the hit novelly, "Hi&h Hopes") and Never So Few were the trio· of Sinatra fi:lms ror the year. Another tine album " No One Cares, " was recorded at sessions in March and May during the year.

11160: Shirley Maclain !!:, Mau rice Chevalier and Lou is Jord1n joined Frank in the screen adaptation or Cole Porter's Ca n-Can. Ocean's J J had most of the Clan eng.aged in a scheme to roh the Vegas culnns.

19th December, 11160: First recordina aesslon for his own com pany, Reprise Records (Rina-a•Dlng Ding album).

January, 1961: Stages Inaugu ral Gala. at the late John F. Kennedy'• Inauguration as President. The Devil At Four O'C lock (Spencer Tracy aside) was not a mem orable movie. Rec9rded for the lut t ime for Capitol In September (Point Of No Return LP) - and elso recorded " live " for the first time. The numbers recorded in concert at the Sands have never been released .

1182: The Clansmen (Davis Martin , Lawford , Bishop) were on hand for Sergeants

J~;::dy :halws~s~~~ a c:,~~'fu Thecom~~e.~~:rurl:~fferc~~d~e~~e turned out to be o ne of the ~:=~•. vehicles for Sinatra in

hu~~jy~•,u~~::;fuf•w~:1~ c~~ ri~ ty ,tour (i n aid of under. priv1le1ed children), Frank Sinatra plays four London concerts . Each a aell-out Whi11t In_ town, he records ah

~~bu'"er-hi1:~ B~~:~ri~u•ic~~~~ Ca nadian Bob Fuflon as

~--rt~~er~iond~~~r. for ~~~v~ Sinatra det:farea after the

~~e~vner ~:"tl~ou~~ ~'i: ~and and himael1. The album

Sinatra-Baaie." is the nei ttsult of that 20-yur wait

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i~o~!r b~~;r! - •• That"s All .. - did &O()d chart business m the States. Mia Farrow, • young a ctress, became Mra Slnatr• number three. Sinatra played a piratical sea diver in the coolly receivN Assau lt On A Queen A "live •· Sina tra album - a do uble.LP se t 1n fact -

:~~er i~~~ l!d po! ; rhi:~~ r.'sii.; crew . in pulsat in& support, was titled " Sinatra At The Sands."

1987: The often taut and Jripping The Naked Runner

~~ m~~~~ ti~& S~na~r":{ acti na just lacked that little extra to make It very good indeed . A cross-country tour with Buddy Rich and Seralo Mendes lacked nothing! Another smash-hit single -this time in company with daughter Nancy. Their duetted " Somethin' Stupid " rocketed up the pop chart.I - particularly In thla country - to notch he.avy sales all over the

:s~l~~-n~"diro~thc1~~r~~~:~ man and Antonio C.rlm Jobim, Frank dabblN dellaht• fully with the rhythms of the bossa nova In an album " Francis Albert Sinatra And Antonio Carlos Jobim " of

~~t~tiful50 mu;~~e!:J:r,- ~~~ another flrst-timer - the talents or Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellinaton are Joined togelher for an a lbum date part of W!1ich taku place ori the occasion of the •inaer's 52nd birthday.

· ·•.~H:su~~~~,~11:~es ~;,rp : dehahtful alnale call Ni :· Cycles ." whkh climbs blah in the . US charts, but doesn'l make it here. The LP or the H!ftl narne , alao in ._ modirn vein, shows that, in hi• ,:.rd

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SANG ON ALL FOURS HO~~nd::':~!e1 f;.~~l~~O\i th ls man Sina tra Intima tely, nnd yet never met him -neve, been within a thousand mil~ of him. 1 felt thi s way for I don't know ho"' long. Somehow , th is man rro m the days when he !.a n& with Tommy Doney. communicated with me.

And th rough the years it 's a comm un lcatiun t ho t nu become a heavywel,:ht cor respondence - bu1 I've never w11llf:n him a letter - I don' t 1h tnk I've ever tell the need. He's answered 111\ my Ideas ahou 1 song ~rfection, of ho" a lyric s hou ld be in terp reled, how a melody li ne ~houtd be phrased

An d the see m ingly im postlblt> did hap pe n for me I d id meet hi m A re la twe ly br ief enct1un tt-: r rea lly, during those lhree eve ni ng, he spe nt ret.o rd mg •· Grea t Songs From Great Brnam " in London in 1962

I hod been 1nv1ted lo atten d !hi" sessi1ms and I was late arriv ing 11t the s1ud1os for lhe ft r.st one - I think I W DS d ome • hve hroodcast and neve r have I sca mpered from a perfo rma nc-e i10 fast I reached th,: door of the .st.udios n~ck a nd neck with S in atr a's pt' rsonal cameraman whu had accompanied him on his wo rld charily tou r 1ha1 summer.

-red, if I re-call his name curreC'tly, festooned with camera,; and adjunc1 equ1pmen 1, prect>ded me through the dnur mlo tht- presence of ~Oflle :-,o musicia ns - th t! neam of London's session play""n, presided over by Robert Fa rnon. in front or wh(lm s tood Si nal ra, ar ms full of manuscript , rehea rsing the 111rranRement

Qu ietly I slid into a sea t wh ile Ted moved into the middle or the studio ptaclnx an electronlt flash on a tnpod JUSI beh ind Smatra This ucted as a slave unit to a flash he car r ied on the c.imera

SINATRA IN SESSION BY ALAN DELL honorary pres ident of the Frank Sinatra Music Society and famous deejay.

S10atra deftly replaced the llash umt In its or lalnal place, and wl)en Ted at last di s• covered its re turn , realisa tion mmdt' him nx a beady eye o n his boss - who maln t,uned an lmpec-cablc straight facebut by th en the rest of us were falli ng about and anve t he: a11.me away.

0 1 course there were se:rious momtn ts a t Lhose

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nwhi~t opens with the woodwinds suhtoned, scored very deli• ciously ror tlt mosph ere.

As the re:cord inK started, Sinatra s tepped out of his cubicle, s lopped the orchestra and said "Gentl ema n, please if you ca n, half os soft agai n." Second tako - but no. it wu not right yet. "Just whisper i i - as qu iet as you can and th en sorter thnn thot," They played it the way he di rected.

ll was obvious the orches-

~• ~ : re;!~~:rt hi~aa;lcr~i~~~ diue, the respect undoubted, I asked Nelson Riddle, who was there that evenina, jus t how good a musician Slnatrn Is " Show him a full com• plicaled orchu tra l score, " he replied, "and he: 'd 1.ake o while to ftjl;ure out what's hap penin8 where, bu t what he has inside his hea d and heu rt is the kind of natural musianshlp 1h01 is God• given ."

Then, and on man y othe:r occasions, Nelson and I hove discusst:d 1he S1nal rA legend. Wl''ve tn lkcd over the old question of just how much of o 1•2.2 :-Inger Sinntra is

preference fo r ont album over another, bu t In the ballad field Riddle has .. "Only lhe Lonely ,"

Why, I wondered? " Well , mainly hecou.,e 1 htld time to iipend on the: arrt1ngc ments," said Rfddlc. "You k.now Frank, he'll call you some evcnina with an 1deo, and e,pect you In the studio next mo rning 0l 9 ,30 to cut six tit\e11! So you're up all night writing chorts, and dryina the ink ln lhe taxi on the way to the sesalon,''

" Bu1 'Only The Lonely' WAS di!Terenl Some or those arra ngements run Rve mi nute& a nd I had time to create lhe orches1ral colou r they each deserved .''

" How much ti me?" I asked "A wce:k," he replied blandly,

Ry now, Sin atra had rehetirsed and recorded another song for the LQndon album

Again just a few feet in front of Robe rt Fo rnon stood Smot rn, arms full of manuscript. Al 1he hcs1 or times a

~~~se:.r~: n:e~~n~,n~~~~e;:!~~; so Sina tra looked roun d and requ ested a music-stond on which to rest this hul k of paper.

George, the vale t moved like lightn ing The s tand was provided and on10 It wen t the

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~~~'!e~o lioll~ht~; s't~~Jo~~I~~ se t height So slow ly, very s lowly the weight or the pape r took it down . Sinatra srnrt~d to bend lowe r, Bob Farnon, hypn ot ised, conlinucd to condu ct au tomatica lly a, Slnot ra WII! now doing a full knees bend in the bes l PT fashion,

St ill lower dropped the stand un til on all fours, Sinat ra lln ally raised a hand and ~topped the orches tra . We a:I hdd our breaths. Slow ly Sinatrn looked a round and with a look or feigned pu-izlemen1 remarked to the s tud io at la rge, "Somehow, I don't th ink lh is song should be sung in this position ," Complete and utter eru ption. And th at's Si natrn - dcvas• lntingl

DAMONE

HOW CAN ANYONE DO JUSTICE TO A LEGEND?

FRI END or foe - Frank Sinatra is never a man to

do things by hair measures. 11 If you're Frank's friend ," says Vic Damone, "there's absolutely nothing - but nothing - he wouldn't do for you.

"Out if you'rt• un enemy ot Frank Sinatra , then I feel sor ry for

~~~i fa~~ t~me~ist!1t ~~e :~~"'.=

w ordwlse , I mean "This man la absolutely fearless

But If he's taken a ditllke to anyone, then you can bet there's a good reason,

\y .. b~~ne~ts m,~::•~~ 1;eno!:; stl~f~~· He'• 1houl flve-fcet ereven-and-a-ha lf - the same height as me.-and ht can really takr c.i rt' or h1mse1r.

SINATRA: · He's quite a useful boxer · "He:'• quite a useful boxer,

Jn nd 1took lesson, from a profeulonal named Al S1lvanl - the some trainer I had when I was going to make a movie ohout a boxer I weiil to Al for six monthll, ond he got me In prelly good shape

Example " Let me give you an

example of how Frank will stand by you when you're in t rouble,

"Some yea rs ago, I u11ed to

~~!n tr :ot::,r:~ri°ed1)1

I s!f!~!~ ca rried abou t a thousand dollors on me . Most gambler& have a similar habit. You never know when you may fancy placing a bet.

"Well , I was sitti ng in a res tau rant one day when a m.i n come up to me. 'Are you Mr Domone? ', he asked .

"I said yes. 'Well ," said this guy, 'You'd betler get up - I want to talk to you over in the corner. ' You don' t know me.' he added, 'but I'v e come tu co llect eightee n hundred dollars - a bet you mad e three yea r5 ogo.'

Settled " I sa id I always settled my

be ts. That I d idn' I owe a thing. So the man said : · I' m a collector. I've been hi red to collect . So do you pay up, or do l hnve lo break you r bock, you r legs or your hend?

" I told him to give me

until 1he followJng night. Thal J would meet him again in thal same restaurant at 7 .30

•· The man said I'd better havt the money with me the next day - then left

" lmme:dlately, I started looktng around for someone who would back me up - act as my equaliser, Would you believe It? Everybody I knew was out or town

•• I didn't know what to do. Finally, I decide:d to call Frank Sinat ra He was Just

;~~~~"to~~I ~n •~=:~. at the " I told Frank the whole

story. • Maybe the guy is a punk just t rying to make a hit,' said Frank . ' Don't do a thing until I gel over:

•·· But Frank,' I said, • I'm in Los Angeles - you're in Vegas I don'l expect you to come all this wa y; I just wanted you r advice '

Enough

" • 7 .30 did you say?' snapped Frank. ' I'll be the re.' Before I could say another word , he hun g up.

" Sure enough, right on tht: outton - exactly at 7 .JO -fra nk walke:d into the resl:iura nL. You could have t im ed him wit h a stopwatch.

"And he hadn't bro ught artyonc with him. Ht: was absolutely alone. Frank a nd I both knew the manager, so we went into his office

"On the dot of eighl, in walks the co11ector. Frank looks at him with the coldesl blue eyes I've ever seen, and says 'What's this all about?'"

The matter was finally cleared up - to everyone' s satisfaction Apparently there hod been a misunderstanding - an d no blows were exchanged

·• But " adds Vic, •· th roughout the confrontation Frank showed abaol otely no sign of being intimidatr.!d ,

Friend ,. He's ~ rtamly one of the

mos! courageous people I know. I'd do anything for him - and I'm glad 10 count him as a fnend .

"Long before. I m~t him, I admi red him as a performer. When I was about 14 or 15, I use:d to listen to his recordinas with Tommy Doney

" You could say he was my biggesl in flu enc-e a t that time. He is a marvellous interpreter of lyrics An absol ute. spellbi nder. He can weave a spell with a song_

"And everything he does lS so professiona l. He's ce rtainly one of the mo.st confident mt:n I've eve r met. Like Crosby, he's a completel y natoral singe r

"I've been tra ined profes sionally, and Frank does things with h1.s voice / would never dart to at1empt Even if

Meeting .. My 6nt m«tJ.r:J witl\

frank was CJYef l.bC' ~ I was about 17, and llY.:11 to make it ove:r • ht.Uc- radJO station in Nc-w YOB I'd a.e ~:e 1t'~r .._•1.r:cttl a1 10 IS

"Now. J had 5!.udied Frank's: s in&&ng so d0ttt,, I could mimic every pbrue In fact.. 1 tried to bt hun.

"One night., afttt the show, the phone nnp. A VOltt s:a)S • Hey lh1s is Frank Swiatra.' • Yuh: I .s.akt. 'and f';n lM Pre.sl~nL' So I bun& ll'P+

" A&ain the phone nnp The same LhinJ happens: Again I hang up

Latest ·• About a year later, I did

get to mttt Frank. Apparently he had beien in a poker 1ame and lhe)' had had the radio

~"enl~;~::• l~~et"iniiscas~~~i record was being played When 1t came to the end of thie song. and the announcer said it wu V1c Damone, he almost died. I had gol that dose to hi~ style'

" So he did rm& me up And I hung up on him - lWi~

" Remlndm~ me of the incident , Frank said: •· Are you some sort of wise 1u~ ·

" Fra nk - Mr S inatn~ I didn't realise ll was you," I .splutte red

Grinned .. Frank Just grinned Ac•

tually, 1t tu rned out he was ve ry nattered."

" We've been rr iends ever since.

" or cou rse, no•one match Frank Smaitra man is a phenome non can anyone do justice legend?"

c•n The

How to a

Apparcnll) laking no notice ut the.se ACllYllit'!I Sinatnl continued ,;ing intt while Ted ru11mt:d behind lhc strings srektnll angles tor his 1ho1s. Bu t v~ry s lowly SmAlrn eased backwa rds , and whil e Ted' s a tl cntmn was dJVi'rlt'd mo• men lanlv, he hc,isted 1he tripnd snd !la~h unit mi n his \Ot ;l l (: Uhldt' &nd out of s ight lnnstern11 1111n from Teti when he d1<;(1tVt,r('d h t<; loss, and lranll( M~archini:"l, t('I no ;:ivnlt Me11ntio.htlt• S1nalr ,,·s valet , Gt:t1 r1,tt' hntl hu.Jdcn 1he rcr.t of Tf'd '~ ..-qu1pmt:nl - sn lhf'll' too.ti, nr• rt'plact"mt'nl

Nelson's 1houJ;:hl s on th at on<' : "Surely a man with as ~nod an ear a~ Sinnt rn hos - fo r tht• delivery of u phr,1sc - for thl' bcmdinJ!: o f a nott' u r n linl', wil h 1'111 th !' v1•nrs and truininR he hnd tour/ni;: with Dorsey and bdore him, James, nnd th e hours he musl h~\'t' ~pent h:.te11111j!. to the )ttlOd ant.I thl' bud in o ther sin~N~ lt't oh.int• hi ... own l11-1el llgcn(t'. lh t"~l' niu,1 enunt l11 r M•mt'th nii:

