Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: Committed to modern jazz, [Michael] Garrick

took a shine to the radical stance evinced by [Joe] Harriott and also to poetry, helping in 1961 to kickstart Poetry and Jazz in Concert as its music director, improvising at the piano with Harriott and the trumpeter Shake Keane, as Jeremy Robson, Laurie Lee, Adrian Mitchell, Vernon Scannell, Spike Milligan or John Smith declaimed their poems.

from The Guardian: Michael Garrick

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