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Nice sombre cover too. Makes a change from some of the previous choices.

Eric Burden. What a guy. I remember him being interviewed during a tour of Australia. Possibly in the early to mid Eighties. The interview was on one of our awful half-hour Current Affairs shows that follow the 6.00pm network news. At the end of the interview with the 'very' seedy Eric, the 'empty vessel' interviewer asked him what were his thoughts on where popular music was heading in the future. Eric optimistically answered that Reggae would be the most influential trend in future music. 'Why is that Eric?' the clueless interviewer asked, to which Eric replied, 'because the rhythm ends on the 'upbeat'.

Recorded in a Turkish bath? Indeed - the sound is very murky, sort of muffled by the primeval steamy pea-soup. That's a pity, because Ingres was the most 'audiophile' of painters.

I'm always up to hear any amount of variations on the Villanova Junction and Hey Baby/Gypsy Boy tunes that might be floating around.

Yep. He'll always be Major Nelson the good guy to me. One of my funniest memories of Hagman, was when he went on an anti smoking tirade a few years ago, and took to carrying around a portable hand-held fan - that he would stick in the face of smokers to blow back the smoke

But I've heard pretty much everything else already released, and that alone is impressive. Have you forgotten how many worthwhile albums many jazz musicians recorded YEARLY back in the late 50's/early 60's? Apples and oranges, unless you are coming from the "jazz is ALWAYS superior to rock" camp. I am coming from no such camp. Just the camp that the amount of "worthwhile" music being made in such a short period of time is in no way unprecedented, and therefore not unbelievable. Guess I'd better parse my adjectives more carefully around here in the future and yes, it is apples and oranges in some regards. Smarten up your footwork, and stay on your toes

Black Saint/Soul Note, Muse and Black Jazz, some of my favourite labels. Black Saint and Muse kept a lot of music out there when nobody else was doing it. I was wary of the cheaper Black Jazz re-issues because I thought they might be similar to the 'Scorpio' Blue Note vinyl with regard to sound. ie., might as well look for vinyl rips etc?

How interesting. Live At Jorgies has Ollie Matheus listed as producer. He obviously had good taste in guitarists.

Do they mention in the liner notes the history of the tape, ie., how it came to be recorded, who had it in their possession, why it took so long to see the light of day etc?

Are you saying the music itself was sub-par or unworthy. Not my experience with hearing some of these sessions.

I would also like to know this. I would assume the new vinyl is cut from digital files. The original vinyl for most of these seem to be highly sought after and ebay prices reflect that. It seems from blog sites that some of the original releases were Quadrophonic as well.

Appropriate that they are releasing this in Movember then.

I also remember reading (I think an English critic), say that at the time of Blood Ulmer's Are You Glad To Be In America album, Davis refused to play any Festivals that booked Ulmer's bands. The critic - at the time - said this was more of a reflection on Miles current music than Ulmer's. Obviously this wasn't Richard Cook. Who, however, had nice things to say about Tales Of Captain Black and Of Human Feelings I do believe.

A 15 year old boy! The post-coital conversation for Clash must have been riveting. They must have shared so much.

Yeah, it's a bit of a dig I don't. I'd rather read about it here. Maybe you could regale us with your opinion about where they were coming from. Read Cook's Blue Note book by any chance?

Just received this automated email from local seller... As stated in the listing, the estimated delivery time is 4 - 8 business days after payment has cleared. This allows us to transfer stock from the different warehouses holding our stock. As you might have seen, we offer over 320,000 different titles and as such we use multiple warehouses in different states. Your purchase will get on our late-week warehouse transfer to us to be packed, which means it will be posted to you on Monday. This still leaves plenty of time for Australia Post to get your purchase to you within the listed time. Please let us know if there are any issues though I guess it's on it's way from the US.

Yes I see your point. Certainly when I first read it, I thought it one of the more interesting interviews with Miles. I also was picking up on the fact Cook said just enough to claim Miles new music was a more welcome direction than where he ended up at the end of the first Electric period. Then again, for a writer who lived through the full experience of the British Punk and New Wave movement - and the big influence the Harmolodic/Punk Jazz era had in Europe - he possibly had some collateral damage and felt the new Miles music a bit of a relief. But Electric Miles part-2 only had peripheral -if any- connection to either of those scenes. I wonder how he (Cook) responded to the other extremes of Marsalis and Zorn?

I think it means quite a bit. Especially in relation to music criticism, and the arts in general. Although over in England I get the impression that Ronnie Scott's generation represented a kind of working class 'everyman's' response to Jazz. While Richard Cook's generation was very much an intellectual /academic response. Although it seems Cook was a bit of an outsider initially, if this obit is accurate. Therefore, to a certain extent, it looks like I've been driven into the covers. Still, he's old man went to Cambridge...so the boundaries been saved at least On the positive side, his dissatisfaction with Deleuze and Guattari references in writing about Improv suggests he may have been a Zizekian

For some singing, look up the David Murray album Interboogieology on Black Saint, with vocalist Marta Contreras on two tracks.

Well this interview has been posted here twice recently, but got lost in the board upgrades. Some of the things I found interesting I posted into the Liebman thread. Namely that if Davis had a definite Pop melody project in mind, then his initial choice of musicians for the second Electric phase seems counter-intuitive. As for Richard Cook, his own commentary in this interview seems sycophantic to say the least, and probably just what Davis wanted to hear. This is the same Richard Cook who labelled Marvin Cabell's playing 'wretched'. I also noticed, during a recent scan of an old Wire magazine review, Richard Cook (in a review of one of those Phillip Morris tours,) also describing Jon Faddis's musical histrionics as 'wretched' as well. I would have thought someone who (in all likelihood), received the full benefit of the toffee English public school system - and then most likely Cambridge or Oxford - would have had a better repertoire of critical insults. Thank god he wasn't a musician, Miles might have hired him for the band.

You'll just have to listen to the next one instead. Are You Glad To Be In America. RSJ and Grant Calvin Weston, two for the price of one. The Rough Trade one is a better mix than the Artist's House release though. And it's mastered by the legendary Porky Peckham - Britain's own post-punk Rudy Van-Gelder. Incidentally TOCB has a VanGelder stamp in the dead wax Yes, I like Are You Glad to Be in America. I have the Artists House issue - an album which I just realized discounts my assertion (in another thread) that all the AH albums came with booklets. And now that you pointed out that Tales of Captain Black has a Van Gelder stamp, I've started fetishizing it as an object. There could be worse things to fetishize about.

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Just ordered mine locally. Hoping they are already in the warehouse over here. In the box marked fragillly. If it's not here within two days, I'll know it's still on it's way from America. Looking forward to the liner notes as much as the music as well. Ollie Matheus sounds like a very interesting character