kenny weir

Two that should be listed right up there - for a live album apiece: Peter Frampton, Neil Diamond.

I have yet to hear Free Fall. But I do have the double CD on ECM - and can hear links between it and the likes of Traditionalism Revisted.

I take it the Herman tracks are the same ones as crowned by the Penguins?

My memory's like a line from a Gene Clark song: "I can only make guesses at my past addresses."

Same here. Most anthems soun dour and pompous. Le Marseillase sounds very uplifting. Yep. Check out the version on this:

I'm 50 and have only just started to begin commencing about wondering when I will decide to get thunking about what I'm gonna do with my life.

I've flipped through it a couple of times without buying. My impression is that it has pretty much the same world view as the CD guide - without the reviews (love 'em or hate 'em). Given that, I can't think of any reason to buy it.

Has anyone heard this? (Yet) I'm listening to the samples right now, and it does indeed sound very bloody good. http://www.archeophone.com/product_info.php?products_id=85

This is the place you need to play: Bennetts Lane

I have the Holman/Orbit and the Fagerquist album on this label. I thought it was called Eight By Eight. But on their site it's tagged Music To Fill A Void. Huh? Has anyone bought from their site? The price is pretty good compared to World Records. And that Virgil Gonsalves Big Band disc has me intrigued. I've dug him ever since he did all thet long, hot blowing with Duke at Newport.

I've spent years wondering what kind of sammich it was. The Great UnAsked Question Of Jazz. Slackers ...

Mellow? Maybe but only at first blush. There's quite some bite there, too. Best bit is hearing both guys playing outside their usual contexts. Sunday Herald Sun, 11 June, 2006 Always two masters at work By: KENNY WEIR JAZZ Always Paul Grabowsky/Bernie McGann (ABC Jazz) **** 1/2 In short: Soul brothers make magic for the ages. THE standards album is such a familiar enterprise in jazz that it requires something special to rise above mere enjoyment to realms of pure pleasure. Pianist Paul Grabowsky and alto saxophonist Bernie McGann do so in an extraordinary fashion. For that there are several reasons. One is timing. In his notes, Grabowsky confesses to having wanted to record with the saxophonist since first performing with him in 1987. It's a good thing, then, that it took until now for such ambition to come to fruition, for Always finds two Australian masters at the height of their powers. Contributing to the project's status as an instant classic is the personality factor illustrated by McGann's choice of material. The album kicks off with God Bless the Child before also wending its way through Lover Man and Night and Day. But the less familiar - In the Chapel in the Moonlight for instance - bespeaks the tastes of a man with a deep and unique love of popular song. Then there is the album's paradoxically arid yet luscious sound. Defining an Australian jazz sound is never easy, but McGann's sweet and sparse alto saxophone goes as close as anyone to nailing it. The tunes mostly are tackled at an unhurried pace that nevertheless generates much fire and passion. There is sheer delight in finding both men in far from familiar territory - McGann making a rare recording without his own band; Grabowsky, usually so focused on original material and concepts, superb in meeting the challenge of good old pop songs. Finally, as much kudos must go to drummer Simon Barker and bassist Philip Rex for being the right players with the right groove for the moment.

Yeah well, close games - or even ultra-close games - are not always classics. In any sport. But as this year's Grand Final has been widely proclaimed as the real deal, my negative feelings could be quite justifiably ascribed to my aforementioned indifference! Meanwhile, Storm got beat by Brisbane in the rugy league Grand Final. Brisbane were bigger and more experienced - and in the end it showed. But ... BUT ... BUT ... Brisbane's victory has been tarnished somewhat by some refereeing fuck-ups that went their way. Even some of the Sydney league commentators - no great friends of the Melbourne team - are saying basically we were robbed. Signed, Kenny - extremely pissed off Storm supporter. Meanwhile, in soccer/football, Melbourne Victory has won six straight after soundly thrashing second-placed Queensland Roar 4-1 on Sunday. Signed, Kenny - football slut.

Whoops! How did I fuck that up. Still wasn't a classic. Go Storm!

Swans by a point. Close, but not a classic.

It ill behooves any 'Mericans to take the mickey - let us do that - out of Australian football codes. At least our guys don't wear - he he he - helmets!

Despite being, on Saturdays, a sports editor on Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun, I have nothing but sublime indifference about this match. Tomorrow (Sunday) night? Wooooeee, that's an entirely anutha matter. The mighty Melbourne Storm will take on the Brisbane Broncos in the Grand Final of the National Rugby League in Sydney. The whole world (Australia) has gone mad. There's no Melbourne team in the AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. And there's no Sydney team in the NRL Grand Final in Sydney. Go figga.

Does not mention it, Brownie, but sort of implies it. Thanks for the reply. I suspect this just right for me - a whole bunch of music that to get complete sessions of would take a lot of time and helluva lot more money. I love the Dixieland/Chicago thing, but I'm not THAT far gone on it.

I got the four-disc Eddie Condon set The Classic Sessions 1928-1949 a few days ago and am enjoying the hell out of it. Incredible music, almost all of which I have never heard before. The sound is superb. My question is this: The "classic sessions" signifies that complete sessions are included and I would like to know is that is, indeed, the case. Obviously, with just a couple of the Town Hall tracks included, that aspect of Condon's activities is covered only piecemeal.

As the originator of the coot comment - and being a 50+ coot myself - maybe, if such a reaction is forthcoming to such gentle tweaking, I should throw in "sense-of-humour bypass" as well.

Funny thread. This forum is thick with super savvy jazz knowledge and experience - the kind that can only come with many, many, many years of endeavour. Consequently it sometimes also seems widely populated by cantankerous, grumpy old coots.

Seen in the tunnel where Princes Diana copped it, at the end of a long line of wilting flowers, other tributes and graffiti: "Go Pies!" (Insert football team name of your choice ...)

IMNSHO: More than all the rest of it times 10! Effectively, I think he was just that. Regardless of what was going on behind the scenes.

I'm happy to have different views on this subject, but I'm bemused by his supporters accepting the BS for what they perceive as some sort of greater good. It doesn't wash with me. Wrong is wrong. He was no sort of role model.

No he wasn't. He invaded their space repeatedly and aggressively in the pursuit of good TV.