Jazzjet

Sort of like Joe Btfsplk, no vowels in his sir name. My copy of this, albeit not great, is listenable, at least to me. Since this is a private recording I can offer it to anyone that wants to hear it. These are the links Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Interesting. Do you have a track listing as there are more tracks here than in the session listed above?

This is an east/west thing. Left Southport at 2p.m. where it was raining (was there to hear the Brandon Allen Sextet); by the time I'd reached Wigan it had turned to snow. Wife is in London for the day; hope she makes it back! No snow here in downtown Cornwall. Had our first frosts of the winter this week.

In a rare but welcome burst of jazz activity, BBC 4 are broadcasting two programmes on Sonny Rollins on Friday 17 February. One is titled 'Beyond The Notes' and is based around Sonny's 80th Birthday concert. The other is a 1974 broadcast from Ronnie Scott's featuring Rufus Harley on bagpipes - unseen since its original broadcast.

Surprisingly, here in Cornwall we are getting 'superfast broadband' rolled out thanks, in part, to a European Union grant. Just had the BT engineers here and had BT Infinity installed. And we are very rural. First impressions are good. Websites load very quickly and downloads whizz by. I have a feeling that 'superfast' means what we should have had in the first place but heigh ho. I saw something about that on one of those computer programmes they have on the BBC News channel, leading up to the hour. Does this mean you will be able to e-mail me fresh pasties? If only I could, Bev, but it would make a hell of a mess of the modem.

Surprisingly, here in Cornwall we are getting 'superfast broadband' rolled out thanks, in part, to a European Union grant. Just had the BT engineers here and had BT Infinity installed. And we are very rural. First impressions are good. Websites load very quickly and downloads whizz by. I have a feeling that 'superfast' means what we should have had in the first place but heigh ho. Good for you. Let us know what speeds you are getting! The engineer did a check and said 40 mbps download speed and about 3.5 mbps upload speed. Of course, it depends where you're downloading from as different sources throttle speeds at different times of day. The most obvious difference is that websites load a lot faster and with BBC iPlayer the video loads fully almost instantaneously instead of continuously buffering.

Surprisingly, here in Cornwall we are getting 'superfast broadband' rolled out thanks, in part, to a European Union grant. Just had the BT engineers here and had BT Infinity installed. And we are very rural. First impressions are good. Websites load very quickly and downloads whizz by. I have a feeling that 'superfast' means what we should have had in the first place but heigh ho.

Thanks for that, Bev. At least the TOTP 1977 reruns are better than the 1976 ones. Makes you appreciate that the 70s weren't such a golden age after all.

Same here in Cornwall. No frosts so far, but plenty of rain and mild. Lots of flowers still out, camelias etc, and the hydrangeas still have colour in them.

Geez, Jazzjet, I don't know about that. I think there are many, many jazz albums that have 'album integrity', a la *themed* music choices -- whether standards or originals -- or as suites. I produced a record with the late singer Trudy Desmond which followed a love affair beginning to end via the songs selected and the mood of the tune. They were all *just standards*, but I heard it on a 'shuffle system' once and it all seemed wrong. (Maybe I was too close to it). You clearly have more experience than me, Ted, but speaking as a consumer a lot of jazz albums don't seem to have the same sort of thematic unity that the Trudy Desmond album had. I'm not talking about sequencing but about developing a theme throughout an album. Maybe because it's a largely instrumental form? I would be - genuinely - interested in some examples of themed albums, other than suites perhaps.

Interesting post, Bev. In the rock field, bands like Muse are going into the studio every couple of months and releasing over the web a few tracks at a time rather than storing them up until a conventional album release schedule comes along. This raises an interesting point to do with what we might call the integrity of the album. In the rock and pop field there are numerous examples of albums which are designed as self-contained entities. Albums like 'Sergeant Pepper', 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' and many, many others. I would suggest that jazz is a field where this 'album integrity' is less relevant, ie they are more collections of tracks rather than a fully sequenced album. Obviously there are jazz albums which we are used to hear in a certain order, eg 'Kind of Blue', but most could probably be listened to in any order. So, you would have thought that jazz was a field ideally placed to take advantage of this deconstruction of the album format. The other point I'd make is that, as there seems a wider acceptance of the compressed audio format - mp3's etc - and their means of distribution, the almost immediate release of live music recordings definitely seems to be the way forward.

