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Here's a link to the actual announcement. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2007_0127 And here it is It would be nice if Bev - who teaches history - would post his views. My own impression (gained as a pupil nearly 50 years ago) is that there's too much British history, since Roman times, to conveniently teach even between the ages of, say, 7-18. Selection is both inevitable and desirable. But even more, it's necessary to interest pupils so that they do what I did - get my mother to buy books dealing with other bits of history that weren't covered. If teachers don't interest pupils, what's the point? MG

Definitely shite. Which doesn't mean that parts of this aren't true. Just that they're presented in a biased, simplistic manner, with possible errors included. MG

Happy Birthday, Tom!!!! MG

Apparent to a parent? Go to a predominantly black high school in any American city with a stack of mainstream jazz CDs by major artists and play them for a class. Let's make them major black jazz artists. Then tell the students, "you should really like this, you know". See what happens. Well, make them MINOR black jazz artists - Lonnie Smith, Boogaloo Joe Jones MG It would not matter. You're probably right - the key thing is telling people they should like something. MG

Been busy, then? MG i got a lot of kids! Ah, there you are then. Enjoy! MG

Apparent to a parent? Go to a predominantly black high school in any American city with a stack of mainstream jazz CDs by major artists and play them for a class. Let's make them major black jazz artists. Then tell the students, "you should really like this, you know". See what happens. Well, make them MINOR black jazz artists - Lonnie Smith, Boogaloo Joe Jones MG

This one turned up today – Oumou Dioubate – Tele bana I missed this one and only found out about it a week or so ago, when I was researching Oumou’s discography! Good old Nick Dean and his endless old stock! I now have the complete recorded works of Oumou Dioubate! MG

Been busy, then? MG

Would that CD be material from "Cole Espagnol" and another I think was called "A mis amigos" or something? MG

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Over here, I'm a bit out of touch with Marsalis/young lionsville. Could you explain this please FL? MG well now I'm reading it back I think I'm too scared to, probably at the limits of my perceptions here. Especially after Allan's post which kinda makes my statement a bit pithy now. And I should fess up that despite really not getting into the Marsalis era recordings I do love most of the guitarists associated with that generation like Russell Malone and Bobby Broom etc. I did recently read an interesting comment by Malone where he stated that he carried some resentment for the fact that players like Metheny, Scofield, Frissell etc were elevated to critical/commercial positions that were far harder to reach for himself. Although he did go on to say that when he met those players it was all about the music for them. He also said 'something like' that without that resonance of the blues, ( I think he actually said ethnic element) that the music wasn't really jazz. It was clear that it was a 'feeling' and an aesthetic that he was refering to and did not seem in any way exclusive, just that it was what defined the music for him. I also read many years ago someone say that you could listen to John Scofield and enjoy all the things you like about Grant Green without having to think about the politics of Grant's experience. Thanks very much, FL. I like Broom and Malone a lot, too, and can see what you mean now. I never thought of them as being linked to the Marsalises of this world before but I can see that it's more than just that they're contemporaries. When I think of "Organic" by Don Braden - surely one of the Young Lions? - which I've got, there are two kinds of thread leading out from that for me. The first is his BEAUTIFUL performance of "Moonglow", just accompanied by Malone (but also the work, in other tracks, of David Newman and Jack McDuff) - it's clear that Braden was trying to link both backwards and forwards in that album. The other is that, according to the sleeve notes, despite having worked with a lot of good organists early in his career, he had to go to Bob Porter for history lessons in Soul Jazz. Also, in the sleeve notes, Dorn says that the album would be the last time Braden would be heard in that context. And further, Braden says: "...one of the goals Joel and I had for this CD was to capture that "havin' a good time" feeling. At the same time, I wanted the recording to have the intelligence that all of my favourite jazz records have." No matter how much I enjoy the music in this album, Braden's attitude is most unsatisfactory to me. OK, the guy's got to play it the way it feels to him. But it feels patronising to me. "Oh yeah, I can do this shit, but really, you know, it's of little value." I don't get anything like this feeling from Broom or Malone, both of whom I've seen live. I managed to get a short chat with Malone after his gig and didn't get anything like it from talking to him, either. That's why I find it hard to put them in the same bag as Braden. MG

Good! Wish I'd seen his regular band. MG

Over here, I'm a bit out of touch with Marsalis/young lionsville. Could you explain this please FL? MG

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An understatement ! The wettest, shitiest Summer weather that I can ever remember over here. 'Summer' ended in April this year. It's even worse than that now! And it's bleedin' cold, too! MG

I don't mind it at all. Don't think I'd bother to get a CD of it, however. MG

I love his Black & Blue recordings MG

Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers did a gig at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff (WTF!!!! - how did they get here?) They were terrible. It was Pucho with a pickup band - lots of London accents. I said, quite loudly, after about three numbers, "Pucho and the English Soul Brothers", as I walked out. MG

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This is my favourite Henderson album, not least because of "Tres palabras" - and thank you, Jim for the translation; I've never heard a vocal version. I've loved the song since hearing Coleman Hawkins playing it. Cal Tjader did a nice version, too, on "Huracan". But that Farres album looks very nice indeed. Think it's going on my endless list. I think it's when Joe STOPS doing Hard Bop that I like him best (well, you know me). MG

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Laugh? I thought they'd never dry! I really used to like Vince in the early sixties. I got the 45 of "Cast your fate to the wind" and heavily dug "Samba d'Orfeu" on the B side - so I got the "Jazz impressions" LP. I suspect it might have been the first Latin Jazz stuff I'd heard and I listened to it a lot; learned, too. Then "A flower is a lovesome thing". It was all good. Really nice stuff to listen to. It was kind of like listening to your friend playing. I got rid of the records in the mid-sixties, when I needed to buy a lot of Soul Jazz albums in a short time. I don't really regret getting rid of them. But they were nice. And probably what I needed at the time. This is a really silly question, though... MG