David Ayers

So yesterday the Amazon app on my iPhone would allow me to order and pay for downloads directly from the phone. Last week this was not possible. And today again it is not possible. Does anybody know what is going on with the Amazon app? PS I only ask this because I went there to try and download Hum Dono!

The audience for Ragtime has begun to slip a little bit too, I've noticed.

Do people really make purchase decisions based on a meagre 10% discount? Or is it just this company that is so successful at maintaining its premium prices such that 10% appears generous?

Between this, the last shop standing thread, and the general necrophilia and nostalgia...

There's no way round it is there? Shops will usually be more expensive than online. And CDs will generally be more expensive than paid downloads. And unpaid downloads are cheaper still. In all cases what we are paying for is the service we choose to use and it is where and how we shop that decides what will exist.

It's one thing to lament the passing of a store, but why make fun of Foyles/Rays who continue to support a large jazz section? Well worth visiting, one of the few you still can.

I'm not sure about the comparison with opera. Opera performances sell out every day of the week, usually at very high prices.

My loft has decided it can't handle another 800 LPs.

Yes, it's a must-have.

I see him pretty much the same way, though I'm sure I'd enjoy hearing him live, but I stay away from the recordings...

Ten years on (and all of us older and wiser) does anyone have fresh thoughts on this material?

Agree with TTK. Non-representational covers need their own thread maybe () while 'abstract' really implies the notion of 'abstraction from a representation' so is maybe a third thing. Surrealism is a fairly strict genre based on realism (super-realism) and incongruous juxtaposition, but we are just having fun here...

So fascinating that RVW was performed over that period and even that he was championed by a single conductor. Not so cheap but I think I'm in... Maybe need to check spotify first.

http://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/116377/Vaughan_Williams_-_Symphonies.htm

Thank you. I'll get my guitar out and play the tab. If I can .

Does somebody want to write out the chords and melody so we have more to get hold of?

We've all done it...

As I said, it was a work day - but a few Elvin Jones breaks helped a LOT.

Thanks guys! Work day for me but spicing it up with a few tracks from the Elvin Jones Mosaic!

You say that as a joke but as you probably know some of his projects literally are go in the studio (maybe with someone he never played with) record a few hours, issue four CD set. I guess if that's what folks want...

Cuts, with Merzbow and Pandi, is a fantastic record. I listened in detail to the whole thing again last night. Mats is mainly on electronica, though I imagine it is the Japanese number one who contributes the real substance. I love this record and wish there were more like it - or I wish I knew what else there is like it.... Edit: this post is by way of a contribution to the topic of MG's electronica. PS - I have never heard Swedish Azz, by way of comparison. Mats' only other project I know is Splatter, where Marhaug is in sole charge of noise, IIRC.

Well, I just think if they can't do reissues of Coltrane, Davis etc. then they can't do reissues of anything - so I welcome these as a sign of some sort of health, however limited. Actually the Coltrane sounds pretty good.

Keep up the good work!

Interesting indeed. Thanks for posting.