How the 'others' rate Sinatra Ted h\ this llmt' w:, .;;

~~~~1n1i,1

1r:htoo~l;:11;:;;- r;:~~

""'" 1nhat-1ted either h .\' a 1,.-,d 11 thU.'\t'.) o r d1uhohc-JI pc,lrerg1e1st<; Fm.ill) hi" r .:• sort,·d It> p..-eri np undi'r ull thtJ OC:C'Uf' l t' d c,: hDlt ) muC'h in thf' amu ,tmt'nt uf t•vtrvone - nc,~ hardh •hi" 10 co11t1un th ri r -.niggt: r ,

Whit,. hi' w:is thus engtigcd,

" He's mtivcd nnd worked with Ja11.-or1en1a1ed musl~·inn! MIi hi,; prllles.sion11t llfr - I ru lion he know"l whi're 11 's 1111· •

Hut whol l!- 3 Jrt77. SIII Rl'r nnyWtl)'" And wh o 1,: and whn lsn 'I - whNe's thr dcman 11· 111m" ,h II h111lAd , 1n~er o n 1he Olhf'f hrmd - Sinalrn IS un:;urpos,;,l'CI I don' t knuw whctht'r ht '.s t!xpr~•,;,o: ed n

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Keep up to date with th e best in popular music.

Yearl y membership 2 1 /-, including private maga zine .

Wr ite now for details c.ind sample magazine to : Pren Office, 32 Qu e,c Road, London, N.W.6 .

I HA V £ been nmazcd to m eet hundreds of

frm!I and mu sicians whu hc1vc " discove red " Sl na t rn in recen t yea rs,

So I thought it would be ln tc r£>sting to sample the views of n c ross s1..'Ct ion or today's pop mus ic scene on the suhJcct of Frank S ina tm.

The views ex p ressed will come ns II su rprise to many rans w11h pr eco nceived id ea~ o f the ir ravo urifc po p-musiciu ns . An) o nc wh o hns ever seen S tan Webb of the Chicken S huc k o re m3ybe s ta rtl ~ .I. for example, to hcor Shrn voicing sincere enthurias m fo, Sin atro . "As n si n1::c r cve ry ho i.ly nrn!-t

W EBB

look up 10 h im as 11 focnl point - a very Importa nt foca l poi nl in th e musica l pro fusion He's p ro• p, re:sst.-d w 1Lh J(retit subtc ly. t od mire h im, no t onl y as a si n l(er, hut Ill an

cnt{'rtainer and as a personality . Any you ni;er people who do n't dig him must su rely be missing some thin)?.,"

Al \tln Lee of Ten Years Art er remi nded me of S mnlra's statu re in the Sta tes "He is a way ,>f li fe - a super, s up er stor " a nd was m er ely con tent to q uo te lyrics from rare Sinat ra ballads like "Violets Fo r Yo ur Furs " a nd " S in a t ra Al The Sands.''

Coll eague Ric Lee o f T VA comm ent ed tha t a l• tho ug h he exerted a t remendo us influ e nce o n so lo singers up 10 a rew years ago he dues n ' t think he does so today , "But he keeps up w ith today's scene - as fo r exam ple his 'Cyrles • a lbu m .

Robert Fripp o r King Crimson; " I do ubt the direct in flu ence n f Sinatra o n g rou ps toda y since the ideas they p romo te a nd r epresen t a r e mor e from the composilio na l appro t'ch of peop le like Dylan a nd Lenno n. One turns to S ina t ra tor a

!d~:~c na;~~r ~~~1:tnii~

p rtc1s lo n a nd pro feti•

s1onalism but dislike his vocal lo ne."

S teve Ellis of Love AOalr frankl y admitte d his doesn ' t dig Sinatra . " I cou ld n't see m yselr s itting down a n d listen ing to o ne of his albums, but I must admit I' v~ never t r ied."

Ha rry Hu gh es, o ne of th_e best you ng d rummers with Clouds a nswer ed Ellis in di:--ec ll y , " T he major it y o f you ng people :Jo n 't di1,: him because they haven ' t tried to apprecia te h is hi ghl y perso na l interpreta lio n o r a lyric, his phasing, h is

FRIPP

~o~~~!·. •;it hi~ r~~li nih{~~ they respect him."

D.J . Pel t Drummond : ommen ted o n t he so ngs : loaely assoc iated w ith Sin • t ra ; ·• I fl nd the lyrics

Jf ma n y of th e o lde r ;tandards super ficial and I fan't think they can have r:iuch meanin g for the <i<ts . ~o da y. Those group mu~1c1an~ wh~ say they dc_m t dig singer s I ik e S matr~ howeve r, may as well give up."

R ec O rd Produce r ~icha e l Aldred admits h~ is a fa n in no uncertai n t~rms; " I a d mi r e hi m fo r hts ho nesty a n d in tegrity an d_ ~he way he uses h is pos!Uo n mus ica ll y a nd socia ll y. He doesn' t seem to be a rra id to face a ch_a ll enge ~nd he m oves with th e tim es as h is last TV s pectacu lar with the 5th Dimens io n show ed"

Bria n Auger. a hi8hly r es P e C. t ~ d mus ician , sha r ed s mular views . .. S i• natra w as th e first perso n to com e ou t of the b ig ba nd , and m ake it as a solo sin~er. He ha d th e perso nality and the im age. An y singer today, a nd r m ea n those with gr oups c~n learn so muc h froni him . As a mus 1c l.:in m yself, I have the gr eatest reaa r d fo r h im ."

. C~ls Barber, as e nthu-11• shc as ever abou t music a nd mo to r cars,

spoke at length a nd wi th g reat eloquence, and I thi n k su mmed 1t up on beh~lf o f the ma jority o f mus1ctans . "Sinatra is o ne o f the ve ry few no n-jaz.z arl1sts who give m e the same excitemenl and feel• ~ng as do the greal Jazzmen. In the last ten yea rs he has developed an unbelievahle maturity o f style and this coupled with his impeccable tast e m ake him the m ost ex• citing sin ger a r ou nd today . What makes Sinatra valid todav is his m usical style. In i he same way, as say, B. B. King p lays a s imple p h rase a nd m akes a uniq ue ly h is own, so does S m a tra He m a kes it sou nd impo; ta n t

BARBER

8 nd ma tu r• . h 's still the same way as 1t '1 always been - it ' s not what you do but th e wa y t hat you do It - and thlll'a what :•~~i.!'Ab'a s till 101UM1

MY KIND OF SINATRA SITTING In his luxuri ous

offices in Regen! Street, London , Harold . Davi• son spoke of frank Sinatra . He does not give, he does not like giving, In terviews , dis• cussi ng such friends as Fra nk Sinatra in a personal fashion .

Bui he had relaxed his policy this time for two rea sons he said, " ... first because it is for the Melody Maker, and secondly because of the occasion "

How does Harold view h is relationsh ip with Si natra?

•• For me, he has the pri me qualities of being a ffiend -

~~~ngi,s. a th

r°ri en~ ! ~~u,~ t~ around to help . If you are o ne of Frank·s - he wnuld be around al l right .'·

Have you heard Si na lta

re~ov:s relce;~t in Nrw York

r~: ~~idi!n~ i~e~n:~o ~:~;; ~~ somt: conctp tions, he is n°! a 'loner' wit h o n ly a mass1vl! c.. rchrstra in the studi?, . .

·· 1 wus o ne of 60 s itting 111

tht. recordinK roo m HI! 1ecord s with li n o rchcsira because 10 him it is on actull l perfot man<'e . It is not con• trived a~ so many o r the recordings today . IL Is ~rank S1natrn actua ll y performmg'hat is hi._ techniqu~ .

.. I lh ln k Fronk likes the ree l of the orchcslra, the !>Ound the atmosphere It give<li 1n prfre rence to dubhrn g his HHC"c:: ove r hacking trac~s . Wht'never I have seen h im rt.tnrd it ha s always been live And he will record ove r and uver t galn until he gets th4Wh~~t !~~nd

;~ur pe rso nal preferences In Sinatra's

m~~llctke all Smntra's record• ings - but if I had 10 say exaclly the type I like bes l. l think I wou ld p lump fo r Frank wit h a bitt swinging

so~.n:asically I am a big-band Jazz fan - I like the sound

~~n!hel ~=!~esa18::y1th

bee~11~hf;

way, way back to early Benny

HAROLD DAVISON gives these impressions of Sinatra - the man and his music - in an exclusive question and answer interview

Goodman and Tommy Dorsey days . Personally, I. think the combinalion of Sinatra and Bill Basie is lhe tops

" Even when Fronk does a ballad, I like that sound of Basie behind him rather than a studio orches tra ."

Does Frank Si nat ra have age nts or ma nagers? . .

•· No. He is an ,nst1tu t10n, he i~ a n enormous busi ness . Ail J do is to carry o~l certai n functio ns _for him in this country on hi s behl;l lr -these matter'I I do no t discuss It woul d be wrong and a breach or confidence ."

You have met hi'!1 ort~n .

tS~at h~V~e s;r:eedas walt~os~'.m; companion? Has he an a lmost hypnotic presence when you

or~\ ~~t dhifiJilel y ... he is not juSt Frank Sinatra lhe

!~t~~~Sin:rra~~ F~i~:trSin:i~~: th e industria list or the writer.

~:d \t ~ 1~f~[ ~~~~~~~cW!d ~~a:obe r~;'~

th~~!at e!r~~e~~h~~

woul d have succeeded JUS l as

we!,1.H e has an air about him _ not jusl because hf: .is The Si natra ; it Is somethrn~ you are bo rn wi th . Frank Smotra co mes in lo the room and rou have to ~•~e note - not JU Sf

because 1t 1s him. .. Yet aft er you have been

in hi s 'company fo r a while, you fo rge l he is probably t_he greatest sin ger and enter tain-

e;..:li.!ho' Y:ailertll0i~t! ~; t.ed

~nnda~ e ~ ii1° d\~~~ s:n~e~ol~ :~ the reasoned ma nn er of 8

man well -read." There have been many

stor ies of his retentive memory for detail ...

•· Yes . I remember I gol a call from Frank from Palm Springs and we were talking about ~sua l things - not business - and then he said • Yes, now I remember why I had to ca ll. Wha t was the score today - how did Chel sea get on?' I don't kno.w whether he is interested 1n Che lsea in fact. or whether it is because he knows tha1 I am in terested in Them.

" He remembers little in• cidents tha t you think a man of his calibre would never recall. A cas ual rema rk you mighl have made some time ago like · Blu e is my favourite colou r ' and next time he comes around he will tell you • I know blue is your favourite colou r . . • You raise an eyebrow, you fo rgot the in cid ent. He didn '\ ."

You rece ntly denied th at Frank Si natra was co ming to Britain in Septemb er - tim e has proved that the reports were wrong, you were correct . Do you think th ere Is a likelihood or Si nat ra ever comin g back heTe?'

·• Let's put the answer in tw o parts Frank Sinatra coming back here as a visitor

~u~~e b~f a~i:nfnv1~~r~leL~M~s~

he has friends here and he thoroughly enjoys himself -I would not be su rprised if he arrived next week .

"As a perform er, there is noth ing in the plans ce rtain ly for the near future. definitely not for this year If you are saying lo me would he ever come back and play this country , I think only. Frank Si na t ra himsetr can gave you that answer: and he probab ly doen' t even know.

" I would lhink that someti me in lhe future he may -but If I even hinted tha1 some time In the future he may come here, my o~ce would be inundated with letters, ca ll ers . I ha~e no tickets - l am not nyin&. he

~~yl~~m~niopht~~ ~11~'".nJu t ~ could happen.''

" W E Three " (with Axel Stordahl

and Tommy Dorsey & their orchestras) RCA RD.27 104 (mono) (deleted).

" F RANK Sinatra's Greatest H its:

The Early Years " (Two LPs) C.B.S. 66201 (mono).

"THE Essential Frank Sinatra

(Vols 1-111)" C.B.S. 63172 / 3 / 4 (mono) (avmlable separately).

" SOM E ONE To Watch Over Me "

H a I I m a r k HM.592 (stereo/ mono compatible) " SWING Easy! /

Songs for Young Lovers " Capitol W .587 (mono) " SONGS For Swing

in' Lovers " Capitol LCT.6106 (mono). "JN The Wee Small

Hours (Parts I & II), Capitol LC.6702/ 6705 (mono) (available separately - deleted). .. COME Fly With

Me" Capitol SLCT.6154 (stereo); LCT.6154 (mono). " FRANK Sinatra

Sings For Only

MELODY MAKER, Septrmber 27, 1969-

SINATRA ALBUMS WORTH HAVING BY STAN BRITT The Lonely " Capitol sLCT.6168 (stereo•); LCT.6168 (mono) (• t he stereo version has two tracks less).

" T HE Connoisseur's Sinatra " Capitol

T .20734 (mono).

" THE Best Of Frank Sinatra " Capitol

ST.21140 (stereo); T.21140 (mono).

" S UNDAY & Every-day With Frank

Sina tra " Music For Pleasure MFP.1324 (mono).

" No One Cares ,, World Record

Club ST.868 (stereo); T.868 (mono).

"I REMEMBER Tommy " Reprise

R91003 (stereo); RJ003 (mono) (deleted)

"SINATRA & Strings " Reprise

R9.1004 (stereo); RJ004 (mono) (deleted).

.. S EPTEM BER Of My Years" Re

prise R9.101 4 (stereo); RJ01 4 (mono).

" FRANK Sinatra: A Man & His

Music " (Two LPs) Reprise R9.1016 (s tereo); RI016 (mono).

" SINATRA At The Sands (Two LPs)

Reprise RSLP.1019 (stereo); RLP.1019 (mono).

" FRANCIS Albert Sinatra and An

tonio Carlos Jobim 0

Reprise RSLP.1021 (stereo); RLP.1021 (mono).

" CYCLES " Reprise RSLP . 1027

(stereo); RLP.1027 (mono).

" 1'. KY Way" Reprise ll'.I. RS LP . 1029

(stereo); RLP.1029 (mono).

" A MAN Alone " ·Reprise RSLP.

1030 (stereo); RLP. 1030 (mono).

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FLEETWOOD MAC: " Oh Well Pt. I ., (Reprise). An ex tra• ordi nary pr oject which succeed s on a ll levels, a nd will undoubted ly give the group their biggest hit to da te - if there is an9 justice. They have boldly plunged mt<:> J two sided epic, which run s the gamut tram violent roc k to classica l Sp a n i s h guita, sounds. The vocal on part one has th e same kind of, aggress ive impac t of the Who·s ·· My Gen• e ra tion, " and is recorded with a most curious kind of echo. The guitar wo rk is extremely exc iting and part one will make natural radio programme material.

Balance

f'AT MATTRESS: " Naturally" (Polydor). Noel Re d dmg's littl e band made a ra ther unfortunate first impr~ssion b y their non appea ra n ce at Plumpton,

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An ._.ORTEBELLO EXPLOSION:

~~~m~nt-: ,flY ~a~c;r;~.bf!y tht> Herd, which was an attempt at psychede lia which e,arned loud grumbles of prot"sl from the 1hen hur -gl!onin~ Under~round? That was 1n the days when John Hnpkins was the MM's pholog rapher. and he fi rs t adver t ised lnt"rnation111 Times with an annou nce• me nt wri tten on a piece of

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MOOD-MOSAIC: "A Touch

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VALVl::RDF. BROTHERS:

~~~1s:.r No?'the Mlany~~:do';

the Mind made famous by Viv ian S lanshall o' the Bonzo Doi,:~, nor even a kind

~~rJ:sgg~:~ ~~~-ct i~e tr~~~ polinl' and hi~h w ire walk-1n i,: in thei r spa re time, but :~=1

~o:::h:tc~;~Yresi: 8~~~: elors lypl' material.

Blessed CA RLA THOMAS: " Unyle ld·

Ing " (Stax). Jimi Hendrix

a:P\ w:~~;;: t~'t di;~~~ tune transmitted by the blessed voice of Miss Thomas. which grooves wi thout screa ming. Good discotheque mate rial for briJ;Jht-eyed youngsters in suits to jig lo under ultraviolet li$ ht s between chat•

~idi\;l~o~l~~~h~~:e~;_de ring in-

PETER CARR: "Angel And The Woman" (DJM). Pete r cla ims to be '' basica lly mise rable and uni mag inati ve." in hi s press release which has a refreshing touch or honesty and by 1he hounds or hell it sums up his first release .

DAVID RUFFIN: " I've Lost Everything I've Eve r Loved " (Tamla Motown). Berl is six stone eight and attended

West Ham University. He st,Hted In a s ki ff le gro11 11 when he was 33 and later took up indoor .. kOOd ~rief, I seem to be d1scuss-1ng lhl' wrong artist. Therl' i!'i not hing to say about Mr Ruffin ext:ept he has un• leashed o superb record which roust bop to the top before Christmas . Tam la at its best

DAVE KAYE AND THE DYK· ONS: " Yeslerday When I Was Young" (Major Minor). A Charles Aznavour ~ong g iven a kind of P. J , Proby

tci•~tmd~~~o~!ryEmrr:;~r :aos; who was a i uccess at t~e Elvis Presley Annua l Conventi on. He comes from Ripley in Derb~shire and the

~;o~rf~tm a ;a{~e r~g~!~~~ lion in lieu o r " the King " U he is known to his cou nt less fans and admirers.

NRBQ: " C'Mon Everybody " (CAS). A convincing rec rca• Uon of the old Eddie Coch-

~6~: b~1~d, btr1:g"s ~-~rl~ae~

mories - or ration books, and votes for women , not to mention the Zeppelin s. Now wh y on ea rlh should I remember that? An inte res ting exercise. but not much point as a sing le ,

JASON MERRYWEATHER: " Abigail " (C.-ysta l), Jason

~h: bc i~s~~8edn sisi~ w~j~~

and has just comple ted a s uccessful week at Batley Variety Clu h. He will s hort-

~~urhe ~i~n to H~ [; \~~ tJ thought you might be int e r• esled in these s nipl?ets of news. Quite expe ri menta l bnckingwise. rather like some or the stuff by the Bee Gees and Barry Ryan There will be fog in coastal areas this evenini,: and cattle s hould he moved to hi ~her land.

