David Ayers

Sorry to butt in on the nostalgia and wallowing. The Bath store was located between a tattoo studio and a barber shop. If sidewinder had really tried to find the jazz store he would have found it inside the new premises. Don't get me wrong. There *is* a global conspiracy against stores that no-one uses but everyone imagines other people should.

Well - and not speaking as a drummer - but in my experience the drummer is the least indispensable part of a band...

What is "whoske"? Amended...

Good. Fits my theory that recordings exist to satisfy the needs of those who make them.

What he said. You can't post something like that without a link! German only - a fine place though, which I keep forgetting to visit more frequently: http://alte-musik-forum.de/ Cool - thanks.

You have an early music forum?

I saw him with a slightly funky group some years ago. Found it pretty hammy tbh. Not least because he kept raising his sax during supposedly exciting passages and went off-mic so we never heard a note. Sure looked exciting though. Montreal Festival IIRC.

Should read here more often, I guess ... UK has fairly pricey offers by now only, but there was one lone copy around on the continental sites, sold by amazon itself ... snatched it up at a more than acceptable price - not shipped yet, but I'm optimistic! Thanks for alerting me, David! Good luck!

That is not a massive hall. Folks need to buy tickets now (or bum their comps). Probably. I've no sense really of what sells out in Chicago. I'll be quiet now.

Uh - politics and religion? Do we want to close this thread before the 'opinions' multiply?

Thank you for the instructions!

Flurin - I still see the (2007?) release on amazon uk for an affordable price. Maybe it's a ghost - ?

Cool. Can you advise us where to access the list?

LPs aren't too hard to come by and feature no digital jitter! I've got two or three. Offers?

Bev, may I mention your name the next time someone posts that I have a duty to attend the concerts and buy the records of those who are living? So you prefer to attend concerts by...the dead?

For sure. There are loads of people playing interesting music, and the generic question of jazz fades entirely if the generic line includes improv. Some of the people who do improv are not really doing it from a jazz background, or at least with no overt sense of jazz style. So what? I hear quite a lot of laptops and other electronica in improv gigs these days, and a lot of jazz-tradition improvisers either play with those people or bring the laptops etc. to the gigs themselves. I made the point already that sales of recorded music are not really an index of the state of health of music. It seems to me that there are more people playing interesting music than that particular market can really accommodate, and also that the recordings exist, if that is what people want, even if they are not widely distributed. As an example, I mentioned in another thread that Frode Gjerstad has just passed the 100 mark in terms of his own recordings. If you check out people you have never even heard of and just on the scene they often turn out to have ten or more in various formats. And 2% of a billion dollar market? Sounds like quite a lot to me.

I love the language. While before we had 'jewel case' for plastic tat, now we have 'clamshell' for shiny cardboard box.

I still don't know why the metric for 'interest in' is sales or streams of recorded music. Classical music fills large halls in all major cities virtually non-stop. Jazz really does not have an audience like that, except for very occasional big-name specials and job-lot festivals with large beer-tents.

I guess the aim of most recordings is to get reviews. There is no way most of the records reviewed in DB are selling in any kind of number to anybody - exception for the Jarretts and Methenys of course. In *that* respect the illusion of "the industry" is a prop for human effort, and in that respect (alone) the persistence of a lets face it - dull - review culture is laudable.

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

Also interesting. Thank you.

I have all my music on iTunes and use an Apple Airport Express to stream to my stereo(s) (one for each stereo). I have had this setup for 3-4 years and it works very well. I have both Spotify and Tidal on my iPhone and can stream both of them through the Airport Express. At $99 each, this might be something worth checking out. Thanks for the tip. That might be all I need. And I have a £50 Apple voucher...

I think this is the thing you need to stream to your existing hi-fi. If I decide to merge my CD and streaming listening, this is the way I will go. http://www.sonos.com/en-gb/sonos-shop/products/connect

Don't know how reliable that article is. The author asserts that Mein Kampf cannot be purchased on amazon but it can and always could be.

What need one?