A Lark Ascending

Wayne Shorter's 'Native Dancer' - without the variable tape speed that ruins the current CD version.

Sorry! Didn't read the rubric. Maybe I'm the Emelda Marcos of nostalgic music slippers!

Kind of Blue, several of the 70s ECMs like Ralph Towner's Solstice or Jarrett's Facing You. And many a 70s rock record - Fairport, Soft Machine, Pink Floyd. There's nothing like nostalgia for the 'slipper effect.'

Every Brit has one of those in their back garden. We always arise at sunrise to worship the mystic spirits in order to bring good fortune each day. Actually all is explained in 'Ashley Hutchings: The Guv'nor and the Rise of Folk Rock' by Brian Hinton and Geoff Wall: On the back cover of the vinyl edition of Liege & Lief is a carved wooden totem owned by Dave Swarbrick, impossibly ancient - like a cross between a scarecrow and a human sacrifice, next to the Witchseason logo, and surrounded by a circle of flowers and leaves, a ribbon bow no less. "Dave Swarbrick found that in a churchyard," Ashley explains. "He found it amongst leaves and things, and it was rotting away in some sacking, and it is quite clearly some magical totem of some description. And we thought that it was just very suitable, and as you well know this and Full House are absolutely shot through with magic and mystery, both albums, and so we put it on the album. But Swarb found it."

Perhaps the time is fast approaching when smoking will be banned on this board too!!! ************ If I'm in a pub listening to music smoking doesn't bother me and I've no wish to ban it. Now talking during the music...that I would ban!

I never have understood the controversy over this set. Maybe it's to do with Coltrane and Shorter being legends whilst Mobley is only revered amongst more specialised jazz enthusiasts. Lacking two of the faces from tenor-saxophone-Mount-Rushmore there has to be something wrong, in some people's minds. I've just played disc 3 (started with the wrong box!) and it just confirms what I'd always felt. Some of the most good humoured Miles Davis on record. Worth it if only for Wynton Kelly. Impossible to listen to him without grinning with delight. If this was the only Davis disc to survive everyone would be totally baffled about the moody 'Prince of Darkness' hype that surrounds the man's image. Sheer enjoyment.

4 is good on Thursdays and 6 is good on Saturdays. Unless you're Jewish.

Havn't heard this yet but I'm very taken by 'Sweet Transients', his earlier disc. Anyone with the good sense to record a Kenny Wheeler tune has got to be listened to.

Ah, but 1649 was also a year of revolution. Or was it counter-revolution? Perhaps 1647 would have been a better choice.

Clearly no golfer's here. Though they probably voted for 19!

Disqualified! ("Read the rubric, boy, read the rubric.")

Strange. I favour 1649 for much the same reason, tonym.

Never mind! Thanks for checking.

Ghost of Miles, What do you know about the Schneider? I've just checked Amazon and CD Universe and they both have a CD called Allegresse coming out in June...but that's the name of her last one of a few years back! Hope there is something new.

Sorry. It's number 11.

The world awaits your verdict...

Ah, JSngry, that one holds a special place in the hearts of us Brits for other reasons!

I was always very selective about who I'd play such games with. It helped if they were four years younger, girls etc!

If you can find a way of selecting 4th July, 1776 as opposed to 3rd July 1776 from the ten choices on offer please be my guest!

Absolutely no deviation tolerated! [Answers along the lines of 'Norah Jones' get instant disqualification]

Well, that certainly proves you're not he!

You didn't used to play bass with the Pink Floyd did you, Ed?

This may not be wise. The only thing I have any knowledge of is England 1640 to 1658.

7 (As a kid I was never much good at sport. When it got to about 15 minutes into any game I'd get bored and run away with the ball).

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