Steve Hillage - Lunar Musick Suite(Trumpet Part)

[progman1975]

I find this odd that a Hillage tune would have a trumpet....Does it fit??? Was this Rundgrens idea??? Any thoughts or does anyone not really give a shit???

[Blah_Blah_Woof_Woof]

I'm sure that Steve was honored to have the great Don Cherry on his record at all.

[calyx]

Hillage went to visit Carla Bley's Grog Kill Studios while staying at Rundgren's for the sessions, and Don Cherry was there - connections with Bley/Mantler from the latter's 1960s/70s projects - which led to an invitation for Cherry to sit in on the sessions, and this was the result. Hillage's own connection with Bley dated from 1975 when Bley was considered as potential producer for Gong's "Shamal" and (keyboard player Patrice Lemoine recounted this to me) Bley spent an evening jamming with them at Gong's farm. In the end, Virgin Records pushed for Nick Mason to be chosen as producer and they went with that.

Another product from the Bley/Virgin connection was when John Greaves recorded his "Kew.Rhone" album at Grog Kill. Just a few weeks ago I had a chance of discussing this with Greaves and Peter Blegvad. Greaves had met Bley while she was over in London (ostensibly to convince, unsuccessfully, Alex Harvey to sing on Mike Mantler's "Silence" album - the part eventually went to Kevin Coyne) as they frequented the same pub near Virgin's offices. They became good friends and Bley offered a very cheap deal for Greaves to record his album at Grog Kill, but when he turned up in Woodstock, Bley wasn't present and Mantler knew nothing of the supposed arrangement and actually wasn't very welcoming ! Eventually things were worked out, Mantler played some great trumpet on the album and, later, had Greaves appear on a couple of his albums.

[Rand Kelly]

Roger Powell can play the Trumpet too so if he could have not gotten Don Cherry,Roger surely would have been more than adequate.

[Udi Koomran]

Aymeric you are a mine of knowledge

[Udi Koomran]

There was also the Don Cherry ProtoGong connection...

[Scrotum Scissor]

Another product from the Bley/Virgin connection was when John Greaves recorded his "Kew.Rhone" album at Grog Kill. Just a few weeks ago I had a chance of discussing this with Greaves and Peter Blegvad. Greaves had met Bley while she was over in London (ostensibly to convince, unsuccessfully, Alex Harvey to sing on Mike Mantler's "Silence" album - the part eventually went to Kevin Coyne) as they frequented the same pub near Virgin's offices. They became good friends and Bley offered a very cheap deal for Greaves to record his album at Grog Kill, but when he turned up in Woodstock, Bley wasn't present and Mantler knew nothing of the supposed arrangement and actually wasn't very welcoming ! Eventually things were worked out, Mantler played some great trumpet on the album and, later, had Greaves appear on a couple of his albums.

Kew. Rhone is without question one of the finest progressive albums from the latter half of the 70s. I find the music on this record completely groundbreaking and different, although the "chamber jazz with odd-rock element" remains the established impression. But I can still spend hours listening to it and study the sheer trickery of those lyrics intertwined with musical arrangements that even today keep puzzling my imagination. A work of near-genius, IMHO.

[simon moon]

Kew. Rhone is without question one of the finest progressive albums from the latter half of the 70s. I find the music on this record completely groundbreaking and different, although the "chamber jazz with odd-rock element" remains the established impression. But I can still spend hours listening to it and study the sheer trickery of those lyrics intertwined with musical arrangements that even today keep puzzling my imagination. A work of near-genius, IMHO.

I'm in total agreement!