To this day I think fondly of Very Tall every time I’m walking on a cold snowy night. Arranged by Les Hooper: ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET, Jazz Big Band Arrangement, Sierra Music and thousands more titles. I ended up listening to the entire record while standing at the counter, and bought it as soon as the needle came to rest. I was so transfixed, it was hard to concentrate on the titles of the records I was flipping through. As soon as I walked through the door I heard the mellifluous sound of Milt Jackson’s vibraphone filling the air. I had just acquired a turntable and was excited to start my vinyl collection, so I stopped into a record shop to peruse the stacks.
Nevertheless, it has a few interesting features. The acting is neither particularly distinguished nor particularly bad. 'Green Dolphin Street' by Elizabeth Goudge is a novel set in the 19th century, exploring the lives of two sisters, Marguerite and Marianne Patourel, and thei. It was a snowy December evening many years ago, when I was still in my teens. In some respects, Green Dolphin Street is a standard costume drama of its period, a combination of a Jane Austen-style drawing-room romance and an epic of the British Empire. Since it is over many years, besides love tucked in regular life, there are lots of deaths of all sorts. I play the tune often at jam sessions, but this version also holds a special significance for me… The setting is in the Channel Islands and New Zealand. Here’s a transcription of Oscar Peterson’s bluesy solo on the classic “On Green Dolphin Street”, from the album Very Tall, featuring Milt Jackson, Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen.
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