ONE LP PORTRAITS: ARTS | MEDIA | VENUES: H - Z: MIKE GORDON: Mike Gordon: Director - Scarborough Jazz Festival

{quote}This was one of my first favourite records. It goes back to my army days and National Service when there was a guitarist I knew who loved it and played it all the time. Then when I was a student and worked at Butlins I shared a chalet with six Irish students It was wild and you never knew who was going to be back there at night but when you went in and you put the light on Ella and Louis filled the air. One guy had attached the record player to the light! Very romantic! I can hear the first two notes of anything on that CD and know which tune is coming up. It’s not Louis’ greatest trumpet playing but Ella and the Oscar Peterson Trio are fantastic.{quote}Mike Gordon:The Spa Scarborough, 26th September, 2010Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong : Ella and Louis released 1956Scarborough Jazz Festival
Mike Gordon: Director - Scarborough Jazz Festival, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella & Louis

 

"This was one of my first favourite records. It goes back to my army days and National Service when there was a guitarist I knew who loved it and played it all the time.  

Then when I was a student and worked at Butlins I shared a chalet with six Irish students It was wild and you never knew who was going to be back there at night but when you went in and you put the light on Ella and Louis filled the air.  

One guy had attached the record player to the light!  

Very romantic!  

I can hear the first two notes of anything on that CD and know which tune is coming up.  

It’s not Louis’ greatest trumpet playing but Ella and the Oscar Peterson Trio are fantastic." 

Mike Gordon:The Spa Scarborough, 26th September, 2010 

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong : Ella and Louis released 1956 

Scarborough Jazz Festival