David Ayers

Camel!

Robert Wyatt Sting

Elvis Costello

David Bedford

Tangerine Dream Mike Oldfield where does it end?

To say nothing of rock opera (Lloyd Webber, Pete Townshend)... Keith Emerson wrote a piano concerto and maybe other stuff... Glass's versions of Bowie/Eno OK I'll stop now - Mark, you never told us whay you were thinking about this or what you already had...?

Should have mentioned Frank Zappa! King Crimson covered a bit of Holst (Mars) on In The Wake of Poseidon Manfred Mann's Earth Band mindlessly plagiarised Firebird on The Roaring Silence Jacques Loussier Trio (rock drummer!)

Yeah Tüür was my fifth!

Rhys Chatham, many and various (!) Georges Lentz, 'Ingwe' Paul McCartney Jon Lord

Even harder to find than New Jersey, apparently.

See the Europeans are holding up well in these listings. Out of about 250 nominees we've got - uh - still looking... Oh well. Objectivity hurts.

Hilarious title, too! Is that some british saying? Ronnie liked to tell jokes and throw out one-liners in his club and during his own sets. I never heard him say it and I don't know if he invented it (I seeem to remember another one of his about a dog) but I have heard him throw around his favorite 'When I want your opinion I'll give it to you', also an album title as I am sure you know. Some people used to feel that if Ronnie had been American he would have got a lot more recognition.

Nope, it never has. Yet another UK recording that deserves to be re-issued> It is easy to find on vinyl. Vinyl's a previous life for me, I'm afraid. Cassette?

Nope, it never has. Yet another UK recording that deserves to be re-issued> It is easy to find on vinyl.

When he's mentioned how is his last name pronounced? It's spelt Bacsik with an 'a'.

Burning Dog is a great record though!

I knew Diorio's playing - a little - from the inside out, so to speak, as I studied his book Intervallic Designs. My introduction to musodom. IIRC that had a 7inch of him playing. Only found out in the CD epoch that he recorded. I think he's on quite a few though - not as many as Tal Farlow, Allen... I find his stuff clever but cold. That's just me: I don't much like listening to guitar playing, even though, or maybe because, I used to play it. Not as well as Joe, possibly.

Hm. JLH only - ever - posts about his own releases. That's fine, but it is what it is.

hype = "promote with extravagant or extensive publicity" OED Not an evaluation of veracity, but of modality and extent.

As well as this lot, coming thrills include: John Abercrombie Quartet, Within a Song Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio, Sources Arild Andersen, Celebration If Billy Hart has gone 'ECM-ish' and Andy Sheppard is now in John Surman pastoral mode, what hope for these three ...

Well at least you feel able to say you are disappointed. In fairness, JLH's hype did include a disclaimer that this might not work for everyone.

Probably lots of examples with Paul Robeson. I tried to find one of him with Stalin, but I haven't. It seems likely Stalin was quite careful who he was photographed with. That's only waht I could (not) find on google.

Oh

And at the other end of the spectrum, the most touching one of them all.