http://www.metafilter.com/tags/drphibes Posts tagged with 'drphibes' at MetaFilter. Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:32:19 -0800 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:32:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/43209/Worlds%2DWithin%2DWorlds <a href="http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/quantum/kirchin_history.shtml">Basil Kirchin, 1927-2005</a> <br /><br />Who he? Kirchin began, aged 14, as a drummer in his father Ivor's jazz band. By the mid-1950s, he and his father were co-leading the most acclaimed jazz band in Britain. They backed <a href="http://www.rubymurray.org/bio.shtml">Ruby Murray</a> (whose name lives on as cockney rhyming slang for curry), and the great Sarah Vaughan <a href="http://www.jazzprofessional.com/profiles/BasilKirchin.htm">wouldn't tour the UK without them</a>; neither would Billy Eckstine. After disbanding the Kirchin band at the height of their fame, Basil set off around the world, a trip which ended disastrously, when Kirchin's tapes of his band's best moments (obsessively recorded, thanks to the fact that the Kirchin band was one of the first to travel with their own PA system) were accidentally dropped into Sydney Harbour. [more inside] tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43209 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:32:19 -0800 basilkirchin bigband drphibes forgottenlegend freejazz imaginaryfilms jazz obituary pioneer sarahvaughan soundtracks Len