Total Pageviews

Bebop Spoken There

Lew Shaw (Syncopated Times' columnist): "My interest [at 95] is in classic jazz. The numbers aren't what they were 40 years ago, but I'm encouraged by the number of young musicians playing that style and the young audiences they attract." - (The Syncopated Times January 2021)

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

Postage

12,365 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 12 years ago. 84 of them this year alone and, so far, 84 this month (Jan. 17).

Monday January 18

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSAN TOBOCMAN & ANDY PANAYI.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Coltrane in Glasgow

With all the current debate over Scottish devolution, it's perhaps timely that I came across this particular gem from the pages of Jazz Journal in 1962.
Following on from an extended critique of Coltrane and the "avant-garde" in the pages of JJ, reader Wellington Holliday of Glasgow weighed in with his own experience of hearing Trane and Dolphy when they toured the UK the previous autumn.
As was well-documented elsewhere in the press at the time, the tour met a mixed reception, with bemused reviews appearing in Melody Maker and Jazz News.
However, I'll wager that Coltrane wasn't expecting to be accosted at the side of the stage by a disgruntled, slightly pissed, gobby Scotsman...
Read on....
Simon Spillett.
at

No comments :

Post a comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom )

Blog archive