1:1 $\'I it•) ·IIJ ! =1•l~~ ~1 BEATLES: "Ab· bey Road " ( Apple). A v.i.sl im• p rovement '.J n t h eir last al-bum being far more concise a nd pos iti ve. The

Beatles tu nes are nea rly r all good, although a e Paul McCart ney 's penchant for twee twenties songs are a matle r o f taste. "Maxwell 's S il ver Ha mme r " for example is in the " When I'm 64 ·· bag. but does no l quite come o ff . But from the fi rst

better bars of the mood y " Come TogeU'l er " o ne senses Beati e magic a t work , with the minimum of e ffects an d the maximum good playi ng . McCa rtn ey ' s drumming on seve ral t racks is quite a reve la tion a nd it's nice to hear John tn best rock and roll vocal form. ·· I Want Yo u (She's So Heavy)" is the type of riff most bands ..... ,ul d fi nd difficult to s top p laying, a nd the Bea tl es o nly ma nage it by culling the tape wit h abrupt fina lity . Undoubted ly lhe leas t pretentious set from the m m a lon~ w h ile. even down to t he cover which is rc freshin~J y "st ra ig ht "

ROLLING STONE.c;; : " Through Th e Pn s t, Darkl y (Big Hits Vol . 2) (Decca ). 1t seems an age since the fl rs l vo lum e oppeared and thi,; octagonal s leeved set covt-rs a nolher lar~e chunk of Stone's hi story, fmm the doom and depression peri od o r ·· Wt! Lovie! You" th e mixed-up confusion or "2,000 Lit!: h t Ycurs From Homt>," to 1he rev,val time of ·· Honk y Tonk Women" The Slone!'i haven't exact ly moved 111 a :.trai~ht hoe development s111cl' thl'1r incept inn as nn extremely authentic R&B gro1.1p They have betn in rl uencecJ hy th!! various fashwns in pQp hu1 belween lh em Ja gger ind Ke11 h Richard ha ve wrillt<ll 111\mt lasoni,: tunt"!I

DOORS "The Soft Parade " (Elek tra). Jim Mo rrison in de-

~~=~~iif r!~t~er ~~th:h~ ,N:!~ a f~w pl ays - ·• one can no1 pe t ition the Lord with prayer," hl' sc reams, Who ca resfra nkly . It's ruth er like ye lling "the tram no lon~er leaves

~~~ El{~~~~s An~m~!~t~~!~~~ However Mr Morrison si ngs m o pleasa nt and mea ningful s tyle and the ~ro up pla y rea sonably we ll - a vas t im • provement no their di sas tro us 1ive appearances here. There is talent within th<' group, even if It has been obscured by Morriton's awful im age Rohhit> Kre iger (~uita r ) writes so me fine tun es a nd his lyric~ a re fo r be lt t>1 than J im 's in , C'U0St'(jUt'l\t ial burb ling, as ''" "w,s hful Sinfu l.'' The album 1s padded hy 11 number or ~mgles track.s ilnd runs ra ther short on pl ay m,:. t ime .

JONI MITC HELL "Clouds" {Repr ise). A s u1>e rh secon d 1lbum rrnm one nf America's Jl'SI singer-songw rilers Joni si n~s l)eaut1 full ) and with .,: rl!at fct'ling thrnughoul 11n d her son jts are unde rli ned by s1mplic11 y and luc1d1I)· All she hu written 1s of a h1Kh ly pe r• so nal nature dea ling with tanl{ible s1tuat1ons and ren !!<'t • 1ng hi!r reaction to them S h<' s ucce11sfull y com mun icat es

:~ ~~\U:on:,m~:~~TI~ ~e r:!r~~~~~ an1 •· Che lsea ML•rnrng" nr !he srid " I OtJn 'I Knnw Wht•re I

Stand." Also included a re ,. The Gallery," .. Both Sides Now," .. Roses Blue ," "The Song About The Midway" and the dramatic anti-war "Thi! Fiddle And The Drum." Joni Mitchell is a great talent and _this album more t ha n confirms

"· VELVET OPERA: •• Ride A ~ustler's Dream " (CBS). Var-

~eid:r~~t;;jol~i~l:h se~a~~1mwh~

could teach many West Coas l groups a thi ng o r two Now minus Elme r Gan try. · the)' have moved into a wide range of s tyles. includ ing cou ntry roe~. blues 11,nd raga . Jt '~ marnly se lf•wntten material with s trong vocal and guita; from Johnn_y Joyce and Paul Brett. Part1cululy good are the restrained " Money By .. and "Warm Day In July" and} pleasingly_ fresh version of Elea nor R,gby.'' Un li ke mos1 progressive groups they sou nd likl! they're ha ving fen.

f~P~:s~i~ eE~:bu~R~~m ~lc~~~l: 2:nro(~~i~~)~ c~irls~a~khs~ wor th (bass) and Ia n Mclane

~d:t~1~8rT~~~ :~:n:1!1}\:~~:~ ~ateria l sus tain s the interest ri ght through, which makes a cha n,::e They manaKe to avllld most ~f the ·• he!'vy " cl iches and disp lay a nice sense of sublety on the i:entle r s tuff like t h!! exce llent "And Nov.; Th e SI.In Shine s.' ' Other st and outs are " Retur n To Sa nit y " whi ch ha s shades o r Hols't !'"d ·· T'!rns To Dust ," with 1ls exc llm g guita r work

TONY HAZZARD: ·• Sings ,:ony Haua rd " (CBS). Hits hke Man fred Mann's "Fox On Th e Run" and ·· Ha Ha Said The Clow n." Herma n's •· You Won't Be Leavi na, " Lulu's "Me Th e Peacefu l Heart" ancJ the Hollles' ·· Lis ten To Me " nrc re-worked he re hv the ma n who wrote the m Nice to

~~:r L~ ar;;~ nK1/~,~~z!~~g:in~~ ple:1sa nt ly enou~h. ha cked b)• some good hlu s1c1ans. But hi s versi0 ft s are no real improvement on the orlg1nals, and are no t e Vl' n s lrikm gly dlfTt'rl'nt Diffi cu lt to knn\\ whn miJthl )Uy thi,;

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Don Cherry REVIEWERS: BOB DAWBARN, JACK HUTTON MAX JONES, RICHARD WILLIAMS

CHERRY: couldn't be dull

DON CHERRY: " w_here Is Brooklyn? " Awak e Nu; Taste Maker; T he Thing : There Is The Bo mb; Un ite . (Blue Note BST 84311 .)

~herry (cnt) . Pharoah Sanders (tnr/ picco1o ), Henry Grimes (bass). Ed Blackw ell (drs ) . Recorded New York City , November 11 , 1966.

R E C O R D E D j ust eight weeks after

Cher ry's classic " Symphony For the Improvisers " a lbum , this set has been well worlh the wait.

The qua r tet is a splin ter group from the " lmpro• viscrs .. ensemble, and it 's jus t about perfect. All the members mesh toget her so well that they ma nage !O convey exactly the kind or wild, loose rreedom attained by the best New Wave band s.

Cherry's playing has maturecJ somt:whut si nce the early day's with Ornette, but II hasn'I really changt>d at all His ai ry melodies, lhrown out w11h casual grace, s t ill havethe same electr1rying effect, and he couldn't be dull if he tried

Pharoah is also on good form, mt1king an interes ting contrast with GalO Barbieri, who wu, Cherry's previous front•llne foll

Sanden, is an nggressive

player, chewing up his phrases, spitti ng them out, and fi nalJy stomping them into the ground. His va ri• a t tons of tone, in moments or extreme excitement. must be unpara lleled in the history or the saxophone.

The rhyt hm team piny as well as thei r reputnt ions would suggest. Grimes, stlll unde-rappredated despite his lung list of achievements, plays with steel fingers and a s u p p 1 e swing, soloing brilliant ly on "Unite ."

One of )3zz drumming' s great originals, Blackwell has reta ined his African flavou r. and his spat o n "Awake Nu .. compares we1I with his solo on Coleman's "T&T," cut almost a decade ago. I find him much more interestir:g than the energy.flow drumme rs like Raschid Ali, but his mfluence seems to have been limited, to say the lcas1.

Cherry hasn·t recorded as :i leader, to my kn owledge. smce this album was cut It would be nice to he:ir what he's doing now. But until that moment arrives, " Wh ere Is Brook lyn •· will have to suffice. - R.W.

GEORGE WEIN

GEORGE WEIN'S NEWPORT JAU FESTIVAL ALL-STARS ; " Midnight Con ct1t In P•ri• ". Swaet G•org11 B,own . Wh•n My Sug1r W1lk1 Down The Str•et. Blu1 And S1n1,men11t. Lo~e• Com1 Bick To Me. Blue• Pour Comm•nctr. Sugar. I ~ t; Found A New Baby {Mercury lnt ern11,on1I SMWl 21047 ) .

o.~~:~.onB (~!b) ti~;'We .. R~~~ H II (ell) . George Wein (pno),

~i::;rn %~~1e A<:,~i 1 k. B1~ ',Y P1t11'i

TH IS ALBUM is worth buyi ng for one t rack

alone - "Sugar," Pee Wee's

~!~~in~~a~~!~· r~r,s o'1r f,~~u~! tone, unique liming and Ch3 rming litt le twlsts along the way .

But the who le a lbu m will mak e a val uable addit 'on to any Dixicland / mu ins tream coll ec11on Ruby 13raff, still one of the most underrated cornetists of nll time, is fant u tic on .. Blue And Sentimen1a l," Vic Dickenson tells musical jokes on his trombone ti ll th e wny through and drummer Drootin belts things along in the manner of the itreat George Wettllng .

1 had the good for tune to

owdown on motown

THE TEMPTATIONS Claud Nrne lMllSH.1t1110!

EDWIN STARR 2S Miles TML 1S1 Ml1111~

be at this concert eight yea rs ago ,in Paris and ca n remem• ber the good fee ling among the musicians . It comes across on every track.

The ensembles arc a t t imes a bit messy though they rarely lack excitemen t. But the solos, like the soloists, are superb. In Russell, Bra ff a nd Dickenson you have the giants of an Idiom and on th is album they are in brillia nt fo rm .

Maybe 1he feet that they were recorded in concert a t mid night - plu s a littl e cognac - had someth1ng to do with it .- J .H.

·CRAPPELLY SMITH

STUFF SMITH. STEPHANE GRAPPELLY. JEAN-LUC PONTY. SVEND AS MUSSEN; •• Violi n Summit:· Summit Soul. P•nlup Hou:ie. T,mme•1 Blues, I I Don ·1 Moan A Thing , Pennies From Huven. Only Time Will Tell Hot Toddy (Polydor S pacia l 545103) .

Smith, Gr•pp1lly, Ponty, A1mu1•

~~~,. (v~~~~rn:.•nc,1t5t~dewPea~~0J~

~i9iJG Ate~ Ri1hl (drs) Bu ie

FIDDLES ga lore ... a nd if you do n' t esteem

slomJ:i ng str ings you·d better ignore th is it em .

All these are pract ised

DIANA RDSS AND THE SUPREMES lei The Sunshine In TMl /STMl11114

DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES WITH THE TEMPTATIL'NS The or1q1nal sound rrack from TCB (lak111 ' Care 01811smess/ lMLISTML!l\10

r~o~i ~~~~s S~~i 1,~rth s:~g~~e stupen dous jazz improvisor of the instrument, not a t all orthodox but , to use Mezz Mezzrow·s title for him , " the mad genuis of the violin."

Most jazz fidd lers have taken somethi ng from him. You can hear it all over th eplace here, except perhaps in Grappelly. Steph has a matu re s ty le of his own , and h is is the swee test tone.

Asmu ssen , th e Danish musician, has always adm itted to a healthy admira tion for Stuff. and th e Infl uence is evident in h is hard-attacked solo in g and duetting on "Timme·s."

As fo r Pon ty, nearest thing to an avant.ga rde bowma n; he has called Smith his greatest inspiration. " Such a shock. I hea rd one or his records and

~~a/,e1o:t ~~ ~e~ay m~0n~i·s.~.,e~!

told Leona rd Feathe r. Bassis t Pede rsen and the

rhythm tea m open " Summit," an enjoyable Lat in -streaked affair carried out by a trio without Stuff. Pon ty engages in some particularly w ild wai ling towards the close .

"Pentup," a duet by Stcph and Ponty, has the latter employi ni,e: so many Smith phrases that I thought Stuff had stepped in unannou nced.

Side two brings on - for this is some kind of concer t performa nce - the Famous Four to fight it out over " Don 't Mean;" follows up wi th solo num be rs from

DAVID RUFFIN My Whole World Ended lMl/STMl\111!

FDUR TDPS Fo11r Tops Now lML ~lML 1111)

~;~p~e~~1/~1m!.~;' ~na5~~:

with a trio of violins once more.

I've -h ea rd bolde r, bad der playing from S tuff Smith ; even so, thjs could be a fiddl er's dream and also an ins t ructive LP for people who don' t believe the violin ca n play a nyth ing illegitima te. -M.J.

WAYNE SHORTER

WAYNE SHORTER: " Sc hii.o • p hreni•.'· Tom Thumb. Go. Sch1•

~?:y~f:~~d 1(7l 1':enileNot eM•Ye \0i

84~Jf1.e r ( tnr). Curt is Fulle r

(tmb). James S p• uldlng (alto, 1tu1e) Herbie Ha n cock; (pno) . Ron c, rte; (ba11) . J o• Cha mbers (dr1) Probably recorded New Yo rk City. 1966

D ~ ~~3alio~is wil~veJ~! Da v is , Wayne Sho rter has matu r ed into one o f the fi nest of modem t eno r p layers, fulfilling a ll the promise he has sho wn si nce his ea r ly d a ys with A r t Blakey.

Judged by the s tan dards of his most recent work (his own "Adam's Apple," Davis's "Filles De Kil imanja ro.")

MARVIN GAYE

TMt'SlMl11119

CHUCK JACKSON Gom· Back To Ch11ck Jachon Tt.'l SlML11111

!h is th ree-yea r-old set is slightly di sappointi ng, al-though it does ronta in much of value.

The Jeader·s solos. wh ile not up to h is bes t, a re never less tha n competent , even on " To m Thumb," a run-of-them ill soul tune wh ich is a little out of cha racter fo r th is inventive compose r. HP t urns in excellent efforts on " Go," where h is solo unfolds s teadily to a logica l climax, a nd ·• Playground ," where he dives In over suspended rhythm a nd worries a lit tle motif to death, b r11Jia ntly harr ied by Ha ncock,

Spa uldlng con ti nues to develop into a player ot au thority. and h is solo on the title tune is typica lly devious, while displ aying a more diffuse tone tha n usual Fuller, merci full y, is ~1ven

~~t t:o ~~~~( s~~inft nr;; ensemble colour.

Magn ificent is the only word for the rhythm section, and th e work o f th e piano• bass team is too well known to requi re furth er comment from me. Chambers en hance, his considerable rep utation. particularl y on " Playground ," whe re he weaves in and out of the staccato theme sounding like a lighter Elv in .

All in a ll It's a n ice :ilbu m to have, b ut Sho rter is doi ng so much more now that i1's difficult to recommend " Schizophrenia " as a worthy example of h is work. R.W.

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f',11.:t• .'4-Mt.U 1D Y MAKFR, Scph:mber 27, 1969

" I GUESS I'm the las t ol the tee nag e Ido ls," sa id Lou ChriMle .

We wcr1! srated In a New York ho tel bar where th t air conditioning was ~o cold, eve n the ice<:ub es In th e drinks were shiverin g.

I ht name o f LUu <. hns t1e will h.: ft1 m1liar lo rttr,rd

;~r·:it 'i/r ~'"Pe:'~;~~~i ,.~'::. L•~htnlng Strikes" Nfl""' Lnu 1s enjoyi n[I: a

ne" run in lh e US chart \l.llh .. I'm Gonna Mak e You MmP " on the Buddah label.

Lou, :rn, 1s th e last or a hunch or clean-cut , AIIAme rrcan boy types that prc,Uuced such s ingen as Fah ,an, Ri cky Ne lson and Frank1 .. Ava lon ha ck tn the ver) e•rly slx lies Rock and Roll te_e nuge ra11es, oiled to pedt"ct 1on.

Lo u had several chart :.uc;ces!les in th e USA with reco rd s such as "The Gypsy

~!.\d~~ .:·J;h~ni~~~~s Ha ve Looking somewhat sha t

tered after a st ren uous allnight r ... co nJing sess ion, Lou reca ll ed his "teenage' id ol" days .

" In th ose days you ~tayed 19 for abou t thirty vea rs . Everybody in the busine::.s wa::. 19 . Tiu: kids don '! pick up on thal so much lhest- days, But 1·ve managed to keep on going lh~ough a ll th e changes, the Bri116'h invas ion . I've mnnaged _lO go In an oppcsite dir ect,on and s ustain il.''

. Lou , who now wriles nll his ow n material, first hit th e 1'.'hart hendlincs with " Th t- Gypsy Cri ed.,. " It wns th e first soo1; I

I wrote, tha1 was about six yen rs ngo," When later "Llgh ln in~ Strikes" made tt 1n Br itai n , Lou came over fo r a vis it

·• If the si ngle. breaks I w~uld mak e time for another tnp People reaUy g o • for reviews ove r th1!re. He re they don't mean a thing, l

CHRISTIE: the clean-cut type

Last of the teenage idols feel if a record sounds like ~ hit, it will ~e a h it, and if 11 happened in Britain I'd definitely come over." '

Since" Lightning Stril~es," Lou has seen mi.ny changes in the music business parlicularly as far as singers and musiciaris are concern ed • although he is crtt icat of some aspects.

He told me, " The re are more kids Laking up music now and they are fantasti c

~~3a~!rs ago~ha.f1he/h!ie r:'ael~;

into ·the music thing." Ope ..9( the noticeable

changes in the style or d ress am~mg groups. Few groups, wh ile. groups, wear a stage

uniform, prpfrrrmg l1> we,1f whatever takes lhl' 1nd1vid ual fancy

" l" ve never l(on,· 111ln nn aud1tonum wlthuut a suit and I' ve never smoked On sta ge I always wear some kmd of show busi ness clothes on s tage. It's hard to break a hab it although I'm tired of wea ring su its.

" There are certain things you don't do when ycu are ~ntertai ning, like burpi ng into the mike or throwing your instrum ent on the ground but It seems people want to go into a fantasy thing and say "Oh, wow isn't that great." ·

. " Look at evergreens li ke Sinatra , Dea n Martin

~~?'v!n1°t ~~rs. e~~:rta~~ They don't give out a bunch of bullshi t. I think that a lot or the older singers are still the better end of th e entertainers."

Lou's on-stage appear-ances are mainly in concert. "I don't do caba ret," he said , "Never put me in a category. I don't want to do clubs until I can do them ;i i7.~y, the way I want to

Lou Christie, as he said. has managed· to keep going and much or this has been due to his own determination to do things the ·way he wants to. This includes his songwriting . He doesn't write for anybody else because he feels that his sty le is identifiable with him and that oi.her nrtisls are. shy or doi ng songs that are essentia lly Lo u Christie vehicles.

ch~~ge ".!b~~t : yeV:~~1; 0 }~~

1 put out a record called · Canterbury Road,' which I think was o ne of my best record-s but the deejays turned off and said 'That's not Lou Christie' ."

The American de ejays, it seems, don 't want anything but the usual Lou Christie. - TONY .Wll.SON.

Bacharach and • .

progressive pop BURT BACHARACH, one half of one of the most prolific songwriting partnerships in the world, has a background s teeped in jazz, creates pop of class ic proportions and is acutely aware of progress ions and progressives in the musical world. - W ith lyric ist Ha l David,

he has two s ongs in the MM chart a t the moment. One is Engelbert Hum~ perdinck's "J'm A Better Man " . The other is a song by Bobbie Gentry from the Broadwa y musical "Promis es, Promises " which opens in London at the Prince Of Wales th eatre in just over a w eek's time.

It is th is musical that has brought Bac harach t o Britain again . In the middle of rehea rsa ls he found time to talk about such d iverse topics as the need fo r change in the theatre, the so called jazz-pop entente and current "supergroups-".

are spreading out, the;:'re not limited by just havmg two guitars and drums and a singer.

" The only thing that worries me is that a lot of groups aren't sta}'ing to• gether. Buffalo Springfield were one hell of a g roup, they should never have b roken up.

