Reims Jazz Festival, by Coxhill Sinclair Band

Reims Jazz Festival

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1.	Felafel Shuffle [partial] 01:11
2.	Improvisation on Felafel Shuffle 04:07
3.	Three Dave MacRae Improvisations (Clavinet, Rhodes, Band) 04:33
4.	Group Improvisation 1 03:54
5.	Sax Improvisation / Group Improvisation 2 / Improvisation on Oh What A Lonely Lifetime 07:00
6.	Oh What A Lonely Lifetime [partial] 01:24
7.	Improvisation on Halfway Between Heaven and Earth 10:03
8.	Do The Poo Poo 09:36	buy track

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Coxhill Sinclair Band
Reims Jazz Festival
Maison de la Culture André Malraux, Reims, France
Nov 21, 1975

I got this in a cassette trade years and years ago and am only now digitizing it.
Hope you enjoy it.

The info below is quoted from the incredible Calyx website:

This shortlived quintet was assembled for just one gig at the Reims Jazz Festival (France) on November 21st, 1975 [an event spreading over a week; also on the bill were Soft Machine, Terry Riley and Ornette Coleman]. Apart from Lol Coxhill (ex-Delivery, Kevin Ayers & The Whole World) on saxophone and Richard Sinclair (ex-Caravan and Hatfield & the North) on bass, members were Dave Arbus on violin (ex-East Of Eden), Dave MacRae on keyboards (ex-Matching Mole and Nucleus) and Phil Howard on drums (ex-Soft Machine). A 52-minute tape of the gig is in circulation among bootleggers. The gig was reviewed in the January 1976 issue of Rock & Folk: "In spite of the prestigious line-up assembled here, the public seemed largely unconcerned. Only a handful of people attended their performance, which consisted of largely improvised music, a sort of progressive jazz-rock played in a typically British way." [note: the reviewer mistook MacRae for David Sinclair]
www.calyx-canterbury.fr
www.famousfix.com/topic/rock-and-folk-magazine-france-january-1976

THE PERFORMANCE:
Honestly, I was expecting something a bit more, um, engaging (though Lol is always "da bomb"), but hey - what can you expect from a one-off performance? It is always intriguing to see what a bunch of like-minded musicians can pull off kind of on-the-spot.
Cheers,
- La Keo Glet On (lakeogLeton)

etreedb.org/myshows_detail.php?showid=2382033
www.rockinconcerts.com/coxhill-sinclair-band-1975-11-21-cd-reims-audience.html
www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/Diner/2674/arbus_dave_a.htm

Yes, you are right, the Coxhill Sinclair Band 1975 definitely needs reworking. I've had this sitting on the hard drive for years and did not listen before sending it.
- Joerg (Propylaen2001)

This set bears a superficial resemblance to this one, from a couple years earlier:
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/one-night-stand

credits

released March 12, 2024

Richard Sinclair - bass, vocals (track 6)
Lol Coxhill - soprano saxophone, vocals (track 8)
Dave MacRae - Rhodes, Clavinet
Dave Arbus - violin
Phil Howard - drums

davemacrae.bandcamp.com/album/some-history
www.discogs.com/artist/322415-Dave-MacRae
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lol_Coxhill
www.discogs.com/artist/60742-Lol-Coxhill
www.discogs.com/artist/270748-Dave-Arbus
www.discogs.com/artist/321889-Phil-Howard

Recorded Friday 21 November 1975 at Maison de la Culture André Malraux, Reims, France
www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/work-architecture/achievements-maison-de-la-culture-community-arts-centre-firminy-france-1953/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reims
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_la_culture

THE LINEAGE:
audience > to me on cassette (unknown # of generations removed from master) > playback deck Nakamichi BX-2 with azimuth adjustment done > FLAC 8 via xAct > to you for your listening pleasure

No noise reduction or any EQ has been applied. This is an almost raw transfer. I did clip out a 1/4 second drop out in the middle of track 4. I did quick fade outs where there were abrupt changes in applause or the tape just cut out annoyingly.

[Editor's note: I did some EXTENSIVE tom-foolery to try to maximize the fidelity, but I was not very successful. Identification of the tracks was also frustratingly open to interpretation. I left the tracks in the original order－though I moved a couple track markers－but as you can plainly hear the recording is not continuous, and suffers from generation loss.]

Artwork by Alain Margotton.
wearytune.com/item/reims-jazz-festival-2/

This is a "recording of indeterminate origin," i.e. a bootleg. If you buy it from me it'll be the first time anyone in the band has seen a quid from it.

Thanks to Joerg (Propylaen2001) for the tapes

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