A huge loss. Good to know, however, that he was finally awarded the MBE for his services to jazz education. He was playing at one of the first jazz gigs I ever saw, at the old Phoenix in Cavendish Square, London.

no tracklist yet on amazon.com (from where I took the blurb above), but there's one on amazon.de Disk 1 1. Tutu (Album Version) 2. Tomaas (Album Version) 3. Portia (Album Version) 4. Splatch (Album Version) 5. Backyard Ritual (Album Version) 6. Perfect Way (Album Version) 7. Don't Lose Your Mind (Album Version) 8. Full Nelson (Album Version) 9. Siesta - Kitt's Kiss - Lost In Madrid Part Ii - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 10. Theme For Augustine - Wind - Seduction - Kiss - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 11. Lost In Madrid Part Iv - Rat Dance - The Call - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 12. Claire - Lost In Madrid Part V - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 13. Los Feliz - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 14. Catembe (Remastered Album Version) 15. Cobra (Remastered Album Version) Disk 2 1. Big Time (Remastered Album Version) 2. Hannibal (Remastered Album Version) 3. Jo-Jo (Remastered Album Version) 4. Amandla (Remastered Album Version) 5. Jilli (Remastered Album Version) 6. Mr. Pastorius (Remastered Album Version) 7. The Arrival (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 8. Concert On The Runway (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 9. The Departure (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 10. Trumpet Cleaning (Album Version) - Miles Davis / Michel Legrand 11. The Dream (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 12. Paris Walking Ii (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 13. The Jam Session (Album Version) - Miles Davis & Chuck Findley 14. In A Silent Way (Live Album Version) 15. Intruder (Live Album Version) 16. New Blues (Live Album Version - Greek Theater La) Disk 3 1. Human Nature (Live Version - Austria) 2. Mr. Pastorius (Live Album Version - France) 3. Amandla (Live Album Version - Italy) 4. Wrinkle (Live Version- Montreux) 5. Tutu (Live Album Version) 6. Full Nelson (Live Album Version) 7. Time After Time (Live Album Version) 8. Hannibal (Live Album Version) 9. Introduction By Claude Nobs And Quincy Jones (Live Album Version) 10. Boplicity (Live Album Version) 11. Introduction To Miles Ahead Medley (Live Album Version) 12. Springsville (Live Album Version) 13. Maids Of Cadiz (Live Album Version) 14. The Duke (Live Album Version) 15. My Ship (Live Album Version) Disk 4 1. Miles Ahead (Live Album Version) 2. Blues For Pablo (Live Album Version) 3. Introduction To Porgy And Bess Medley (Live Album Version) 4. Orgone (Live Album Version) 5. Gone, Gone Gone (Live Album Version) 6. Summertime (Live Album Version) 7. Here Come De Honey Man (Live Album Version) 8. The Pan Piper (Live Album Version) 9. Solea (Live Album Version) 10. Mystery (Album Version) 11. The Doo-Bop Song (Album Version) 12. Chocolate Chip (Album Version) 13. High Speed Chase (Album Version) 14. Blow (Album Version) - Miles Davis (With Easy Mo Bee) 15. Sonya (Album Version) 16. Fantasy (Album Version) - Miles Davis (With Easy Mo Bee) 17. Duke Booty (Album Version) 18. Mystery (Reprise) (Album Version) Disk 5 1. Maze (Remastered Album Version) 2. See I See (Remastered Album Version) 3. Rubber Band (Remastered Album Version) 4. Digg That (Remastered Album Version) 5. Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) - Scritti Politti 6. In The Night (Cameo Feat. Miles Davis) - Miles Davis Boxset 7. Sticky Wicked (Album Version) - Chaka Khan 8. I'll Be Around (Album Version) - Chaka Khan 9. Dune Mosse - Miles Davis Boxset 10. Big Ol' Head (Lp Version) - Kenny Garrett 11. Free Mandela (Lp Version) - Kenny Garrett 12. Rampage (Marcus Miller Feat. Miles Davis) - Miles Davis Boxset 13. Gloria's Story - Miles Davis Boxset 14. You Won't Forget Me - Shirley Horn Can someone please point me to the thread/posts where more information about the previously planned but scrapped Warner box were posted? Can't seem to find it right now. As it is, this box doesn't hold much interest to me... I have all the albums except for the "Dingo" one, but including the mighty good Shirley Horn album. The best of the Warners is "Tutu", would have enjoyed more live material though, but then I have the Montreux box for that... and as for "Tutu" I just played the Deluxe edition for the first time yesterday... it had been lying around for several weeks now. No revelation or anything, but it's still a fine album that I enjoy playing now and then. This is probably the best source of information on The Last Word - Paul Tingen's Miles Beyond site : The Last Word George Cole's site - The Last Miles - is also useful : The Last Miles

