The Kevin Dempsey All-Stars

[Barry]

Hi Kevin

Given the list of those you've already played with and some of your earlier answers, this could be a tricky one

You are taking The Kevin Dempsey All-Stars on the road ... who would be in it - you can have absolutely anyone!

Cheers

Barry

[kevin dempsey]

Hi Barry,
yes tricky indeed!
I would have Joe Broughton on fiddle, mandolin as well as a bit of guitar and keyboard. Stevie wonder on harmonica, keyboard and backing vocals (what a cheek!!). Zakir Hussain on percussion, Steve Gadd on drums, Danny Thompson on double bass, Keith Jarrett on acoustic piano  my good friend Paul Dunmall on saxes and pipes, Roswell Rudd on trombone, and Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin and Polly Bolton joining Stevie on back ups.
If you could sort that out for me Barry, next autumn would be good for me.
Thanks for the chance to have a little fantasy

kev

[Barry]

I'll do me best, Kevin .... I quite fancy seing that myself!  

[tullist/raymond]

Now that does sound like an ace combo. I think Roswell Rudd does alot of teaching, have you ever worked with another great American trombonist, Ray Anderson? Or any AACM guys? I figure in that you have worked with the late Alice Coltrane, it is conceivable your paths could have crossed to her artistic relatives within the AACM.

[kevin dempsey]

Hi Raymond,
 I first came across Roswell, playing on the 'Charlie Hayden Liberation Music Orchestra'. What a fantastic album! Unfotunately never worked with or got to know any of the AACM guys. Alice, what a precence..........

kevin