Blues inspired by Jazz Today, Charles Fox; see below for sleeve notes -- Rozzo plays the Blues скачать в хорошем качестве

Blues inspired by Jazz Today, Charles Fox; see below for sleeve notes -- Rozzo plays the Blues

While still at school in the mid-1960s Rozzo was a regular listener to the distinguished jazz writer and journalist Charles (Richard Jeremy) Fox (1921-1991) presenter of Jazz Today on BBC Radio 3 (it was called the Third Programme in those days). He often borrowed his sister’s Grundig 4-track reel-to-reel tape recorder to record tracks he liked and, on this one occasion, recorded the end of Jazz Today episode and then grabbed his 1964 Besson Aristone classical guitar to play an improvised blues. It’s an improv Rozzo never played before or since — the distortion from the microphone giving a sound quality not normally heard on a classical guitar. The tape survived somehow and was later digitised to this recording. The 1965 photos of Rozzo playing the Aristone were taken in a Leeds folk club, The Woodpecker pub in Leeds and the very guitar which still hangs (mostly) on the wall at home, alongside an oil painting of it he did in about 1970. So here it is, along with Charles’s voice, as a tribute to his wonderful programme all those years ago. BTW in his entry on Wikipedia, Fox is recorded as having lodged for many years with the family of the great Alexis Korner in Bayswater. What fun that must have been, with visitors including Ginger Baker, Phil Seaman, Jack Bruce and Dick Heckstall-Smith. More in this 1991 obit: https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2021/07/31/...