FR an abbreviation I will take the respectful liberty of using had recorded no less than eight albums as leader, including five that were issued on Blue Note. From reading album sleeves I discovered that, sadly, FR passed away in , aged 49 years. The notes for Good Move were written by jazz critic, Nat Hentoff.
At the turn of the year I decided to see if a couple of references to FR working in Newark, New Jersey would lead me anywhere. I came across a website dedicated to The Newark Jazz Elders and was excited to discover that artists who had played with FR were celebrated on there. I contacted them but there is still no word as yet. I hope that their archivist is in good health. The end of arrived and my disappointment at not being able to update things by the end of only made me re-double my efforts to find out more.
I would see if anything would turn up through searches of French websites. I chased a wild goose briefly, when I read of a Hammond organist who lived outside Paris, but that turned out to be Lou Bennett. My French digging did uncover something that was more promising though. This was composed by Bob Reid and featured a vocal recitation from one Freddy Roach , who has to be our man. The performance was recorded and was later issued on Kwela Records in So there was substance to the references to FR being involved in dramatic performance.
The next jigsaw piece was on YouTube where in a comment on a Freddie Roach track where a respondent stated that he had lived in a house owned by FR on Clinton Avenue, Newark from and that he had heard FR playing the Hammond. So the disappearance to France was not to be the finale then. On Wednesday, I was whiling away my lunch break in a regular Brixton coffee shop haunt.
I read of a twitter link to the Mosaic Records website and made a visit. Mosaic licence and re-package classic modern jazz sets on high quality vinyl and preset them with excellent and informative packaging. Their website, which I have yet to fully explore, features short films.
I was sure that if anybody could move this story on then it would be Pete Fallico , so I crossed my fingers and emailed him. He responded and I picked up his reply yesterday. Pete has very kindly allowed me to reproduce his excellent article on Freddie Roach. Pete mentioned that he hopes to publish a book about the Hammond organ and the jazz artists who embraced it.
I am confident that you will agree that if his article is a taste of what it would be like then he will be offering up an exquisite, treat filled feast. It includes artist themed podcasts featuring interviews with some of the greatest living Hammondistas. My recent introduction to Pete Fallico means that I can only note a couple of things about him and runs the risk of missing much. Over the next three decades, Roach emerged as a cult figure of sorts, appealing to soul-jazz fans who became introduced to the genre through acid jazz.
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