David Ayers

Last concert, John Adams conducting LSO in El Niño. Nuff said. Not much time for recorded music these days but John Cage's Etudes Australes, Schleiermacher (MDG) are proving excellent company these days.

Nothing that a couple of tins of model paint can't solve...

Thanks for the tip on this one - it is excellent.

Philharmonia Jaime Martín conductor Baiba Skride violin MOZART Overture, La clemenza di Tito BRAHMS Violin Concerto SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 In the meantime a "CD" - a legacy technology not everyone here may remember: Fricker/Rawsthorne/RVW Violin Sonatas, Stanzeleit/Jacobson (1996) Fine and interesting.

Last night: Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Schumann Violin Concerto Dvorák Symphony No 8 Pablo Heras-Casado conductor Renaud Capuçon violin London Symphony Orchestra

Nice image! But there is also an LP by Richard de Bordeaux and Daniel Beretta...

Haitink still regularly comes to conduct the LSO in Bruckner or Mahler. A real great. Meanwhile André Previn has withdrawn from this week's concert with the LSO. I'm going to make the most of Haitink while he can still make make it onto the podium. This year, Mahler 9, Bruckner 7 and 9.

Excuse me if I have posted this before. There is a goldmine of material by Fricker on youtube, and the same user is posting lots of interesting material which can be found nowhere else. Do take a look. On Fricker alone he has two versions of this viola concerto! As anyone interested in Fricker will know, there are maybe three commercially available digital recordings. Some other stuff this user has I should think there has never been any commercial recording.

I had two Perelman CDs and sold them. One on Leo, one on CIMP. I was influenced by the "new Gato Barbieri" hype. Listened since to several on streamimg (not mentioned in the letter above). Can't get too excited though I respect the endeavor of getting it all out there.

We've said it so often, but how weird the Japanese market seems with its innumerable short-lived repackagings of the same material, and the very sporadic and very short-lived one-time re-issues of real rarities. No Nommo yet, as far as I know...

Yet another nail in the coffin of the myth fondly preserved by some that buying recordings supports musicians. Also explains certain issues of quality control. That said, it gets stuff out there.

Perelman has 47 releases on Leo. Quite a lot.

So Leo release volumes one to six of Art of the Improv Trio. Perelman's Youtube channel has 113 subscribers. His most watched video has 4000 views. Good luck to him but - am I missing something?

I'm not listening to you guys. My country just got 20% poorer - it's a medium size island off the coast of Europe somewhere. I don't even know if UPS delivers here any more. Brrr.

...and Thomas Hariot. The poet Gavin Selerie, who works his own version of the Charles Olson tradition, has just published a major sequence based on the lives of Joe Harriott and the English astronomer and polymath, Thomas Hariot. This is one for poetry specialists for sure, and is printed in a physically fine papercover format by Five Seasons Press, with designs by Alan Halsey. So something of a collectable too (and a pretty keen price, I'd say). Here is the link to the description of the book on the Five Seasons website: http://www.fiveseasonspress.com/#hariotdouble There won't be another poetic sequence about Joe Harriott along for maybe some time, let alone as serious an endeavour as this, and based on my initial familiarity with it after the launch reading I recommend it. To figure out if it fits your tastes and interests, take a look at "Spectrum" (which deals with Harriot's styles), which is one of the sample pages at the press website. The title is Hariot Double. Post edited to correct my spelling of Harriott!

Just no time to listen to all this stuff. And so many real-life arts events to attend...

Store them in the loft with the LPs, more like.

Ah but will they be the original JRVG remasters or the US RVG re-remasters?

I think you need new equipment. But what do I know? You could charge it to your employer maybe? Bear in mind that my way of doing things is not good. People often tell me so.

Easier to list five tracks, maybe.

The solution to all problems - of contemporary jazz and of the jazz audience - is only an iceberg away…

Musicians are ten-a-penny, I used to be one myself. Most get almost completely ignored. So what? The OP set the tone here, I think.

Tower Records, yes, and the days when Lou's with double the floorspace it has now had a good range of new jazz at great prices.

Well...not so much. I go to Lou's Records in Encinitas which jazzwise is mainly s/h plus mainstream new releases (ECM). It is just next door to the famous Panikin so you can do a combined visit. If you are a triathlete you could call at Nytro on the way up and Potato Shack is a must for breakfast. The store with the most distinctive history is Taang! records, no jazz there though, and close to Record City which you could also check out. Note: Panikin is a coffee shop. You can sit outside and watch the coaster go past.

There are so many Evans box sets, I haven't even opened all of mine, let alone played them to the point where I would miss a disc... Good luck fixing it - I find that a CD player can often play a disc that a PC won't, and car stereos have a life of their own.