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Sutherland Brothers & Quiver Arrow David Bowie

Yes, there isn't a middle ground here that I can see. In the UK there's lots of hot air about liberty being infringed when it comes to showing either vaccination status or negative test proof to enter large venues. I just want to to ask the more swivel-eyed of our MPs (one of whom thought it appropriate to compare this introduction to living in Nazi Germany, ffs) whether they ever object to their liberty being infringed by having to have a driving licence to prove eligibility to drive on our roads.

Benjamin Myers would get my vote but then again I'm no huge McEwan fan as I said

Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty - June 12th [Mr. Bongo, UK 2020]

Yes, and a good deal of what they write is taken from here about the Cleopatra album https://theperlichpost.blogspot.com/2016/09/before-they-were-famous-joe-maneri.html

Alternatively, from the Bandcamp page that Niko linked to above " the resulting LP, originally issued as Eastern Standard Time in 1962 and subsequently reissued as Turkish Delights, included several tracks with jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin"

Thanks for posting this.

Any good? I never enjoy McEwan novels as much as all the hype suggests I should but always willing to give him another shot

I'm not sure Omicron has been with us long enough to assess the severity just yet, experts are saying two weeks more at least. By then the transmission will have passed to the more vulnerable. The other issue they are concerned about is the sheer number of potential hospitalisations, maybe not of the severity of previous strains but I'll enough to need hospital care. The mayor of London has just declared a "major incident" because of pressure on the hospital's, already. Experience in South Africa is hopeful but their population differs greatly in age profile, natural immunity and vulnerability.

Andrew Cyrille/Peter Brotzmann - In Berlin [FMP, West Germany 1983] Been too long since Brotzmann has been on the turntable. Cyrille is masterful. That's one of my favourite JiB releases. I should buy the LP version.

Sheila Jordan - Portrait Of Sheila [Blue Note, NY Mono 1962]

Omicron cases doubling every two days or less in London. Still too early to assess hospitalisations and severity over time of symptoms. Main concern at the moment is the sheer number of ill staff off work affecting services - health care, transport, logistics, food retail etc

That was my first thought too

It's like the House Of Lords but less anachronistic Always been a favourite so i guess I must be amongst that "certain set" although do I detect a hint of disapproval of them? I have a slightly noisy copy of this pressing

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds [Moodsville/Craft, 2021] Christmas came early...

Now you're testing my memory but the one that does come immediately to my mind is this http://nicksmart.co.uk/?page_id=39 l must dig it out again. Other than that it's just a memory that Drake became coverable once Mehldau did 'River Man' Are you saying that, Moran discounted, you think Bad Plus and Mehldau have the links with ECM and European trends? If so, which recordings on both sides of that link are you thinking about? I'm still struggling to see the link really or even the Very Serious trend in US recordings, with the exception perhaps of Mehldau. 'Largo' aside I hear Mehldau as very American with a dose of his Beethoven seriousness and wouldn't immediately place him in the ECM sphere. I think there's a strong European piano trio trend that runs through ECM and as Niko points out through ACT too.

Oh sorry, I misunderstood you. I hear Stenson coming from a more European tradition, Jan Johannson for instance, and possibly Evans than Jarrett. None of that bouncy country-tinged Jarrettism. Stenson's choice of covers are always very interesting. But I haven't given it that much thought to be honest

I don't hear Moran belonging to this trend. Listening to his output as they were released they came from a different source than Mehldau and Bad Plus and I suspect Rooster Ties nails that difference with the Hill and Byard influences. I saw Bandwagon and the Mehldau trio a good few times and they were very different to my ears Also agree about EST who created a whole slew of, especially European, trios at the time and I also think influenced Mehldau to record 'Largo'. Mehldau was always so serious and I think ended up disappearing up that seriousness. That early solo disc 'Elegaic' I found almost comically self-aware. I say this as someone who has twelve Mehldau Trio CDs (just counted them) that I haven't listened to in easily five years. They were good live. I think the whole Radiohead and rock covers thing, especially Bad Plus, was probably more of a record company crossover impetus. I am a Radiohead atheist and quite happy to add their influence on Jazz piano trios to the list of crimes against music they have been guilty of.. - I know this is not a popular stance. I wouldn't put Stenson anywhere near the other guys, different class, different heritage and his trio recordings all stand the test of time to my ears. My conclusions, Bad Plus chancers; Brad Mehldau, frustrated academic; Moran, had and still has something to say - a talent. EST, ok for one album. Helge Lein and all the others, forgotten... And then there was the sub genre of Nick Drake covers, couldn't seem to move for them. Maybe because I love the originals so much but I found them no more than mildly diverting

Chris Schlarb & Chad Taylor - Time No Changes

I haven't found a way to do so yet...

Graham Collier - British Conversations [My Only Desire, UK 2021] Eddy Louiss - Our Kind Of Sabi [MPF/BASF Germany, 1971] finally an LP to replace my dodgy MP3 version. Surman in the 70s, guaranteed fireworks It's that need word that gives it away. My partner still doesn't understand and laughs every time I say it