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015 Montreux

The winning line-up at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival  (l-r) John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Harry Miller, Alan Skidmore and Tony Oxley

016 Playing with Elvin

Playing with Elvin Jones’ Jazz Machine

Skid and Elvin

Chilling with Elvin

SOH

SOH – Ali Haurand, Tony Oxley, Alan Skidmore

Rollins menu

Sonny Rollins left his exhortation to keep blowing to Alan and his dad Jimmy on a menu at Ronnie Scott’s in 1965.

Family with ROLLINS

Twenty years later Sonny Rollins wanted a selfie with Alan, his wife Kay and daughter Alice.

George Gruntz with Elvin

Alan has played many times with the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band in this instance on soprano sax but he also played tenor and flute on the gig. With Elvin Jones on drums, the impressive line up included Earl Gardner, Americo Bellotti, Alan Botchinsky, Palle Mikkelborg, Benny Bailey, Woody Shaw and Franco Ambrosetti on trumpets, Runo Eriksson, Jimmy Knepper, Eje Thelin, Mike Zwerin on trombones, Howard Johnson, Jerry Dodgion, Lew Tabakin and Bernie Wallace the others saxes. Lois Colin on harp, John Schofield guitar, Mike Richmond bass and George Gruntz at the keyboards.

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Alan with another great drummer – Peter Erskine at the Viersen Jazz Festival in Germany in 2012

Coltrane poster

Alan was honoured to share the bill with many of John Coltrane’s regulars in 1987.

Coltrane 50 tribute

He also played in 2017 at a concert marking 50 years since Coltrane’s passing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Alan ‘giving it some welly’ as a guest with the Paul Dunmall Sun Ship quartet

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Alan with Howard Cottle (left) and Paul Dunmall at the 2018 Herts Jazz Festival playing John Coltrane’s Sun Ship

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Fronting Georgie Fame’s New Blue Flames with Guy Barker at the Herts Jazz Festival 2018

 

Graham recolouredAlan playing in 2017 Photo Graham Mullett

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Looking oh so Cool in his special 25th anniversary Love Supreme tee shirt from UK Vibe magazine – should have had it for the Café  Oto gig!

 

 

 

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