A Lark Ascending

Me too. That's a wonderful track. Expecting you to available for during-the-day jazz chat on Wednesday, Bev. I'll be marching!

Me too. That's a wonderful track.

Olde worlde allusions on the pink Island label:

Trying to work out if that photo was taken before or after. This is much more refined:

Try the third. It's by far the most experimental (pretty tame and partially digested experiment by jazz standards, but not your average blockbuster rock album by any means). I don't think it did as well as the first two which might explain why they started to draw in their horns (so to speak!). II and III were bought in my first year of record buying - I always loved the sheer range of the albums. Good songs, range of styles (everything from pop to blues to country to dipping a toe into freer worlds [but not for more than a minute or so!]) and marvellous brass arrangements. At the time I had no context for this music outside of rock; but listening to some of the New York Latin/Boogaloo music in recent years I can see where some of it came from, especially the horns.

That top one is gorgeous.

Country life...

Un-pc album cover:

The only response:

Got this a bit over a month ago. Some great stuff that isn't performed that often (septets and octets). Tremendous set - the French disc is desert island music.

Recall seeing him in the cellar of a pub in Nottingham in the mid-80s - can't recall who with - and being struck by how small his kit was yet how much he did with it. No giant gong and ranks of tubular bells!

Exactly what went through my head when I saw the thread title. I suppose it could be:

On a lot of my favourite records. Excellent live too - played here quite often, sometimes with Brit/Euro bands. RIP

Too many to think of from the mid-60s to mid-70s. Tons of music I love from thereafter but doesn't have the same nostagia pull. The Beatles have an enormous nostalgia pull - I had none of their records when they were active but their music was everywhere in my early teens. 'Fool on the Hill/Hello Goodbye' has me in the garden in a little house in Singapore. 'Penny Lane' just down the hill by the Anglican Church. And I remember all the cool kids in my Gloucester school running out to buy 'Hey Jude' when it came out - that one always evokes 'Chosen Hill' where the school stands (a place, I later learned, with important associations for Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi and Ivor Gurney).

Who remembers 'The Time Tunnel'! Part of my early historical education!

And when did we get on first name terms? It's Mr. Ascending to you!!!