Member Since: 7/12/2007
Band Website: http://gingermick.vox.com/
Band Members: Mick Gawthorp
Influences: Henry Mancini, Delia Derbyshire, Peter Falk, John Cassavettes, Kevin Harrison, Neol Davies, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, David Stone-Martin, Don Martin, Charles Lloyd, Charlie Mingus,Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Neal Hefti, Sopwith Camel, The Three Monarchs, William Klein, Coventry, Caravan, Manfred Mann Chapter Three, Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Zappa and the Mothers, Isley Brothers, Mike Westbrook, Steely Dan, Hatfield and the North, Thelonious Monk, Archie Shepp, Groove Collective, Wayne Shorter, Gato Barbieri, Medeski-Martin-Wood, John Martyn, Tim Dawe, Ninja Records, Nostagia 77 (how have these young guys even got to know about some of the suff that its obvious they know about?),Irma Records, Irma Thomas, Les Baxter, Les Dawson, Sun Ra, Bernard Herrman, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Lee Morgan, Lee Marvin, Marvin Gaye, Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, Kevin Ayers, Junior Walker, Walker Evans, Robert DeNiro, Frankie Howerd, Howie B, Buzzy Linhart, Nitin Sawney, Jazzanova, Gary Winogrand, Paul Citroen, William Burroughs, Art Pepper, Sid James, Fred Steiner, the composer of the Perry Mason theme and therefore maybe ‘influential’ in firing the first sparks of my interest in jazz. In fact, for a generation of TV kids who grew up on American crime shows, it’s likely that the first instalments of our musical capital were made then, only some years later learning that what these composers had – very cleverly – done was deliver a version in inverted commas: ‘jazz’, or ‘jazzy’. I remember too ‘The Defenders’, composed by Leonard Rosenmann that had this hot-phat-trumpet establishing (shot) the ‘sense of place’ that came with the pan across the city skyline. I still love TV theme tunes. Give me the theme to Law & Order rather than the ‘theme’ to CSI. I get side-tracked often these days ...
Sounds Like: music from films - or sequences from films - that have yet to be made. Most of what you hear here is not bound by words or anchored by lyrics. In fact, in most cases the title comes last of all. Quite often, its a word-play or pun that only I will believe is funny or clever.
Record Label: Unsigned