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Would love to see this band live. There are some great youtube clips of Coryell's various organ trio configurations from the last decade or so. He has so much range and reference in his playing that it can be a bit distracting at times. But the Organ trio format really pulls it all together. Absolutely brilliant and shamefully neglected Jazz musician.

Although not a Jew, it was explained to me by Jewish people that there are the 'tribe' of Jews across the diaspora, and then there are the 'believing' or religious Jews. Neither being mutually exclusive. Cultural experience and identity takes on many forms that clearly transcends the exclusivity of 'belief'. I always thought Jews make as good a Atheist's as anyone else

Already controversy re-ticketing. It seems the best seats in the house for all events have gone to VIP's and corporates, who as usual don't turn up. Resulting in what looks like badly attended events. People beginning to complain that thousands are missing out on watching the games. I bet they'll all come out for the 'marquee event' finals though. Macca didn't do Her Majesty at the opening ceremony

Gold US-1 Aust-1 GB -0 Any Chinese forum members? You have bragging rights

Joking about the womens basketballer, but not about Grandma Moses. Was hoping the US women's basketball team was fielding some grandma's this year. Then the Australian team might have a chance of beating them for gold. Interesting paintings though. These are primitive or naive, not naturalist however. BTW I reckon you could take her in the third. If she gave you too much trouble, just hit her over the head with that jazzbox you're wielding in your avatar.

Who's Grandma Moses? Is she a women's basketball player?

Yep, it's underway already. The Australian commentators generously patronising the economic minnow nations.

Well I woke up at 7.00am and rushed to the TV set to catch whatever was left of the opening ceremony...and what do I see...Johnny Rotten gobbing on me from a giant screen. It's just not cricket What a strange phenomena these opening ceremonies have become. I blame Andrew Lloyd Webber, I really do.

If you happened to be a fan of the jazz organ sound in 1965, you knew exactly what to expect when you stepped into a club - greasy blues, ballads and jazz warhorses played at racecar tempos. Larry Young's Unity changed that. In one elegant stroke. All by itself. Embracing modal harmony and the freer, more open structures/language favored by the rising crew of post-bop musicians, Young expanded commonly held notions of what was possible on the instrument; his brisk, restless, masterfully syncopated performances on this album brought the organ into the modern post-bop conversation.

Definitely watching the second plane hit as it happened. On a lighter note, watching as a kid (on Australian television), Evel Knievel trying to jump the Snake River Canyon in a rocket. He didn't make it and I thought he died. Then it turned out he was OK

Do you have any inside information How are they going to portray your National story

before all his plastic surgery! ugh! Every time I see images of people with as much plastic surgery as George Benson, I think.....gee that must hurt.

All life in Australia as we know it stops as of tomorrow morning. We are a nation defined by our sporting culture. Nothing else matters to Australia or Australians for the next two weeks except Gold, Gold, Gold. All that will preoccupy the country will be in comparing our medals tally against the USA. All media commentary will focus on how well we do for such a small nation. We will monitor every minute detail of London's Olympics to keep alive the consensus that Sydney delivered the best Olympics ever. I am not being cynical or sardonic. This is really how it is. Personally, I look forward to re-acquanting my interest in things I never think about - but for every four years, ie., rhythmic gymnastics, triple jumping, long distance running, pole vaulting high-board diving and the 1500 metre freestyle swimming final. And will watch with interest the emergence of people I've never heard of before, who become National heroes. This happens in Australia on a daily basis during the games. I suppose in the States, it is big enough for anyone to escape the games saturation if they want? Sorry UK forum members, I guess you're trapped

I feel older every minute. My hips, my knees, my back...

Ha. Yes. Apart from the feat of getting through 12 minutes of a McCartney 'Classical piece", Fixing A Hole was what I was actually thinking. But funnily, when I typed 'wandering' into my post, I thought I better check the spelling - so I typed it into google (as I usually do if I don't have a spell checker), and the google search option prompter had as first option..... wait for it ......'wandering jews' I thought that was funny, considering the topic of the thread and Pete C's earlier post

I watched the live broadcast on PBS. For about 12 minutes... I bet your mind started wandering......

