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First flurries at 2.35.
Now coming down more seriously (4.10) and settling.
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.
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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.
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My Orange connection has been acting up over the last 10 days.
For no reason it loses connectivity; unplugging the box and replugging seems to reconnect but often with very slow loading time. Then, after about an hour it's right as rain again.
Worked perfectly today until about 9.00 p.m. Then had an hour of tantrums. Now back to smooth sailing.
The tantrum hour reminded me of the early days - the difference being that in those days I was paying by the minute!!!!
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.
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My Orange connection has been acting up over the last 10 days.
For no reason it loses connectivity; unplugging the box and replugging seems to reconnect but often with very slow loading time. Then, after about an hour it's right as rain again.
Worked perfectly today until about 9.00 p.m. Then had an hour of tantrums. Now back to smooth sailing.
The tantrum hour reminded me of the early days - the difference being that in those days I was paying by the minute!!!!
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.
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My Orange connection has been acting up over the last 10 days.
For no reason it loses connectivity; unplugging the box and replugging seems to reconnect but often with very slow loading time. Then, after about an hour it's right as rain again.
Worked perfectly today until about 9.00 p.m. Then had an hour of tantrums. Now back to smooth sailing.
The tantrum hour reminded me of the early days - the difference being that in those days I was paying by the minute!!!!
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.
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Coming up on Friday on BBC 4 (a welcome relief from all of those Top of the Pops reruns):
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.
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January 1st.
Everything in the garden should be dead.
But there are various climbers still with leaves; and the buds are already appearing on the trees.
At this rate the frogs will be going for it in the pond in a fortnight.
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.
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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.
.... (T)he almost immediate release of live music recordings definitely seems to be the way forward.
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.
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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.
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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.
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UK five CD collection from the Jazz great. In 1985, Miles Davis shocked the music world by moving from Columbia to Warner Brothers. He immediately started working on an album called Perfect Way after a tune by Scritti Politti, later renamed Tutu. When Tutu was released in 1986, it re-ignited Miles Davis' career, crossing over into the Rock and Pop markets and winning Davis two Grammy Awards - the album was a key factor in raising Davis' status to an international superstar. This box set includes the Warner Bros studio albums Tutu, Amandla and Doo-Bop, the Dingo and Siesta soundtracks and live recordings with Quincy Jones and the likes of Kenny Garrett, Foley and Adam Holzman. The set also includes four previously unreleased tracks, from the Rubberband Sessions. The liner notes were provided by leading Jazz critic Ashley Kahn. Warner. 2011.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 :
George Cole's site - The Last Miles - is also useful :
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Raga and other stuff from Robbie Basho, John Fahey.
And Sandy Bull.
Adam - I will say world wide -
Then I would add Joe Harriott, the alto saxophonist. Key avant garde albums - Abstract and Free Form.
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Another one worth considering is Britten's late suite 'A Time There Was' - uses folk sources but in a more tart way than the rich, Romanticism of most of the English cowpat school (no criticism intended there of the latter - I'm besotted with the music of cowpatism).
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it's not on Spotify.
You can't have everything I guess.
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They seem to do the trick - though Bax's imagination was more inspired by Ireland and, later, Scotland.
I'm not sure if your list has to have a reference in the text or just be in the spirit.
If the latter I'd include (as music that has a very 'English' feel):
Bridge - There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
Vaughan Williams - 5th Symphony 3rd Movement
Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra (slow movement)
Holst - A Somerset Rhapsody (and for something much darker, Egdon Heath)
Arnold - Symphony 5 (slow movement)
Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad
Percy Grainger - A Lincolnshire Posey
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. )
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Black Sabbath!!!!!!!!!?????
Eden!
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?
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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.
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Anyone heard this:
Recorded in 1979. Must have been one of his earliest solo albums - a double LP with:
A1 Tortworth Oak (First Version) 11:14
A2 The Unlonely Raindancer 10:56
B1 Thank You God For My Wife And Children 8:06
B2 The Muted Melody 10:20
C1 Steel Yourself / The Bell, The Gong, The Voice 18:07
C2 Dear Ireland 2:03
D1 The Pool 4:24
D2 Tortworth Oak (Second Version) 13:35
D3 Midnight Snow Walk 1:09
No sign of it anywhere.
Never even heard of this one but noticed that a couple of copies have gone on eBay in the region of £25 to £30.
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The attack of the extraterrestrians, no doubt... though they told me they wanted to start their invasion in Cornvall but their compass went wrong because of two short power outages... oh, wait
I think they invaded Cornwall a long time ago. Ever been to Penzance?
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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 :
Well worth a few seconds of your time.
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SME recording on Giorgio Moroder's short-lived label alongside Brian Auger and Blossom Toes.
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.
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Speaking of obscure John Stevens, those trio albums with Trevor Watts and Barry Guy (No Fear, Application Interaction And...--not Amalgam proper, but similar) are amazing--some of the most muscular free/post-free music ever recorded--but grooving. It's striking how someone so throughly involved in formulating a new language with the SME was able to juggle so many different projects and stylistic detours.
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.
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mjazzg - thanks for the link to that 'Vertigo Swirl' site. This one is new to me - lots of great info on there.
This site has some pretty exhaustive information on John Stevens :
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Thanks Bev! I had all (Was it only two?) of National Health's albums back in the day, and I got another from Cuneiform about ten years ago. Fond memories!
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 ).
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Also worth remembering how often older pop music is used in film soundtracks, TV programmes and adverts (think of those adds in the 90s that used blues/depression era imagery to sell jeans and whiskey with John Lee Hooker etc on top - they got me to check out Dr. John, for example). The soundtrack album of a highly successful film, littered with musical snippets, can be very popular.
I'd stress that the interest I regularly see in young people for older music is largely confined to pop/rock. When it comes to classical, jazz etc then there's rarely any connection unless they grow up in homes where that is played or are studying as musicians and come into contact that way. There are quite a few swing bands in the UK educational system - a very good one operating out of Derby.
I've just been reminded of another acquaintance. Mid-20s, sings solo and in bands on a local level, fully immersed in the contemporary scene, is obsessed with Van Morrison.
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.
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Interesting. Do you have a track listing as there are more tracks here than in the session listed above?