Wednesday 7 October 2009

MICK O'DONNELLS JAZZ SPECIAL SOUL DISCOVERY


Sunday morning saw us(Mark & Me) driving down to Cambridge to appear on Mick O'Donnells
excellent Soul Discovery Radio Show on Cambridge 209 Radio.As this is a local radio station Mick always puts the show up for download via podcast.Also appearing on the show were Mark "Snowboy" Cotgrove and Dr.Bob Jones as we all participated in a Jazz Special as a follow on to a previous Jazz Special that Mick had done with SnowBoy to promote his excellent book "From Jazz Fusion To Acid Jazz"
The idea was basically to coversome of the tunes from that U.K. Jazz Dance era covered in Snowboy's Book between the late 70's into the 80's The Music the Dance Styles and some general Jazz Chat between the 4 of us.
I have posted a link to the podcast below.
We had an eventful journey down there on the motorway acting as an extra in a remake of Stephen Spielbergs "Duel" as one of our friendly lorry drivers decided we were the target.Having negotiated that we arrived to hook up with Bob and Mick in a local eatery for some Cambridge toasty hospitality.We then headed for the radio station to do the 3 hour show and were met there by Snowboy fresh from the beginning of his late summer holiday at the UK's finest Centre Parks :-) So it was a kinda "Central Park @ Centre Parks moment :-) Bob continuing the theme on the show.Many thanks to Mick for his hospitality and the guys for making it an enjoyable experience. Hopefully some of you will enjoy listening to the podcast.


Janet Lawson " Dindi "

Thanks to Colin for inviting me to share these memories with everyone , reading Bob Jones posting of Janet Lawsons " Dindi on Facebook took me right back in time ......
in the early 80's i was with Richard Searling looking for records in a barn belonging to ex Blackpool Mecca Face - Berni Goulding . Bernie had bought the remains of Ian Levines
Record Collection and there were thousands and thousands of records all over the place . Bernie was living in a caravan while renovating a Farmhouse with 3 dogs and god knows how many cats all turning feral ..... including Bernie !!!!!! the barn was in a right mess but we found two copies of this record , Richard kept one and i took the other to a club in Manchester Colin Curtis was doing at the time called " Berlin " i gave my copy to Colin and he turned it into a monster tune ..... probably the biggest Jazz Vocal at the club and when you consider the quality of the music played at Berlin thats really saying something !!!!

Ian Gillibrand

[ Baad-Vibes , King Georges Hall Blackburn ]

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