"Neil You ng is Does Bacharach, with his mendous ... and J

jazz backg round , believe. he's great on stage with that the two musica l fo rms Crosby, Stills and Nash . ai:e starting to fuse to- " I think the reason they gether? break up is because they

"Sure, take someone like have a Jot of personal hang-Blood, Sweat and Tears, the ups and possibly in some mu s icianship in that g roup cases there's dead wood in is incredible . They are the g roup and that s tops

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Bacharach had just finished rehea rs ing with th e o rchestra fo r " Promises. Promises," and he was rel ieved that they measu red up to h is h ig h standa rds .

"But l've a lways had gocxi luck with your musi c ia ns. W hen 1 was at the Queens Theatre with Oietl' ich it was good. T he ir attitude is great, they have a fi ne discipli ne .

" I like to wor k with peop le who have joy in what they a re doing, J can't tolera te musicia ns who a re c lock wa tchers."

Bachara ch believes that cha nges a re needed in t he theatre so tha t m usica ls ca n be improved on . And t he cha nges, he says, s ho uld s ta rt in the theatre structu re itself.

Theatre "Everylh ing's got to

cha nge in the t heatr e s ta rting w ith t he st ruc tu re. Cha nges a re needed in the: pi t , you need a new sound system so that the sound in the theatre app roximates wha t you hear at home.

"And yo u've got to havt: a good sou nd mixer who won't work exact ly by the book. You've got to b reak dow n the ru les about un ion help which is a ve ry hard

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in brief HOWLIN WOLF, A me ri ca n blues sta r, begi ns a Bri tish tour with the Ju nco Pa rt-

~~~oa~~~-e B~ i~bt~~• H~~~ Strand Lyceum Londo n on October 24 . The tour f nds a t Sa lfo rd University o n Novem be r 7.

LonlJ Jonn Baldry, whose ri ew sin gle, ·• Wait For Me"

~ en~u1fo r tot~ ~:

0:ays(F!~d~t)~

c'!s ino Cloh, Ma nchester to-night (T hursday). '

Oscar Peter1on Trio plays Croydon's Fai rfie ld Halls 10-

~ : ~~h~ ~: : sd(t~)mi~:~~~ed F~f-d!Y),. Chatha m (Sa turday), B1rmmRhl rn (JO), Southend

t~.~~be~~ ':f~i1~01

J ~dor?u(:f and Le1ceste-T (5),

Gra nada TV '1 Dhu:othe-Q uP.

BACHARACH: two songs in the chart.

Wi th a m yr iad of h its beh~nd him, Bacha rach is finding it ha rde r to write now a nd he is und ecided about what t o do n ext

" I'm a lways late 'when I'm writi ng for Dion ne a nd s he's the only a r tist we produce. A&M a re v ery good, they've just waited two :yea rs between releases er mme but the last a lbum

R~ach Out" sold 285 ODO cop ies w hich is inc redible for me as a non -a rtis t. I' m deeply aston ished .

" I fi nd it ha rd e r t o w r it e now. r don ' t r ea lly know what I wa nt to do now

havi ng jus t fi n ished m ovie.

" I want to do something differe n t, I'd like to do :,, ~us ica l but a really differ en t ki nd of musical. I haven 't got a ny ideas about it at the momenl. "

Bacharach's pa r tne rsh ip w ith Ha I David 1s one o r the most potent in show business. Would he consider writi ng with another pa r tne r?

" We' r e very compa tible a nd we have a way of wo rk ing together which is ye ry e~sy but I suppose it 1s possible sometime"

son 's African Dn1mmen and oth"r [l:ro ups

Dusty Sprlns fteld and Norma Tanega seuut on a nt:w Tom S pring fi eld a lbum oul on Decca on Oc tobe r J ,

S t!"" '- Ell is i.l enl~s reports -not In 1he MM - thll h 111' IS lee.vmg Love Affair. " I'm a bit led up with o utsider, t.r)'·

~~~Y t~.P~; w11t f::e:!no ~~~ have no intent ion of leaving, .. 5ay.s Steve,

Petula Clark returns Ill B_rltaln fo r her fi rs t con<ert in llll YHn a t London'$ Royal

(Alhert Ha ll on Wed nffdlY, Jctober 29 Jau sincar Marlu Moal •oftler)' mak.,_ her ,,u.al<'• I•

f:6~~1\J~:':•~1 .t'n; ht:t'~; upen1n1 a tour a t Wmib~ on Monday (2i).

FOCUS ON FOLK

How the revival reached Down Under

folk albums TH R EE SCOTTISH singers, Alu Campbell, Hamish Imlach a nd Matt McGinn, are fe3,tu red on Transatlant ic. Samplers , AH the tracks nn t.he thrtt 11. lbum s a rc from previously iss ued albums and &ive a fai r representatio n of u ch artist's work .

There's a strong tradit k>nal bias on Alex's a lbum (TR.A SAM6) and h is treatment of the trad it ion a l material 1s sincere and honest, which 1s more Lha n can be said fo r 5ome so-ca lled t raditional ists, Among the songs a re " The Overgate," " I'm a Rover," '" Glesca Paggy," '' Kiss ing In The Dark," " My Singing Bird " a nd " Love Is Pleas• mg." Also incl uded three of Alex 's ow n compos itions , the sentimental " My Old Gibson Guitar," " Don't Put Me Down .. and h is good protest song, " Been On The Road So Long," • nd two Woody Guth· rie songs, " Why Oh Why " and " Plane Wreck At Los Gatos."

Matt McGinn (TRA SAMS), 1s a prolific songwriter and

twelve of his own songs make up his album. The styles vary from traditionally oriented to music hall and street ,song. While not everything Matt writes is good, there is always a certain dis• t1nctlveness •bout his soogs and most have a s trong vein or humour in them. But he can turn his hand to serious writing as "The Ballad Of The Q-4 " or " Ballad of John McLean ."

The cheerrul rotund form of Hamish lmlach is a popular perfo rmer wilh his strong, robust singing style which he puts to good effect on TRA SAM9. Like Ma tt and Alex, Ham ish doesn't observe pre· tentious mus ical boundaries, co Mequently both contemporary and traditional songs rub shou lders on this record. Hami~h's ready wit and throw-away gags a re much in evidence as well as songs like "The Tall Tale,'' "Oyster Girl ," and the class ic "Cod Liver Oil And Orange Juice," " The Twa Corbies," with its Interesting sitar backing , and " The Men Knoydart."

ROY Al ALBERT HALL Roy Guest and Vic lewis present

in association with Jo Lustig

Saturday, October 4~h at 7.30 p. m.

THE PENTANGLE BERT JANSCH, JOHN RENBOURN

JACQUI McSHEE, TERRY COX DANNY THOMPSON

Tickets , 25 / ., 20 / -, 1 5 / -, 1 0 / -, 7 / 6, 5/ • from R.A.H . and usual agents

A NEMS PRESENTATION

QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL Saturday, 18th October, al 7.45 p.m.

Jloy Guest ond Vic lewis present

AL STEWART A Nem, Presentation

Tickets: 20 / -, 16/-, 12 /-, 8 /-

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IN TERMS of the folk music revivaJ we tend to think of Britain and America but, In fact, the revival has spread much further. One place that has had a strong folk scene for some time is New Zealand.

"The folk scene in New Zealand Is good," Bill Taylor told me. Taylor, a young New Zealand singer 1ecently arrived in Britain from Down Under.

;h~::u!as6

~ i::~:ge a,~ Interest in folk music and now in Auckland, for instance, there are about ten clubs and all the towns all the way down the islands have got folk

:1b?t\) ::rsk t~t/~~: Iq~I;~

on the radio particularly. I worked for three months on a radio baUad which covered the history of New Zealand folksongs.

"There is a folk lore society, even the government's given grants to research on the o ld songs from the goldficlds and whaling a nd sealing days.

"A lot or the songs got lost because people didn't worry about them."

Over the past few years, a fair number of groups and singers have visited New Zealand, Redd Sulllvnn. J\1aloolm Price, Mike a nd Pete Seeger, the Dubliners, Robin Hall and Jlmmy McGregor and the Clanceys among them.

Bill. born 25 -years ago in th e exollc sounding Taumarununi, became inter-

~~~ ia~~i~Jj,s rr;r~~c~! Kuypers, who went to New Zealand some years ago. Since then he has s teadily built up his re putalion and become one of New Zealand's top performers,

"A few singers a re beginnin g to make a Jiving now," said Bill. " The Dubliners mad e quite an impact too. In fact, they put a lot of people on to folk mus ic. Iri sh music a lways goes down well, anyway. But the Australian scene, compared to

BY TONY WILSON

New Zealand, Is terrible. They had the ir scene about five years ago, now !~:,~~ only got a few

A couple of years ago, one ot the London folk scene's personalltles, Cu rly Del'Monte, emJgrated to New Zealand and began to open up the folk scene. He aJso Imported British talent such as Redd SuUlvan and Malcolm Price as well as helping local talent.

"Curly woke up a lot of people,'' said BUI. "He was mainly responsible tor getting people on to records. radlo and television. Before he came over there were no folk records being made of local sinRers."

BUI himself has recorded Redd Sullivan on album which Included other New Zealand acts. Notably the

~c!'~~"ba~~~~o ~~!sdo~ Ing well ror themselves at the moment.

Bi~iud':;0::adft~~~r

1~~1tl:h and New Zealand songs and some country material for variety, has been settling into the British way of Ufe since hC got here, but hopes to be working regula rly on the folk scene.

About the British folk scene, BIii commCnted, " The ordinary, floor singers are about the same as they are in New Zealand. There isn't the emphasis on guitar and banjo playing here. At home everyone was trying to learn all the different techniques.

" I've sung in the Troubadour in London and I've got a few jobs coming up. I've been sorUng o ut what to sing, It's seems

~~~"~i::1i::tir~f1srr;:~i tlonal songs, But I've sorted out some New Zealand songs tha t I think will go over well."

folk news ONE OF the fo lk world's true gfa nts, Pete Seeger, makes his first British co ncert in three yea rs whe n he appears at the Royal Albert Hall in Novembe r 18. As w ell a s the conce rt, Pete will fulll l so me television dates.

The Valley Folk have de• ci ded to qu it professional fo lk singing and pla y their la st date at Folk Union One, Hull, on Sunday, October 19. The group, however, will do the odd weekend club and concert date. Stephen Heap will continue to s ing professionally. John Dickinson is moving to Oxfo rd shire and Jean and Elnin Carruthers will return to their jobs in Lancashire. Anyone wi shing to contact the group can do so through Jenn at 10 Hargreaves Drive , Rawtenstall , RQss enda le, Lancashire

PLUSH Scottish duo, the Corrles,

piny London's plush Savov Hotel for three weeks from Nov ember 24 - rollow thal , Splnnl'rs! Thi s AiR Is u s u a llv fill ed by arti sts like Cilia Black, Francoise Hard y, etc.

David Campbell has completed hi s firs t album for th e Mercury label. Titl ed " Mr Eve rywhere," the record featu res twelv e oriRina l sonAs

:ronoa;/iwea,7.o~~T~~emW~ifi~s~ Gnme ,'' " Lilac- l.ody ," " Pie •

tures of Pomeroon " and " Sun Fever." Johnny Scott has done some very good arrange ments and the album co uld well do David a Jot of good. It's ce rtninly the best · one he's made to date.

Singer • sonRwriter Peter Sautedt begins n series of half-hour shows on Radio One on Sunday, Peter wll\ be bocked by Ben Steed, RORCr Rettig and Peter's brother, Clive. Guests on the first show are th e Ec1ectlon. Other aclS lined up for the show include lhe Pentnng1e (October 5), the .Johnstons (12), Bridget St. John (19), the Strawbs (26).

Roy Harper, Ralph McTell and Ron Geesln appear at Liverf)Ool Student's Union not the Philharmonic Hall as men• tioncd previously,

Magna Carta visit Belgium, France and Holland during October and November fo r radio, television and live dates . By mid -October their first album will be released in all three countries. On October 12 they play their first 1dg at London's Marquee. Tonight (Friday) they appear a t Leices ter Polytech• nic, with Derek Brimstone and Colin Scott and on Tuesday appear at Cardiff Universi ty.

Flamenco guitarist Pepe Martinez appea rs at Halifax folk cl ub tomorrow (Friday), and is fo llowed by Harnlah Jmlaeh (Octobe r 2), Tony Rose ( 16), Ro1emuy Hardman (23) a nd Christy Moore (30).

THURSDAY

BLACK BULL, lfl ,leh Roa d . N20 SOUTHERN RAMBLERS!! MIOHAR CLAIRE DUO

Host : DENNIS O'BR IEN

FOLK CENTRE HAMMERSMITH COME ALL YE

Ro d H1n,11ton , JJII Darby. Prine<' o r Wa l<'S, Da lllng Roa d , 2: minu tes Ravtnscourt Park

KINGSTON COLL or Tec hno logy

STAN ARNOLD

WHITE BEAR, Kings ley Roa d , Houns low

MALCOLM PRICE Chas Upton . Alan How a rd

FRIDAY

AT COUSINS, 49 Greek Strcl' t 7.30•11 .

JO-ANN KELLY AND FRIENDS

Adml !!ll' lon Ss.

MEU JDY MAKFR, Sept ember 27, 1969--J>ag~ 2!'!

SA TUR DAY cont .

THE PERERS, Kin gs Sto res, Wide -gale St r ee t, o ff l,IJd dlesex Street n ea r L ive rpool S t reet Stalloii .

THE PEELERS mtrodu<' r

TIM MADDY

HART PRIOR also TffE PA.CENT • f--FOCALS .

TIIOU• ADOUII, 10,)0. 215 Old Brompton Road

NICK STRUTT & ROGER KNOWLES

SU N[' AY

BOUNDS CIIEEN FOLK CLUB Sprlngfleld Park Tevi>rn , Bounds Gree n Road , N .11

MIKE ROGERS AND ROGER MOONE

FOLK COUIIIEIIS .

DARTFOIID FOLK CLUB SIMON • STEVE

NAGS HEAO, 205 York Road ,

MONDAY cont. THR HANCINC LAMP,

Vi n eyard , R ichmo nd , 8 pm

TIM: JIART MADDY PRIOR

The

THE ROIIEY Yolk Club r f'-o pcninl{' with

JUG TRUST Den n.ls O 'Brie n and Fril'nds

~1\1!:: i,~~~c:PP::~t'fln~ ~~~ Pa rk S1atlon

WALTON ON THAMES , 18b Chureh Street .

STAN ARNOLD

ROD HAMILTON & DON SHEPHERD

TUESDAY

DANA, PEAIITREE l'UI FOLK CLUB, Welwyn Ga rd t!' n C1t7 , S pm.

FOLK CENTIIE, FULHAM

JON BETMEAD Thl' Hammer Folk, Andy Andrew The swan , Fu lham Broadway.

HAYES FOLK CLUB

GRENDEL'S RING Fighting Coeh, 1,ond on Ro ad . Klnas tcm

"'1Wr JUGULAR VEIN STRAWBS

1nd Guests THE ANCEL, UXBRIDGE llOAD,

HAYES END .

ROBIN le BARRY

DRANSFIELD GENERAL HAVELOCK, ILFORD

SITAR FESTIVAL, Frid a y . Octo• ber J , 8 pm , With Cle m Alford , Menls h Ka nsara and Indian Da nt'cr a t Cecil S h a rp Jlo uae, 2 Re g ent, Park Rond , Tickets at d oor o r 7s 6d to 14 S eath House, Chulsn Rond , Sydcnham

SATURDAY

Jlosl JOHN TIMl'ANY .

NASHVILLE ROOMS Adj : WEST iEN TUBE

NEW OVERLANDERS + WESTSIDERS

RAILWAY MOTEL, DARTFORD, Blu e~ Night.

SIMON PRAGER & STEVE PYE

Residents CRAYFOLK.

IIOY HAIIIIIS, Tower Hotel , opposite Wellhamslow Central.

MOTHERS , High Stret-1 , Erding• ton, Blrmlnghnm.

FAMOUS JUG BAND MIKE CHAPMAN

8--Late, Adm 5 S! ! Cheap booU Draught cider, wane.

NASHVILLE ROOMS Adj: WEST KEN TUaE

NEW OVERLANDERS + THE KING PINS

THREE HORSESHOES FOLK CLl.111 , Heath Strttt, Nr. H amp, stead Tube. prcsent5

JEREMY TAYLOR ANGLERS , TEDDINGTON , Blues JOTHHNE ~:!:::•1

:r~s H~~fJ~~:; ?tlafloso (retl r ccl} . The Folk Enterprise (opposite

and your host5: THE EXILH.

IAN ANDERSON Cha lk Farm Station) 7 30 pm WfDNE SDAY

AT COUSINS, 49 Greek Street. 7,30-I J Two Lonly La dles .

. SANDY DENNY ANN BRIGGS

.Next week Dave V:,n Ro nk All

"''oliv'v"' GRAHAM AL JONES

AT THE CELLAR , Cecll Sharp Ho use, Cnmde n Town , 8 pm , THE SOUTHERN RAMBLERS, wl!h Tony Dl' :i n r .

PEANUTS, KINGS ARMS , 21 3 b 1shop•gate f arew ell pa rt y Jor on r of t ill' P e nn y Ga trs Prorccd s to bu y a new al pa ca cont for 11:iiry Ken May . HOST : NICK HARRISON ,

RAILWAY HOTEL , DARTFORD 4th Birthday .

CYRIL TAWNEY Resld enu , CRAYFOLK . Bar u \('nSl(ln

ROY HARPER AT1d hi s friend s Ron Geesl n , Rll ll)h NcTe ll will pl&)' thctr mind s ro r ) 'Ou . Purt'ell room . Roy al F esti va l Ha ll , Friday a nd Salurd ay, 26 a nd 27

" THE EYES OF TINE," 3S5 High Street North , Manor

Park

MIKE ABSALOM DAVE COOPER

PAUL WRIGHT

THE FO'C'STLE Ill !ht• CASTLE, J' alrlit'lt1 West, Kinttston .

