YES, FOLKS, JAZZ SHOULD BE FUN, I DON’T CARE WHAT THE JAZZ POLICE SAY!
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YES, FOLKS, JAZZ SHOULD BE FUN, I DON’T CARE WHAT THE JAZZ POLICE SAY!
I am lucky that I get invited to play with such a variety of very talented players. The next months will see me with several old pals and one or two relatively new ones. In June I will be playing some club gigs with Helge Schneider plus American jazz great, Scott Hamilton. There have been some difficulties in scheduling to suit everyone, but this has resulted in a treat for the jazz fans in Berlin. We are booked in to the Quasimodo for three days. Scott plays the first day, Thursday the 8th but can’t do the Friday. So Alan Barnes will fly in, play that night and stay for Saturday the 10th when Scott comes back. So there’ll be two saxes on that night, and two of the best!!! The next day Scott goes back to the UK and Alan comes to Bonn with Helge and I.
Helge and I will be singing on these jazz dates and it promises to be a lot of fun. Yes, folks, jazz should be fun, I don’t care what the Jazz Police say.
SHAKE THE MOUNTAINS!
Unfortunately Jon Lord has to be in Montreux on the 15 July and has had to cancel his appearance in Kitzbühel. His place on the final show will be taken by the Powerful Pair, Chris Farlowe and Albie Donnelly. Guaranteed to shake the mountains. This Boogie Festival was capped last year by Eric Burdon with Christoph and Pete. This year promises to be even more dynamic.
YA GOTTA TRY
Pete has been working on further movie screenplay ideas and one of them is a story involving the Drum Legends, Herman Rarebell and Pete.
It is, of course, a comedy with our two heroes playing characters much like themselves. A pair of drumming nuts who were once members of highly successful rock bands. The story begins with them both taking jobs wherever they can get them in some most unlikely playing situations.
One of rock’s biggest bands loses its drummer in a bizarre onstage accident. Herman and Pete go for the job and surprisingly both get it. So they are back in the big time but all is not what it seems with this mega-band, its evil manager and its ego maniac singer, Banana.
As with all movie projects the story and later the screenplay may be great, but it’s a long road to find the producers, the money and the distribution.
But, in the words of the song, „Ya Gotta Try.“