Jazz + Old English

[Jim Besser]

I dislike doing videos because of uncontrollable concertina face, but recently had to do a couple for a project; this is the leftover. An odd pairing, but I like it.

 

The first tune, "Ghosts," written by the free jazz saxaphonist Albert Ayler in the 1960s, came to me thru the superb playing of melodeon guru Martin Ellison.

 

The second tune is "Lord Zouch's Masque." Here's what the Traditional Tune Archive has to say about it: "First published in Morley's First Book of Consort Lessons (1599), and appearing in several (twenty) 16th and 17th century manuscript collections.. It was known in the Netherlands as "Onder de Linde Groene" (Under the Green Linden Tree), published in 1649 in a volume called Der Fluyten Lust-Hof."

 

So: avante garde jazz from the 60s and an English tune from 1600 or so.  I'm always intrigued by such pairings.

 

[RAc]

7 hours ago, Jim Besser said:

I dislike doing videos because of uncontrollable concertina face...

 

 

One of the reasons why I prefer to record my videos in nearly headless Ruediger mode... 😁

 

very nice recording, Jim, well done!