Kevin Ayers with Robert Wyatt etc improvisation ILEA TV 1972

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1972. 31st May. From the Music Alive series. Improvisation with Kevin Ayers, David Bedford, Lol Coxhill and Robert Wyatt. Rescued from the ILEA's (Inner London Education Authority) archive.

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@raphaelgroisard9598 6 ай бұрын

Une époque où on n'avait pas peur de diffuser une improvisation libre en direct à la TV...

@tonylarossa8445 3 ай бұрын

Wow, totally blown away! Been listening to these dudes for 37 years, I do love these strange sounds.

@clouddog2393 2 жыл бұрын

What incredible days the early '70's were and the music and bands so original . lt was as we used to say " Far out man ". Oh for a time machine to go back to those halcyon times .

@MichelleOBrienNZ 2 ай бұрын

I never really “got” jazz improv in the 70’s. Listening to this fifty years on, I still don’t. But great piece of music history, and where Ayers was coming from, Clips of Ayers post Softs and before his solo work and Eno collaboration are few and far between, and cool to see Wyatt too. Thanks.

@damiensuil2183 3 жыл бұрын

i very rarely say this..but this is something new to me..thanks so much for posting..fantastic!

@stephencarroll230 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine a channel televising a piece called “improvisation” today!

@graxjpg Жыл бұрын

I think it was cutting edge back then for a tv studio to do so, even in Europe. I think their graces with the French art music scene granted them graces with the art community around the world.

@theloniousratledge8835 4 ай бұрын

Impossibile...

@JTucci100 3 ай бұрын

If the public understand and engage with the notion of improvisation, they will not maximise their receptivity to products or consumerism.

@jdmresearch Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen a lot of soft machine / Wyatt / Ayers stuff…. And I’ve never seen this.

@croiners4166 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@ultang 2 ай бұрын

Nice

@_ratherBursadboi 10 ай бұрын

On par with Zappa and Pink Floyd. The shots of Robert Wyatt are the best part

@7777Scion 7 ай бұрын

Only video I know of with Bedford.

@glynnwadeson5605 3 ай бұрын

ILEA was the ‘Inner London Education Authority’. Certainly not a national TV channel, and never heard of it at th time.. Maybe it was for teachers and or music students in London.

@jasonpfinch 3 ай бұрын

This was probably meant for people doing music O level or something.

@eugenereingold352 3 жыл бұрын

Can you post Kevin's interview with the show's host from the same episode? Thank you for all the stuff you uploaded. Is there any way to reach you?

@christianfliegendruck625 Жыл бұрын

danke, diese Impro hab ich noch nie gehört. Der Film ist mit Ayers with Wyatt etc betitelt. Ich staune, dass wir den Lockenkopf erst in der letzten Einstellung zu sehen bekommen , nie jedoch sein Gesicht. Hat jemand dazu eine Geschichte?

@underworldent4817 3 жыл бұрын

those were the days....

@peterhopkins142 3 ай бұрын

Nice!

@AfroZen 3 жыл бұрын

New here!

@twistedspanner 2 жыл бұрын

Why didn't they film more of Kevin. You only see him in the end.

@keltyk 7 ай бұрын

Blarp, honk, clatter, Camberwick Green, wizzle, splink

@N0rmad 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't think Kevin Ayers was into the whole free improvisation thing. He starts playing a major scale at one point almost like he's making fun of the whole thing lol.

@clouddog2393 2 жыл бұрын

Listen to the album " Shooting at the moon " . The long track whose name escapes me is very free and avant garde and the worst track on what is a good album ..

@twistedspanner 2 жыл бұрын

@@clouddog2393 underwater?

@didsyd Жыл бұрын

if you saw the Whole World live you'd know how into deep improv Ayers was - and on this his playing is amazing. And he could do pop !

@Elvin_Pelvin Жыл бұрын

@@clouddog2393 I agree with you - I have to skip that piece - however it isn't improv noodling (whatever you want to call it) per se that I don't like - it's just that sometimes it works and some (most) times it doesn't. Recorded another day the piece might have been enthralling (or not!).

@israelruelas5756 3 жыл бұрын

Never seen or heard this

@chazblitz 2 ай бұрын

They should've used Nik Turner instead.

@meridianleeward6370 Жыл бұрын

I saw a Coxhill gig where he supported a band called Zorch who were like Tonto's expanding headband. Incredibly boring, but the hippy audience love them. Lol Coxhill screeched on sax for half hour and gave me a headache and an abiding hatred of free jazz.

@stephenlegg262 3 жыл бұрын

The days of noodling. Thank goodness for punk. Lol

@Fexobs 3 жыл бұрын

Why did you bother watching it ? I mean I know The Clash are shit, that's why I don't watch videos of them.

@Hal9000ize 3 жыл бұрын

Kevin was kinda punk in his time

@joshfrenier6599 3 жыл бұрын

bwajajajaja

@clouddog2393 2 жыл бұрын

Punk was crap music played by kids l would,nt even begin to call musicians .

@twistedspanner 2 жыл бұрын

@@Fexobs I agree with you the Clash were shit. But the Damned were great and Captain Sensible loved the Soft Machine. Lol Coxhill plays on the track ' You Know' their second album. 'Music for Pleasure'. Lol even appeared live with them.