David Ayers

Thanks to john b, gnhrtg and double delta for responses on Subterranean. I'm pretty keen on the Dutch improv I have heard so I may dip into these - I'll let you know as and when...

You can currently hear this session here. There seem to be just two numbers, plus interview.

By the way, is anyone up on the Dutch improv scene? I find that a number of CDs are listed at Subterranean in the Netherlands, but I only know many of these artists by name. There is even a little known Roswell Rudd appearance hidden away in there somehwere...

You go Jon! I'm under 2000 and If anything I'm better off - more manageable and more time spent with recordings I really like.

They must HATE you...

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That's Joe Harriott's Free Form, right?

Did somebody say 'tome'? [if you need me, I'll be out in the shed tidying up my tools...]

it looks square to me, are your monitor settings okay? You're so hip.

But they ARE reissuing Yusef Lateef...

Thanks guys. Actually I was set at Standard and switched to Clear Type which I think is slightly better... I also changed to a better resolution. Again that has made a difference. It still isn't great though. I'm told the quality should be OK so maybe I just don't get on well with this kind of screen. (I wear contacts which I don't think helps).

My work just bought me a new PC - great. But the flat screen monitor is fuzzy as hell and the colors are terrible. Do I get the idea that the supplier is palming us off with junk or are these flat screens often like this? Should I keep it or kick up a fuss to get it replaced?

What if it's in the middle of your vacation, and you have to come back rom Barbados to buy it?

You joke, but until the promised Volume II is released my upstairs paint will continue to flake off the walls.

Careless talk costs lives...

"Show me the Way to Amarillo" Fellow UK-ers will know why.

Too true. Or maybe we should see those solos as the still point in an all-too-rapidly turning world?

If it's worth that much I might sell one of my spare copies...

Jazz from the Shamrock Shore

Irish Jazz Scene

Some Parker not to miss are the solo records he cut for Incus (Saxophone Solos/Monoceros/Six of One/The Snake Decides - first two currently on Chronoscope, other two on psi). By the way, do all you guys know Peter Stubley's site? Good source on European Free Improv.

I noticed this a few days ago and even started a thread about it. It is a peculiar disfunction. At the monet of writing there are only a few sets missing from the site - this is exactly what happened a few days ago when I last looked. Edit: uhh, monet of writing... is that like the james joyce of oil paint?

I've always thought of Mahler as being on steroids. I must be getting old...

Or maybe you were thinking of me. I accept paypal. Although I'm not selling anything.

Two contrasting suggestions: A recital of modern sonatas for flute: MARTINU Sonata No.1 PROKOFIEV Sonata No.2 HINDEMITH Sonata played by Mathieu Dufour with Aleksandar Madzar (p) on Harmonia Mundi (budget price, all worthwhile music) BOULEZ ...explosante-fixe... (effectively an amazing modernist flute concerto, c/w works for piano(s) Notations I-XII, Structures II played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard) Ensemble Intercontemporain/Boulez. Newly reissued on DG at mid-ish price. Amazing.