David Ayers

Vendors here owe you and I'm sure will pay you back to support a CD venture, but as you say, you wouldn't buy it yourself, so why do you want to invest their money or your own in someone else's hobby or lifestyle? It depends what purpose you think CDs serve.

First off, I think Jim's basic point is correct, that music is a matter of (trained) imagination not sound. I do query the idea that listening to a stereo you hear music as it was meant to be heard. Some music is designed to be heard on reproductive equipment, much is designed for other contexts and recording/reproduction in part simulates that. So 'home listening' in front of the stereo seems no more of an ambition than 'home watching' of the er telly. That is, it is a social habit, one way of getting in to music if that's what you want, but all very 1950s, somehow (not by accident, the 'albums' we all seem to love here are products of a certain period and modality of lifestyle music). I personally like to hear acoustic music or mixed acoustic/amplified/electronic music in performance spaces such as Cafe Oto or the Barbican. That is not the 'reality' of music either, but it is a context and way of listening I greatly prefer. But I have been wondering about this because we are substantially remodelling our house, and while I was all for setting up the 'stereo' and even upgrading it, I'm beginning to wonder now what kind of access to music I really need domestically.

International Fat Bastard Day is coming up soon though. Sheesh, 'stout' seems so much more polite, ya know?

I guess we all know about living with the dead on this board. How many Mosaics did he have?

Playing CDs already feels weird to me - put in the disk, sit in front of the stereo... I had some time off work and managed to do some of that and I must say it was great, nice big orchestral sound - ¬BLATT¬: WAHHH! ~BOOMFF>>> - but I never have time for it and it feels quaint. Streaming is the way - even downloads feel old fashioned to me. And with streaming you get proper economies of scale - I mean, its cheaper.

Hey I like that one! But yeah you have to have a soft spot for commercial funk. The second album is actually better than the first. A lot of it sounds like theme music from "The Love Boat", an American TV series from the 70s. Thanks - I'll avoid that one then. Or: listen to it on Spotify.

Gotcha. I meant to say over here he was pretty definitive for a long time - at least for people like me. It's great so much of his work is currently easy to find on Emanem and PSI, and in fact more now than ever before.

Hey I like that one! But yeah you have to have a soft spot for commercial funk.

Nice site! For me, these FLAC downloads are the way to go.

If "we" means you lot then - why weren't you? We were.

Conny Bauer has several solo, of which I have only heard Die Gelbe Klang, which include electronics. Duet albums featuring Rutherford or Lewis are really good, the ones I have heard. You can check out Paul Rutherford discography at Peter Stubley's site: http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/

corrected - thanks

All 30 titles: 1. Albert Ayler - Love Cry / The Last Album 2. Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers!!!!! / A Jazz Message 3. Marion Brown - Geechee Recollections / Sweet Earth Flying 4. Mel Brown - The Wizard / Blues For We 5. Alice Coltrane - Hungtington Ashram Monastery / World Galaxy 6. Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness / Lord of Lords 7. Sonny Criss - The Joy Of Sax / Warm And Sonny 8. Duke Ellington - Meets Coleman Hawkins / And John Coltrane 9. Curtis Fuller - Soul Trombone / Cabin in the Sky 10. Chico Hamilton - El Chico / Further Adventures Of El Chico 11. John Handy - Hard Work / Carnival 12. Coleman Hawkins - Today and Now / Desafinado 13. Freddie Hubbard - The Artistry Of / The Body And The Soul 14. Milt Jackson - Statements / Jazz 'n' Samba 15. Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana Revisited / Freeflight 16. Keith Jarrett - Mysteries / Shades 17. Elvin Jones - Illumination! / Dear John C. 18. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady/Mingus Mingus Mingus 19. Blue Mitchell - African Violet / Summer Soft 20. Oliver Nelson - Happenings / Soulful Brass 21. Howard Roberts - Antelope Freeway / Equinox Express Elevator 22. Sonny Rollins - On Impulse! / There Will Never Be Another You 23. Pharoah Sanders - Village of the Pharoahs / Wisdom Through Music 24. Archie Shepp - For Losers / Kwanza 25. Shirley Scott - For Members Only / Great Scott!! 26. Sonny Stitt - Now! / Salt & Pepper 27. Gabor Szabo - The Sorcerer / More Sorcery 28. Clark Terry - The Happy Horns Of / It's What's Happenin' 29. McCoy Tyner - Inception / Reaching Fourth 30. Michael White - Spirit Dance / Pneuma

Popped into one of the Fopps in London yesterday - they didn't have the Impulses. HMV Oxford St has them at £7 each or 2 for £10. Didn't pounce (bought the new Tubby Hayes Savage Solweig instead). £8 in Ray's. Thanks. Saved me a trip!

Are the ones HMV.com sends out sealed? Often the UK editions of CDs aren't and I'm painfully fussy! None of the ones I received were shrinkwrapped, but that is not unusual for UK distributors. All in pristine condition, though. Good stuff - will be popping into the big London HMV tomorrow. Hopefully they are all 'up' on the shelves at that price. Wouldn't count on it. They're usually more instore. Would expect around £6.99. Make sure you go to Fopp, 1 Earlham Street WC2H 9LL, they are run by HMV and carry very cheap stock (e.g. Blue Notes £3) which reflect offers on HMV website, so they may have the Impulses... Not far from Rays Jazz so kill two birds etc.

Got it. Thanks.

If it'll help, I have the CD, listened to it maybe once. It's non-essential. The recording quality is kinda weird and there are better live recordings of the Rich band out there. With that said, even if I knew what I know now, and didn't have it, I'd still be tempted to get it...because you never want a Mosaic to slip by. Aren't there any sellers in the UK that have this title for sale? Well I looked for this on amazon uk and found a disk with the same cover and also in London. Thought it was different but I just looked back and turns out they are the same tracks in a different order. One for the ethics committee? Are you talking about Very Alive At Ronnie Scott's? That was the original UK release, which was a 2-LP set. The CD reissue by that name is also two discs, and has more material than the Mosaic single CD. A rare case where a Mosaic actually is not complete. Ohhhh... Thanks. I'll check it out.

I prefer one of those ceramic hobs. Easier to keep clean.

I enjoyed it. But I'm no expert on these things. Heh heh. I'm just downloading it, so I'll tell you your opinion once I know what it should have been! That would be very helpful! I know that I'm not supposed to like Vandermark but am allowed to 'admire' Guy. Hey! I haven't told you what to think yet!

I enjoyed it. But I'm no expert on these things. Heh heh. I'm just downloading it, so I'll tell you your opinion once I know what it should have been!

No I thought of that. I got up an hour later than usual. I'm ahead of the game. By the way, Vandermark/Guy Fox Fire - how was it?

There seem to be issues in all ways and all directions and have been for some time. I've stopped ordering from outside UK myself. I just get bored waiting and there is no sense of what to expect - especially coming from U.S.

There's a good version of Dogon, and inded a whole session worth of cello trio material, on Live from the New Music Cafe, on Music and Arts label.

Happy Birthday!

If it'll help, I have the CD, listened to it maybe once. It's non-essential. The recording quality is kinda weird and there are better live recordings of the Rich band out there. With that said, even if I knew what I know now, and didn't have it, I'd still be tempted to get it...because you never want a Mosaic to slip by. Aren't there any sellers in the UK that have this title for sale? Well I looked for this on amazon uk and found a disk with the same cover and also in London. Thought it was different but I just looked back and turns out they are the same tracks in a different order. One for the ethics committee?