Louis Stewart

I'm working with Peter O'Brien." And I knew Peter.

I said, "Professor Peter, the piano player, and Louis Stewart?" I said, "What are you doing with these jazz guys? How are you working with them?" And he said, "Oh, I'm producing an album." Bloody hell.

I mean, he was... must've been about 17.

1969 this week, for the first time in the history of the show, the BBC's Top of the Pops producers refused to air the number one song at the time.

It's the only album that the Wad actually fronted, and I'm happy to say the re-release on Livia Records has a couple of pieces that weren't, uh, included in the original.

I've chosen my favorite piece, almost 10 minutes of it, which is Wayne Shorter's composition "Footprints." So that is, uh, Louis Stewart on the guitar, Martin Walsh on bass, and of course, John Wadham on the drums.

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[jazz music]Yeah, nice slow blues there, one from the archive actually.

It was called Me and Louis, bit of a clue in the title.

Uh, and it was by Don Baker and Louis Stewart, with Michael Cody on the bass guitar and Kevin Malone on drums.

I have not been able to find out when it was originally recorded or released, but it does feature on, uh, Don Baker's 2003 compilation, which was called Duckin' and Divin'.