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Shuffle (Gerry Rossi)

I first met George way back in the 1970s, after a Platform Jazz gig where he played with Art Themen at the Third Eye Centre, the CCA’s earlier incarnation. I was immediately struck by his musical openness and humility as he supported his soloists and complemented their playing, his own solos often nodding in tribute to them.

When I got to know him, his approach to people was exactly the same – warm, generous, supportive and always looking for positives.

We had, for a brief time in the 90s, formed a quartet which we called ‘Inspector Blakey and the Jazz Conductors’. We had neither inspectors nor conductors in the group, but the few gigs we played were at Art Galleries and we tested the speed of our writing prowess by playing only original music composed and inspired by the paintings hanging on the gallery wall – usually with only a few days’ notice.

Having failed that test myself a number of times, I decided this would be a good and relatively unique starting place for a tribute – a tributary, even, and the idea for this piece subsequently arrived as fast as those earlier ones. I assembled a graphic score consisting of ‘paintings’ containing not oily but musical ideas where the ‘observers’ are the musicians and the idea is to ‘musically walk’ round the exhibition, taking in each picture at a time and then moving along to the next one.

These ‘pictures’ have their own discrete musical ideas, all adapted from music I had written for George to play at those concerts, and the process of moving along becomes not a Modest promenade but a shuffle – George had his own very cool walk, you see.

It all culminates in a ‘pizzicato pizza’ – we arrived at something similar in one of those very gigs – what George then called affectionately ‘just a bit of plucking about at the end’. That was precisely twenty years ago.

George had a copy of E.H.Gombrich’s Art and Illusion which we had a look through once looking for some musical inspiration. We never found it then, but in the modern spirit of recycling, and as another layer on that metaphorical pizza, I included references to that text as a pointer for the musicians (should they be amenable to a little pointing) for a bit of added mystical spice.

- Gerry Rossi

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

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from Flying A Kite On An Empty Beach, released November 30, 2022

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