PFunkJazz

Please stream spanking DVDs now.

Supersize me, guys!

Guitarist Johnny Smith; mid period (post Atlantic pre ECM) Charles Lloyd; Al Haig.

.....that is to say, I'm a jazz fan not an outreach worker.

I'm 57, I've never drunk alcohol, I spent two years on crystal meth in the early 70s, two years on valium and cocaine in the mid 70s, I've smoked dope every day for the last 25 years, I eat too much fat, I exercise. I still float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.

Given that most programmes about jazz on mainstream TV tend to pitch themselves at viewers with some interest in but without much knowledge of the subject - the ratings imperative - I thought this one stood up better than most. I particularly enjoyed hearing Coltrane's speaking voice; I've got most of his recorded work but I don't think I'd ever heard him actually speak before.

Hey Dan - How ya doin', fatso? And how's your wrist holding up?

Hey Gary - a clue: I was born in Knowle (of & Dorridge fame), as I previously told you in a PM. You didn't reply, presumably thinking I could be some sort of maniac. You are right, I am! And you'll learn my real ID when the book is out.

It's not so much that it's a shallow book, more that it's such a relentlessly pedestrian one. Session details follow session details follow session details ad nauseam. A real missed opportunity, for which I suppose I should be grateful because...... I have just concluded a social history of Blue Note 1939-70, for publication this fall, which gives as much space to people, personalities and off-mike activities as it does to the recordings themselves. If I say so myself, it's the page-turner to end all page-turners and a book that every post-bop jazz fan will want to own, for a good read and for a rich seam of previously unknown information. So those of you who know and love me as PFunkJazz will shortly know my real identity (!)

I am very disappointed by the tenor of replies to this post, in some of which it is possible to detect symptons of denial or traces of abuse. Let's try to approach the issue in an adult manner, please.

Does anyone else wonder how the typical Organissimo board member would be defined? By gender, income, age, etc etc. Based on observation of the board rather than strictly quantifiable research data, the picture of a typical member that I get is of: an obese American white male, who puts in a straight six hours a day on the board, shovelling junk food and beer in one end while expelling Bronx cheers out the other, occasionally breaking to surf some porn and maybe jerk off, who thinks Kerry is some sort of radical, and all the while imagines, Walter Mitty-like, that he's an influential and respected arbiter of taste at the centre of the jazz world. Does this ring any bells?

Thanks for posting. Very uplifting.

Specifically, I am looking for details of sessions Lloyd did for the singer Tim Buckley circa May 1966 and of a field recording with Native American musicians in New Mexico in fall 1968 or 1969. So far as I know the Buckley sessions were only released in France, in the mid 1970s, and the New Mexico sessions only available to subscribers of the (now defunct) magazine Straight Arrow. I would hesitate to say these are the only gaps in my Lloyd discography - these will only emerge after publication of course - but they're the only ones I'm aware of now.

Any Charles Lloyd fans out there who could contribute to some arcane discographical research for a biography to be published this autumn? Any help you could give would be gratefully acknowledged.

If you only buy one box set in your life, make it the Benedetti!

I have one TUBA album. TUBA LP 5005 Ahmad Jamal Trio - Live on the Southside (recorded Feb 19 '66)

Ogun were distributed in the UK by Cadillac. Cadillac are still around and I would guess carry a fair amount of Ogun back catalogue.

I was in there yesterday and asked if they were having difficulties. Not at all, everything is fine, I was told. Sadly, I am reminded of the old journalist's dictum: don't believe anything until it has been officially denied. We all know how tough it is for specialist stores to survive these days. It will be a sad day if Mole go out of business.

If that's true, that's great news.

SON-OF-A-WEIZEN. Yeah, what a difference a couple of months and some intelligent discourse can make. You got a problem with that? CATESTA. No, I never had any sort of run-in with DEEP at AAJ. Or anywhere else. I find DEEP's schtick offensive, but I find fellow members' efforts to excuse his boorish behaviour doubly so. That's what I mean by degrading the BB. And if anyone honestly thinks Organissimo got the better end of the deal by retaining DEEP but losing Chris A then hello tabloid BB. Not to mention losing another informed and informative poster in Bev Stapleton.

Following the closure of BNBB, the same sort of trolls and exhibitionistic fools which brought about its demise are threatening the integrity of the Organisissimo and AllAboutJazz BBs. Is it inevitable that, given time, these psychos stumble upon a BB and infect it, so that the BB loses good and intelligent members, attracts more psychos and sooner or later is forced to close? Or can they be excised before the rot sets in? The hardworking people who run this BB are I fear sticking their heads in the sand if they think they can contain the trolls and psychos. They might keep relatively low profiles for a while, but sooner or later they'll be back to their old tricks - because that's what they get off on. Like Bev and Chris A, I'm going to leave this BB for a while. I'll check things out in a couple of weeks, and if things have improved, I'll return to posting. If they haven't, then I'm out of here permamently. Which would be a big shame for me - I've learnt so much from this BB and its members.

B3er - And I've just noticed a thread from PDEE on AAJ explaining that it's the DEEP threads that mean he will no longer contribute to either ORG or AAJ.

B3er - I'm with Brad on the Deep question. Why don't you just get rid of all posts and threads initiated by this exhibitionistic fool? And any pseudonyms he might follow up with - they're dead easy to spot. There's a real danger that Organissimo will end up like BNBB, which would be a great shame. Or is it inevitable that any BB will in time attract trolls and fools who degrade things to a point where people just switch off and don't return?

His records are as boring as his contributions to this Board are boorish. Quelle surprise!

Well, maybe not I guess.