Ian Chippett
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In the clear at over fifty-five
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A young mate of mine is releasing his first album on the 25th of September. He's a French jazz saxophonist called Baptiste Herbin and the album (on the Harmonia Mundi label) is called "Brother Stoon." The slight but considerable PA link is that a few years ago at an outdoor music festival in my village he and his equally brilliant brother Bastien on piano accompanied me on "Touch Has A Memory." I'd chosen to play this in the hope that it would be recorded (it wasn't) as I wanted to do a bluesy, jazz version for your instruction if not delight . I sang the song and they, with only a copy of the words and the chords, proceed to improvise so brilliantly that I stopped playing my guitar and performed percussion with a little-known instrument called gnashed teeth. Baptiste was only 18 at the time and I could almost have been his grandfather though I'm informed that this is not the case. He's as good as Charlie Parker even if "My Old Flame" isn't on the album.
Ian C
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