The Dick Jackson Trio

Dick Jackson was a competent jazz pianist who was in Sadler Hall, of Leeds University, at the time I was there. I joined him in a trio, playing jazz guitar. I think the third member of the trio was a string bass player, though I've no idea who it was. We played a few parties, around 67/68, and the only tune I remember from that band was Gershwin's Summertime.

Dick Jackson had a very simple but effective left hand technique, playing open sevenths, that I copied and use on keyboard to this day.

Every "Richard" was automatically called "Dick" at that time, a practice that was rapidly dying out (Sadler was very old fashioned). Another Richard - Richard Hall, I think - started calling me "Dick", a name which stuck for 40 years, till I made the deliberate decision to abandon it when I left teaching in 2006.

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