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Trainee codger checking in here. I'm ashamed to say a certain event is on the TV, however in partial mitigation I have a Hank Mobley record playing in the background.
Radio broadcaster Danny Baker has just tweeted that all the animals in Britain's zoos are looking around and saying to each other 'very mild for Christmas Day isn't it?'
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To avoid derailing other threads, the moment we drift off, refer here....
Good idea. If only I could remember what I was going to say....
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RIP Ray
Long time Collets habitue here from about 1965. I found Ray a little aloof but I was very young then and I guess to him I was a mere whippersnapper.
I used to love the English local newspaper cuttings they had on the wall, usually about small-time law breakers, who just happened to have names like Lee Morgan.
Me too. I used to go down to the Collet's basement in New Oxford Street regularly as a teenager. Ray had a certain curmudgeonly aura about him but he knew his stuff when you summoned up courage to ask for advice. Until I read Richard Williams's obituary, I didn't know that the rather imposing white haired Gill Cook, who used to run the folk part of Collets, died back in 2006.
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Every time one of these things happens I assume that finally it will be clear that the whole monarchy thing has been dumped in the dustbin. Yet the last big one - the Queen Mother's funeral - saw people pouring out to pay their respects and reporters I admire usually, falling into craven sycophancy on the BBC.
So I imagine much the same will happen here.
I'll be travelling to Cheltenham for the jazz festival and when I get there avoiding the 'right royal' gala concert.
Oliver Cromwell (or more to the point, John Lilburne and Gerrard Winstanley) rules!
I've nothing against the couple and hope they have a nice day, like I would for any other couple. However, the thing that I can't stand is the suffocating sycophancy that seems to operate at all levels, from the media to politicians. I'd like to think that the age of deference has died but maybe not.
George Orwell got it right when he said that England is just like a large family but with the wrong people in charge.
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Very sad. Though not surprising.
Last time I was there two years back it still looked like a record/musical instrument shop from the 70s. With CDs instead of records.
For all those with fond memories of ( mostly ) London record shops, this thread ( via Word magazine ) should provide a nostalgic rush :
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The Pozar was out in the blogosphere once, a couple of years ago. I thought there was a thread about it but a search for Pozar doesn't bring up much at all... I agree that it's not spectacular, but it's not quite that bad, Mike!
Here's an interview with Robert Pozar :
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Tony Palmer has just completed a film documentary on Holst, due to be screened in the UK at Easter (Easter Sunday, I think).
Should be good - I loved his RVW doc of a couple of years back.
Thanks for the advance warning. If it's as good as the Vaughan Williams film it will be a treat.
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but the rest of it including the much ballyhooed Surf's Up simply isn't very good.
The version of 'Surf's Up' on the later album of that name has always been one of my favourite pop songs. The lyrics might be daft (or so coded as to be impossible to decipher without the code) but when was that ever a obstacle to a great performance (try some opera libretti!)? All the stuff about 'pop symphony' etc might be overblown, but that's more about the constructs imposed on it by critics and commentators. It may not be as direct as 'God Only Knows' or 'The Warmth of the Sun' but it has delicious melodies, a nice structure with contrasting sections and harmonies to die for in its final section.
Surf's Up has always been one of my favourites as well, not just the song but the album as well. Great tracks such as Til I Die, Disney Girls and Feel Flows ( with Charles Lloyd ).
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Happy Birthday 2011 Jazzjet!
Many thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. Much appreciated, although the birthdays do seem to come round with worrying frequency!
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There's a lot to be said for bricks and mortar. I was at Ray's Jazz yesterday (on my way to hear Bartok/Stravinsky at the RFH - just amazing) and they actually had stuff that appealed to me. Yeah costs more but at least it's simple.
I'm still waiting for someone to come up with a business concept that mixes the record shop bricks and mortar experience with the convenience of the internet. If I was a savvy business entrepreneur maybe I would have done so already. Anyone know of any attempts at this?
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Nice to see that, John. I remember going to Chris Wellard's at the beginng of the 70s when my wife-to-be was a student at nearby Goldsmith's College. I found a (very) used copy of Quincy Jones' This Is What I Think About Jazz on the Canadian Sackville label which was in such bad condition that I was told to take it and "put a shilling in the blind box"!
Nice memories. I remember whizzing down to New Cross from Woodford in Essex after school in the 60s ( we had lessons on Saturday mornings! ), hopefully escaping without paying the tube fare, and getting half an hour in Chris Wellard's before going on to watch my local team, Millwall. The considerable challenge was getting back to school by 6 pm to avoid dire consequences and avoiding the football thugs nicking my LPs and beating me up, with even direr consequences.
As a Millwall fan, weren't you doing the beating up?
No, I was one of the few that wasn't. I must have stood out like a sore thumb with my school uniform and regulation navy blue macintosh.