George Benson......biding his time. George Benson by Fred Seibert, on Flickr

For someone who has based so much of his output around characterisations of neurosis and psychoanalysis, I don't think it's unfair to use psychoanalytical language in an article attempting to unpack Allen's oeuvre. After all, to many people, Allen's work will always be elitist psychobabble anyway. Although perhaps the author has been reading too much Zizek. Glad I wasn't the only one. Lot of people like this film though.

Having grown up in Australia on a diet of sober Black and White English late 50's/60's films, usually programmed on winter weekends or school holiday Midday Movie timeslots - I can understand that.

Match Point is a superb movie. Worth seeing. I think the other much lauded recent films tend to be more variations on Woody's 'old man's fantasies'. I found some of them like Vicky Cristina Barcelona funny for all the wrong reasons. I can only account for the late career popularity of Midnight In Paris because it might appeal to any romantic and escapist yearnings of a younger generation - completely detached from any critical distance from early 20thC heroic Modernist bullshit.

Kerry Dancers is Irish. English Country Gardens is Australian. Percy Grainger? There's a museum of Grainger in my home town, but I have never visited. I think his eccentric behaviours have been of interest to biographers and filmmakers. Seems the melody is an old English folk song. Funny I always associate it with Noel Coward. Did he popularise it as well?

The first I heard about the Allen/movie in Israel campaign was from this thread, so it looks like it was up and running early this month. I suppose the Haaretz has had a whole series of articles since then. Here is another opinion piece from somewhere else. Gives some context to the campaign. My link I thought this (from the article) an interesting observation about Manhattan What's true about Manhattan, apart from its inherent Freudian prophecy (in 1991, the 56-year-old Allen would begin a relationship with his 21-year-old stepdaughter Soon-Yi Previn), is the way it perfectly captures the nuances and behaviour patterns of its chosen New York set. What's not true about it is how it fails to capture any other New York set. And this about what Allen might offer the 'New York' Israelis, Which may be why Israeli officials are attempting to persuade the legendary director to shoot one of his next films in the land of milk and honey. If there's any great Jewish filmmaker in the world right now who can be counted on to hone in on the subtleties and minor peccadilloes of the Israeli urban class, it's Allen. Anyone else - David Cronenberg, Roman Polanksi, Darren Aronofsky - might venture too far into the Israeli underclass, or (God forbid) the territories.

The year and personnel are wrong. According to Chris Sheridan's Brilliant Corners bio-discography, these are from Newport, July 2, 1966. Monk, Rouse, Larry Gales, and Ben Riley. Recorded two days before the Grant Green and Kenny Burrell performances at Newport July 4 1966. These also first saw the light of day on I Grandi Del Jazz. They were also documented on I Grandi Del Jazz as from 1961. I see a patten emerging here It seems like the tapes were part of Library Of Congress but disappeared, to appear as part of the I Grandi Del Jazz series. Well the Newport guitar workshop ones were anyway. Here is a recent thread about the Green/Burrell recordings and provenance. My link

Just guessing here, but when I tried to search for the article I typed in Woody Allen in the Search engine instead of the whole article title. From the hits I got - re-Haaretz/Woody Allen - it seems there has been a recent attempt in Israel to raise money to entice Allen to visit and make a movie there. This seems to have generated some debate/articles, so perhaps the paper decided to run this older article to keep it going, or provide more context for the readers. I could be wrong though.

Why? Because maybe you love the music and you haven't got the privilege to go to music school and hang out with Joe Morris. And maybe it would be good to have someones insights into the personal idioms of Taylor and Ornette and Ayler etc. I think it would be good. There wasn't a lot of it about when I was interested in playing that stuff. Like Cecil Taylor says in the Bill Dixon thread about moving beyond just copping the feel, it sounds like Morris is looking to contribute something concrete to that. And cause he's a bloody great guitar player