Tim Flint

September 4^th

The beginning of the month had taken us into an Indian summer; we still had a very good turnout on the night, with a number of folk in the audience who had not been to a Tim Flint concert before. True to form Tim wore one of his blue sequinned coats, which he promptly passed onto a member of the audience for "safekeeping"

The organ on stage was one of the new Atelier 80/90SL range - from a new selection of models not yet available in the shops. His concert kicked off with a lively number played in Count Basie style showing off the Big Band sounds on his new instrument 'Jump To It'. As a complete contrast, he played the next piece 'Polkadots & Moonbeams' in ballad style before going onto a medley to demonstrate the various organ sounds, the 'Trolley Song' was one of the tunes included.

The organ is a most suitable instrument for playing classical music, so it was a delight to hear the Intermezzo from 'Cavalleria Rusticana' by Mascagni. The beauty of an organ is of course the huge variety of instruments - merely by pressing a button allows you to switch from the Clarinet to the Pipe Organ to the Violin, as Tim Flint demonstrated when playing us Harold Smart's 'Organ Hoe Down'. Tim has also composed a number of tunes himself; the first one entitled 'Yesterdays Dreams' - the second one 'Yours Eyes In Mine', this one in particular played with great feeling and expression, using the piano and strings on his Atelier.

A change of tempo once again in the shape of a very lively samba before continuing with Vincent Youman's 'Tea For Two', which was re-arranged by Shostakovich as a classical piece. Most appropriate as the first half of the concert had flown by with everybody by now being ready for refreshments.

For the second half Tim had changed into a silver coloured shimmering outfit. From the album "Swing When You Are Winning" by Robbie Williams we were entertained with 'Have You Met Miss Jones'?
There are many fans who enjoy the laid back style of the James Last Orchestra, hence 'The Lonely Shepherd' & 'Mornings At Seven' were next. I don't think this year's summer has been that bad, by the same token we have had numerous chances to 'Walk Between Raindrops'.

Tim Flint then continued to play a couple of pieces, which are many people's favourites. Firstly 'I Wont Send Roses' by Jerry Herman followed by a request for the 'Concierto d'Aranjuez' by Joaquin Rodrigo. This piece was first performed in Barcelona in 1940, with the composer deriving inspiration from Aranjuez, once the home of the Spanish Royal Family.

If I am not very much mistaken, the next piece was called 'Penny's Serenade', which for a bit of fun, he followed with a very lively Rock'N'Roll number entitled 'Freedom'.

It is all to easy to sit down at the organ and switch on the rhythm box, so it was nice to hear a beautiful rendition of the tune 'People' played in ballad style using the drawbar sounds on the Atelier. Tim then obliged with a further couple of requests namely 'Somewhere In Time' which he followed with the theme from the film 'Out Of Africa'. It starred Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, well worth watching on video if you have not seen the film yet!

Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen have delighted many of us with their inimitable style of playing, with Tim recreating the 'Muskrat Ramble'.
Time flies when you are enjoying yourself, so it proved to be this evening. The audience would not let Tim go without the obligatory encore, for which Tim selected a march, the theme form 'A Bridge Too Far'. Thank you Tim for an evening of superb entertainment and humour.

Why not come along to a Basildon Keyboard Club Concert, you will be made very welcome, have a great evenings entertainment, a complimentary cup of tea or coffee with biscuits and of course experience the delights of live music played on top of the range electronic organs & keyboards by the best players.