DICK FROST

THE GREENWICH THEATRE FOLK CLU•

The GIO U{'CSte, Kint: WIiiiam Wa lk, S! IO

DEREK BRIMSTONE 11 pm . Pl~•nse eomt- ea.r ly _

THE LCS PIIESENTS THE SINGERS' CLUB. The ftural Mu11e - Brian Prarson ln1ruduCH a n evcnlnr of country 1ong1 with Dlc:k Sn<'II , Sa ndra Kerr and J ohn F11ulkner. UNION TAV• RN, 52 Lloyd Bakn Street , London , WCI 7 45 pm.

TIIOU8AOOUII 9.30, First book • lng1 In Britain .

BILL TAYLOR From " Th e Pole s Apa r t ," Ne w Zealand.

MONDAY

CLANFOLK : .,. Marquis o (

CLANrl ca rd e ," S outhwick Street, P a dd ington , FOLK AND POETRY IN AID OF THE PRIM IT IVE PEOPLE'S FUND. Fealurln11 aoa WOOD a nd MIKE AINSCOUGH plus sp e ci al lCUel tS ADRIAN NIT• CHELL , CEOIICE NAC • ETH, HAIi VEY MATUSOW'S .JEWS HA"P BAND.

ENFIELD FOLK CLUll Th<' Ho p ,P nlr!I, Baker !S tree t , Ennrld

CLIFF AUNGIER AND FOLK COURIERS

FINAL CONCERT OF THE YOUNG TRADITION

on Mo nd ay. 29th Se pte m ber , at Ceci l Sharp Hou se, 2: Reaenb Park Rd . , N ,W, t . Also appearing-

BOB & JOHN COPPER CYRIL TAWNEY

SHIRLEY & DOLLY COLLINS

ANNE BRIGGS LOUIS KILLEN

GRENOEL"S RING 11e kets In advance 7/ld. At the d oor 10/ . 8 p ,m tl ll midnight. Bar .

CROYDON Folksong Club , Wa ddo n Hote l , Stafford Ro a<i , Croydon

DAVE SMITH DOWNHAM FOLK CLU• , Ba l,

tab:irln , Downh a mw a y , Do wnha m , Bro mley. Ke nt - 01 ·698 8810

DAVID BOWIE Hit sl ns l e, .. Space Oddlly ••

HIGH BAIINET FOLK CLUB Sall1bury Hotel . 126 Hl&h S tret-l Ba rn.ct

JOLLY, JOVIAL , JUIILATING

JUG TRUST BIFOCAL , THE PEELEM.

IAN RUSSELL With Jhlf , York and Al b a n y , Pukw11y, C:imd en T own

KINGS , n ow a t CARVED 11£0

~~::;. 2 l:01

:./' JlJi~~·cc~~~r~t\~~ KEN LANCS• UIIY.

MIKE A~CHANCI OF

~::r~.E~~~ ~:,1/6ft 011~~n; "'hi~! T e l.: 01 , YRO 411&4

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NEW OVERLANDERS + STATE EXPRESS

SUll•IT~bl y Room,i; , DEREK SARJEANT FOLK TRIO, DIZ DISLEY .

THE HOLY GROUND , 4a In verness Pla re, Bayswatl'r, w.: IIONNIE CAIRNOUFF

DAVE & TONI ARTHUR New Realdc nt TONY ROG.RS .

'"MICHAEL CLAIRE N..us c.u•sn. FOLK AT the II J.mpstead Ru gby

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Cheop b,., , [ • INSTRUMENTS E

H1~1~"no~~.ii:,5~~ al d~t~~~AN, : • DRUMS :

MlNOTAUO, Nor• H <Od , Nnlh j • AMPLIFIERS j Slmt. ~

11;~~ BROS j • ORGAN E

; • RECORDS, etc, j QUEEN ELIIA• ETN HALL, The Ring , o, Wflll' :

Settll'rr. at 7.~:; . box Ortkl' now • " MHQOY MAK{R " Ad - : Ol)l"ri : vc1 t1~t-mC"n l Oq, 1 , 161-161 i

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Pa~t' 2f,-M fL CJOY MAK ER , Sepl e m t>r r 2 7 , 1969 , .................................................... ...................................................... ... .................................... . . . 1

l CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT DEPARTMENT, l "MELODY MAKER'". 161•166 FLEET STREET. LONDON. E.C.C ;

Enqu,r,es· fLEet Street 5011 ht 171 176 & 234

PRESS DATES. hery effo1t will be mode to ,nclude clonified odver(1.emen11 received after 10 a .m. on the Friday previous to w~k of publ,c,ohon

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS BROUGHT INTO THE OFFICE WI LL BE ACCEPTED UP TO AND NO LATER THAN S p.m. ON THE MONDAY PREVIOUS TO DAY OF PUBLICATION i

i ALL CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MUST BE PRE·PAID j

PLEASE TURN TO PAGES 24, 25, 29 & 30

FOR FURTHER CLASSIFIED

ADVERTISEMENTS • lheMWt.n ,.10., ..,.,,ei,t 1i>,.,.,, • .., .,,,...._ ...,....,,._--,h ot ..._ .. ..._ A""°""".....,. ....., 1111:>1-.-illooo.d-'-"""•"'-'-""'-,.o,nlt>t.,_.c.lw,colw,,,-••.,...... C

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A 8AMD. ,1 t.·a, airy Ba nd . Thr &and or lht tch 121h ROYA i L:l n ('.-n h.11 , .1ca11d • r,,r an wuud Wlnd plny~ra. Oll l<'r ln111rumc nll Nn1ld1:~d . E111tricuc..-d and lN!·

:::~,~~~ t1~ ~f211~p~i1a1

10 La~!~.

C.lll, rlc• C• mp \ ' or,, A&ENC'r REQUIRES ALL

T'r,oES OF ENTERTAI NERS FOR PU• S AND CLU•s . NUST DE RELIABLE LONDON BASE: - 01· Ut 101 '

8ASS ANO "r(:11111, 1 " rml •prn pup plu~ i.:ot1d ict·•r. vu, N"fflrm• lilt: r, hl. ,H 'J lnlr,'. - Sl it 1131 11fln ,u '

aASS AND tllt:• nl•I lt'ml -rru t',I Juin d1un1ml'r 1n furrnlnlt' Pt<l• di n t '11'1C trl n Darlfhrd 11rra -Ru);. )(Yt

a.-ss C.UtTIUtlST ' VOCAL lor 1 l"T\ :11 1)I, P1•D l(ru11p (;11ud mnn1·)' - 01-l72 fJ.1'2

•ASS CTR V1>i. 1111!<1 1:Jnubl1ng .. 1h1·• 1n~11um•·11l '< fur nt'W p ru• J+"t"b - Tl h..phun,• Dl-~11"1 110111 tHrllt

It AS 5 CUITAJllST llrurumrr mu,1 rr•d. lnr work ln Sou\h A !rlt " .. 11h 7 Plt'l'~ "ruup !J \!t'"r1:lnn• C'ou•t. M ••rll ti WII), 1'fnrd ,·n ~urr,·)

8A SS CUITA.JUST, t·X:pt"rlllnl't'd, h:irnu,nv \Ocdl,. , lor :f<'ffll-pro p11p , h~rtnony uruup, wo rk Jn('}ud mi.: n ,ld\'0("")' - T,• I Dl tilt S!!:~2

MSS CUITAIIIST, prncr'l!nlv• cr-uup. •udl llnru 12·3 Friday. 28th Scphml.J.-r Jnhn Mick, Wrileu Y. 11rk_.h.,R L.td , 2nd fl nor, Dumt>: ~'"" Hou~f'. M Ox ford Sl r ett ,

a.ASS &UITARISTS , ALSO TaUN,OET ,0LAYE• . READ AND 8USIC , UNDliR 25, MUST HAYE STRONG DOU BL IN& INST•UNENT OR VOCALS, ND TIES. \,ood ml xerJII,, p o p cun llcinui.. for

~;:b~;~tn pl :?o12cf m

0u~e, wl~•;:;

.._.,, 'J rd 1rum1,1e l , II Ot·tub r r ,lrrllr P•U\ Chrl,11, JOb St J oh11·• Tf'rr. C.:-, K1na ':i. Ly nn nr Phon e $:lOt, 1fle1 30 6,•ptt•mber

USS C.UITA•IST . Tenor d ou bl • In¥, ltutc- Wo rk 11 nd r«"Ordlng 11 lh·1 n•lwanu, 1, a•md lil t"a r e•scn• 11• 1 - n1 204 0083, E dd ie 'l'rllv,,lk". afh•r fl :,n pm

USS ,OLAYE• wan1f'4 . p,o, 100d 11•1 r , dt"dlc-,ted - Rlu jj: And.) . llufldh,rd "oeu.

CA.DIFF NIIWPORT a r t' .. , )'UUng

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t•JUt'd Pta,11, tkla\111 Box 8151 , DIOIC.ATID SINGll:R / Sons•

• rl\fr Al,.llUIIII( C ul tarlli-1 / ll • rp1 ,.1 nPl'd '< t 1•clrll· Ptanl!!'.I, 8,ot-• and Oru1111J1c-r town 1ear) , - D1t"• Mll ll lt,·n , ... P en n , rd Rd ,

"" DEMONSTIIATION MUSICIANS ur•c:nll) rf'qulrt"d 1,, 111ur part m un1qu1· u 1:prrl1111:nt ,., brln,i llvl' IIIUJlll In ,uulh In a 1orl1l '<t'll m " 1n (;rca1..-r Londun Jn••rum1n11 11,u und1•r 25 prt'ferrr_d . vn I re,iuiar t•1IOhJllll"lt'nl ballJ. . Yull UllPI n•l''t 1i.1d - C11nl1t:I Tht MU/Oil" Advl,1.,. , "' St Ann ·1 ll uUH \'t"'nll SI l.nnd1 ,n . S.W ~

ORUM MER AND <.UITAR· JST " "' 11 .. tl '()Ul1 t•d lo romplt•\u 1,1rt•l-:'. f•"• lh' -., ·ml IHI> 1tr1,up Ml l't l r.111•;,r ~t· tind hu\1 lfl!M"'P••rl -1,•1 l U U'\1 1•v1•11ln ;c~.

o • UMHE•, CH!l CHESTER -NAN JAZZIIANO . - Ol •69l HC7.

DRUMMER fur Nolllngh:un n •,1 • ll• fl l)' mU•1 ri• .. o /nl1• r d UO"" j11t, \ ji l •·ri ,, ,: ,tll l\ lh "' "' pla)·ln g. -Writ , ('nlll! llu l1m Sh,· r WUIH.I tt, 111111, Nu l l1n,i h ,m ,,r phunt: 1,1n~11

OIIUMNER ti ,r (lq,.111 Vu( ,1,/ c ,, n, h,, Alcilr ~h o l H'/311

DIIUNNolll FOR .... r -. .• 111,· pop 1j; t "1q 1 (, , ,. ,d '"" "' \ - 01 -%7:?

JAZZMEN, )-1/un c read ,u Rugn P.a m", 8 Ce-d a r Close , .M t-op tt• m, Ken1

L EA D ANO ORc.ANIST CHEA.VT } fM tnp PlilO ba nd , lmmedla ll" RliCOROtNC Wit h lea d • l n u M l,II Pl lla \lo n - Pho n f' 9415 7! 0

LEAD <.UITAll l\'o cah u ro r we f'kt'nd hnm1c r u ld em.: )'. rud , bu1t pup, , 1H• nd a rd - 80i 6e38.

LEAD CUITAR, voe-ab, r esldt'n l lor C'W pup11 , lrl" h Phont' d n fl.>7 " "4 TUR}' 0 ~•1tt1n

LEAD &UITARIST rt"qulre l.l for

~!~~u";;,ufh11 f!i~:!~" ~n~~i P£¥ lOII08 fc-..,t-nln p:s,

LEAD VOCALIST lJoubllnl{ icullu un othN 1n11 Top T"oV•nty and Pop stJifldald . ,\bk 10 chmpcrr Ubi\rl'l 1op money,

~t ~r1° .. ~m,;~~lu:; l1~~kbc:t. t'ndillh, Blac-kburn $9591'1 7 pm Ill , 30

MUSICIANS FOR SHIP

PIANO, IASS, DIUMS for itylilh q11ort.t requir•d. Comii-tent plo,-n only. Good oppaoronc:• •U4'11tlol. DON SCOTT, I W•ltl•i1h .... , 0.WftetMI, Mu.I. T.e. 65Jlt3.

MUSICIANS •&QUI.ED to r esister- for s hips . - Sydney Llp1 un MAY SOU.

NAME o•UNMEII fo rmlng n ew fro up requ lrea lead 1uilar/ ban ,

e!1.~r~f a11ca~; :ri':~'":Jatr~i.,J~:~:

only . - TclL-phone U7 8595 d1y.

NAME GllOUP {WIit, ~ __ , _ .. "'9 -·

,odio ....,...J ~.-d,-w,g j2(11)

BICTIK PWIST/OIGAIIST (prJ """''"°'"" Mutl Mo•_.,. _

COMMSIKtAL, '"°' ~ ....... ,c/ ..... ,. ......

1•t •1'6 f'IM,t ..._., ......_, LCA

N .0 , STYLE CLARINET r-t'qulrct j ob wllh workin g a nd re h c11 r11n1 Jan ba nd - 01-874 5340 &dayllmc.-)_

ORGANIST (or group rt'cordlllg ~horlly , - 5H 7117 .

ORGANIST FOR LONDO. BASED C/ W C.IIOUP. - Lutcin IS412tl

SO UTI-IERN STOMPERS requm· co mpl• t t nl b,;1 nJ01Sl a n(I p la n. Is l -T(' I Stn(' Une 20$ 2587 ( d 3) I o r 907 SSBJ (hO mt'I

TENOR BANJOIST requl r ("d ror lr t'lh Fo lk c rou p - Phon e 34A 9•62

TRUMPET FOR 8 S T Sl)"lt' re co rd 1n,,; it: r oup, rea d e r , und c.- r 25, p rcfc r11hly ,olo lng - Bu r1l'n HIii 2194

UNINHIBITED TRIANC.LE pl 1yu wUh ,:oon ,u u , ystem, n o \Im ~ waat,u plu 1e . - 845 S147

URCENT . VERSATILE bht ·aull• r end drumm e r ' " '

~~fi!~i pl:~~I l.;~ol'~ ('~~~ea~: ;r - 204 aog1.

VERSATILE HAMM OND ORGAN • 1ST required 4 5 nlghll a week 8

~':w1lin 'lbc~-3,fo, _Thc Ship Inn.

VERSATILE YOUN(, O"GANIST FOR CIIEECE{TU.kEY, Novemhcr Gpod wag,:. Geoff". l2 Dt'newt.11 Avenut-, Hljj:b Union NewcUtlu-on•T)'ne.

VOCALIST / GUITARIST, !lfflllll lsh bulld 10 )oln bau/vo,:allsl and

~O~~ d:: .- 1: ;,v1s egv~o~i~aa - 636

WANTID TO FOIM FEMALE SHOWIA..,

SINGING MUSIOANS We •ra bu1 r,vo - DRJm~ and Singar. Our a,m ~ to build up from

Yortltlura Oublllnd

PINN wn• or phoM: Ywnne Barnett, B2 S1ainbum Driv• H•rrogaM Rd , l.Nda, 17 828056

WANTED. VOCALIST AMO AL TO su:, for orl1lnal lf roup, Nor th London , prepared lo pnc• uce . - 520 1259.

VOCALISTS WANTED J/ . per word

COUNTRY / WESTIRN ma le or !cm:tle voe1llrt wanted , band 'A'Or h 2/ 3 n lghu Wt'C!k. - Boll ,m.

F ... ALI VOCALIST lor eft&b· ll1hed 1howband , American bat1:H, Europt' Pholo :t nd d o! t •ll11 - Boll. 8171 . .----------.1 FEMALE VOCALIST fo r profCJ-

OIGANIST/ PIANIST 11lon1 I Countr y / Blue• / Ruck / ...i. _, .... to, i..,.4 tt_.., to 11w S1.1nd1rds ou U'II, good looks, vulce c.,'"-"' ,.__ ,-,.._y, 1'70. ,_ - • nd relevan t r ep t'rtolr t' t'SSenU11 1, , _ _ Shon -""• "'-'"· ,... ,-,., work t'Jlldu•h•l'ly abro1d. -o,.,.. .... , ... k,",.W ..... , MnM• Phonl' lmm ~-dl:. le))' Oa\ll ll , 1103 •o•,&.t-'r • ..-.. 61 .. •11old-. 011• ..... 759!.

:::~'• ;;!~ ~:;:::'':., ":!::; n-~1~~~1~\ ... 1 " u"n~E Ri;~~•ll5tsNo,t'i; _ .. ...d. 90JtNUMIB....,cl•~ York A(!:l'Rl':!/ . !-ic(' •· Grou;>li llliol-, 161-166'-t SlrNt,~EU. w.nt1•d "

<.ROUP REQUIRES , ·oea ll51 , OAC.ANIST REQUIRED, dl'flnll f' pro~rc.-HIVI' ,;ou l, w London -

rl'C1Jrd1ng:. 11ond pro~pl? rU - 7?2 Phllntl SHE lt!•5 or TWJ ~22 02811 ,Jill' ! 7 l iJ PROGRESSIVE COLOURED $1y

ORGANIST RfQUIRED Own Hammo nd o r similar.

