Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Jazz musician and trumpet player.
On the island
Eight records
Royal Jews because Royal Jews was my favourite inspiration. He was a catalyst. Amongst trumpet players coming up, all of us wanted to play like Royal Dridge.
The next record is indescribable. There are just no words to describe. The dexterity and the creativity and the And just Mr. Gorilla an instrument.
Miles Davis with the Gil Evans Orchestra
This is one of my favorite recordings of his. and it's also one of my favorite compositions. by JJ Johnson, the eminent trombonist.
Sarah Vaughan with the Robert Farnon Orchestra
Number four will be the Divine One, Servan. ... I've been following her career since she first started.
This is one by uh the eminent Clifford Brown. Another trumpet player. ... He's no longer with us, is he? No, he had a very short life, but a very Pray at life.
For number six is my favorite male vocalist, Billie Eckstein. The one that I left All hands with. and took Sarah Ron along with us.
Parker's MoodFavourite
Number seven is the guy who I think is is is mainly responsible for the changing of American music. In the forties, late Charlie Parker. He was a main source of inspiration to countless thousands.
Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra
My last record is ever pushed to hell. Who I've been closely related to for many years.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:35Could you adjust yourself to solitude [on a desert island]?
Well, I have adjusted myself to solitude on the road now. My wife doesn't travel much. So I'll have to uh make arrangements to be alone. So I I must organize myself. So I do that. I'm I'm I'm pretty organized.
Presenter asks
3:31Were you bright at school? What did you want to be?
Yeah, I was bright. I caught up to my brother. My brother's two years and a half older. ... Could have passed him, but didn't want to embarrass him.
Presenter asks
3:50How did music come into your life? Where did you hear your first music?
Well, my school came into possession of some instruments from the state. ... And and all of us waited round to get an instrument, so I got a trombone. It was about the age of uh eleven.
Presenter asks
4:08Why did you switch from the trombone to the trumpet?
The keepsakes
But the the fellow next door had a trumpet. He let me practice on.
Presenter asks
13:11Would you like to explain that word [bebop]?
There's no actual explanation for the word beba. Only the music sounds a little like that. ... Beep op is actually the phrasing of the music. Not the music in itself.
Presenter asks
23:25Do you have a religious faith that would help you [on the island]?
Yes, well, I belong to the Baha'i faith. ... And the Baha'i faith is is self self satisfying. I I I could make it, you know, I could but I but I have to have my prayer book with me though.
“Every age has its own idols. You know, the age before us idolized Louis Armstrong, see? Our age idolized Roy just like the age After Roy idolized me.”
“music is is is the same as life, is in a constant state of flux. So therefore, if you are one of one of these people who Well have the Hindsightness. To um See a little into the future and see how. uh things are going to be operating. Well, you're one of the fortunate ones.”
“I always dance with it, so I d I was dancing out in front of a band all my life. And people say, You can't dance to it. I said, What do you think I'm doing?”
“I don't have read anything. I'll probably do my whole life again like it is, why? And Not too many things that I would, um Change. Well, I'm pretty satisfied with what has happened.”