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Nice to see that, John. I remember going to Chris Wellard's at the beginng of the 70s when my wife-to-be was a student at nearby Goldsmith's College. I found a (very) used copy of Quincy Jones' This Is What I Think About Jazz on the Canadian Sackville label which was in such bad condition that I was told to take it and "put a shilling in the blind box"!
Nice memories. I remember whizzing down to New Cross from Woodford in Essex after school in the 60s ( we had lessons on Saturday mornings! ), hopefully escaping without paying the tube fare, and getting half an hour in Chris Wellard's before going on to watch my local team, Millwall. The considerable challenge was getting back to school by 6 pm to avoid dire consequences and avoiding the football thugs nicking my LPs and beating me up, with even direr consequences.
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We need a set of stamps with UK jazz vinyl ex-shops on them.
I suggest:- Mole, Dobells, Rays (the original), Honest Jons (Camden) and James Asman.
Preferably instead of Kate and Wills.
Careful. Isn't daddy your landlord?
Well I don't pay him rent, unless you count the excessive taxation in order that he can employ someone to squeeze his toothpaste for him.
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We need a set of stamps with UK jazz vinyl ex-shops on them.
I suggest:- Mole, Dobells, Rays (the original), Honest Jons (Camden) and James Asman.
Preferably instead of Kate and Wills.
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Utterly bizarre concept - audience on one platform, performers on the other!
What would be the equivalent now - audience in Terminal One, performers in Two?
Gives a whole new meaning to 'wrong side of the tracks'.
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I remember some good stuff on that post-midnight 'Sounds Of Jazz' live slot with Peter Clayton (courtesy of my cheapo Made In Hong Kong transistor radio with a very iffy earpiece - Araldited repair !). Certainly remember the occasional Kenny Wheeler Big Band and stuff like Paz and the Bebop Preservation Society. And John Taylor and Michael Garrick's groups of the era (I'm sure the 'Troppo' band was on one of them).
The main cause of more than a few rushed breakfasts on Monday morning due to oversleeping..
The 'trailer' from the DVD of this John Surman NDR Project on YouTube looks excellent. And what a lineup !
The quality of the video is excellent. Not sure how many other - if any - clips there are of the late, great Mike Osborne.
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If the purpose of acquiring a USB turntable i to copy vinyl onto CDs or DVDs, Kevin B's argument is moot. One, even two spins on a inexpensive USB tt is not going to ruin the original.
Agree. Typically, it's playing the vinyl once to digitise it and then it goes into cold storage.
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Oh Dear!
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_warnings.html?day=2
Just as well I did my dancing around naked in the garden whilst killing a goat Winter Solstice rituals a bit earlier.
Apologies to the rest of the world for the current weather obsession - but this is what you get when you put up a 'How's the Weather?' thread on a site with Brits.
Hopefully, this doesn't sound too smug but all our snow has gone here in Cornwall.
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Does anyone here have any experience or an informed opinion regarding the ION USB turntable? This link shows it retails for less than $100. I am a little leery of it at that low of a price. But if it is good quality, there is one available locally for $40, in a never opened box.
I've got an ION USB turntable and I'm very happy with it. I'm sure there are better ( and more expensive ) options which will produce better audio results but the ION is very easy to use. Personally, I use CD Spin Doctor software ( included with Roxio Toast ) rather than the bundled Audacity, which I find a bit clunky.
You really can't go wrong at that price.
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Cornishmen wouldn't be seen dead in Devon! Devon is The Midlands!
Seriously, one I'd like to see, Manfred. Must be nearly 20 years since I last saw Westbrook in that format.
As the Cornishman said " I went to England the other day. A day trip to Plymouth. Didn't like it - never leaving Cornwall again."
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I vaguely recall some snow when I was doing my teaching practice in Redruth in early 1978. The school didn't close but lots of kids from the countryside were missing.
They still are, but then its Redruth.
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Yesterday was overcast and a bit of a thaw set in, though not enough to clear side roads. Today is clear skies and very cold so very little is shifting.
Tried for a second time to get to Clumber Park but it's closed. So I went to nearby Thoresby Park (north Notts is full of former stately homes - it's known as 'The Dukeries'). Never been before.
Lovely photos, Bev. All our snow has disappeared and almost normal November temperatures.
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All Night Long has Mingus in it -
And Brubeck. Plus Tubby Hayes, John Dankworth etc. More ham than your local branch of Tesco but worth watching.
UK Old Codgers Reminiscences Corner
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Anyone remember that wonderful jazz bookshop that was just opposite Great Ormond Street hospital in Holborn? I think it was run by Theresa Chilton, John Chilton's wife. Wonderfully dusty place where you could get all kinds of second hand bargains including Brian Rust discographies etc.