tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post276295780333196800..comments2023-11-05T07:37:16.624+00:00Comments on The Drayton Bird Blog: Good advice, good food - and a little light musicDrayton Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871107998046212949noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-40005491879526626542008-12-01T17:24:00.000+00:002008-12-01T17:24:00.000+00:00Doesn't get any better than that for me.Just to ha...Doesn't get any better than that for me.<BR/><BR/>Just to have seen Miles would have been enough, but the others as well - hat's off.<BR/><BR/>Any views on Georgie Fame? Caught his session on BBC4 the other night, and he sounded on top form to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-2913130130164969482008-12-01T16:41:00.000+00:002008-12-01T16:41:00.000+00:00Ronnie Scott's band had rather terrifying verging ...Ronnie Scott's band had rather terrifying verging on royal blue mohair suits and vivid red, very narrow ties. And yes, I did see Thelonius Monk, Gillespie, Miles, Blakey and all those people.Drayton Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871107998046212949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-79172854991265558152008-12-01T16:23:00.000+00:002008-12-01T16:23:00.000+00:00That you spent an hour drinking with Tubby Hayes (...That you spent an hour drinking with Tubby Hayes (and are still here to tell the tale!) impresses me more than your marketing guru creds!!! <BR/><BR/>Seriously though, I bow to your impeccable credentials, we should mount a campaign to get the mighty Mr Hayes the recognition he deserves.<BR/><BR/>I shall consider while I am being measured for my (round) midnight blue mohair suit!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-56382964854320733492008-12-01T13:43:00.000+00:002008-12-01T13:43:00.000+00:00Ha, anonymous, try harder. You are deaing with a m...Ha, anonymous, try harder. You are deaing with a man whose first experience of modern jazz (after listening to C. Parker/D. Gillespie at 16) was seeing the Ronnie Scott Band, featuring Tony Crombie, Lenny Bush, Victor Feldman and Benny Green ... and who spent an hour drinking with Tubby Hayes in a Yorkshire pub. I still rmember him saying, "Man, every note I blow has a soul." And yes, I was down in Brighton the year the mods and rockers clashed.Drayton Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871107998046212949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-58505963641557988432008-12-01T13:13:00.000+00:002008-12-01T13:13:00.000+00:00King Pleasure and James Moody - both still tearing...King Pleasure and James Moody - both still tearing up modernist dancefloors. <BR/><BR/>Hard bop, fed into Modern Jazz via Blue Note, geniuses like Tubby Hayes etc. Ska and R&B came much later. I'm talking '58 ish here and original mods, not the parka wearing, Who loving brigade of much later. <BR/><BR/>Can't beleive, I'm arguing jazz semantics and subleties with my marketing hero, but isn't that what makes the internet great?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-4107054342136694782008-11-27T09:44:00.000+00:002008-11-27T09:44:00.000+00:00I remember almost everything from the seventies, b...I remember almost everything from the seventies, but you guys have just lost me.<BR/><BR/>Did you ever personally know a guy called T. Rex?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-89349253972439838262008-11-27T05:29:00.000+00:002008-11-27T05:29:00.000+00:00A mod? I am so old I was pre-mod. King Pleasure wa...A mod? I am so old I was pre-mod. King Pleasure was hardly to mod taste - that would be more ska; the James Moody sax solo I am talking about was bop if anything.Drayton Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871107998046212949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-27346082427251696302008-11-25T15:07:00.000+00:002008-11-25T15:07:00.000+00:00Aside from everything else, I never had you down a...Aside from everything else, I never had you down as an original mod - King Pleasure I do declare!<BR/><BR/>Just adds another reason to take what DB has to say seriously!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-73598062739828121892008-11-24T20:40:00.000+00:002008-11-24T20:40:00.000+00:00"buy a course/set of DVDs/be “mentored”/attend a s..."buy a course/set of DVDs/be “mentored”/attend a seminar etc., etc."<BR/><BR/>You're correct on all of these, of course, which is why it's good to have Genuine people like Ken come over... and get people like you to talk at his seminars.<BR/><BR/>It is difficult to figure out who the genuine articles are when there's so many about.<BR/><BR/>Maybe you should start a mentoring program. I'm sure it'd be very popular... unless people really do live in cloud cuckoo land and believe the hype out there.<BR/><BR/>I know I lived there for a while... and it wasn't nice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com