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Yes, in the 1950s when I was in the sixth form (aged 16-18) the split was between jazzers and rugger buggers. Anyway, thank goodness this orgy of nationalism is now over! I thought London did a marvelous job in organizing the Olympics, the crowds were amazing and the performance of Team GB was something to be proud of and to celebrate. Your comment comes across as rather churlish. Churlish perhaps. Yes London did a great a job. It was exhilarating to follow the games. And anything that potentially creates future opportunity and elevates the UK communities, is a great thing. But Nationalism sucks. As ever, sport seems to be the most co-opted discipline to support it.

Old Jerry's got a real Mobster schtick going on in real life. Yuk. All Woody's early-ish films are cackfests. Apart from 'the usual', my favourite is Zelig. I also enjoyed The Front very much as well.

TMZ. They heard it first.

It was you. I'm sure. But it was in a thread about something totally unrelated. I remembered it because I have always been a bit ambivalent about that band with the keyboards. But everytime I revisit my Sharrock stuff, I think what a true legend of a player he his.

My LP12 mat is rubber. Only one right way up. It's a really early one #3000something. Can't play 45's though. These ones are meant to be good. But expensive I think. My link

I have more than enough Sharrock to keep me listening. I remember recently you posted something questioning his later band recordings. I tried to find the post - thought it might be a good discussion. Couldn't find it. Now if you had the Guitar cd going for that price, I'd buy that one.

Offloading the Sharrock

It's a bigger category than I thought.

It looks to me, that the concert featured a lot of people that were recording for the re-invigorated label at the time. So we get Kenny Burrell teamed with Grover Washington. Did Horace Silver release anything on the 'new' Blue Note at the time?

Yes, but he was very self deprecating about it.

Not that I know of. It was re- link in post 173.

No Hugh Grant pot shots yet

I read alcohol contributed to his death at such a young age. Or that was the insinuation anyway. I liked his blues singing. Lovano couldn't have gotten away with it.

Well sport also makes a lot of money for a lot of people. It ticks all the boxes for a consumer and celebrity driven culture. The arguments going on in Australia, that seem to mirror the discourse in the UK, claim more money poured into the different disciplines results in the best coaches, which then translates to the best results. Some Australian sporting insiders were saying that the Chinese results reflect them basically 'buying' the best coaches available. Other insiders suggested that the Chinese attitude to training and respect for the coaches and opportunity also has a lot to do with it. I think sport will always reflect the mainstream values, and once kids get to puberty, they pretty much begin to see where they want to be (or where they're going to be ostracised), peer group wise or individually. I knew at a certain age, the values and mindset of sporty people wasn't a very interesting one. That's an Australian perspective though. And I was surrounded by a Working Class culture. It might have been different for Middle Class kids. It also seemed to me the kids that went on to a life more informed by the Humanities, weren't overly blessed with a sporty peer group.

And another article claiming self-deprecating humour as particularly English. And very sexy apparently. As I have claimed self deprecation as a particularly Australian cultural trait, I guess it's an English one as well. Interesting that the article states that self-deprecation does not translate well across some cultures. My link

The two Phalanx albums with Blood Ulmer, Sirone and Rashied Ali are deep. I've got this one. It used to give me a real buzz as a younger listener to hear an avant-garde player like Adams do straight ahead bar-room blues forms (with vocals) like the title track. It kinda bought my two listening domains together. and this is another live one with Scofield,

Actually, I noticed this article first appeared in a contemporary film journal around April. So perhaps it may have been the spark for the Haaretz piece.

And no comments either. This is pretty opaque stuff. Even for cult-talk Cult-talk concrete. Harmolodic cult-talk.

Must be payola.

Does your dog bite?

Here's a scholarly article on Jerry Lewis that talks about Jewish humour and self deprecation. Must be in the air. My link

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