BillF

At my (Manchester-based) online Spanish class this morning there was talk of ordering publications from Spain. I didn't have the heart (or perhaps the Spanish words) to tell them ...

Sorry for coming across this so late. Alun Morgan was such a good critic. Brian Priestley who was at university with me told me Alun helped him get started. Don't know. Would be nice if there were.

My 1) is comprehensive and covers your 3).

I'm sure.

I reckon yes as, if you like jazz, you're not 1) stupid 2) racist/xenophobic

The Boris visit has certainly given some scope for humour. A picture of him looking even more bedraggled than usual in his yellow jacket has been posted on local WhatsApp with the caption "Man from Stalybridge swept away by flood found alive and well in Didsbury." Another remarked that he'd be helpful as he'd "make a good sandbag."Unintentional humour, too from the local media. The Manchester Evening News misspelled flood-hit Bankside Avenue as Backside Avenue, leading to mutterings of Shit Creek.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/21/britons-buying-from-eu-websites-face-more-than-100-import-duties

Fortunately no. I live about one mile from the Mersey. The houses that were evacuated are 100-200 yards from the river. IIRC about 20 years ago when the Environment Agency first published flood risk maps they showed two levels: areas at imminent risk and areas at once-in-a-hundred-years risk. My house is a few hundred yards beyond area 2. All the houses affected last night were firmly in area 1 (as are large areas of central London). Again IIRC, publication had such an impact on property values that a revised edition omitted area 2 completely.

First heard the sextet in the late 50s, but it was on this album. Formative influence on my jazz tastes:

Heard (unusually these days) an aircraft this morning, but missed my chance of pushing the passenger in the river.

Just heard the first track of the album and with Jeff Hamilton on drums and John Goldsby on bass they're really movin'.

Ho, ho!

Don't forget to mention PJJ on the first session. Bird and Philly together! The way the music was going.

Lockdown Sessions: The London Supersax Project Livestream from Ronnie Scott's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzQcViVTb4E&t=2077s

Now playing:

But it's not as bad as this ...

Nice, but still not the right sort of jazz. Excuse the nitpicking, but Bechet in the 50s had a special significance for me. In 1956 when I was a 16-year-old schoolboy I was listening to the then super-popular Bill Haley & His Comets. An older boy (he must have been all of 17) took me aside and said, "You shouldn't be wasting your time on this stuff; you should be listening to jazz" and he lent me an EP of Claude Luter's band with Sidney Bechet. 65 years later and I've never looked back! And I still recall some tunes on that record: "Les Oignons" and "Le Marchand de Poissons". A life-forming experience!

Pleased to see that. Still waiting for that jazz album ...