Coleridge Goode

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Coleridge Goode
Double bassist
Instrument(s)Double bass

George Coleridge Emerson Goode (29 November 1914 – 2 October 2015)[1] was a British Jamaican-born jazz bassist best known for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Goode was a member of Harriott's innovatory jazz quintet throughout its eight-year existence as a regular unit (1958–65). Goode was also involved with the saxophonist's later pioneering blend of jazz and Indian music in Indo-Jazz Fusions, the group Harriott co-led with composer/violinist John Mayer.

Biography

Goode was born in

Glasgow University. He was already proficient as an amateur classical violinist but turned to jazz and took up the bass after hearing the music of such stars as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Louis Jordan. Abandoning his plans to return to Jamaica
to work as an engineer, Goode decided to embark upon a musical career.

Martin Taylor (left) and Coleridge Goode in London, 2002, at the launch of the Stéphane Grappelli DVD A Life in the Jazz Century

His primary early influences as a bassist were

Stephane Grappelli.[4] Later Goode played in Tito Burns' sextet and led his own group, before being invited to join Harriott's new band in 1958. In 1967 he recorded with Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Ronnie Beer, and Laurie Allan on Gwigwi Mrwebi's Mbaqanga Songs. During the 1960s and 1970s, Goode worked extensively with pianist/composer Michael Garrick. Goode was still performing in the house band at Laurie Morgan's Sunday jam sessions at the King's Head in Crouch End into his 90s.[5]

One of the finest jazz bassists who has worked in

free form jazz in Britain.[6]

Awards and recognition

On 18 May 2011, Goode was honoured with the Services to Jazz Award at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, held at the House of Commons.[7]

In 2014, the year Goode celebrated turning 100, a special performance was organised for him at the London Jazz Festival,[4][8] led by Gary Crosby.[9] Goode died the following year, on 2 October 2015.[10][11][12]

Personal life

In 1944, Goode married Gertrude Selmeczi, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, Austria, of Hungarian origin; the marriage, lasting 70 years until her death aged 96 in June 2015,[3] produced a daughter Sandy and son James.[4][6]

Discography

With Michael Garrick

  • Promises (Argo, 1965)
  • Anthem (Argo, 1965)
  • October Woman (Argo, 1965)
  • Jazz Praises (Airborne, 1968)
  • A Jazz Cantata (Erase, 1969)
  • The Heart Is a Lotus (Argo, 1970)
  • Mr Smith's Apocalypse (Argo, 1971)
  • Troppo (Argo, 1974)
  • Rising Stars with Shake Keane (Trunk, 2011)
  • Prelude to Heart Is a Lotus (Gearbox, 2013)

With Joe Harriott

  • Southern Horizons (Jazzland, 1960)
  • Free Form (Jazzland, 1961)
  • Abstract (Columbia, 1963)
  • Movement (Columbia, 1964)
  • High Spirits (Columbia, 1965)
  • Indo Jazz Suite (Columbia, 1966)
  • Indo Jazz Fusions (Columbia, 1967)
  • Indo Jazz Fusions II (Columbia, 1968)
  • Swings High (Melodisc, 1970)
  • Journey (Moonlight Tunes, 2011)

With others

  • Ray Ellington, The Three Bears (Avid, 2000)
  • Jade Warrior, Kites (Island, 1976)
  • Shake Keane, That's the Noise (Ace of Clubs, 1967)
  • John Mayer, Etudes (Sonet, 1969)
  • John Mayer, Indo Jazz Fusions (Somethin' Else, 1969)
  • Stephane Grappelli
    , Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelly with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (Ace of Clubs/Decca, 1964)
  • Django Reinhardt, Django's Music (Pathe, 1974)

Further reading

  • Goode, Coleridge; Roger Cotterrell (2002). Bass Lines: A Life in Jazz. London:
    ISBN 978-0-9928222-3-1
    .
  • Kociejowski, Marius (2014). "The Happiest of All Stories - Coleridge Goode, Jazz Bassist". God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners.
    Carcanet
    .
  • Roger Cotterrell, "Coleridge Goode: A Tribute", Jazz Rag, issue 133, Autumn 2014, 12–13.

References

  1. ^ "RIP Coleridge Goode 1914-2015", Gary Crosby website, 4 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Coleridge Goode - Double Bass", Jazzwise, 4 October 2007. Archived 8 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ^ a b "Coleridge Goode, double-bass player - obituary", The Daily Telegraph, 15 October 2015.
  4. ^ a b c John Stevenson, "Coleridge Goode obituary", The Guardian, 11 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Coleridge Goode" Archived 24 December 2012 at archive.today, The Jazz Site.
  6. ^ a b John Stevenson, "Coleridge Goode: Bassist and singer who played with Grappelli and Reinhardt", The Independent, 23 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Coleridge Goode wins Services to Jazz Award" Archived 21 January 2013 at archive.today, Dune, 26 May 2011.
  8. ^ Mike Hobart, "Special celebrations at the London Jazz Festival", The Financial Times, 7 November 2014.
  9. ^ "Celebrating 100 Goode Years: Happy Birthday Coleridge". Tomorrow's Warriors. 29 November 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  10. ^ "RIP Coleridge Goode" Archived 11 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Marlbank, 5 October 2015.
  11. ^ Kevin Le Gendre, "Great Brit Jazz bassist Coleridge Goode dies aged 100", Jazzwise, 5 October 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  12. ^ Childs, Martin (20 October 2015). "Obituary: Coleridge Goode, musician". The Scotsman.

External links

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