Galactic Ramble

This blog is a companion to FLASHBACK magazine, which I edit, and to my GALACTIC RAMBLE and ENDLESS TRIP books. All of these cover the 60s and 70s UK and US music scenes in detail. You can email me at flashbackmag@gmail.com.

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Thursday, 26 July 2012

DENIS PRESTON: 'a smooth operator'

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He's largely forgotten now, but in the 1960s Denis Preston (1916-79) was Britain's pre-eminent jazz producer and entrepreneur. He re...

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Thursday, 19 January 2012

Joe Harriott: 'no set pattern'

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I thought I'd post the only interviews I've ever seen with this magnificent Jamaican saxophonist, who pioneered free jazz and record...

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Monday, 14 November 2011

The late Michael Garrick

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I was sorry to hear that Michael Garrick died on Friday, not least because I kept meaning to go and hear him play at the Bull's Head in ...

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Thursday, 20 October 2011

RIC COLBECK: 'a player of exceptional power and complexity'

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Frustratingly little is known of this enigmatic trumpeter. He was from Liverpool, where he joined future record producer Noel Walker'...

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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Rendell-Carr: 'the greatest force in jazz this country has ever known'

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The 1960s wasn't only a time of amazing development in British rock music, but British jazz too. As the decade progressed, composers, ba...

Friday, 22 October 2010

MIKE TAYLOR: the mystic who looked like a bank clerk

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Sometime in late January 1969, the drowned body of a young man was washed up by the Thames at Leigh-On-Sea, Essex . It took some time ...

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Richard: Hello! My name is Richard Morton Jack, and I live in London. This blog is a companion to my GALACTIC RAMBLE and ENDLESS TRIP books, and to the magazine I edit, FLASHBACK, all of which cover the 60s and 70s UK and US music scenes in detail. I started the Sunbeam label in 2005 and the Flashback label in 2015. Both specialise in meticulous reissues of lost classics.

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