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<p>Small point: Mick Pyne was with Humph for years after Stan was.
Mick came after Stan in the band. Stan also played rums in the
band at another time.</p>
<p>Steve Voce<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/07/2017 18:38, ROBERT R. CALDER
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9221">Stan played piano
for a long time with Humph's band -- after Mick Pyne, whose
other instrument was cornet. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9390">Mick could have
performed with the other people listed as earlier colleagues
of Tony Fisher. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9389">I'm sure he did
play with some of them. His ALONE TOGETHER is mighty
impressive and emphatically OKOM. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9497">Stan was of a
generation which grew up with boogie woogie in earshot. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9670">He was drummer in
Sandy Brown's initial Fairweather band. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9496">A master of tempo
was what Wally Fawkes said of him when I heard the
Fawkes-Greig unit at Kings Cross.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9495">Stan can be seen
on YouTube as pianist in a touring Harlem Blues and Jazz band.
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9508">His day job was
as a piano tuner, I think in succession to his father but in
London rather than Edinburgh.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9631">I
remember him as a member of Humph's band doing one of the
Ellington-Blanton duets at an Edinburgh gig. Maybe it was
"Pitter, Panther, Patter" and interesting though not an ideal
performance. The interesting thing was a kind of blurriness of
Stan's playing, not crisp articulation but a forward moving
flow, which is what he brought to Humph's band. I'm sure the
articulation would have been clearer on a newer piano
requiring less internal attention of the sort Stan ate by
providing. It was intriguing to hear the change from Pyne to
Greig at a time when I was hearing more than at any other time
Humph's band.</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9863"><br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9862">Humph
was blessed in having those two to choose <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9829">(and
give money to, to cite the famous Ellington retort to Humph on
the "gimmick" which enabled him to keep the band together. The
original interview, which involved Humph and John Dankworth,
was excerpted to include the quip during a BBC hour of John
Dankworth from the archives, marking -- would you believe --
the putting up of a blue official plaque to mark the
saxophonist/ composer etc's sometime whereabouts. There wasn't
exactly a plethora of information about any other musicians,
and the captioning as seems usual when the BBC deigns to do
any jazz thing on TV seemed to have been contrived by fans of
cliche serving an apprenticeship in children's broadcasting <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9905"><br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9867">But
they did in the past broadcast back at the time a
Dankworth-Clark gig from a tour Clark made. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9938">Complete
with Clark re-telling the Dankworth joke about how a herd of
cattle strayed into an ink factory, drank from a vat, and
Moo-ed Indigo. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9968"><br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9967">Less
naughty than Rex Stewart's story of "Warm Valley",</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9965">ttfn,</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1499617543722_9964">Robert
R. Calder<br>
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