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Post by MartinT on Jun 30, 2016 19:53:09 GMT
Yes, I certainly did - I grew up with Camberwick Green. Thanks for the childhood memories, Gordon.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 22, 2016 22:10:37 GMT
Belgian harmonica player Toots Thielemans has passed away aged 94. Toots was one of the best and most respected harmonica players in the world. He played with Benny Goodman on a European tour in 1950 before moving to the US, where he teamed up with artists such as Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Later he played on the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack, and played with Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Michael Jackson among a host of others, but more importantly he played the harmonica solos on the first Sesame Street album. Grauniad Obit
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 22, 2016 22:46:29 GMT
I heard a piece about him on the radio this evening. Some of his playing was quite different to anything I have ever heard and he had an ability to make a humble harmonica sound extremely sophisticated. A very accomplished guitarist too.
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Post by Slinger on Aug 23, 2016 21:53:23 GMT
A mate just emailed me with the sad news that Gilli Smyth (a.k.a. Shakti Yoni) joint founding member of the band Gong has passed away at the age of 83. Obit
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 23, 2016 22:05:37 GMT
Oh, that's bad. It seems like only yesterday that I was reading her thoughts when Daevid Allen died.
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Post by katos on Aug 24, 2016 6:31:32 GMT
Sad. Listening "Mother" 1978. Once saw her and mostly all Gong members on Dublin gig.
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 26, 2016 13:50:40 GMT
Rudy van Gelder, recording engineer, a legend in the jazz world, but with accomplishments going way beyond that. He died yesterday. Blue Note Records published an obituary: We're deeply saddened by the loss of another Blue Note legend, the great recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder, who has passed away at age 91. Read The New York Times obituary.
Rudy was as vital a part of the "Blue Note Sound" as the incredible musicians he recorded, and his importance to the legacy of jazz cannot be overstated. In addition to his work with other labels, most notably Impulse! for whom he recorded classics including John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Rudy was the go-to recording engineer for Blue Note Records between 1953-1972, capturing in sterling sound the monuments of the Blue Note catalog.
Rudy first came to the attention of Blue Note founder Alfred Lion in 1952 when Rudy was still a practicing optometrist moonlighting as a recording engineer, and Alfred began using him regularly the next year. Rudy initially recorded sessions on evenings and weekends in his parent’s living room in Hackensack, New Jersey, giving each label a day of the week for their sessions. Later on, in 1959, he closed his optometry practice and built his own studio in Englewood Cliffs, a holy site of jazz music.
Blue Train, Song for My Father, The Sidewinder, Moanin’, Somethin’ Else, Back at the Chicken Shack, Midnight Blue, Speak No Evil, Maiden Voyage, he recorded them all and thousands more. Our Classic Hits playlist is a staggering collection of landmark recordings that Rudy allowed to shine bright. Our Classic Ballads playlist becomes an elegy in his honor.
Thank you Rudy, for all that you gave the world of music. Rest In Peace.
He didn't just work for Blue Note though. Prestige and Savoy records also used him but in the 1950s he did classical music engineering and mastering work for Vox Records - look out for RVG in the dead wax. There's a great, interesting and lengthy essay about him here: "Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack: Defining the Jazz Sound in the 1950s" jazzstudiesonline.org/files/jso/resources/pdf/RudyVanGelder.pdf
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 10:44:45 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Aug 29, 2016 10:47:57 GMT
That's pretty poor. However, he's not there any more. He's gone forever, living only in our memories.
I shall play some ELP today now that you've mentioned him.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 10:50:51 GMT
I dont generally get upset when others pass away, But that really hit me when Emmo went. Probably cos i idolised him since being a Teenager.
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 29, 2016 12:38:05 GMT
Born in Todmorden, died in Santa Monica. Why was he buried in Lancing/Sompting, West Sussex, I wonder?
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 29, 2016 13:10:44 GMT
Keith's family came from West Sussex. He was born in Yorkshire because his family were evacuated there during the war.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 13:30:06 GMT
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 29, 2016 13:32:22 GMT
Ah yes, right you are - Goring and West Tarring. I know them well!
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Post by Slinger on Aug 29, 2016 23:41:24 GMT
I'm sorry to say that Willy Wonka, Jim (a.k.a. The Waco Kid) Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronkensteen.") and many more passed away today, aged 83. Variety Obit
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 29, 2016 23:44:00 GMT
The most overt over-actor in the history of cinema, but we loved him for it! Sad news.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Aug 30, 2016 21:22:25 GMT
Really sad news. Made worse hearing he had Alzheimer's. He did look frail in the last interview I saw of him some years ago.
Can't think of a bad film he made.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Oct 2, 2016 14:12:11 GMT
Neville Mariner, conductor and violinist passes away at 92
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Post by Slinger on Oct 2, 2016 14:28:47 GMT
R.I.P. Sir Neville. I imagine that anyone who appreciates classical music must own at least one of his recordings with The Academy... Gramophone Obit
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Post by MartinT on Oct 2, 2016 16:13:37 GMT
Neville Mariner, conductor and violinist passes away at 92 Oh, that's sad. His Four Seasons on Argo was my very first classical purchase. He brought a lot to the classical world.
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