[Dixielandjazz] Larkin Coltrane Barnes

[Steve Voce]

John Barnes suffered a terrible stroke last autumn whilst on holiday in 
Greece.
Fortunately he is showing some signs of getting movement hack into his 
limbs, but it will be a very long job. It's doubtful that he'll ever 
play again.

Steve Voce

On 16/03/2012 16:55, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:
> I was giving a young lady some advice about her studies a long time ago, and one of her options was Philip Larkin -- about whom some lecturer had written a blurb for students -- and this blurb was all about his bringing out the misery of life..... etc.
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> This might raise questions about whether he listened to or needed to listen to Coltrane.
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> I confess I have my own additional Scottish reasons for not having been amused by "... the unmistakeable sound of the bagpipes. 'Scotland is represented?' we asked..." in a memoir of a long ago recent visit to the Newport Jazz Festival. The "we" should be recognisable as Stanley Dance's.  The instrument being played was soprano saxophone. Long, long ago.
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> Which reminds me that I was telephoned by a German academic after a feature on Larkin's funeral on German TV news.  The Herr Professor wanted to know who'd been playing the soprano he heard on the film clip.
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> Which is why I subsequently gave him a John Barnes LP as a Christmas present.
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> Admirable tenor player John, for all the other horns he plays. Why don't we talk about him?
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> all the very best,
> Robert
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