Royal Oak

I'm intrigued now. I had NO idea Joe Henderson had a "difficult" reputation. I'm also interested in sgcim's comments about the Golson autobiography. Could anyone expand?

My discovery of jazz coincided with the launch of "Jazz FM" here in the UK, around 1993/94. The daytime programming was distinctly lacking in jazz, but the evenings were pretty good, especially "Dinner Jazz" (you can imagine what it was like!). After a year or two it rebranded to "JFM", which meant less jazz, then I think it was taken over and rebranded "Smooth FM", which was as bad as it sounded. Still, for a year or two, you could actually hear jazz on the radio. Jazz FM's slightly older cousin "Classic FM" is still going, playing Classical music's greatest hits and adverts for very middle-class folks on rotation. As far as I know, BBC radio still plays "Jazz Record Requests" for an hour a week, the other 167 hours being strictly classical music.

You made me go and dig the LP out!

I used his product for some time in the early 1990s.....

This piqued my interest enough to listen to a couple of tunes on Youtube (Round Midnight and Ask Me Now). I actually quite liked it, you can still tell they're Monk tunes. I'll listen to some more.

There was a racing greyhound at our local track many moons ago, named "Lux Interior", owner was a Cramps fan, unsurprisingly.

I bought a charity shop LP yesterday, which helpfully had the original receipt inside - £7.99 (new) in April 1992. According to an online inflation calc tool, that would be £15.48 today, which is cheaper than actual cost (LP's are generally £16 and up here, these days) CDs on the other hand - I have plenty of jazz CDs with £14 stickers on (1995-2000 prices), which equates to around £27 now!

Such a great album

Nice

And another thumbs up from me..

It's a new one to me. I do love Sonny Criss' Prestige albums.

Sonny Criss - "I'll Catch The Sun"

Yes, me too. Miles Davis - The Sorcerer

Serge Chaloff - Boston Blow Up!

Something distinctly "space-age" about some of those pics

Benny Carter - Further Definitions

Saxophone Colossus (OJC)

Very true...

Harold Land - Harold In The Land Of Jazz Fairly recent to me on vinyl, but I have had the CD for a few years. I'd forgotten how good this album is, and specifically what a nice tune "Lydia's Lament" is. Good to hear it again.

Hampton Hawes - Four!

Happy birthday Bill

Just finished Martin Amis' "Dead Babies". I make that four Martin Amis books I have read, three of which have fairly unpleasant or downtrodden characters, named Keith (one was actually a woman named Keithette, but you get the gist). I wonder why? There was also a very short, but pointed to reference to J G Ballard's "Crash" in this one (binnacles and semen)

How has the John Lewis advert become an event? I can't stand the fact that the country goes into a frenzy every November when this comes out. "ooooh, dogs, kids, lonely old men, penguins, snowmen, spend money"....fuck right off. I hate the way the Grauniad has politicised it too, as if it is anything other than a cynical vehicle for relieving folk of their money.