And Sandy Bull. Then I would add Joe Harriott, the alto saxophonist. Key avant garde albums - Abstract and Free Form.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it's not on Spotify. You can't have everything I guess.

Thanks, Bev. The Holst pieces were in the text, or in the discography at the back of the book, as was the Butterworth. I'll search for all these on Spotify and add them if I can. ( The range of music on Spotify is extraordinary but even I still get irrationally frustrated when I can't find something. )

I know. Reading the book again, they're in there mainly because of the imagery on their first album sleeve, rather than their music. Eden has been saved because I've just removed it! Any thoughts on the classical selections?

Referring back to Rob Young's excellent book 'Electric Eden : Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music', I've compiled a Spotify playlist to reflect the discography at the end of the book. It's a big playlist, not surprisingly as it covers over 100 years of music and as it takes in numerous forms of music under its broad definition. Any suggestions on what else to include - or take out - would be appreciated. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy it. Electric Eden

Never even heard of this one but noticed that a couple of copies have gone on eBay in the region of £25 to £30.

I think they invaded Cornwall a long time ago. Ever been to Penzance?

For any UK forum members, here is another online petition to save the BBC 4 channel from cuts arising from the corporations euphemistically named 'Delivering Quality First' programme : Save BBC 4 Well worth a few seconds of your time.

Giorgio Moroder? 'SME meets Donna Summer' Whoops! That should be Giorgio Gomelsky - got my Giorgio's mixed up. Still, I ilke the idea of Donna Summer and SME. Maybe in a parallel universe.

Also worth hearing are an album known as 'Oliv' for the Marmalade label under the SME name. Heady days, with the SME recording on Giorgio Moroder's short-lived label alongside Brian Auger and Blossom Toes. Also, 'Karyobin' on Island and 'Springboard' on Polydor, with Ian Carr and Jeff Clyne. Stevens was certainly a busy man.

This site has some pretty exhaustive information on John Stevens : John Stevens

There was a third in the early 80s in memory of Alan Gowen who died. Also a thing gathering together various stray bits and pieces that came out in the 90s. The Cuneiform would be the live one from the Greaves line-up. Much edgier than the studio albums. I have a short book written by Dave Stewart describing his time from Egg to National Health. It sounds as if it must have been really grim trying to make a living with music that just didn't fit the Zeitgeist. I was at their first concert at the London School of Economics c. 1975/6. Mont Campbell was with them on bass and Bill Bruford as a second drummer. Fabulous concert. I assumed it was another step towards the musical future. Little did I know what was fermenting in the pubs only a few miles away! I've also got a few live boots of theirs. Covent Garden from 1976, London School of Economics ( Feb 1976 ) - possibly the concert you saw, and an album of unreleased demos from Pathways Studio ( October 1975 ).

Apart from the seemingly bottomless access to music from the past - I only had my Dad's Spike Jones and Charlie Barnet 78s plus Two Way Family Favourites - I suggest that young people today are far more open to past music than we were. For me, at least, it was almost a rite of passage to challenge my parents' somewhat conventional music tastes because the new music coming through was so totally different. The post-war period musically was dominated by the coming of rock and roll and the birth of the teenager. For today's youth there is a clear pathway from, say 60s music, to the music of modern bands. This was not the case for baby boomers.