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  • "Babanango" sax teachers in cornwall

    Viv Rodd on keys. Myself on Saxes and Flute. Bob Tinker on Trumpet and Flugel. Terry Rodd on Drums. Pete Kubryk-Townsend on Bass.

  • "Winter's Calling Song" sax teachers in cornwall

    I had to emulate a lost-sounding Alpine Horn for the intro of this one. I used the Soprano Sax. Maybe it came off, maybe it didn't. But I enjoyed trying.

  • "Gone the Rainbow" sax teachers in cornwall

    This the sort of music we wanted to sing. In this case, Folk music, with the addition of a little jazz flute. The jazz flute thing was almost incidental and did not occur often. I didn't blow flute too much in those years...But it was basically our kind of music. If we had been on the ball we would have gotten hold of the actual recordings...we had (and squandered) plenty of opportunities! In the end it was down to my mum to do the job...holding a tape recorder microphone in front of the 'speaker of her radio! How sad is that? In the early 70s we did so much radio work it was almost a joke...and all we had to do was ask the engineers for tapes and we would have had the lot. As it is....

  • "Trek of the Desert Camel" sax teachers in cornwall

    Only 2 chords in this song: A-minor and A-major. I was very impressed by Pete (bass), whose job it was to state root and fifth all the way through! The musically-astute will realise that these are the same notes in both chords!

  • "I Need You" sax teachers in cornwall

    We really could not put our hearts into these recordings. They were our agent's idea of what we should be doing to enable his bi-annual retreats to the Bahamas; he happened to own Major-Minor records!. For us they were - at best - a fun experience.

  • "Troubles of Mind" sax teachers in cornwall

    This is another of the sessions where my mother was the unpaid and unsung recording engineer.

  • "Little Sunflower" sax teachers in cornwall

    Bob Tinker held the baton for this recording, which was engineered at a jazz festival.

  • "Deep, Deep Blue" sax teachers in cornwall

    From some radio programme. This is another one recorded by my mother, using the highly technical method of holding the microphone in front of the loudspeaker! (Just in case you are wondering about the quality).

  • "Tango Time" sax teachers in cornwall

    I had to play parts of this tune as if we were on a dance gig back in the 20s! I wasn't around at that period, so was relying on vague memories of stuff I had heard over the years. At the very least we all had a bit of a giggle about it!

  • "Lisa" sax teachers in cornwall

    David Jacobs - presenting this radio prog - was one of the true gentlemen of the BBC

  • "Lonely Woman" sax teachers in cornwall

    John is a musician's musician. Apart from myself on the alto sax, he played everything else, including the drums.

  • "Running with the Wind" sax teachers in cornwall

    An original, this one...and nothing to do with indigestion!

  • "This Land" sax teachers in cornwall

    Big influences of "Peter,Paul and Mary" on this one.

  • "a-souling" sax teachers in cornwall

    I really wish we had grabbed the BBC track of this one, instead of relying on my mum and her tape recorder. A complete lack of forethought!

  • "From a Distance" sax teachers in cornwall

    This one - for its sins - made it onto "Jukebox Jury". Blatant pop music. Again, our A-and-R man's choice. Not at all what we wanted to sing.

  • "My Father" sax teachers in cornwall

    Jazz Poetry was rampant back in the 60s. You don't hear of it very much these days. This is a pity...at least it is for jazz musicians. In Jazz Poetry we go where the words take us, whenever and however we feel it, with no pre-conceived notions or arrangements. This, really, makes it one of the purest forms of jazz. If I were a customer, however, I'm not so sure I could sit through a whole evening of it, but as a musician I'll play it until my lip gives out!.