• Orchid Ba ll room , Purl,ey 01 -458 3492 TONY CRANE

.i n<I Th" f;11nJ\ybtO/\l' \~pu Group wunl :.hnl1 1:ir Sl n1; n I Sl111wnrnn - REC 11.41,11

RECOROINC CROUP 'ol'lil a udi tio n fur yuuni,: SINGER 1111 !-i undll) S,:plt!mb~r 2tl. a t Wrl l• ln11t11n °ll ouse, Uppn St )l;irtln' i, I.M Iii'. WC2 1 pm onward 5

IIESIOENT DANCE com!Ju rl' • qu\ro Htnlih! exp, rlenred , ·ocal1, 1. own µ .i . 1n11 bral ml't · ch11nU) - Rn). fill/JO

11' ~'uo OR TRIO r<11ulr1•d fo r ORGANIST SOUTHERN 5,0AIN

l1•u rn:, .. .. ,.. •n11 , ., ,.,,, 11 n , Tllp RES IDENT -.rllh J.U: l KTUUP pl •)' 11,.,1,. \ _ I t I 11 1 fJ'li J 1181t in,t $O m~ soul a m.I p up Alsu

VERSATILE SINGING 11rl d I n c , r .!i f 2 ) , f II r GREECE/TURKEY. Nov1•mht'r , -

~~.~~':" 12 e rg~~~:~rl ~\:: ' " ·High E.STA• L IStfl:O CAou, r• · ~ullarlt t •\'UCll lb1 Exctll COI •n.!l r• • ASS AND LEAD c;;ul- m•Jfll" Y - r Scht l• rhuul , lh l" S tal: TAAI STS, VOCAL HA.MONY ('~ Inn . ~1 a rlt 1: I Str l!t' I, W1mdhOU&I'. '-4 nl f-•I d r.lr h ll11 1( 1•n ntht•r /r.,/ru • ShdhehJ Tl'I lt4Ul 4

11,•atnn Ne..-ra•l l r ·un -Tynr VOCALIST•C.UITARIST, f'olk .

C I W. - Tom JIEI. l :?00, £x-t Sl4 d•Y II 1111 11 \• '" " ~d• 1 n1 1u: ,· w ,1rk ant.I PIANIST nr (lf jl'. llnl,1 20-311

p r ., , p, , 1 .... ,.r,. ll t nl - ·r " 1,1,1n11n•· ,,.._.ar.-., , t•ml •Prn , KOMI bu hkcr, fur

lf' i ~~r;~iEo JANICO r,1rr1wr1y "' ~~;,1,\a~m~;irko""~· "~~· P;f;o 1.--G-I_R_L_V_O_C_A_L_I_ST_E_-, Hur/1 ¥n·•· 11t ian,~11 trl - (;untxrt ! Harrnw J rt·al lllll r All.rd )" l l' . ""' r, •rn Aru1tl , PIANISTS and µlanllf •Ylll'III I I fOf Ont,_,., bond worit In it. C.otfb.. );(llnbl.11 Jth, N.,11l11nd, lmn1t'dl ~'fn~ra •~:t! arl~l:rr~ g~1/"J: ~t l,4,on f,oM Jonuory, 1'70, ,op,, " '~i lTARIST /<Ir h4tll"Y Sh!\' i,ruce clui perrn rmora n eed apply. - ~~-=ritJ~=: z~ r"-,'"..,•,--="~· '-,"~"'::":::'::"::'-:.::::~ 21~,i~lm FOi SOUTH LONDON l1ner1 onn,er•d. IOX NUMIR ._.9P_.,... ~ .ttN'-fM ~tt~~:tmio~~iti

8~;°':~rofd!;~~• - 1667, ,/o Malod1 Mohr, 161 -166

.• -GiioUTsy ... 1u c:~t:is~~.:r-:,~~·'c~~! l ~='='":':'':·":':· ':M:·:·":· ':·'=·':·::::.~ SOLO SINGERS ~l,"~t.~~-•*~~- '·,~~ftr::/::~1!:

,HONE IOHN KONOOS - c 111m•n' 1, B11hODU•1• '5'1

01 185 571:l 1-rflml) l d:t'HEA•SAL BAND. Atl rn11ru· 01 °734 J93l ,-... •#1, nl t! lll f f-'u lru•y t1'hur ... dayl, C.Yt'II '===='~••::·•==•~•ffl=·:::'::::::~ tn• tn"tllul• - Alan Co h rn . 1171

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11~:~,~}",~r ".~~1-~:,;~ l(i~t1;'';!:~ ATTENTION ALL '°~':L"J cOR"i."Jr.,1~ 00 ~~t·~r1H ~h

DRUMMING ENTHUSIASTS u..:mn Band _ snu1h Lt\11dnn . -

JOIN NOW 11urrh He11 1h i53I•

VOCALISTS J/. per word

IJ{CITINC VOCALIST, l)J , rt'•

quirc11 crr~l!Ul' p ru irvup - Bua-

!tf~~Nc.t•, COMPHE, to,. uek~ ,unln t: •nd WC'C'ktnd Wdrk - 527 0 :1c:r~~~p SHKS i Ul lll rbl lo t11rin duu - RnJt lf0'9

!Hf 8RlnlH DRUMMERS• ASSOCIATION

URGENTLY REQUIRED t.,ttt. ,....,.~nt.t

., •-..,.;- ef yMr .,•,y ••n

...,., -....,.--- , .. "" .. "' ·--· ,.., .. , .... ' ~-· ... __ ,_

,.1, · • - \.Of-' ........ f (1

FOR A CREATIVE GROUP WITH AN ASSURED FUTURE TO RECORD IMMEDIATELY

A fl"t~rate ,,ofesllonol Drummer, experience and de.cation NMntlal

PHONI 743 456711. 10 a.m .• 10 p.m.

NOTB.S J/.f per word

noNEHALL HOUSI! MOTIL (20 m lnul4',. Wen End) . Flut -clu~ r oom 11 11<1 br-n tf11 111 h otel . Tl'rm11 from 12!'1 8d d i lly . Ho l a nd r-old , hill )' l't' tUl a ll t h u t~ a ll t O<lln • Shnwcra/ ba lh 1111•\U!I\V('. TV/ Jt11dlo Joun«•- AA/ RAC r crnmme.l'fdrd -37 Wl'J lrom tu- Park Rl>ad. ill•<•t heath , Lun<lon, S!3. 01-8$!1 15'5

EVER IIEN UCORDED UVE ON A IOOKING?

" fot O 'fal)I M"1!11,le pric:e - CGII l1111111ort•II•• yo11r l,'le gig faulleftl ,.u,d1nv quolity. ,.__ Mr. r...i '-"9teM1,"4lSH ot 9Ml161, 10 a,M.•0 p 1t1 , MOflday0 f11doy

PRIITIK 1/4 per word

• IAll,.INTS I.. TD. ,._- QI • II duh J1nd acr11up 1,1n1> lt'f•, h~ndout• • tt t.,,w,-..l r,.,,.,_ _Jl 1t1._ ft.AV 5t llf

WE CERRY CLl8BON AMO STEPHEN FRANKLIN , known ai: Goblin tn1erprt~es, IRll'nd to apply to the Council o r the l,oo-

?1~~nc~or~ouit:ar~; !1:r-~~w, e !°,:1u:-

ment ",.,.ntY rur mui:k1rtn1o 1n dance band.Ii, al 101 Albury Drive, Plnntr Mldd11.'ll'X, 11u<:h ag'l!OCY IO be knOwn as C:oblin EntNprl~rs, All obJl't'tlon~ an d the around& 1hcrcfo r t', mu~1 be submlttl'd Jn wrltlnl( 10 t he J,h'dleal Officer ot Healt h J-tanover Hou,,. , Lyon Roti d, '11a rro .... within 7 days from the day o r pu bllcallon of thl• ndvr:r1J11cmcnt.

SPECIAL NOTICES 1/4 per word

ACKNOWL• DC.• D H the Mill IVOR MAUlANTS' ,oSTAL COUIII.S for PLECTRUM and FINCERSTYLI! GUITAR. Larjj:Ul 1clccUon ol a:ul~n In 1tock. -Putleulan ; 1vo• NAUIANTS NUIIC•NT••· st Rathbone Place, London, WI.P-IAI .

BAIIIS WANTED J/ . per word

AP,OLY TO Ken Cru~lr)' , 91 Wtslfft ld Lanr, lihn•ftt•ld 27511

~~~urJ1~ n;~.i:::~lllt~1•rkuut:i~!

UK . Spl'dll ll )' n•qulrlni: b.r,nd-1. wuul ¥tn11 p11 Wilh g1rl11 :'lhiO gir l ,·utall~ti,; , d1o1n1,~n !i nd mu,1<'liin i; London audll!on, mon thly. l'l'-l'· wh1•n • b )' a r n1ng1•ml'nL

IIEQUl•Eo FOR :tllnr.clin long e n 111gt' 1U t'nt abr1,ad , band ,a .5

1/- per word ATTRACTIVli EXPERlf.MCEO

BANDSJNGE• (FEMALE), Foa LONDON . STANDAR DS, LATIN, FEW POPS, PHOTOS PLEASE. -WRITE •ox ... 1.

(.0 &O DANCHS •EQUIRID - Ttl ~54 6!!09 after 7 PIii

TABBY'S CLUB o,, Eallog Broactway SLl1kltJ

ws Rc.-qulrf'd Co C•J Dan-r--rSoul Croup• J't-malf' DJ . .1.nd Bar SleW"lrdt5• - Cnnt•tt )fr Ffry. Telcptwine Sf; nn. afl"r 7 pm

YOUNG AWARE IICl'h<J r• QUlfC); both expt'rlmen1,d •1:1d verutlk gr11up., !lfe--.rlr, d nc~ra and rool DJs - PAC£ $ lfllt. M1si: o,•nf'

ARTISTS JI. p•r word

ORIGINAL A•TIST l'b en 1:1,i.emenl - 80, MA

GROUPS WANTED II· per word

ANY YIRSATIL• units for r s l dencles a nd firµ - Norton Vort

~~~cW.l'·oi-~4n~: Crf'cn Ter•

SACKING CIIOUP w•nted lor

~ja~rJ::2n ef~1e11s.1:!fne:, - P hllnt'

POLISH• D Gaoun ro r work h e r t' and lbrna d PleHl" phonti Sa t a nd S un , 12 noon -7 pm No can, acceptltd ouUlde the.at hoU ra - Marc Ne wto n tk :1521-t.

PllOF• SSIONAL c.•our to barlt two reC'Ordln1 femak 1\n1•n -Pbo nl' 027-171 3274 .

TOGDHIII GIIOUP requlr•d for man aae ment and ntordln/i El'•

~!~~:t .,rirr:tf~• tr!~~I d~ 1:::t:

Boll 8643.

,,ogreulwo gro\lpl o, lone -'ldric"'1,11 lc:ion1 with clouicol troJ,.,lng o,

lnfl11enc:e1 wonl•d fo, ~- enMl"pm. ond monat;19monl.

Deto,h to .. IAM IICKS' f\lGAl ffJIIM lo:,,; 166.S, c/ o /IUt-'1 ..._,

161 -166 fleet Sh'••'• London, E.C.4

Short of Work? We ho "• c~l ag• 9i9 J, r11ld..,,dn ond work oh<ood fo, OIi)' lt i,,d of 91oup, lluH • ,op • Soul • ,,og,... si••• • le ,hon• for deroih , M.-t

Nir• tten, "41Jt7e,J5J6

10 a.m.•6 p.m. Mon..Fri .

;~~~:n11::Ul',~~~llt'~~"l'dWi lr~pl•r~~~ 1.----------ur diant't' n1u , 1l· Esi,1•nthd ly rt•adl"rl', ..-upablt o f aecnmpa n y\ n g c 11 1.J11n•1 - f.'ull di! l all!I , phulull 11 pos1 lble In S)tlncy Lipton Or• ch,•11ra, . Sll'IR'ol' ll Y ll a ll, 1-1 St (;eur11e Slrll••t, l.ondon , W J

THREE tu ''-'Vl'n Pit'<'\' b trnd w a nte d to h1,lk 1: 11Juur.:d i.i n i;1•r - Tt> I 01 -•17 2:J H

TRIO WANTED FOR CLUB FIESTA

Mu, 1 l•ollHI l'•p V•(oh on.I lu n-1 •••ud 11'1 OHOfflP•l'IY,1'18 _.,,,,._,....,. ...

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ARE YOU READY TO RECORD NOW?

Independent . _recording corn pony with two recordt OI prm~nt rece1v1ng heo,,y airplay wanf '2 fully profe»ioftol working groups for recording MUions already booi.d fo, October, •

We NIID (i) HARMONY GROUP (Holl•)

. tii l SOUL Y GROUP (¥Wth Cupid's ln,piration/ Foundohon•type lead waaili•)

w. ho~ hit mot• iol. W• ore interued in COMMEI· • ALLY MINDED - IMAGE _ OIIOUPS. S..d IIIC9lf topm. and photo, to1 Boll. 1663, c/o Melod, Molls.

161-166 Floet s,,..,. London, ~.C.•

RECORD MANAGEMENT Aft ltallan •-n1 c--,, h• ........ ,,_ ... • ftlnelllhG,eupln..._i. .......... .... ~...!:' ••~n""-nt. -.i ..:......;. _.

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ACCOR;OION , ORGAN . - tiW

"'u ACKNOWLKOCEO • IIITAIN 'S

t,HI u.•acht-r SAX OPHONE/ CLAIIINfi pr1vat(' lt"Hons Bf:&ln n~u adva nct'd ADVICE ! t tc-• t

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ALL STYLES POP SINCINC TUITION . ~r1on11 tulllon nail ablf' in LONDON llnd WUtMINC. HAM . Also poi.1a l tulllon . ~f'&ln . nc-n l"nl"OUr.li:l'd - MAURtCE BURMAN SCH OOL, !O Bakl'r Slrc!l"l , LA>ndon WIM 2DS Tt>I OJ . !83 04'8

AMERICAN STYLED drun, IUI• tlon - 684 111M

AU• IIEY FRANK IAXO,HON II CLAIIIINET TUITION . Bal1nner1 10 adun<:ed . - 112, The White u ouse N W.1. EUS 1100. u:t 111,

IELL MUSIC STUD IOS. Tuiti on a ll ln• 1rume.nll . - 478 78S5.

•Ll:CTR ONIC ORCAN leHOIII lr,1m 15• Prlvate/1roup1, R•n , m oOH n or1an / pl1no. Hammond / Lowrey Or1a n Studio,, 7/ t h o url y Fol'II: 1ut1ar. flut t-, clarinet and u sophon e - 211 Arden Road , N ! Fin 07'

IRIC (;ILDIR SCH OOL OF MUSIC tor all vocal anll lnalru• mental tuition W H \ •&:nd S1udlo1, Re,. Office 48 Th e Gla de, , Croy-1.l On. CRO 7QD , Su rrey Tel , 01• U4 • 77'

FLUTE TUITION , beglnncu. adYllnt'f'd - STUART WATTS , "' Mo,c-rn1' S l a t e C1rcu1 nrchntra , 2:86 '25fl

CUITAR , • ANJO, • ASS , all .l l )'IH I MM Wln nn 1U!/ !4 Ind) - Frtod Gearon , 01•743·8127 ,

GUITAR LESSONS. - Cl1ph11 m m sue GUITAR TU ITION , pro tea.:her . - ,n 1250.

dr:::Kt!1uo:ll~SV7~i 27~rclallat MODERN STUDENT •ANDS . -

Bcll Music S1Udlos , 4711 7885.

:~'c~C:.~~ii:4J ll'a rnT:~~~~ T UITION . Mod er n m t. lh Od . - Bt.11 Mu i\(' S1udlo1 . 478-7685 .

~UMPET / TUITION . - T ole• phone 01 -459 1543. Ins trum ents

ILUES CUITAR , 15J p h -

i~~~.ks:,.h~.~i 1110 Brnn mwood Ir------------, cLAOINn / SAXOrHON E / IIARN THE TIOINIQUES

suppllf'd

~~d~T1.;~1~~nPr::1r.~roenn , ~d~1· of th.

Wlns\on, Inanm , Ol •.C51 no Instrument, I UPP11td

COMPLETELY OVERCOME ALL DRUMMINC PRO• LEMS AT ROCER KERR'S DRUM STUDIO . - POL IJZ4.

ORUM TUITION , l'lllP / J:in I rc-1d1nc lf'chnlqUl"S tAu,:ht. Rl'jl ln • nN, / ll(h'lnl",:>d - OHn4 /1:619

BANDS 11· per word

DISC JOCKEY be It RADIO or DISCOTNEQUI

THE SCHOOL OF BROADCASTING

•"•" y04,9 P"°feulonol tNln1"111 In thl1 ••dtin,g fleld

THE SCHOOL OF CONTEM,OU.RV' AU.ANGING 11:CHNIQUES

for 1he follo,,,,ng co,,., pond..,u, cou, .. , -

n..r..,........,.,o1.-. .. """"°ondO.cM,1to· t,onlrnp<_.,.,_ t htoughA11,ol P••••PITI,• Schdl,"11•• Sy,1...,otC°"'po"""" N.w h cl<Nq-• 11• S,gh1,,• od!ng, Proctic,:,I 1,1 11.,c,on.h.p Al , o olbu,., Ol"d record, on touooducolion Wr,1eloiFr..p,ot,POCu11C1 ,

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Adv.rttsemeot.,; under thi s hr11,t1n,ir a re NOT accep ted

with • ox NO' S.

DE MON STRATION R<'l'Ords I M11nu~uipl s of )'!)Ur son~~ - Dl:t' Mu:.k Co , 3 Copt>l;ond Slrccl, Siok.-

EARN MONEY SON CWRITING . Am azing rrcc b1,nk l ('lll> h ow . -t..SS 10· 11 i\l . Dryd,.n C h ambt-rs , 119 Oxfo r d Strt'l'l, l,11ndo n , WI 4d S\Jfflp

HOLLYWOOD COMPANY nred s

!!.'!~~~/u;R~~wd:t0a7fJJ ~1 ~1~ii~~~

Services , 715/ l! Wt'SI Knoll , Holl y• wood . Califor ni a, USA .

MUSIC TO LYRICS . Vo ice/ tape _ 315 Sudbury Avenu•·. Wembley, 0Hl0'2 3481!

SONGWR IT ERS , Demo record · Int£! rrom £2 5s Tvp lines Singer, il.rra ngemcnts . Melod ics ln ly rl n - Brorhure , 74 l..lYl•nd er Htll Enflcld, M1d dx 363 0564 .

