Leo Pellegrino - the dancing Sax player.....

[Fab Foodie]

If you missed the fantastic Charlie Mingus Prom the other night, I give you one of the highlights!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXginkg-vPU

 

[biggs682]

i think if i blew that hard for that long i would be dead in a pile on the floor

 

[Fab Foodie]

i think if i blew that hard for that long i would be dead in a pile on the floor

I could blow, or dance....but not both at the same time!

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Dizzy Gillespie has reincarnated.
That was good.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I'm pretty sure most of that was him trying to get rid of a wedgie.

 

[Fab Foodie]

He was tremendous, such a show-off! The whole Prom was a delight.

Utterly!

 

[Fnaar]

I could blow, or dance....but not both at the same time!

Miss Goodbody is a multi-tasker

 

[Julia9054]

My kids went to this prom

 

[Fab Foodie]

My kids went to this prom

Then they were very lucky!

 

[Julia9054]

Then they were very lucky!

We had a couple of days in London. Unfortunately I couldn't go to this one as we couldn't drive down until after my husband had finished work. We went as a family to the La Scala Philarmonic Respighi prom the day after.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I love the saxophone. I have in the past seen two absolute favourites, Andy Sheppard and Barbara Thompson - the latter's career cruelly cut short by Parkinson's disease.

What a Paraphernalia....

 

[Poacher]

Knowing that my aged brother is a jazz afficionado and was a member of the Lincoln Jazz Club in the 60s, I woke him from his slumbers to watch this prom; it rejuvenated him! The other soloists were superb too - and was that the conductor's brother in the saxophone section?

I was impressed when I saw Dick Heckstall-Smith in Colosseum - although the playing of two saxes simultaneously was a bit, er, flamboyant.*

Barbara Thompson was brilliant; one of my most prized possessions is a signed copy of Heavenly Bodies from when Paraphernalia visited Nottingham in 1986 or thereabouts. Side one of that LP, the Appia Suite, means a great deal to me, particularly as I had a poster of Dominique Appia's Les Barricades Mystérieuses.
On their next visit, I like to think I was ahead of my time, rather than behind it, when I asked why their latest album was only on CD, with no vinyl option.

* an accusation you could never level at Leo Pellegrino

 

[Fab Foodie]

I like the direction of this thread...

 

[slowmotion]

Speaking of dancing and saxophones, many broken hearts must have wept into their cocktails to this one...
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]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze-3pE3vSjc[/media]

 

[sheddy]

iplayer link to the entire prom please ?