[Dixielandjazz] Larkin Coltrane Barnes

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Very sorry indeed to hear about John's stroke. 

There are a lot of very nice things worth saying about him, and the last thing I wanted to hear was bad news, for which I'm grateful in the way one is grateful for unwelcome tidings. 

It can't be that many weeks since I posted a note commending his practice of reviving Alan Sherman improvements of pop-songs. I imagine a lot of people would like to send their good wishes,
all the best,

Robert Calder










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> From: Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com>
>To: ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> 
>Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> 
>Sent: Friday, 16 March 2012, 18:30
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Larkin Coltrane Barnes
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>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
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>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.
>>
>> 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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