David Ayers

Best upgrade I ever made. Sorry what was that?

Can't help I'm afraid. Never used them.

A prop for BBC Radio 3 internet streaming. For those who don't know, numerous BBC programs are available for a week after transmission via this website. There are a number of jazz programs which you can easily find. Of the classical it is all a matter of taste, but I'd single out Afternoon Performance for varied orchestral/choral repertoire, Performance on 3 for mainstream concerts, CD Review for, er, CD reviews, Lunchtime Performance for song, piano and chamber recitals, and Composer of the Week for in depth (5 program) investigation. Definitely a way to hear lots of stuff without buying CDs. You can use the schedule page to decide what you want to hear - where the program is still online (generally 7 days) there is a link on the page for that edition of the program and you can go directly from there. You can also link directly from the BBC Radio Player. This is a public service announcement! PS A very useful reference archive of mostly mainstream works indexed by composer can be found at Discovering Music. This program features (usually) single compositions discussed in depth.

There is a useful Harlem Renaissance Reader published by Viking/Penguin, and you might start with Houston A Baker, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. A very useful general reference work is the Oxford Companion to African American Literature.

excusez-moi?! i don't like black composers or white jazzmen either, that's how nutty a claim that is. you hate Grieg AND Sibelius, Tveitt AND Aho, Nielsen (greatest 20th c. symphonist) AND Leifs, Berwald AMD Svendsen? Oh I try to care - I just don't. I'm not sure that indifference to Grieg constitutes any kind of hate crime though.

Clean it? Am I some sort of obsessive compulsive? Change it? Am I made of money? Sheesh.

Clem got it with his scattergun, I think. I'd underline the Schoenberg, stress the Carter, query the need for all Dvorak, maintain doubts about Smetana, couldn't care less about Scandinavian music, suggest Kocian Quartet in Hindemith, throw in (not for beginner) my new favorites the Rihm quartets. The Maggini Quartet on Naxos are well worth following in all the British repertoire, first and second rate, and I'd pick out their disk of Vaughan Williams as the very best, alongside the Britten and Bridge. But don't take my word for it. Edited to add: the Peter Maxwell Davies quartet series for Naxos (ongoing) is well worth following - serious, accessible, beautifully played by the Maggini Quartet.

The original LP has been easily and cheaply available since it went out of print. That means: folks have heard it and sold it on; that means: a lot of folks feel they have already had enough of this session and have passed on the set.

I fancy this one, and the Brotzmann/Zerang, but haven't come across either listed over here yet.

Both traitor (traditor is Latin) and tradition seem to have a common root - trans-dare. Whoda thunk.

BBC website

So, just to get back to the topic, I am being asked to consider it a 'rip-off' when a prog rock band covers a jazz organ tune and the album compilers don't give the correct composition credit? Anyway, it's all there on the brain-salad website.

In fact, I have pre-ordered the whole last batch, so none of you will get a copy. See you on ebay, suckers!

Ditto. ... make that three ... I'm going to wait until it runs out then pay over the odds on ebay. It's that good!

I hope you too checked the Sweden Post option!

Shipping note says Sweden Post ( ) then Parcel Force !

I didn't realise the UK you lived in was on a parallel earth... what took it so long to get there?? Good question. I seeem to recall your Elvin set took about 3-4 days. Mine was ordered around the same time but took over a month longer. I tend to find that multiple orders attract delays (no doubt due to the local PO customs bureaucrats ) and single sets arrive in days. At least it's here.. I've been sweating a bit over the past week. Mine took less than 48 hours via DHL and was ordered with another set... DHL deliver the goods and charge you the duty later. Maybe you used another carrier? (Corrected to say charge you the duty later. Their service charge for this is only £1.25)

I didn't realise the UK you lived in was on a parallel earth... what took it so long to get there??

A fantastic record, not to be missed.

Ohhhhh - I see. It is still a pity you have to click on every one to look for the personnel/ track listing

Looks like more clicking to me, which I am not keen on ( I don't want to have to click and return to read about every single LP). Any thoughts? Oh and New Arrivals is not divided either by genre or by media type. The 'recently added' section you get when you click jazz contains different items to the New Arrivals section and, again, mixes LP and CD.

I can never understand why these recurrent discussions about royalties mention only performers' rights but not the rights of composers or even of the copyright holders. Why obsess about one element - traditionally the least financially significant - and never discuss the others?

I have often wondered about this one myself. I have the CC reissue. It is certainly worth reissuing if only as a Conn.

Has anybody actaully SEEN a defective issue (as opposed to website or printed publicity copy)? Or is this more virtual than reality?

Used to have a Ponder LP called Illusions on ABC/Impulse. With strings, IIRC. It went to a better home but I bet I'd revel in it if I ever heard it again.