EDUCATION | EXHIBITIONS: ONE LP EXH@BCU/RHYTHM CHANGES: THIRD FLOOR SECTION 2: Alex Webb: Musician

{quote}Well, it's Charlie Parker on Dial and it's a particular Spotlite LP of those classic Dial records with, you know, 'Embraceable You' ... 'Scrapple from the Apple' and those immortal bebop things. And the point is that I actually remember going into a listening booth in a Hemel Hempstead record shop and hearing this stuff for the first time - back in the fourteenth century..... I wouldn't say I understood it or even enjoyed it - but I knew I'd just stumbled into Aladdins cave. I knew there was something there and I went and I bought a Charlie Parker LP on spec and I listened to it until it made sense, and that music has stayed with me and inspired with me ever since.{quote}Alex Webb: The Spa, Scarborough, 26th September 2015Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker on Dial released 1970Spotlite RecordsAlex Webb
Alex Webb: Musician, Charlie Parker: Charker Parker On Dial

 

"Well, it's Charlie Parker on Dial and it's a particular Spotlite LP of those classic Dial records with, you know, 'Embraceable You' ... 'Scrapple from the Apple' and those immortal bebop things.  

And the point is that I actually remember going into a listening booth in a Hemel Hempstead record shop and hearing this stuff for the first time - back in the fourteenth century..... I wouldn't say I understood it or even enjoyed it - but I knew I'd just stumbled into Aladdins cave. I knew there was something there and I went and I bought a Charlie Parker LP on spec and I listened to it until it made sense, and that music has stayed with me and inspired with me ever since." 

 

Alex Webb: The Spa, Scarborough, 26th September 2015 

Charlie Parker: Charlie Parker on Dial released 1970 

Spotlite Records 

Alex Webb