David Ayers

Not even Bruckner 7? OK, you're going to play the 'Bruckner is not 'real jazz' card! Well there's a lot of trumpets in Bruckner so could be... Head be called 'Beans' Bruckner or something similar if he was jazz. 'Bratwurst' Bruckner, perhaps? OK I'm going to change it to more than two *types* of tuba. That way Bruckner gets through and we don't have to split hairs over whether he's jazz or not.

What else? A self effacing disposition? An ability to placate people on public transport who might otherwise be irritated by the size and positioning of your instrument in a full car? An ability to count to four? A thick skin?

Not even Bruckner 7? OK, you're going to play the 'Bruckner is not 'real jazz' card! Well there's a lot of trumpets in Bruckner so could be...

Can't help you there. Sorry.

American people singing in English. More than two tubas. Comb. Yodelling.

Maybe they should have licensed more of the Young/Basie. That was a big success for them.

If it's on Spotify, I definitely have it. If not, I might have it. Or I could probably get it.

And not to forget the LSO Mahler box set now available.

Sorry to hear this. I knew his work from performances and recordings, met him, and know people who knew him well. The last premiere of his I heard was Elogium Musicum, a choral work themed on the death of his partner Fausto. Better thought of as a stage composer perhaps, though one who wrote many compelling concert works.

I was wondering if there is a colorful little solo buried in there somehwere - probably not...

Kenny Wheeler!

He's pointing to a confluence that created opportunities for something called jazz and saying it can't work in that way and on that scale again. The whole point about that music was that it built on already fine songs that people knew and loved. That doesn't prevent anyone from working without that context and audience, indeed we know they do that, but without the same conduit to and from an audience and popular material. Lewis's working assumption seems to be that subsequent forms of fusion didn't bridge the gap in ways that were both artistically - and I'd guess especially *expressively* - meaningful and of sufficient popular reach. Otherwise, why did jazz disappear as a popular music?

Every last i must be dotted and t crossed before this board and indeed jazz music itself can be finally retired. Check out the musician list here My link. Anyone figured out who plays where? Even Lloyd Webber himself had a tinkle.

What Lewis is pointing out is that jazz could have a popular success based on the fact that its material (the song book) was itself popular, so it was founded on existing musical literacy. That doesn't seem like a bad point.

And if you deregister, can you still access the books?

Or, maybe, not even hear them because they're you know...not what we have in mind. Ah ah. True.

I guess if it was all that alive that instead of responding to this (who's John Lewis, after all) we'd be talking about all the new developments - but there are none. Or if there are we manage to never, ever mention them.

Glad you said that. Sport is great - I do as much as I can - but spectating? Yeah, being a musician is great - I do as much as I can - but just being a listener/spectator? Whisper it quietly... A 'listener' or, as Anthony Braxton now puts it, a 'friendly experiencer'.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/10/law-students-severed-head-of-exotic-bird-las-vegas-police-say.html Just back from this hotel where I picked up this story. Let's hope the law and their school sling the book at these s*ck f*cks. Thanks to Google this stuff will follow them around their whole lives.

Glad you said that. Sport is great - I do as much as I can - but spectating?

If you click on the link with the catalog number, you'll be brought to a page-specific release. Many of those list personnel. Ones I clicked on didn't, sadly.

On the topic of split boxes, the Berigan was Sony and EMI (Brunswick, Parlophone, Vocalion). So it can be done but the economics there likely did not work out.

Can't be ten I want, but there might be if the website showed more information about each CD - at least personnel listings.

Cliff, It was EPO, many other drugs, and blood doping. It made it so that to win you had to do all that. The fixed hematocrit level in the test mean that some could benefit more than others (a natural 42 benefits more than a natural 48, as the level accepted by the test was 50). And it all took ingenuity and money. The level playing field defense is out of the window. Of course Lance was a great cyclist - but was he the 'best' or just the most ingenious? All his titles are gone and there is now no longer any meaningful way to think about it, and that's what all this has cost the sport. I imagine that most sports currently have heavy drugs problems but only cycling has faced it - too many financial interests tied up. London Olympics anyone? A handful of positives across all sports - joke.

I dare you to mention meandering 'creative' passages on 'little instruments'. I dare you.