Parlophone EP 8765 - Logue and Kinsey - Red Bird (side one)

Four heroically daft beat poems from posh British wordsmith Christopher Logue accompanied by jazzer Tony Kinsey. The other side of this EP with more faux-hip nonsense can to be found elsewhere on this channel.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• poetry
• beatnik
• beat
• Christopher
• Logue
• Tony
• Kinsey
• Red
• Bird
• comedy
• British

[thesignifyer]

Thank you for posting both sides! This is a collector's item. Logue just passed on a few months ago, which brought me here. These poems are not by Christopher Logue though, but they are his translations of Pablo Neruda. This recording is a jem.

[nubient]

RIP Christopher Logue

[julesthemadman]

Always wanted to hear this. Interesting

[33penge]

I was 14, it was a Saturday, and I stood in Storey's Record Shop's listening booth when I first heard this: my copy now is warped, and I have no record-player anyway. Sigh.  How Like Life, I muse.... And yet it is stitched into the inner seams of my heart, and I cannot thank EagerBoy49 enough for giving it back to me again across the years. Yeah: and also, for letting me irritate my husband and my grandchildren by playing it really, really loud (both sides, to boot) whenever I feel like it.

[chimoio100]

wonderful! i hope to pass on in as poetic and relaxed manner.....i was about 17 when i first heard this, about 40 years later i met bill lesage the vibes player in a pub in putney he went all wistful when i asked him about red bird.a tour de force! so rich a melange..........

[crwbano]

@DrPaulGEllis Davy Graham did a song called Cocaine and various others have done versions including Kieth Richards-sometimes called Cocaine Blues not sure who wrote the original

[RichBerr44]

This recording (published 1959) still stands out head and shoulders among other jazz and poetry recordings. Logue's voice is not put on for the recording - it is a true record of his voice at that time. The Tony Kinsey Quintet sound as wonderful now as they did then. Logue went on to write 'War Music' for the theatre - a tremendous version of Homer. I agree with TimJakeGl - they are certainly not 'daft' poems... just relax and let them flow.

[meherbaba01]

The verse is as good as most beat poetry, but Logue's cocktail -sparkling, tounge-in-cheek word joinery makes excellent fun especially because it does not take itself seriously. Logue is the Lewis Carroll of beat verse.  But what is really surprising is the elegance and art of the backup group, lit candle-like by the vibes player. Excellent post.

[DrPaulGEllis]

@EagerBoy49 I wondered about that one, but it's not reggae and Dillinger is too recent. Maybe it's a remake? Does anyone have a copy to sell?

[EagerBoy49]

@DrPaulGEllis Is it reggae? If so it is probably Dillinger.