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REHEARSAL ROOMS

E.G. MANAGEMENT LTD. wish to apologise to all the patrons

of the

VIUAGE BLUES CLUB, ROUNDHOUSE, DAGENHAM for the non-appearance of

KING CRIMSON on Saturday, 20th September

due to i 11 ness of Ion

We will be appearing at the ROUNDHOUSE, DAGENHAM on

SATURDAY, 18th OCTOBER Bob, Greg, Ion, Mike

STARLITE ROOM, BOSTON Tel. 3S79 This Saturday, 27th Sept.:

THE NICE. THE ART MOVEMENT • RICKY TEE Bors • Refreshmen ts · Meols • Don~inA 7·1 2 • Adm. 10/·

Saturday, 4th Oct. :

AMEN CORNER

KING'S HALL - Romford Market FRIDAY, 26th SEPTEMBER, at 7 .3 0

BLODWYN PIG 1upp0rt•d by

STONE THE CROWS ___ R_O_U_ N_ D_H_O_U_S'-E- i---KING'S HALL ---

--'-°"-s::u:::;,-;,o;gs:;~m--1----•-•m_f_••_•_-_,._•• __ _ MONDAY, 29th 5£PT.

KEITH RELF'S EDGAR BROUGHTON RENAISSANCE

----··----~ Ooo"' op,9n 7 .30 L1Cf.NS£D BAR

THIS SATURDAY, 27th SEPT, 1969 WINTER GARDENS, MALVERN

YES CARAVAN

GRACIOUS IN SYop·usEE, 31 DAY

D. A. BOOTH MANAGEMENT, ESHER 62764

WILDMOUTH YOU WILL KNOW SOON ENOUGH

Phone 01-599 8205

Bob Kerr's WHOOPEE

BAND BLONDE ON

BLONDE Ralph Denyer

DEVLIN

Enquiries: Bob Kerr 01 -7B9 5B04

FOlK ILUES CONCERT atCHISWICK ,oLY with

STEVE MILLER'S DELIVERY

IAN ANDERSON MIKE COOPER

SERMON ROCK ISLAND

LINE Wednflday, OctoNr 1 tf

7-10.30 p .11'1, Tickeh J. /. At the door 51•

CROWN HOTEL MARLOW

MONDAY, 29th SEPTIMBER

CHICKEN SHACK

Mt-LOfJY MAKER, Stpttmbrr 2'1, 1909--Page J.7

EVOLUTION RECORDS present the

EXCITING SOUNDS RAW

MATERIAL make on

TIME & ILLUSION Evolution E2441

Released Sept. 1 9th

All communications: B. & J. Management

(01 -580 4821)

This is one you must not miss -The appearance of the fabulous

CO LOU RED RAISINS at the

WHISKY A'GO GO SEPTEMBER 29

QUINTESSENCE any questions

ISLAND ARTISTS (01) 229 1 229

FIRST GERMAN BLUES FESTIVAL KONRAD MALLISON

IN CONJUNCTION WITH

PLANNED ENTERTAINMENTS PRESENT THE ESSEN PO P AND BLUES

AT THE GRUGA - HALLE - ESSEN - W. GERMANY Thursday, 9th October, 1969 7 p. m. ti ll 3 o.m.

FLEETWOOD MAC PRETTY THINGS • SPOOKY TOOTH • YES

KEEF HARTLEY • WARM DUST • FREE • HARD MEAT

Friday, 10th October, 1969 7 p.m. till 3 o.m.

MUDDY WATERS • ALEXIS KORNER CHAMPION JACK DUPREE

AYNSLEY DUNBAR RETALIATION • TASTE KEEF HARTLEY

STEAM HAMMER • HARDIN AND YORK • AMON DUUL 11

Saturday, 11th October, 1969 6 p .m. ti ll 3 o .m.

NICE • PINK FLOYD • DEEP PURPLE AYNSLEY DUNBAR RETALIATION•TASTE

KEEF HARTllY HARDIN AND YORK • AMON DUUL 11 • CUBY'S BLUES BAND

LIVIN' BLUES • BRAIN BOX

Tickets 30/- per day or 70/- for all three days

For odvance tickets send stamped addreued envelope and P.O. te PLANNED ENTERTAINMENTS, 541-560 Hl9h Rood, Chlowlck, W .4

Phone 01-H4 3526n

P:a&;\" 2tl-MFl UO Y MAKER, Stptembet 27, 1969

MARQUEE-MARTIN Watch this space for further announcements following the conclusion of our successful summer season of 'MIDNIGHT COURT' shows at the lyceum.

41 Wardour Street, London, W.1. 01-734 7464

THERE 'S SHADES O f BLUE, SHADES Of BROWN, SHADES Of MIDNIGHT AND BLOODY SHADES Of EVERYTHING, BUT THERE IS ONLY

ONE

SHADES HARD ROCK AND BLUES BAND

Mono(lemen t: Rosalie Ho milto n, C.M. ENTERPRISES 97 (We yb,;dgo) 4 8600/ 46873

Agent: Johnny Jdnes. LONDON CITY AGENCY 01 -836 3831

GUILDFO RD CIVIC HALL

KEEF HARTLEY plus

TRAIN & THE BREW SATURDAY, 27th SfPTEMIER, 8 - 11.45 p .m.

BooK/NG S :- 0 1.4-37. 3493

The Polytechnic Enis. Committee presents intro to session 69-70

BRIA.N AUGER TRIN ITY

GYPSY Saturday, 27th Se pt., The Polytechnic, Little Titc hfleld St.

London, W.1 (O xford Circus tube) 7.30-11 _J O. Licensed Bar. D.J.: Pat Boland Adm ission 1 Q/ ., Information-Phone 580 5903

CHISWICK POLY PRESENTS -

PRETTY THINGS JODY GRIND

GROUNDHOGS FRIDAY, O CTOBER 3rd

of

· RICHM OND ATHLETIC CLUB 7 .30 -11.30 p. m.

Tickets 10/-. At th e door 12/6

Enquiri es: 994 6602, Ext. 32

FA Rx Tkl NOltkCOTI AIMS, NOUNCOft AVINUl Off SOUTHALL HOADWA'f IUII.IIIDOI IOAD) IOUTNAU, MIODLHIII, lllflSN IAll, IOUTNAU IUSU, ::i:n, 120 to1, IOJ 011U

SUNDAY, SEPT. 28th, 7.30 p.m.

BLOSSOM TOES Plus JADE

MUSIC EVERY NIGHT and Sunday Lunchtime, 12-2 pm.

THE KENSINGTON THE TALLY HO! 11:USSHl GARDEN~ HOllANO ROAD ~ORTESS ll()AO KENTISH iOWN

1(fNSINCt0N WU NW 5 8,m,, 27 73 JI , 9 [Olrmp,a) Buse, 63, 1 34, 137, 214 a,

DAVI SHEPHERD QUARID UAN AU.I.I

... ., N .... jV,bnJ .. ""1' ••ctiw••n (lo" L J....._y lkhwokM (Dn,..,,j

" · ,.., •• lfDWOODJAZZBAND .......,_ • ·11 •· JOHN Will ai11 Niu1 GOOoiiMi BAND s........., .. -et,,.1-10.ll)11,,..

FAT JOHN COX wnH oum SINGm s

•~'"'rotttiWIWAMS TRIO , .. ., '" ,.,..

ROGER WEIB TRIO ...... w.i.. lf',or,ot l(-n7 ..... 4od, 11o .. 1. Nt ._.,._ co,,., .. l, Dun•n .......... rr-, '4""-·"

W.,j JUDD l'ltOC'fott (Gvi1arJ HIAH UM.ON (ri-1, ICt,..Y NAl"Pfl. I .. .,}. l'tlL KAMIN !°'""''~ TOMM'f ~lTTU

K~nt,1h Town T b Stat,

BRIAN GREEN NEW ORLEANS STOMP£RS

FridoyfSaturdoy, 1-11 pm HIAN LEMON !Piono)

JOHNNY l lCHAl:DSON (On.,11•11} COLIN IIUH OOK (Elem)

!:i~!.i~~'.;;, ~\~ ~ mp.m.

TALLY HO! BIG BAND Mondciy, 8· 11 pm •

DAVE SHEPHERD """~' IIIAN LlMON "" tDr,o

JONNN'f ltcNAIIUSOH "" Dtvt,,1 lundoy, 8·11 pm

DENNY OGDEN ocm W.,dnewfop, 8 11 p.m

AWi lfTllfJOHN/ TONY MIUJN!R SlPID

Management: Bob Kerr 0 1-789 5804

Agency: Nems Enterprises 0 1-629 6341

OPEN EVERY NIGHT

WHISKY A' GO GO ES

Th,..o,, RUBY JAMES AND Soptombo,

25' " THE SOUND TREKKERS

~:~~~:~r 2 7lh SURPRISE ~~~~~ber 281h GLASS MENAGERIE

I ~~~~~"'' 30,h SPLINTER I 1-Jii,ii1,'ll>--f'0ll"'l!i!I IL 33-37 WARDOUR STREET, W.1 01-437 7676 .J

BOOKHAM CENTRE, SURREY

Oct . WED. h t

Oct . SAT. -4th

Od. SAT. 11th

EQUALS SKATAUTES PAT KELLY+ RUBY JAMES

0d SAT. 1 "" NOEL AND THE FIREBALLS °'' SAT . 751h INTER-STATE ROAD SHOW

IMPLOSION AT THE

ROUNDHOUSE Chalk Farm Road, N.W.1

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th 3.30-11.30 Admission 7 /6

DEEP PURPLE AUDIENCE

CHICAGO CLIMAX BLUES BAND KELLY JAMES • CAST

JEFF DEXTER lights by EXPLOSIVE SPECTRUM

NIW fllAIIAOI. WAL.TON ST.

jf3L\3l~l\_~ AYLESBURY FREE MONDAY

SEPT. 29th ANDY DUNKLEY, OPTIC NERVE UNITED FROG NICE PEOPU

M.Aoic IS AFOOT

PAVEMENT Sol, Monogu11nt: SATR IL MANAGEMENT, Henry Hadawav 4 GERRARD STR EET, W.1. TEL 437 289 8, 734 9§97

EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT

COLIN SYMONS BAND

b prt1,nlotlon: IVOl Cllf fOI D 01-6111040

TANGERINE AGENCY

re preW!nting

RAY_KING SOOLBAND

~ L.U B , ....... o n11n, l'AD01NGTON. W.2

TU.. l'AD 5274

Monc:lay• 'Rlundoy

COUNT SUCKLE SOUND SYSTEM

WITH IAND

THE COLOURED RAISINS BAND

Soturtlo y, S•pr.mber 27tti

FREDDY NOSE & THE RUDDIES BAND ···························

THE EXIT BAND Club open 7 night, o wffl,;

l : : ::'.:~: ~~~::: :::· ~-~'.~'.~.-: Lodi••• frN night Tu&1. , Thurs. & Sun

Gent'• h-H ni11h1 Wed

llc•ru.d Im

SIR PERCY QUINTET (Pye i,cordlng ArtiJtHI; S,pt,mb,, Th un., 2 5 th 8.R.C., STAFFORD Fri . 26th STEERIN G WHEEl,

' WEY MOUTH 27th ALE X DI SCO ,

SALISBURY 2 8th L YNOO N SPORTING

CLU8, BOURNEMOUTH 29th RECORDING JIMMY

YOUNG SHOW U .C JOtn DAY Off

ht IOOKHAM Y.C.

THE GOLDEN STAR CLUB 46 WESTBOURNE ROAD off Mackenzie Rood, N.7

Tel: 607 6573 Saturday, 27th S.pt•mber

A Dyna mic Group

67 PARK LANE Coming A,tr<Ktlon from U.:li.A

Sat1,1rda y, 18th Octokr

THE PLATTERS

Plus Si r Washington

LANGSTON HOTll, IIINGHAM, 0XON. KINGHAM 209

8- 1 3 (1 a m . DRIN K TILL LATE Dnnks at pub pr1cas Snacks or f ull meals

Great Nightclub Atmotphera

Friday. ::.eptember 261h

APRIL Saturday, September 2 7"1

HEAT WAVE , I very Svtwl.y , 1-Mldnlflht . 0.,lnk

tlll ma.'9ht. AllrnlMlon tr-. l'op Porty Nigh t w,th _tht l onc:h ROOffl Ohc;o Show, plu, D J. Comp No. 1. Op., lo all. Colh , , im,

Every Thursday night: The I lg L Diaco Show. I to midnight. Drink to m 1nlg ht. Admlulon Free

IMPERIAL COLLEGE S.W.7

.t.UTUMH Tll:M

Oct. 4 811:I A"'AIINT Od. 11 PAT MATIIUS Oct. 11 S.t.M.vt\l l'IU

MIUON'$ J11NGW Ord. 2.5 l>Ull:ACI Na,,,. I JUNOIS IYIS

"""'• I ll0SSOMTOl1 No-,, 1 S IDOAI N OIJOKTON IA.IC> ....... 2l N kll'U IDW.UDS MAGIC ....... ....... ,, 09'l'\IRl'U

AITISTIS I OOl(tO TMlO UOH NIMS INTH,tJUS llD.

0 1-4.2'U41

, ••••••••••••••••••••••• • • • ••• • •••••• , Oct. WED, 29th MAX ROMEO • All SAINTS' HALL Pow;, Gdn,., W.1 1 (Nott. H;II tube) : 1-~S'.'.:ol:.o::loo:.::::_k.:_ln:::9':..' -,H- l..:l:.:l'::'D°:l'::U:-S -:_=COMP::::::,.:--:H::Y---:.::,;;:G-;;9::466~ 1 ----- -----1

I STRA y + EG! I JOHNNY HOWARD

THE MOHAWKS WISHFUL

THINKING (br000<a1h ond o...,_ 11

LUCAS and the MIIIE COTTON SOUND

I.T.Y.S. =• lights by MIDWINTER EYE + tound , ~ "l .. •••· :. BAND .,

~ " LAURA LEE • DANNY STRffl • TONY STIVl", : FRIDAY, 26th September 7.30 p.m. ; ...,, ,,..,,,.,,.. __ , __ ._,., ~ ... ,.,. ·•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• IL-..:::.:i:~::.:::::;=;;;:.===-....,-----

LIGHT SHOW ' Dl -722 4774

ONYX (b,oodc:a,11 ond o ... •-•)

THUUN RAW MATERIAL 74..___,w_,

1011935 4M41i, .. ·-All enq11lriel ---

Thu,. • S.S,t. 2S Sf'fA(!ASY Ft. ., Sap, l6 SHlfflf,lD TO, 11:AN IC Sun., S., 21 SOUTHAW,TON

CONCOROE ClUI

~: =.·:1 lfCotolNO

Q-44 .............. , '-'- .. ' MA.,...., 14 le

CLUBS •••••••••••••••• it Thursdty. September 25th +.:

-fl 7 30 p m 10 m,dri.ght +,: iC 1111 Nii.'• GeotttlnM Nl9ht with it

! Bill NILE'S t ! GOODTIME MUSIC t ! Aoo"E CU~E;AN~THE i ! WURZELS t •••••••••••••••• Fnclioy Sep1ember 26th

7 30 p m to m1dr11gh1

YARRA YARRA JAZZBAND

wltt. lUCILLI NIWCOMal

THE JAZZ DISOPlES ••••••••••••••••

it Sarurd•'f Sep1ember 2 71h + t l..,_ Night b:tnl :

,+c 7.30 P•"'• to 1 • ·"'· it

t TERRY LIGHTFOOT'S t ! JAZZMEN t it ANO -tc:

l< THE NEW ERA l<

! JAZZBAND t .................. Sunday Sep1ember 2 8 th

KEN COL YER'S JAZZMEN

FLAMINGO AT 33.37 WARDOUR STREFT , W.1.

*************** FRI. , SEPT . 26, 9 p m . • IS a,m . FRIDAYS All-N ITER SETS ARE NOW A " MU ST FOR ALL R & B ANO SOUL FANS - COME ANO HEAR THE E X C I T I N G SOUL

SOUNDS OF

PEPPERS MACHINE

*************** SAT , SEPT 27, 8 pm .5 em

ANOTHER GREliT DOUBLE EVENT

FOR A NEW AND EXCITING SOUL SOUND- YOU MU ST HEAR

DICTIONARY OF SOUL ANO APPEARING ON THE LATE

SHOW - FOR ACTION-PAC KED SOUL

JOYCE BOND REVUE

IT"S AN ALL-NIGHT SESS ION FOR SOUL FANS DON 'T MISS THI S

SHOW!

*************** 'fo'W.G H~CTis

1'o~scf:ma~-?O /o~i ROCKET WILL 8 £ YOUR HOST AND WILL SPIN YOUR KIND OF RECORDS . COME AND DANCE TO

TONI ROCKET DISCTET REMEMBER . , • GIRLS ARE

ADMITTED FREE TONIGHT

*************** THURS D AY

¥Jtf.Jf.¥.,,..1tf.¥¥¥Jf-.Jl.¥¥¥¥¥:it BREWERY TAP, WALTHAM• ,ti: Monday September 29th STOW, Th<' Orll('lna l E ast Sidt' t THE MIKE WESTBROOK! Slom p,,,., --

! BAND t CR~~~:~'::~i. ~~:T~OAD,

••••• ................ , SWAWRB Tuesd..,. Sep1.,nbe r 30th f,.r~:;i'i MLJ\~ti< and F'ouJ. Oct 2:

l'OP, S"CIA.L

EAST OF EDEN Wednesday Oc1ober 1st

KEN COLVER'S JAZZMEN NUY UCtNSlO IAlle.,,i llUtAUllA"'1' llU>UC.ID UtU fOa HUOINT MIMMH

•••u•io•,.,, ....,c.,.i-,1-.o s.c,_, l llO O..lOOO, t.nl"" .. ' WI

Cho~ h i•~ ... ,.. N••• MUS.."'" 09lJ

= =====-/

THREE TUNS, Bcckenham LOUIS STEWART with DAYE QUINCY Quartel . Nol Thursday Alan Skldmort• Quinte t •

'' WHITT~ TERRY LICiHTFooT.

FRIDAY

Pinner

ALL STAll:S, Lord Napll'r Tho.rn1on Heath , al so Sunday Lun c:hllml' Frl'l'

AUTHENTIC BLUES Robuc:k , 1081 Tottenh am Ct . Rd .

SATURDAY con t. THE DOLPHIN , MAIDENHEAD

TUBBY HAYES QRT.

