Dudley Moore (piano) Pete McGurk (bass) Chris Karan (drums) Dud and the lads swing their collective backsides off magnificently in this clip taken from the very first edition of "Not Only... But Also", originally broadcast 09/01/65.
I'm stunned! I'm 59 years old. I knew Dudley Moore as a great British comedian and a popular actor. I had NO clue that he was such an incredible musician! I've got to discover this now. Thanks the the video!
@@tomkeating5178 - What part of "I'm 59" did you not understand?? The Dudley Moore Trio album was 1969. I was four years old! (You must be one old fart! :)
He was also organ scholar at university in Oxford (Magdalen College I think), which means that as a student he had to play cathedral-standard church organ. I'm told that he and the then Director of Music at the college chapel, Bernard Rose, used to improvise jazz duets on the organ together when the chapel was closed!
@@peterwilton9047 Thanks for that, Peter! WOW! This kind of stuff is incredible. It's also a reminder that there's a larger story to most of the things and people we think know. Much appreciated, sir.
As a young 14 year old drummer, I remember being knocked out with this great trio back in 1965. Dudley was only really at ease when he was playing the piano. Chris Karan was the "coolest" guy on drums in those days and I simply love Pete McGurks playing.... my kind of bass player! My warmest greetings to "UnofficialPixMan" by the way. My love for this kind of music never diminished and after a 40+ year musical career, I am happily playing with the great Marian Petrescu,s fine trio.
Great things come in small packages. I've always thought Dudley was rather like Mozart (who was also physically small) in that he was effortlessly brilliant musically, no snob, a natural, also an entertainer, a giver, and a reveller in humour, especially what is called smutty... a genius, able to do what no other could do. And much missed.
I don't think Mozart was ever smutty, which also means dirty, sooty, filthy, smoky..... Moore did himself no favours getting involved in the 'Derek and Clive' sessions in New York......
He played this to the max. They are cookin' so hard! Lovely trio and so creative in the improv. I loved Dudley Moore. Great pianist/actor/comedian/talent.
He was highly rated by all musicians he worked with, including those in church circles who tipped him for a successful career as a Cathedral organist - playing one of those monsters with a club foot and one of his mother's shoes strapped back to front on it! Happily he chose not to go down that route.
He is great! He is on par with Oscar Peterson and with all the best pianists. It is a tragedy that he didn't live longer. His style is unique, cannot be imitated. Simple yet sophisticated. I can hear every note and every note makes sense.
OP was my first thought as well, his licks and the way that he articulates them, your comment is six years old but I appreciate your observation all the same
I love Dudley Moore, he was an incredible artist and entertainer. Ironically the best bit of advice I was ever told as a pianist by a very old and wise musician was that "Less is Moore". Pun intended. 😎
Peter mcgurk is phenomenal on this track you can see Dudley listening to him and they play as an incredible unit with the drummer gorgeous andy(bob)yates
I too am becoming addicted to this clip, it's so fresh and exciting. What is amazing about the break to remove the fallen manuscript is that he instinctively repeats the riff he has just played to make it sound deliberate, talk about thinking (or playing on your feet), if you close your eyes and listen you would not hear any difference, it just flows beautifully.
Indeed a multi talented guy was Dud, and I agree with the comments on Chris Karen and Peter McGurk a great bass player. Its a great pity that today's younger people do not get the chance to engage with this kind of musical talent because it will never appear on the "playlists" of most radio stations I Once had thee privilege of being in the Royal Albert Hall for an Eevening of Dudley Moore, it was phenomenal hearing this trio live and really swinging
miss you Dudley Moore,so amazing ...I grew up in an Era when Music not tv was the thing to do in the family,..sadly that era has gone and only around for some...
Yeah moonlight Same here. So privileged to see the big bands like Ellington Basie etc. So many pubs had a jazz trio or quartet as well. Great memories. Now 79 and living in the Philippines. Still got some CD's though. Take care.
Very very sad, a great loss to his famuily and to the world of music, I was in the middle of doing my O levels at the time and had a paper round. I remember vividly on the day of my Maths exam, having to deliver the local Worthing paper with the story all over the front page. He is still very much missed by all of his family, bless him. He can be heard on many 60's classics playing as a session musician.
I love this! In America I just knew him as that funny guy in the movies '10' and 'Arthur' and I really liked him, but those movies pale in comparison to the amazing musical talent he had! I can't believe it took me so long to find out what a great musician he was.
The UK's most brilliant pianist, an equal amongst the best swinging, and coolest out there.. I was mortified, at his early death, His contribution to Jazz/classical music, and of course comedy was unsurpassed ....Harvey Perkoff
@flyingsourcers Dudley Moore gone but very much not forgotten not only a musical genius but great comedy timing too. Thanks to those who posted especially his music
I will never forget Dudley Moore's theme from the movie Bridge Over the River Kwai which was on the album produced when he was a member of Beyond the Fringe -- a precursor, perhaps the inspiration for Monty Python's Flying Circus. I WOULD LOVE to hear that Bridge performance again!
Wow! Intensity of swing is astonishing! And also look at the bassist laboring this gigantic load of rhythmic contradiction between half-time feel and regular quarter-beat! -It is almost visually painful. Nobody can swing like that nowdays...
Dudley Moore was a friend we met through our love of Erroll garner I sent him baroque French music Simon le duc a toon duverign which he loved he was taken from us too soon by that cruel nmd afliction
@lorrinbraddick Dudley's comedy was an acquired taste. I think he was as briliant a comedian as he was a briliant pianist. He was very successful at both. Every time I watch 'Arthur' he cracks me up! He is truely missed!
Dud was a musical genius the likes of which we shall not see again but let's not forget Chris Karan and Pete McGurk! They are/were extraordinary players in their own right that made Dud shine at the piano. I only wish I could have seen Pete McGurk live. WOW!!!, what a bass player. It's a pity that there is so little information about Pete McGurk on the web. I understand that he died in a car accident(?) If anyone has any info on him, please post it here.
You'll probably appreciate this page I bumped into, although, the notation about McGurk will make you sad. It did me. www.sandybrownjazz.co.uk/JazzRemembered/DudleyMoore.html
Certainly one of the best and underrated possibly due to his other career. However don't think quite on a par with Oscar Peterson, as someone said. Dudley would probably have agreed.
Dudley had in tears and rolling on the floor with his comedy, but before that and afterwards, the cut lose improvised jazz solos. Glad I have couple of his non-jazz rock, pure jazz LPs. one such CD. Also a cassette tape of a recording he did on NPR locked away in a safety box (not in my usual bank) to be opened when I got too fed up; or on my death where Dudley & I humiliate the Globalists for the parasites on people THAT WORK: It's called "The Exposure of Criminals in the U.S. and U.K. Govs'.
