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Xero Slingsby & the Works - full live gig 1986

Punk Jazz (or is it jazz punk?) from a legend on the Leeds music scene, famous for being arrested for busking more times than anyone in UK history (47+?), he died too young (at 30) from a brain tumour in 1988. Much appreciated in Europe, with two albums released there and regular touring - they still hold memorial gigs in Belgium. Xero Slinsgsby's life story has been colourfully documented by his compadre Solomon Robson over 33 entertaining chapters. The illustrated memoir starts at this link - scroll down for the index:- http://www.solomonrobson.com/xintro-n... " Do you know it's illegal to busk here? " " No, but I'm sure if you hummed it, I could pick it up in no time. " Someone will surely make this story into a film one day. With bassist Louis Colan & drummer Gene Velocette, they are a formidable trio. Filmed live at the Dolce Vita, Lausanne, December 4 1986. Tracks: 0:02 Up Down; 4:21 Softly as in a Nuclear Shelter; 8:08 The Allegroes; 12:02 Unicycling; 16:40 Marabel; 21:24 Orango Tango/Shove It; 28:02 Dearly Beloved; 35:40 Mauve Mercedes with the Padlock on the Boot; 40:59 Roland Kirk Meets the Shuffle Monster in the Afternoon; 48:00 Up Yours; 54:25 Hurricane Damage in Leeds. (Many track-titles are explained in Solomon's story.) (I had to attempt a basic rescue job on the original sound file - and ended up fascinated by the stereo mix. The buzzing noise is about 10% of how it was on one channel; if it grates adjust your balance to the good channel. The noise abates at 42:00 when it switches to mono.) Artist Biography by AllMusic: b. Matthew Coe, 23 November 1957, Skipton, Yorkshire, England, d. 16 August 1988. Coe’s name change came in the mid-70s when punk rock made colourful stage-names de rigueur. He grew up in Bradford, where an accident at the age of 10 damaged his left hand: he took up the bass guitar as an alternative to therapeutic rubber-ball squeezing. He fell in with a motorbike crowd and played electric bass in numerous heavy rock bands. Sick of endless guitar indulgence, Ornette Coleman’s New York Is Now! was a revelation to him. He sold his Fender and Marshall amps and bought a double bass. He also acquired an alto saxophone. After spells as a grave-digger and tractor-driver for Bradford Council, he attended a two-year course at Harrogate Music School, supplemented by gigs with tenor player Richard Ward. In 1979, Slingsby played in Ghent, the first of many visits to the more receptive European audiences. After a long apprenticeship playing Thelonious Monk standards and free jazz, he formed a band called Xero Slingsby And The Works with bass player Louis Colan and drummer Gene Velocette. The idea was to present free jazz with punk-type brevity and was remarkably successful: the Works became part of the ‘punkjazz’ flowering in England that included Blurt, Rip, Rig And Panic and Pigbag. Baritone saxophonist Alan Wilkinson and drummer Paul Hession readily acknowledge their debt to Slingsby’s inspirational belief in musical communication. After fighting brain cancer for three years he died in 1988. The obituary in The Wire concluded: ‘As jazz at the end of the 80s faces the twin temptations of purist pessimism or commercial betrayal, Slingsby’s scorched alto sound, his booting lines and clamorous compositions, as well as his understanding of music as event and spectacle, could well become the crucial lessons.’ Is this Jazz ? Xero: " Depends what you mean by Jazz really " Leeds Other Paper: "Do you see yourselves as part of the Jazz 'scene'?" Xero: "Fuck off. Why would we want to be? The Jazz 'scene' in England is so bloody snobby! Besides, we don't just play Jazz. We play reggae, waltzes, tangos. " Gene: "Heavy metal " ( sniggers all round ) Xero: " People say we're a sort of Punk Jazz, or Junk. People like to give it a label, eh? We even play classical, don't we? We do this Mahler tune that's a belter. Might even put it on our next album." Louis: " We've got a music college in Leeds that teaches you how to play Jazz." Xero: " The right way." Louis: " Real Jazz. Proper Jazz. " Xero: ".which as we all know stopped in 1955. We don't really want to play Jazz places. It's much more exciting playing to people who haven't really listened much to Jazz rather than those who know ALL about it, sitting there with hands on chins thinking 'ah, that's a bit like Ornette Coleman, and that's a bit like Coltrane'. Loads of people come up to us afterwards and say 'I don't really like Jazz but I like what you do'." Gene: " That's the thing with playing on the street. You get a big crowd around who've never heard of you, don't like Jazz but they like what you're doing so they stop and listen. " Xero: " On the street we get to play to about 2000 people on a busy Saturday afternoon in Leeds, so out of them there's got to be at least half a dozen that don't mind it. " http://www.solomonrobson.com/x13-is-t... #PunkJazz #JazzPunk #DolceVitaClub