THE ORIGINAL EAST SIDE STOMPERS , Ware

H~~FTS , FOLKESTOHE. Grace

MAX ROMEO

SUNDAY

llo~:]~LEY ' KENT. Black Prince

DAVE AMBOY BIG BAND

Th~~~~o~R.~~~:.•L;r·l~~rd Napll'r.

BOTTLE~ES CLUB Rollw ay T ovcrn, Angel Lane, E.u•

ALEXANDER PATTON PLUS PALE GREEN LIMOUSINE

COOKS, CHINGFORD ROYAL FOREST HOTEL

SOml' say lt'lli a marrlag<' bureau MONTY SUNSHINE JAZZ BAND

CRYSTALPALAcE Ancrl ey 11111, SEU

EQUALS

HOTEL,

DENNIS FIELD, Lunchllme Grel'n Man , Plumstead '

GREYHOUND, REDHILL BRICHTON ROAD. FROM I EVAN PARKER TRIO

WITH TONY OXLEY

GROOVES VILLE WAKE ARMS EPPING {All),

ESSEX

BAKERLOO TWO BARS, MEMBERS 6s,

Nc,x l SundRY. Allgh1 y B 11by

NEW LOUISIANA Jan.men, 1-"lghllng Cocks, Klngiaon

THE BARLEY MOW, llotsefc rry Road. WI STAN ARNOLD AND FRAK TAYLOR .

GASWORKS AND TRADITIONAL TERRY AND

ALAN 7.30. Come en rly '''

THE IIULL, E'ai l Sheen ORIGINAL DRIFTERS

MONDAY

MONDAY cont. THE ORIGINAL EAST SIDE

STOMPERS, Gref'n Nan High Road , L('yton<1tone

THE VILLAGE of \he D amned Blues Club, A uror .i Ballroom. Br ompton, G1ll1n1ham Ke-nt . Llct n sed bar

AYNSLEY DUNBAR

TUESDAY

Ki~~~• i~ad~11-~~lh!~d::1r~~<'dw~~ln,

BLUE ANCHOR, South End . CROYDON . CHEZ CHESTERMAN JAZZ• AND wllh gUt'lil MONTY SUNSHINE.

BOB KERR'S

WHOOPEE BAND HALF MOON

LOWER RICHMOND ROAD PUTNEY, SW15

'' GEOlltGE," MORDEN: WELSH

100 CLUB 1-00 O:irford 51 , WI

EAST OF EDEN

W EO N ESDA Y

BLACK BOTTON STOMPEA.S Greenman , 81:ickholh '

DERBY ARMS, Ea ~t Sheen 5W l4 . Nudeus Jan Bnnd , Dl::cle: ln nd , Trad .

LONDON JAZZ CENTRE SOCIETY pre"lcnl1

FRANK RICOTTI QUARTET Goat I nn , Sopwc\J Lane, St Alban ..:

THE JAZZ BARN, New Old lil'ld Tavern, 1089 Gr l'Cnford Ro 11 d . Greenford , Middlesex

1066 .JAZZ MEN

TOBY JUG, Tolwor lh . Surrey. BLODWYN PIG

TRANSPORT 1/4 per word

_ c~~A~3~IRANSPORT. 2-4 hours.

ROADIES, COOD, c:heap - Ol·SSO 0%18

TlltANllT.S AND IIOADlllS . Marl." Newton 994 35'2e.

VAN PLUS Roadi e 7'27 7778 'H TRANSIT. BO<"injj: Sf'atS, 2

hN1 tcr,; Rad ia ls, soundproofed , £650 on o - EN F 2103

FOR HIIE J/-Pff ....,.d

EQUIPMENT FO• HIRE ~ IU,t-r HARPSICHORD HlllE

'<il7 Tit£ • E.ST M~BILE DtS•

COTHEQUE EQUIPMENT f1, r (Pn: or pu r ch.J .. I:' lrnm NEWHAM AUD IO. - SJ4•4'.lM

100 WATT sf.it\.~ ,1.-.d PA. ;n~

FOR SALE I/ • pGr word

COMPLETE DI SCOTHEQUE. 2:if wall amp 2 Fane and Ckldman 181n 1pra~r5. t G~nrd lurn· 11blH. pre,;amp and mlll:r [ ?!it cuh - 01 ·300 5511

PORTABLE DISCOTHEQUE. Complrte nc•· i.s ••It ~:,,.tem. C11rr• rd deck~. ml:ur ;aaip. t-olumn~ Sl .!S - SJf m7

CARS FOR SALE 1/ · per word

LOTUS ELAM, 19'1, F .H coupE.. Lotus yellow wllh black , bal.J.n<:ed enitn e by Brabham!!. 5pe,ct.a l

~:ks;,do~~ r:,ti!efs~ar~:;. 5r.~ 11 ,095 - Phone sos O&H .a ny• l lml'

STUDIO Sl KEN COL YH CWI

10/11 GT. NlWl"OIT STIEn NlAII UICUTlll SQUAii(

w ...... ,,.. s..,1. 27t+., 7 ..)0 ... ....

ZEUS Hea r IJrJ\aln 'j!; l eading Ch 1c:ago Blu u Band .

AT PLOUGH STOCKWELL, SW9

JIMMY COLLINS i.---F_O_R_H-IR_E ____ 1

QUARTET 17 / 35-,wt, Van, and

BARRY MARTYN BAND

JO-ANN KIUY 8llfTT MARVIN'S THUNDERBOITS

NIGHTIIAWKS

THAMES HOTEL Hampton Ca11rt, Middlt1••

Sati,nlay, Sept•mlMr 27th

ERIC SILK'S SOUTHERNJAZZBAND Sundoy, S•p .. mNlf' 21th

LEN BALDWIN & THE DAUPHIN STREET SIX

WOOD GREEN 1'10';.";:;.f; •.•

SUftdo r,

TERRY IIGHTTOOT'S JAZZMEN II T11• 1llay1

AYNSlEYDUNBAR RETAUATIONII pl1,1, OAS MAU..n

BLACK BOTTOM STOMPEJtS, Grooveslllt' , Eppint,:

BLUES LOFT N:lg's Head , lllgh Wycomb

JUNIORS EYES BURY ST EDMUNDS

COLIN SYMONS BAND

FISHMONGER'S A'RMS, Htgh Rc,:i d , Wood G ree n , N22

CHRIS BROOKS + 808 LICKYER. D.J . JERRY FLOYD.

GROOVES VILLE WAKE ARMS , EPPING, (A.11) , ESSEX

BLACK BOTTOM ! STOMPERS !

TWO BARS, ADM bs . N1•xt FrldJy , Ch rl h B arber

N<'~o~~J'li~ ld J~!~l ' r ~~'[ ls9 FG~~!~. urd R11 11 d , C.rt>enfurd , Middlei.ex .

OSTERLEY JAZZ CLUB , Qsl(•r· l ey Ru g: l>y Club P1w 1Hon , Ten t, .. to" Lani.' . Norwood Grl.'cn . Sou • !hall · HUMPHREY LYTTELTON BAND Nt·XI wc,•k, K en Col yer!

BEXLEY, KENT . Black Prlncl' Hot el . All'X Wl'I .S h

BlllD CUlltTIS QUINTET, SUSSEX UNIYEll:SITY.

BLUESCENE, KINGS HEAD, Fulham Brnadw11y (Nr, Tube )

JO-ANN KELLY BRETT MARVIN'S

Thu nderbolts NIGHTHAWKS

COLCHESTER RECREATION Hotel

NICK STRUTT & ROGER KNOWLES

COOKS FERRY INN ANCEL ROAD, Edmonton

SOFT MACHINE SOFT MACHINE

12 / l 5-seater Bu ses

All new Transits

242 0496

FREEDOM TRANSPORT ALL GROUP WORK

UNDERTAKEN INCLUDING TOURS HERE & ABROAD

. + a fast , efficient and cheap

ve hicle repair service

Ph;I , WS.257•3 John: 889 3962 UTOPIA IS HERE

LIGHT SHOWS

UOHT SHOW AT 10TH SlSSIONS ROYAL OAK M J !'.I Club , _ Tnnl<'Y Sired, 5£ 1 PHIL

SEAMEN , DIZZY REECE, TERRY SHANNON , REC PETTIT.

t>Gwnstairs: Until Od. 4th

GRAHAM COWER SEl<Tn Bluec:oat Hall

Thursd•y. Oc1ober 2 7 JO

Ticlr.ets by phone or ,n pa,.on.

Siu.coat Arts Forum. 41 BluflCOI I ChalT\bars 061 •709 24 79

l;;vul'I I KI '-LUU 210a HAYllSTOCK HILL , N .W .J

Sunday, S..,~r 21Srh

EDGAR BROUGHTON

BAND pl111 CHACIOUS

Nut S11ndcr,o ZOOT MONEY

~.d ........ c.u i,, .....

D.J , l•IY"-Ol'D 141• ~ - n,. lad""" C• •tlfO •*

ROY HARPER And his fri end:. Ron Geesin , R alpll McTcll will pll y lhelr m i nds fo r yuu Pu rc~II room . Royal Fl'st lval 111111 f'rlday and Sl\lurda)' 28 and 27 ,

SATURDAY DELlltOD TRIO, Lord Napier,

Thornlnn He3th . F'rec

DUNMOW, ESSEX

COLIN SYMONS BAND

FREAKEASY

GARY BURTON QRT. plus the following guests -

Thut1 . 15th a11AN AUOH TRINITY Fri, 76th CHRIS IAIUl Sol . 77th Ooukol Guitarist Mon.. :19rfi KIITH TIPPITT

JOHN WIUIAMS Wed . ht TUIIY HAYES Tue1 • .»Ii INDO-JAZZ FUSION IIG IAND ThurL '2nd NATIONAL YOUTH JAll Fri , Jrd IAY WARLEIOH

ORCHISHA QUAlllffl Sot . Alh RONNIE scon IAND

uwom, Open •vary n.ht, I 30 till 3 11 m

,,_ """·"• TONY OXLEY QUlfTR •"'• ~ ... , ......,, ...., """""" · ,,_ s. 29• LONDOl'I JAZZ F IJR

Comm e ncing Oc tobe r 6th, fo r 3 wE-ek,

CLARKE-BOLAND BIG BAND and SALENA JO ES

f i1hmonger' 1 Arm,

Wood GrHn CALIFORNIA BALLROOM

::-.: .... - MARSHA HUNT Wl\lpo,.otl • lo• tl Ovnot• ble •llO<I

SATUCI DAY StPTIMMI 17th

DESMOND DEKKER iu., • .,. n.o,.. Plus SKI~ :::-~ ~ ~~r 1tG ,..i 1

Nll•t -":1 .,_k •-..-

A N D nu ACf5

(H i t a .,uwd ITMEC) C•- ,~,k ~wp,~rt,ng C.• • w ... IY< •• '"

N•llt w-• k t 10,..11 IOSS

SUNDAY, SlPT. 21th

TOMMY WHITTLE wtth the

ED FAULnESs TRIO

BULL'S HEAD 8A"- •• l \ 6Q 1DG ! Pt;: n '>}~

·•M4-•I Trie TONY W TONY MANN

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TONY LD Ta.lo l-',. LOUIS STIWAH "-' . s..,, 'lltll

Li,r,U\I .... . f-, ....

TONY LR TRIO NII ICNG &

DUNCAN LAMONT ~ . -1'th TUBBY HAYES

QUARTO t-.. ..,. lllth IOe llMNI w•~ 0a ht DA,_.1" MOIi n...,~ a. 1o,1 LOUIS ITIWAI.T

DAVE GOLDBERG MEMORIAL

The ken1inglon

Russ.II Gardens

Manday, 13th October

Fellow 1011:-n po, fribu,. l'o - of ~r _,, ,.~ ..,.lllbe,w,

Don' t YOU ITliu one of th• grwolNI •lor- ,h1dd•d nl ghh of 11111 . Gal yo11r lid1at now-ond w11tch 1h11 1poc• to ._ •h• will t.. ~ lul,11,- Hey ... Plill S..111•11, ..... t..--.a.....lwh.•-• ---

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ATOMIC ROOSTER + HARD MEAT ,..., Se.pt»h ...... s. .

FAMOUS JUG BAND +MIKE CHAPMAN

W.:' ... ~ Oct lt1 A,d,,, S.

EDGAR BROUGHTON

COUNTRY QUI ,0,-ia le ..... ,_,"'1 .. NWJ

DISCOTHEQUE Ivery Satvrclay Nieht

KLOOKS K LEEK ~ .. ,., '• .. 0 t ... , \, ... ... •• , ... , ....... , \If, -. ~ .......,,...,..,.._Hell ---JUNIORS EYES -- -·-"""' _..

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GUITARS

fender Shotocoster £119 ' Vox Bon IV £72 Vox Ian £35 Gretsch El ectromatic - £75 Harmony Bass . £59 Groh<h Count,y Club £216 Hofner Verithin Bass £35 Burns Prototype... . £59 Guild Starftre.... .... £85 GuHd XS0B . £80 Ormston Guitor.. £45 Kay Red Devil .. £55 framus Elec.tric.... .. £69 Hafner Congress.. £26 Moton Electric £79 Grehth Bass ........ £95 Harmony H.75 ... £65 Richnbodcu £19

AMPS Gibson Invader £.4S Fenton Weill Boss £29 Supra 30-wott £49 Pair of Vox 20-wott P.A. Columns £40

Burns Double 8 80w £63 Pair Wem Columns £149 Fender Telecasten

from ............. £69 framus 12-strinp .. £86 Arbiter 40+ Amp .... £39 Impact Reverb Mixer £78 Marshall Lead 100.. £79 Selmer 1 OOw P.A .... £19 Selmer Zodiac: 50 ... £49 Sound City 4x12 Cab £69 Marshall 4x12 Cob £69 Selmer Treble 'n'

Bass 50 . ... .... £49 Sound City P.A. 100 £89

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INSTRUMENTS WANTED 1/- per word

A FENDER, Gibson J:U illlr, k•,1d / bibs urgent!~ required Jur cu1h -1'op Ce:nr. 01·240 :UHi

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the fantastic Ventures . One is fully aware that instru mentals do not strike gold with the greater majority or the record buying public but these boys sell albums in phenomenal quantities all over the world.

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Statistics prove that the Ventures have sold more than 20 million of their recordings in Japan alone and at one time had five albums in the American charts at one time. KEITH GLEESON, London, W5.

ROBERT PATERSON presents

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AFTER reading all the criticisms of Blind Faith I was expecting to hear an album dominated by S t e v i e Winwood. But I listened and found all the tracks w be absorbing, interesting and a bril liant combined effort.

BRILLIANT EFFORT FROM BLIND FAITH

To say Clapton is ove rshadowed is rubbish. Ginger Baker is as go-od as ever, Stevie Winwood is a much improved performer and Rick Grech is a real prospect . - IAN CLARKSON, Menston. AT A TIME when the musical barriers between differing forms o f mus ic are at last crumbling why is there so much bias against W est Indian and Jamaican music?

Surely the o nl y answer is hypocritical narrow mindedness. Readers and writers of Melody Maker should make an effort to Jive and let live with this type of music. After all everybody is entitl ed to t heir own taste. - ASHMORE MAC· LOUD, London , N14.

I WA NT to thank you for a very good article on Ray Charl es (MM September 13). An artist like that is worth publicising; so many other magazines have ig• nored him in the past few

k:';:t;;;;~~~k~ti~. WELL,

EVERYBODY is entitl ed to follow and listen to the music they apprec iate but

W rite to MelDdy Maker, 161 Fleet Street, E.C.4, You could win your favourite album.

is it not time the BBC woke up to their responsibilities to encourage not only teenyboppers to listen to Radio One but those who want progressive music as we~l?

Possibly they could find time to allocate more than a couple of hours a week to these listeners. K. 0' CONNOR, Grantham, Lines.

CREAM's records were a gas and Blind Faith's album knocks me out but I'd give them all away to see Clapton back w ith John Mayall agai n. - ROBERT Baldwin, Heston, Mlddlx .

WILL WE ever see the day when big transfer rees come to the pop world?

For example: " Eric Clap• ton bought by the Love Affair fo r £150,000." Or " Clapton will be flt to play on Saturday after having

the"peut ic treatment on sprained wrist." - MUNRO TEAL£. Southport. Lanes.

IF ' ' SHANGRI LA" is a typical track from the. Kinks "Arthur " album. what an album it is going to be. This is Ray Davies writing at his best -MICK STANCZEWKKJ, London, NS.

THE LYCEUM's Midnight Court reall y was some scene, second only to the Roundhouse. It's a pity it has lo end, let's hope someone else comes up with something equally good. - DAVID LUMB, Cleelhorpes, Lines.

SURELY no list or Ronnie Scott's classic jokes can omit: "You don't ha ve to go home, you just have to get out of here." ADRIAN LOVE, BBC World Sel'Vlce.

Let's have rock and roll classics

WITH the demise or the EP singles costing a" 6d and albur:n production now exceedmg lhat of singles surely the time has com~ for record companies to try

;;o~ s~h: }~~e s;;t\~~ ~~~~ At lantic counterpart th1t of harblJ\8er or the LI'.

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to revive the fortunt::11 of the ailing 45. Rally round record companies, let's have a fair dN.I and save the British iiogJe. - S. C. COLL INS I Huntin&don. Chester. TALKmG OF "super· groups " and "superstars;· what about the legendary John Coltrane Quartet -DAVID JAMES, Abedore, Glam. ISN'T it time that the great American singer Nell Diamond had a smash hlt in

Britain? H•·• afwa,w • • Affl.-ica• dlartll bit( seems to make Jt oYtt h«r

Su rely his f1nta.stk ntvt record " Sweet Caroll"• mull make t he Bntb:h chart.Al in a bi1 way? - NEIL GROOM, NorUiwk:h. ChakJre.

THE MONKEES music hu become much much Mttu ye1 now they an: prodoc:in1 tuch wonderful records we nnrr bear them Come on RCA release the new Mor,kee mu1ic .90 people w.dl bear what they've ~ missin& -S HARON EMERY. Warriq ton, La.ncs.

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