<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><h4 id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4370">I posted the message below to a list with some overlapping interests. <br></h4><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4523" dir="ltr">Very sad to see in the Scottish TV news the very big man has resumed the regular contact with Dill Jones which marked Dill's own last days... Condolences to many fans and any Temperleys.<br></div><h4 id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4370"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4371">Robert R. Calder</span> <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4372">said,</span></h4>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4373">May 14, 2016 at <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4374" href="https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/joe-temperley/#comment-94078" title="Permanent link to this comment">9:23 pm</a> </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4375" dir="ltr">a wonderful musician, and I remember him playing an unaccompanied
“Hieland Laddie” on soprano to the memory of Ken Gallacher, who died
just before Joe was in Edinburgh with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4394" dir="ltr">
Joe played his heartfelt goodbye to Ken months later, to a small
audience, Ken Mathieson & quartet partners in Adelaide Place Baptist
Church, Glasgow. His professional career had begun one street away, in
the band of a nightclub on Sauchiehall Street, replacing men who had
been called up for wartime military service. He never liked football, he
said, so he had become proficient at snooker, the wee boy who doubled
his wages on the incredulity of musicians that this kid could really
have been so accomplished on the green baize. He was a professional
reedman for over seventy years — and Harry Carney’s deputy for some time
before great Harry’s demise, when the cancer treatment took that other
wonderful baritone player away.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4376">
The earlier baritone player he sounded most like was actually Omer
Simeon, judging from a small number of big band recordings, though
Simeon in later years was restricted to clarinet by his engagement with
Wilbur de Paris, which he undertook to pay for his daughter’s education,
turning down an offer from Ellington. Hearing a wonderful quartet set by
Joe with the late Brian Lemon, the programme also broadcast in a
different session by the BBC, I was thinking somebody could have mugged
Joe and put a clarinet into his hands, for on that occasion he sounded
not so much like Simeon on baritone, but with a breadth and flow of
sound like a great New Orleans clarinetist. I taped the recording
broadcast off the air, but there is the CD, and one of Joe’s best.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463319265478_4377">
It was fascinating and impressive over the years, in Glasgow and at
Edinburgh Jazz Festivals, how Joe never sounded exactly the same, there
was always something spontaneous. The last of his annual gigs in Glasgow
was marred by a failure of piano, despite the best efforts of the
Edinburgh Hank Jones, Tom Finlay, and Joe expressed a strong desire that
night to play a lot of Ellington. As Humphrey Lyttelton said at the end
of his memorial broadcast to Bruce Turner, “mine ears have heard the
glory..”</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>