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something most disturbing and disconcerting has happened in London today, the sky's changed colour to this very unusual (but not unpleasant) shade of blue. Also, there's an uncomfortably bright light emanating from above which appears to bring warmth - help!

Yes, with you on Nash and John Piper too

saw that over the Bank holiday. i thoroughly enjoyed it and thought the curatorial premise worked well. Interesting to see the Brits reflected in the Picasso influence who was a fair few years ahead of most of them if truth be told. I thought Nicholson, Moore and Bacon all traversed the influence of PP in varyingly individual ways. I'd've loved to see the Miro but couldn't get it into the itinerary of recent trip to Hepworth Wakefied (knockout gallery and collection)

regretted missing the Kusama. Booked my ticket to see Twombly (and a couple of other half decent painters, I believe) at Liverpool. The Invisible art intrigues. Hayward on a bit of a run at the moment...Emin, Deller and now this. Top tip - if visiting the Hayward and it's a half decent day do visit the roof garden on top of queen ElizHall - lovely spot for coffee, wine or beer

Listening on NPR now, thanks. Liking what I'm hearing.

London's simply drenched. rained non-stop for 24 hours it seems with more promised tomorrow. that's enough for me, now. This is the summer, after all

glad to hear it's good as I've got my ticket for their London gig next month.When i heard about the collaboration it just seemed a good fit somehow so thought I'd take a punt on the concert.

What a dreadful shock. RIP

opening track is so joyous previously listening in response to the Brackeen thread and realising why the news of his possible current situation made such an impact

Only ever read Morality Play which i thought was a tremendously believable historical recreation, packed with atmosphere. sacred hunger has been on the 'to read' list for too long

that's very sad indeed. Sad when anyone find themselves in such a situation but seemingly more so here even though the only connection I have with him is greatly enjoying his music since first hearing the Silkhearts

another cartoonist's view http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/the-daily-cartoon-760940.html worth flicking back a couple of days too

an amusing antidote to a few days too many of "celebration", anything to prick the bubble.

I defer to all the resident Ra-experts but as someone who's dipped a toe into each decade of the discography (courtesy of Evidence, ESP, Delmark, Leo, Impulse) I've found afew of the Art Yards an intriguing listen, nicely produced. So whilst it may not be the place (is there ever really one ideal entry into such a vast musical world?) to start I'd say it was a tempting box for a flavour of an era. From thereon in it's all bets off though....

some people care because as gay people themselves they feel they share an identity and a history. This history is often incomplete because prejudice and discrimination meant gay people chose (and still choose) not to disclose their sexuality. In a non-prejudicial world it actually wouldn't matter if we did know everyone's sexuality. It's not necessarily about their music, and absorption thereof, at all, you're correct on that.

For what it's worth, they don't have a physical address in Graysville, or a local telephone directory listing (paper or online). Edit: There is a listing in Dayton, TN, nearby. Looks like they're on Facebook and Twitter. And in a local newspaper article http://rheaheraldnews.com/story/19731 BeBop, thanks ever so for that

Wondering whether anyone's purchased from http://recordrelics.ecrater.com/ before? I've found an LP listed but I'm unsure of their bona fides, any clues appreciated thanks in anticipation

Looking forward to this one, definitely. Anything new by HT is worth investigating. And as someone who works for a charity for the blind and partially sighted I'm particularly taken by the adjustments being made and would like to applaud both the artist and label for doing so (hopefully Pi and others will extend it to other releases) however i'll be waiting to purchase from elsewhere to avoid Pi's inexplicably costly international postage, at least x2 most other labels. guess it doesn't matter to them as long as I get a copy

starting with the Large Ensembles. Such powerful writing, arranging, playing

enjoying my first listen to a nice pristine new addition to the collection,

I've always had good service from JazzLoft personally. Me too and that's to UK

count me in as excited by the McPhees and some other potential earlier Hats too. Thanks for posting the news

sounds great. I would love to see that band in London again. Meanwhile looking forward to her trio set with Evan Parker and John edwards later this week, can't wait.

in my late teens I was listening to a lot of Tom Waits (pre-Swordfishtrombone) and came to the realistaion that I wanted to hear some music akin to his backing band...I knew this was what people called 'Jazz' but had no other clue as where to start. Off I wnet to Southampton's Central Music Library and borrowed some Jazz LPs chosen solely on the cover photos! To this end I have to thank Ben Webster for looking cool in a hat and holding a saxophone for my first Jazz listening. From there it was the Berendt book and Miles, Coltrane and lots of Mingus, especially "at Monterey" which was an early purchase.