There is nothing I can write about Keith Morris and Joe Scurfield that hasn't been said more eloquently elsewhere. Click on the Schmazz at the Cluny link and the true genius of these two men, Keith in particular from a jazz point of view, will be revealed making their loss all the harder to bear. My primary contact with them was through working in Windows Music Shop serving Joe with his Pirastro Eudoxa violin strings and Keith with everything from a nose flute to a foot pedal and various other items in between. Both were gentlemen and a treat to deal with.
Today, being the third anniversary of their tragic deaths, a session was being held in their memory at the Cumberland Arms, Byker. I dropped by but such was the activity on the warmest day of the year that accessing the bar was nigh impossible so, after exchanging pleasantries with Keith's old oppo Lewis Watson, my body didn't hang around too long.
My head and my heart remained though.
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