Here's Dud dressed for the season. Although this album was recorded in Australia, where I doubt he would have needed the coat.
Looking
back at this year's forays into the fields of England it was once
again disappointing and represented a worrying continued trend of
diminishing returns from the car boots. There were a few highlights though, and this album is one of them.
Dudley
Moore – actor, comedian, musician,composer as his wiki entry
states. Oh to be so talented. Depending on your age I guess you might
know him best as an actor, most notably in Hollywood blockbusters 10
and Arthur, or alternatively
you would know him primarily from his earlier role as a comedian,
initially in Beyond the Fringe
and then as one half of the achingly funny comedy duo Pete &
Dud. That partnership was forged on his BBC TV shows that aired in
the mid to late 60s - Not Only... But Also. A phrase that
neatly leads into the other strings to his bow: jazz pianist and
composer. Wikipedia tells us he had played harpsichord and organ (and
violin) from an early age and fell in love with jazz during his
university years, playing with John Dankworth in the late 50s.
Through most of the 60s and into the 70s he played jazz piano and
was leader of an excellent jazz trio, and in that guise was vastly
underrated in my opinion.
The
album that this track comes from – Today – was recorded in
1971 and released in 1972. I picked up this copy at a car boot back
in May. Today, giving it only its second or third spin, it hit me as
to what a great album it is. In truth I could have featured any track
from it, there is nothing that is just ordinary, and it certainly
presents a paradox – it is all Dud, but there are no duds.
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