Fact #155302
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Short story:
Georgie Fame opens for a three-week season at The Mayfair Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe.
Full article:
Georgie Fame : I was invited to do a short season at the Mayfair Theatre. I've still got the programme. The plan was to do the first half to concentrate on the jazz side of things – I think Jon Hiseman might have been playing drums by that time. So I decided to put a kind of jazz quartet together for the first, and then the second half was more of a Blue Flames kind of set, and I asked John (guitarist John McLaughlin) to be part of it – he might have been part of both, I can´t remember. I specifically got him to do the first half, because it was going to be a jazz quartet.
I was asked to do a special evening which went on for a couple of weeks. It was a small theatre, a nice theatre, and we decided to do whatever the gamut of my bloody career or talents were up to that point. And my jazz interest was increasing all the time, so I decided to do the first set with some of the Chet Baker things, and other jazz things. In the band were surely John McLaughlin and I think Jon Hiseman. Maybe Lyn Dobson, and I can´t remember who played the bass. But I have the programme, I would have to look.
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Jon Hiseman (drummer) : Georgie had the idea that he would get John McLaughlin, to open the show. So we would go on as a kind of jazz quartet, with John, myself, the bass player [probably Rick Brown] and Lyn Dobson on tenor, I think. Georgie wasn’t going to play on this section – but he was standing in the wings and he loved it. He’d be bopping from one foot to another – ‘Yeeeeah!’, you know. The audience couldn’t see him but he was really into it, and we were playing some seriously ‘out’ stuff, and I mean ‘out’! And when his manager turned up [a few dates into the run], Rik Gunnell, he was absolutely horrified, ‘cos Georgie was using this to put on something that people hadn’t paid money for at all.’
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I was asked to do a special evening which went on for a couple of weeks. It was a small theatre, a nice theatre, and we decided to do whatever the gamut of my bloody career or talents were up to that point. And my jazz interest was increasing all the time, so I decided to do the first set with some of the Chet Baker things, and other jazz things. In the band were surely John McLaughlin and I think Jon Hiseman. Maybe Lyn Dobson, and I can´t remember who played the bass. But I have the programme, I would have to look.
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Jon Hiseman (drummer) : Georgie had the idea that he would get John McLaughlin, to open the show. So we would go on as a kind of jazz quartet, with John, myself, the bass player [probably Rick Brown] and Lyn Dobson on tenor, I think. Georgie wasn’t going to play on this section – but he was standing in the wings and he loved it. He’d be bopping from one foot to another – ‘Yeeeeah!’, you know. The audience couldn’t see him but he was really into it, and we were playing some seriously ‘out’ stuff, and I mean ‘out’! And when his manager turned up [a few dates into the run], Rik Gunnell, he was absolutely horrified, ‘cos Georgie was using this to put on something that people hadn’t paid money for at all.’
(Source : not known)