David Ayers

In case anyone here hasn't already found this, Rick Lopez' Crispell sessionography is here: http://www.bb10k.com/CRISPELL.disc.html Many if not all of the Leos and ECMs are on Spotify. Can you get that in Norway? I'd work through it there before investing in hard copies. Perhaps the best is the hardest to find, the Braxtons from WIllisau and Santa Cruz. The Leo's I don't much like, nor Live in Berlin. ECMs a matter of taste - Nothing Ever Was has a good deal of blank space since only the second take of the title track takes it to two disks!

The esteemed readers of Swing Journal need to get out more, IMO.

Ditto re spotify, deezer and last.fm for us Yurpeans! thirded, together with changing form cigarettes to filter cigarillos these sites have helped me really much in cutting back my every day expenses without losing much comfort if any... (actually i am still amazed i have so much music so easily available, some days i must admit i just play 30 seconds of one album then go on to the next... but i am learning more discipline :-) ) i know spotify and deezer aren't, is last.fm available in the US? concerning web design (notably the playback function) and unavailability of listed stuff this is by far the worst of these sites but it has lots of things in its catalogue which the other sites don't have... read somewhere that these sites are just a way for the music industry to press money out of venture capital funds and that these sites can never be profitable... don't really care, happy as long as they're around... Now Playing: Ronnie Boykins - The Will Come, Is Now (lastfm) great one! I find you go through phases with these free music sites. At first I was drunk on access to so much unheard music and went through about 120 full albums, as well as "peeking" at things for a couple of minutes, as you mention, Niko. (This, by the way, led to warning emails from British Telecom about excessive broadband use and threat of surcharge. No such thing as a free lunch, as they say!) I kept lists, starring really good discs, which I'm now gradually rehearing and buying at the rate of about one a week. So I can hold my head up high, as far as the effect of free sites on the record industry is concerned! I think I'd feel guilty about buying music I could listen to online! Seriously, I am interested in music as such and interested in musical performances, but less interested in musical 'product' and even less interested in the 'industry'.

I see there are more box sets on the way. I don't know how far these overlap with the one already mentioned. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/qid=1242627455/r...rt=-releasedate

David Bowie, Live in Santa Monica '72 (spotify) Good stuff. Uhhh, not jazz though...

...and I see some guy got a PhD out of him... http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/...HARPER_2006.pdf

Used to have Illusions on ABC, mid-70s. I doubt it ever made it to CD... FWIW I think he is a wonderful guitarist.

Hair has a lot to answer for - that's all I'm saying...

I don't think that anybody made that specific claim.... I'd think there to be a difference between a composer who used a choral group on one occasion and an actual "choral composer", if in no other manner than where said composer saw themself both beginning from and getting to. I think that makes sense, but maybe not? IMO that record is poor, and I find it a mistake to spend time apologising for bad records just because they exist and we happen to have purchased them. There's too much that is too good out there, and vocal part-writing has a very long tradition. Two kinds of music, nicht wahr? [i mean two kinds of music, good and bad]

Well - yeah, if you like. In claiming Hill as an interesting choral composer are you sure you have the leading examples in mind - works by Boulez, Webern, Stravinsky, Henze he might have learned from?

My first and still my favorite, the Mobley. Maybe I ought to grab the Plugged Nickel LP set though...

They are still pushing the dud.

As far as classical music goes there is a pretty steady stream of new release SACDs from many independents if rarely now from the majors. I'm much less sure what is around for jazz in this format, whether as new release or as reissue. Does anybody know what is out there, and what do you recommend? I'm mainly interested in in-print and easy-to-find issues, not OOP, costly niche-market etc, and I am only interested in significant music, not 'audiophile' releases. Thanks for any tips! PS I'd be mostly interested to know about new releases: I've gone (entirely) cold on endless Blue Train reissues etc., though I'd still appreciate recommendations and warnings as to sound quality in this area too. Oh and I still don't understand what all these weird formats being pushed in Japan are...

Ah! Thanks. Nothing that a little photocopying at the British Library won't take care of then....

Calligraph site gives track listings (barely legible) but that's all. http://www.calligraph-records.co.uk/ParloV1.htm

I guess Humph is mainly known in the UK, both as a radio host and as a trumpet player of more than fifty years' standing until his recent death. Humph's famous Parlophone recordings have been put out in selection by EMI on a 3 CD set, but out of sequence and with no discographical information. Does anyone know where I can find a discography?

I totally flunked it. But what the heck, I've only been following jazz for about 25 years...

Fried chicken and music don't mix. Get your priorities right. Pints on stage are the big no-no, in my experience of uh some years ago. Ends up making things slippery underfoot and makes the cables a little unpleasant to handle afterwards. Oh and then if you put your set sheet on the floor - don't get me started. Yeah I had a hard life.

Thanks! I'll look round for the SACD, I think.

That one joins the Pantheon of famous duds. We should start a thread. Since you know the SC discog. can you tell me what this one is?

Anyhone else see last night's BBC documentary about Pannonica by Hannah Rothschild, her great niece? Good stuff with lots of talking heads and quite a lot I never knew. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jwcr6 (this is a repost from the Thelonica thread)

We have that here too, but our local indy shop closed a few years ago and our classical store closed a few months ago. Of the chains, Fopp and Zavvi vanished, we've just got HMV left. According to BBC, a quarter of all outlets in UK have closed this year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8005429.stm

I just this moment finished watching a BBC documentary about Pannonica by Hannah Rothschild. Good stuff with lots of talking heads and quite a lot I never knew. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jwcr6

It's only a matter of time on the board before somebody says the magic word 'Mosaic' so let me be the first... some of the individual LPs of the Mosaic Roach set have been mentioned and those are indeed the better part of the set, but I'd say the whole box tells a story and is really a delight - right up there alongside the Hank Mobley as the last of the great modern jazz Mosaics. Percussion Bitter Sweet on the other hand, hard to get past the muffled sound of the GRP/Impulse CD...

Good luck, Al. Keep us posted.