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Back to one of my favourite cities in the world -
Copenhagen. We had a great hotel and some time to look around. One
of my all-time heroes came to see me: the great Ed Thigpen, who I
had met in Paris in the early sixties with the Oscar Peterson Trio
when they were on tour with Ella Fitzgerald, part of the Norman
Granz 'Jazz At The Philharmonic' concerts.
Some weeks before the tour, Warren had produced a
magnificent boxed set of four of my scores: 'The Harpist', 'Great
Natural Wonders Of The World', 'Moon Power' and 'Terminal Choice'.
Also the soundtrack to 'The American Way'. He had worked long and
hard editing various cues and writing sleeve notes to make the final
package something that I was very proud of. A masterful piece of
production. Erik had been gracious enough to let me sell them at
front of house. By 29th April, they finally arrived in Copenhagen,
minus a few missing boxes. I was very excited and had some good
feedback from people who had purchased them, apart from one, who
couldn’t figure out why there wasn’t a drum solo in a film about a
beautiful harpist.
Warren lost his case on one flight en route to a
concert that turned out to be part of a festival with Nazareth and
Bonnie Tyler. Two days still wearing the same clothes was not ideal
as can be seen by the note he stuck on his hotel door. Five minutes
before we went on, it was found and we went on stage. After the
first piece there was silence. And the second and third! We where
dying a death. I then noticed there were five bars selling drinks in
the hall. Everyone had a pint in their right hand and you can't clap
with one hand!
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