David Ayers

I have lot of LPs/CDs/MP3s, so Spotify is perfect for me - I've got enough hard and digital copies to keep me going forever! So I can listen to new stuff on Spotify without shelling out, and in fact I often listen to stuff I already own on Spotify, it's just easier. Anything I really want to hear on the 'stereo' in the 'living room' I can (and do) still buy on CD or more likely (for classical) SACD. Spotify prompts me to buy some things on CD, but mainly I use it to listen and move on. The UK subscription deal you can cancel any month so I don't feel tied. Sure, many labels are not on it right now, but over time maybe it will be necessary. I held off subscribing to Spotify for a long time but basically it is at least half of what I need it to be, and I just think it's the future. None of that stops me 'buying' music if I feel like it - it's just another (very welcome) route. [i see I've gone 'Jim' on the 'scare quotes'. 'Yikes']

Where there are so few facts apparently known I'm not sure a biopic can be anything other than a fantasy, and with the involvement of Wynton likely a tendentious one.

It seems we can never discuss an album on this label without discussing the label.

I recorded prolifically without a contract. Want to know how I did it?

What about the scrawny bunch of hippies on this one:

I've read that conversation so many times now I have to remind myself it never actually happened...

I was listening to the very refined and close playing between Joe and Mat Maneri on Blessed (ECM) and began thinking about father/son duos. What other such intimate partnerships are there? Duos would be one context, but also other groupings where the father/son relationship is close (Ornette/Denardo on Empty Foxhole, for example). What's out there?

It's entertaining enough to warrant a listen on Spotify. They do something similar for Schoenberg Op. 23, also on spotters.

Thanks for mentioning that piece. Slightly creaky version! My guess is that it has been very influential.

Priceless!

Who the fuck? Tim Berne! Heh heh. For some reason my brain is wired wrong and crosses over Tim Berne with Tim Redman (the Ezra Pound scholar). Duh. It sounded wrong when I wrote it... I'll tell that to Charlie Parker when I see him next week...

Tim Redman even came to this board to rebut this view of the label in relation to his album Snakeoil. I haven't asked Evan Parker but I'll be seeing him this week so I might float this one by him just for fun.

There is a very decent amount of public subsidy for the arts in the UK. It is worth studying what gets funded and why. For jazz to get funded it needs to be part of a package framed in a certain way, but the idea of handouts for critic-determined quality of a supposedly self-identical genre cuts much less ice than maybe it once did. We currently have a festival here which illustrates how things have to be pitched to the Arts Council. This boat is the kind of thing they like best, I guess.

Yes, but we want someone to blame...

No idea but the boiling water + bleach applied daily method appeals to my need for order in the war against nature. What was it John Donne said? "Nature, thou shalt die!" Something like that.

Good record.

I guess we're paying the price for the internet being our friend.

Agree!!! Hopefully Cam Jazz will do a Black Saint box in the near future All the Black Saint titles are on spotify so you indulge there until the 'real' thing comes. Assuming you don't already have the LPs...

I thought Allen's point was that Cecil's verbal behavior was affected by the degree of respect he felt for the person he was talking to, not for the degree of respect that the other person demonstrated toward him. Not the same thing or theme, no? I wasn't referring in particular to Allen's post, though he used the word.

It's about showing respect for Cecil. It explains nothing about Cecil.

Another thread about 'respect'. Hm.

He plays - everything - sharp. If people think that puts him up there with Armstrong and Ellington, so be it.

And on that, yes, he plays the same regardless of context. It's a 'signature sound' I find not that purposeful. And it doesn't seem to have that many imitators, for some reason, so I might not be the only one to see it this way. Whose purpose should he have been serving? Yours or his? If you have a claim to make, make it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17922388

Pardon me, Sir?