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Addendum to the Second Printing APPENDIX EIGHT ADDENDUM TO THE SECOND PRINTING Gordon Beck Quartet: BBC Sessions 1968 On 7 December 1967 the Gordon Beck Trio – from Samantha Blake at the BBC Written Archive a regular recording and performing unit with Centre, I investigated, using first the BBC Genome Gordon on piano, Jeff Clyne on bass and Tony online resource (vintage Radio Times listings) then Oxley on drums – added John McLaughlin on Gordon Beck’s BBC ‘artist file’ and the Programme- guitar and recorded Experiments With Pops, which as-Broadcast (PasB) files for relevant shows. While was released in January 1968. It is possible, from no musicians’ names appear in Gordon’s artist Melody Maker adverts, to identify four gigs around file for any of the various units with which he London by the ‘Gordon Beck Quartet’, with the broadcast during 1968 – and he was a frequent musicians named, between 17 March and 2 May visitor to BBC studios at the time – it seems clear 1968. There may have been others. There were, that John McLaughlin was the fourth member of though, plenty of Gordon Beck Trio gigs going on the Gordon Beck Quartet on a series of broadcasts in the same period and also Gordon Beck Quartet backing singers Mark Murphy and Joy Marshall, gigs involving saxophonist Pete King as the fourth for the programmes Night Ride, Late Night Extra member. and Jazz Club spanning March to May 1968. Somehow, during research for Bathed In Remarkably, around four hours of music (71 Lightning and again for Echoes From Then, I compositions) was recorded during the sessions failed to look into the possibility of any BBC with Mark Murphy – three hours 45 minutes recordings by the Gordon Beck Quartet. Possibly, and 20 seconds for certain plus five tracks where I had allowed myself to believe that McLaughlin’s the timings on the PasBs are illegible. Nearly association with Gordon Beck was fleeting – a one- an hour of music (58 minutes 25 seconds, 20 off album and a small handful of gigs to support compositions) was recorded during the sessions it, in among many other activities with many with Joy. Among those 91 compositions were 10 other musical units during the first half of 1968. by Gordon Beck: two appeared on his 1969 LP This assumption was dealt a blow when contact Gyroscope, but the other eight may never have was made, by chance, with Andy Jones, a chap been otherwise recorded. Including the 13/3/68 representing the Gordon Beck estate, when the first Jazz Club session, on which John was initially to 200 copies of Echoes From Then were being printed. have appeared, making the Gordon Beck Trio a Among many vintage unreleased recordings were Quartet (see below), Gordon and co performed an acetate and tape reel of two recording sessions six of the eight pieces on Experiments With Pops from March and April 1968 of the Gordon Beck across these sessions – ‘Monday, Monday’, ‘These Quartet (GBQ), with McLaughlin named on the Boots Are Made for Walking’, Norwegian Wood’, artefacts, backing singer Joy Marshall – 13 songs, ‘Michelle’, Up, Up and Away’ and (in a vocal around 36 minutes of music. version) ‘Sunny’. A couple of further ‘pops’, the This raised the question of whether there had Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘With a Little Help been further recording activity, for the BBC. With From My Friends’, were performed as vocal help from fellow crate-digger Ashley Wood, and numbers with Mark Murphy. 414 ECHOES FROM THEN: GLIMPSES OF JOHN MCLAUGHLIN 1969–75 Part 1: The Joy Marshall Sessions Joy Marshall (1936-68) was quite a character: Of the 12 songs recorded by Joy with the tempestuous would be a good word. Born in Gordon Beck Quartet for BBC radio, all can be America, her singing career took off in London, as found repeated on the unreleased studio recordings a singer with the John Dankworth Orchestra for a found in Gordon’s own archive along with one year, with all her commercially released recordings other, ‘Dr. Feelgood’. being made in Britain: five singles and one album. Most of these recordings reflect her primary career Joy Marshall & Gordon Beck Trio during the 60s as a nightclub/light pop artist. Jazz Club 13/3/68 Indeed, although tremendous with jazz-tinged Recorded: unknown, at the Playhouse, London repertoire – as heard in the posthumous RPM Presenter: Humphrey Lyttelton album (see below) – and having had (chaotic) Producer: Roger Eames relationships with the jazz artists Peter King and Other session guests: Colin Purbrook Quintet, Tubby Hayes, she was uncomfortable being seen Ronnie Ross Sextet as a jazzer. Indeed, ‘Living down the ‘jazz singer’ Note: This contract was originally made out to the tag’ was the headline of her last known interview, ‘Gordon Beck Quartet’ on 12/2/68, but then altered with Alan Walsh for Melody Maker, published on to the ‘Gordon Beck Trio’ and the contract reissued 2 March 1968: on 7/3/68, at a lower fee. One must surmise that ‘I’ve given up thinking I can make a living out John McLaughlin was intended for this session but of jazz,’ she said. ‘I’m not a gospel or jazz singer and had a diary clash. If the broadcast were to be live, I don’t do way out stuff like Annie Ross or Anita John would have been performing with the Danny O’Day. These days there’s lots of good commercial Thompson Trio at Camden Festival. The details of music about – thank God for Bacharach!’ the session are given here just for interest. After criticising backing musicians, of her experience, in general for being mediocre, Joy did JM & GBT: admit to doing the odd jazz gig for purely musical What A Little Moonlight Will Do (Woode) 2:30 reasons: ‘The [jazz] dates I do barely pay for the Charade (Mancini) 2:50 petrol it takes to get there but I enjoy working with GBT: musicians of the calibre of the Gordon Beck Trio. So Lah (Beck) 4:35 They’re more sympathetic and tasty.’ Up, Up and Away (Webb) 5:15 While there were no joint dates involving Joy Gyroscope (Beck) 6:00 and any Gordon Beck unit around the time of their BBC recordings in spring 1968, Joy had done a Joy Marshall & Gordon Beck Quartet week at Ronnie Scott’s backed by the Gordon Beck Late Night Extra 26/4/68 Trio (and a second week backed by the Pat Smyth Recorded: 10/4/68 Trio) in March 1967, with a couple of further one- Presenter: Barry Alldiss nighters in London in April and May. Producer: Richard Willcox In a Melody Maker interview with Victor Studio guests include Christopher Lee Schonfield, published on 11/10/69, Jeff Clyne, bassist with the Gordon Beck Trio (and Quartet), JM & GBQ: echoed Joy’s delight at worked with good Telephone Song (Menescal, Boscoli, Gimbel) 1:45 musicians: Come Back to Me (Lerner, Lane) 2:05 ‘We built up quite a following through Sunny (Hebb) 2:05 broadcasts and first sets at Ronnie Scott’s,’ he said, When Sunny Gets Blue (Fisher, Segal) 3:25 of the Beck Trio, ‘but most of our work has been GBQ: backing singers. … Working with singers is often This Is My World (D. Haecker) 3:00 more satisfying than working with instrumentalists My Funny Valentine (Rodgers) 2:45 – I know just what I’ve got to do, so I can do it to I Fall in Love Too Easily (Styne & Cahn) 2:50 the best of my ability.’ ADDENDUM TO THE Second PRINTING 415 Joy Marshall & Gordon Beck Quartet How Deep Is the Ocean (Berlin) 3:30 Late Night Extra 3/5/68 These Boots Were Made for Walking (Hazelwood) Recorded: 8/4/68 2:20 Presenter: Barry Alldiss Producer: Richard Willcox Joy Marshall & Gordon Beck Quartet Studio guests: Richard Himes, Crispian St Peters Late Night Extra 12/6/68 (Repeat of tracks broadcast on 26/4/68 except JM & GBQ: ‘This Is My World’) He Loves Me (Bock) 2:00 Presenter: Terry Wogan The Gentle Rain (Bonfa, Dubey) 3:10 Producer: David Carter Peel Me A Grape (Frishberg) 3:20 Goin’ Out of My Head (Randazzo, Weinstein) 3:05 Joy Marshall & Gordon Beck Quartet GBQ: Late Night Extra 19/6/68 Dearly Beloved (Kern) 3:05 (Repeat of all tracks broadcast on 3/5/68) Run Little Raindrops Run (Warren) 4:25 Presenter: Terry Wogan Producer: David Carter Joy Marshall & Gordon Beck Quartet Late Night Extra 10/5/68 Joy Marshall & Gordon Beck Quartet Recorded: 27/3/68 Late Night Extra 26/6/68 Presenter: Barry Alldiss (Repeat of 10/5/68 broadcast except for ‘Blame It Producer: Richard Willcox on My Youth’) Studio guests include Errol Garner (by phone) Presenter: Terry Wogan Producer: David Carter JM & GBQ: Studio guests: Gerry Marsden and Derek Nimmo Bewitched (Greenfield, Keller) 1:50 Note: Previously unaired Joy Marshall & GBQ session Blame It on My Youth (Levant, Heyman) 4:05 track, from the session associated with the 10/5/68 On A Clear Day (Lerner, Lane) 2:05 broadcast, played: GBQ: What Kind of Fool Am I? (Bricusse, Newley) 2:45 Miss De Meanor (Beck) 2:40 Part 2: The Mark Murphy Sessions Gordon Beck’s BBC artist file contains a contract at Maida Vale 4. There is a letter from Beck dated dated 6 March 1968 for “The Gordon Beck Trio” 20 March 1968 saying that the recording of episode to record material for seven episodes of Night Ride, 2 was changed to Aeolian Hall 2 at the last minute a two-hour show that ran from five past midnight and asking for taxi fares to be refunded to him and to 2am The recording dates for those broadcasts to guest vocalist Mark Murphy.
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