My take on Freddie Mercurys Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie opens asking if this is just real life or fantasy….being caught in a landslide…there is no escape from reality. Talking about his sudden rise to fame and fortune in the mid 70s. The big BUT…reality …that is his personal problems are still there. He appeals to his …
Paul Cheneour – flutes, Dave Robinson – electronics, Clive Fletcher – electric upright bass. Music to a film by Annie Catford….musicians playing along with the film …sharp coloured abstract patterns…wheat fields landscape from a train. People on a platform. Bass improvisation over subtle electronics…flute takes off like a freebird over Central Asian mountains…. Bass strings …
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TRIESTE JAZZ FESTIVAL 7 July 2023 Anna Lauvergnac Quartet-Anna leader/vocals,ClausRaible piano Giorgio’s Antoniou bass,Xaver Helimer drums. Bass notes flew like birds in the evening trees… Anna opened with “The very thought of you”…a unique subtle style…a difference to what I have heard before. An improvisation over the range of the piano into bass soloing. On …
Lennon-McCartney (Northern Songs) Those two writers ask “All the lonely people where do they all come from… all the lonely people where do they all belong? This question I will attempt to answer… Eleanor Rigby was not always a lonely person…. In 1914 she was a young married woman with a husband and a baby…. …