<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><p>On a visit to Spain long ago .... no, that's not the start of a limerick!</p><p>anyway I was talking to this bandleading musician, and he was talking of his debt to Finnish "Free Jazz" -- I did once see a TV feature on another Finnish musical enthusiasm, to wit Tango...</p><p><br></p><p>What appealed to this bandleader, who when asked what Finnish "Free Jazz" was like wrinkled his nose, was the ability of the most gifted of his personnel to head off north-east and come back bearing banknotes paid him as rather a favourite among Finnish fans of NOKIMAA --- "NOT OUR KIND, IF MUSIC AT ALL" as Marek might suggest. <br></p><p><br></p><p>In Finland it seems at the time of our conversation there was money to be won ... <br></p><p><br></p><p>Not of course to be compared with the case of Arvella Gray, who had the special problem after he'd lost his sight to a shotgun salvo from the husband of a female friend. He had managed a precarious living walking around with a guitar, but gradually attained to a level of proficiency which damaged his finances. He was no longer so incapable that people habitually paid him to move on. <br></p><p><br></p><p>Robert R. Calder<br></p></div></body></html>