Terry Webster with Jet

[Moderne]

Thanks guys, glad it was of interest! Yes Rob, we certainly do! Another bit of Jet trivia: Cliff said in his "Me and My Shadows" book that Jet had worked out an arrangement of Ravel's Bolero for guitar; I wonder what that sounded like!

[Arpeggio]

I have read that book, many years ago, and so I must have read that comment, but totally forgotten it. We can only assume that a Shads version of "Bolero" never made it to the recording stage.....I am certain that it does notvexist within the EMI tape archive. A fascinating tnought though!!

[anniv 63]

Regarding classical themed melodies, a friend of my wife was round a few
weeks ago, and was saying that she had just started piano lessons.
I told her that I was sure that the first piano tune I learned was a slight
variation on Rifka or as I thought taken from a Schumann piece.
Anyway I played her Rifka on guitar, gave her a copy of it to try it on
piano.
Her husband thought it was a bit of a Bolero to it, which I couldn't see
at first,but then if you strum a Bolero beat i.e like The Spartans by Sounds
Incorporated, it sort of fits in similar fashion!!!
Anyone else thought the same?

Mike

[GoldenStreet]

Having just reacquainted myself with Jet's Rifka, after a good few years, I can certainly hear slight similarities with both Ravel's Bolero and the faster paced The Spartans (credited to one Russ Conway, under his real name!). The tune was written by the session's musical director, the late Mike Leander (credited to his real name, Michael George Farr) whose influences, in common with many popular composers, could well have embraced Schumann, amongst others in the vast classical repertoire.

Bill