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01-Jul-2016
Jack Emblow Retires, Buckinghamshire – UKby Rob Howard |
 Jack Emblow has finally retired after a long and highly productive career as a professional accordionist that began in the mid-1940s when he joined the Al Podesta Accordion Band. Born in 1930, Jack had piano lessons as a boy, but after a couple of years switched to the accordion. By the early 1950s he was playing for dancing in small combos around England, and in the mid-1950s began working as a session musician in recording studios, most notably at EMI Abbey Rd, where he was virtually resident until the turn of the century. As a session player, he worked with a huge number of artists, including singers such as Alma Cogan, Michael Holliday, Tom Jones, Grace Jones, Donovan, Peter Sarstedt, Sandie Shaw, etc, accordionists such as Jimmy Shand and Dermot O’Brien, and orchestras led by George Martin, Ted Heath, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, etc. He even played on the Beatles ‘All you need is love’ session in 1967. Emblow is also featured on the soundtracks of many films, radio and TV programmes. In 1973 the BBC persuaded Emblow to form and front The French Collection, a quintet designed to provide light-hearted happy sounding incidental music for the Ray Moore Show on Radio 2. Such was their popularity a large number of albums were recorded that sold well for decades. Jack Emblow is a renowned jazz accordionist, and he has performed with the likes of Martin Taylor, Stephane Grappelli, Toots Thielmans, Art Van Damme, Don Lusher, George Chisholm, and many more. He and accordionist Tony Compton began performing jazz standards as a duo in 1987, appearing at accordion clubs and festivals with great success until last year, when they decided it was time to stop. In 2001 Jack Emblow was elected Honorary President of the National Accordion Organisation (NAO) in recognition of his outstanding and long-term contribution to the accordion. |
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