{"id":504,"date":"2024-06-05T00:58:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2025-03-17T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T08:29:27","slug":"music-from-the-gumbo-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/music-from-the-gumbo-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Music from the Gumbo Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Melb-92-JoeLane-Serge-Ermoll-Mark-Jeff-LA-JAM.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> A live performance (audio above) &#8211; (fortunately?) captured on tape:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording from Joe Lane&#8217;s cassette recorder at a pub in South Melbourne in 1992 has a notorious reputation among musicians who&#8217;ve heard it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/joelane.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/joelane.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bazznold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/joelane-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The legendary Joe &#8216;Bop&#8217; Lane, We couldn&#8217;t find a photo of Serge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I was sitting in on Mike Jordan&#8217;s drums with Joe \u2018Bop&#8217; Lane (vocal) and Serge Ermoll (piano) on tour from Sydney,\u00a0 Mark Simmonds (tenor sax), all now &#8216;late&#8217;, and Jeff Kluke (bass).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the first tune, Serge, a Russian maniac and freejazz pioneer, full of mind-altering substances including vodka, decided to give the audience a jazz history lesson \u2014 after requesting, or allowing one of my spontaneous end-of-song solos, which Joe had abated. \u2014 and then it became edgy\u00a0&#8216;street theatre&#8217; when a woman in the audience dared to heckle him, so we retaliated with Miles Davis&#8217; &#8220;So What.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A piece of Oz Jazz History, which, as Joe explained at the end, I was a part of. It could even be seen or heard as a precursor to later trends of musical mayhem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This included YouTube video of a Joe Lane performance in Sydney may help you to visualize him onstage, with Al Turnbull on drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_eOfSgCCXkA\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A live performance (audio above) &#8211; (fortunately?) captured on tape: This recording from Joe Lane&#8217;s cassette recorder at a pub in South Melbourne in 1992 has a notorious reputation among musicians who&#8217;ve heard it. I was sitting in on Mike Jordan&#8217;s drums with Joe \u2018Bop&#8217; Lane (vocal) and Serge Ermoll (piano) on tour from Sydney,\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/music-from-the-gumbo-pot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music from the Gumbo Pot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bazznold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}