David Ayers

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.

The BBC Music Magazine and the Gurney/Bridge cover disc are very worthwhile, for those interested.

Great write-up - thank youi very much!

Ah! Picked up the current BBC MM. FWIW the Gurney is only 11 minutes long. The main item is Bridge's war elegy Oration (a cello concerto) and also Gurney's Gloucestershire Rhapsody. Neither composer interests me much, although the Bridge, which I have heard before, is generally held to be a better piece by him. There are several pages on the theme of this thread and some nice photos. Brit-o-centric but not entirely. http://www.classical-music.com/magazine/current-issue/bbc-music-magazine The other two are new recordings but the War Elegy is taken from a 2006 Dutton CD. PS I see the *next* issue of BBC MM will include a recording of Elgar's Spirit of England. Getting a bit parochial?

I read German only if I have to!