A Lark Ascending

You might try this place, south east of London. Security is good.

Oh yes. They have a new disc just out.

The Chilterns arn't cheap! I had an uncle who decamped that way after making a fortune in the kitchen bakery business in Chelsea. It was very Horse and Hounds. Lots of celebrities live that way too. You might try Milton Keynes - its about 30 mins north of Hemel or even Northampton (about an hour). Milton Keynes is a new town - I'd imagine there'd be affordable places there. Northampton is an older, semi-industrial town which I'd have thought might have reasonable property. ********* A random search for "Renting Home Counties" produced this for Hemel: http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-t...emel_hempstead/ ********* Here's an example from Milton Keynes: http://www.oaktree-property.co.uk/page00.asp *********** And Northampton/Milton: http://www.thomasandcompany.co.uk/back.htm ********* These are all £500 pcm + I'm sure on the ground something cheaper could be had. God! And I thought my mortgage was alot!

Bet you've 'gone native'! I havn't!

Or the mushy peas they make you eat with your fish and chips! (I'm a Southerner who's been doing missionary work in the North since 1978). (P.S. Bath is fabulous - much pleasanter than London!)

It sounds great in the extended versions on some of the KCCC discs. I've never heard the original B-side.

...Sal lives in Chicago, he's used to congestion! I'm talking about the motorways between cities. In the UK you can be stuck in tailbacks in the middle of nowhere!

It reminds me of the early to mid-70s when I first came into the music. Jazz was covered in places like the Melody Maker (I bough my first Westbrook as a result of a review there (Love/Dream Variations)) and jazz musicians played the university circuit alongside the big rock bands (I recall seeing Nucleus, Lol Coxhill, Stan Tracey, Harry Miller's Isipingo on campus). I largely missed the late 80s revival apart from Loose Tubes and Working Week - watching the final part of Jazz Britannia I was made aware of how little I came into contact with it. I was attending the pub gigs with Stan Tracey or Kenny Wheeler when everyone else was clearly jazz dancing to acid jazz grooves! What makes it really hopeful is that the emerging new talent has been building for some years independent of the Impressed/Jazz Britannia miniboom, Which leaves hope that it will be sustained when that inevitably subsides. Sorry...this thread is supposed to be about relocating to the UK. Maybe it will give another reason to make that move!

Sorry, an assumption on my part, given that it had those two extras.

Very, very true! Jazz has its problems here like in the States but in general there is a spirit of optimism and movement (also true of Europe in general).

Tony Coe is a magical player, criminally underrecorded. Most of what gets recorded tends to be his more mainstream side - there are a whole bunch of recordings on the mainstream Zephyr label. I've seen him play marvellous compositions for large orchestra live that have never made it to CD. 'Zeitgeist' that sidewinder mentions is a record I'd love to get a chance to hear (I missed it at the time). I'm hoping it might sneak out as part of the current spate of interest in 60s/70s UK jazz over here. Of the recordings originally listed I have a recent CD reissue of "Coe Existence" - a very enjoyable mainstream date but not one that will have your jaw dropping. I'd say the aforementioned "Nutty" is the one to get - Coe in a much more freewheeling context.

Of course, the one big advantage of living IN London is that there is a very good jazz scene. Obviously Ronnies and places like the Jazz Cafe. There seems to be a whole world of jazz musicians who work largely inside London with occasional trips out into the provinces - the new Vortex looks promising and there's a very exciting up and coming scene based round the F-IRE Collective who play in London venues. And then there's Rays! Alongside the megastores probably the best source of jazz recordings in the UK. You have to look long an hard once you leave London!

I enjoyed EST very much seing them live at a couple of Cheltenham festivals. But after 'Goodbye Susie Soho' I've found their records to be very similar. Give me Bobo Stenson any day. For recent Scandanavian jazz I much prefer: For recent piano trio: EST are going to have to rethink their approach if they want to hold their popularity.

I have the 2004 edition and to my ears it sounds a distinct improvement on the previous version I had from the early 90s. That sounded flat and muddy - this one is clear as a bell. There's also a remastered 'In the Wake of Poseidon' from 2004 which includes the single version of 'Cat Food' and 'Groon'. All the other discs currently being reissued by Discipline are the same as the late 90s 30th Anniversary editions.

London and the areas around it are very expensive and renting there is very costly. I live 160 miles away and so can't give any information about prices. Inside London you have a good transport system - tube (underground), rail, bus. The tube is probably the quickest though you need to be in walking distance of a station and that affects house prices/rents. Places like Hemel Hempstead (I was in a hotel there last weekend!) have rail links but the railways in the UK are expensive. They long had a reputation for unreliability; that may have changed. You can drive into London if your place of work has parking facilities but it gets very congested on a weekday and you also have to pay a £5 Congestion Charge to enter the centre. In fact, if you're well paid you could base yourself far from London. Some people commute from as far away as Newark which is near where I live; or from Bristol or Swindon in the west. Not an option if you want the London life but you'll be living close to the countryside. There are lots of dormitory towns all around London. I'd say (and this is personal feeling) that the ones to the north like Luton, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage are pretty soulless with very dull surroundings; there's Essex which is also 'new town land' which gives you a quick escape into some very nice Suffolk countryside; the dormitory towns to the south (which stretch all the way to the coast - many commute from Brighton) are in a lovely area; and just to the west you've got fairly dull places like Reading and Basingstoke which again have a wonderful landscape on the doorstep. I don't know if it is still the case but north and west London used to be more expensive, east and south cheaper. There have been alot of developments in the old Docklands area in the east - lots of business building and executive housing/flats. You might even get the chance to rent out your flat in the Olympics in 2012 if we get it! Tax - in general expect to lose 1/3 of your income. That includes things like National Insurance - I'm not sure if you would pay that as a US citizen. On top of that you have a local Community Charge to pay. This is a property tax that funds local government and varies according to the value of your house. I pay about £600 p.a. but I'm in a small property in a cheap area. London will be considerably more. You'll find the cost of living much higher. In the main stores, for example, a full price CD sells for £16.99 or thereabouts. There are discounts to be had but compare that with what you'd pay full price in the States! It's not hard to get to places in the UK based in London. Compared to the States we are a very small island. If you have access to a car you can be in Wales in three hours Scotland in six or seven...assuming the motorways are not clogged! We do have big congestion problems there! From London also you can get very quickly to the continent. Flight prices have nosedived (sorry for that rather inappropriate term!) in recent years. You can also get the Eurostar to Paris or Brussels in a few hours. Sorry I can't be specific but I hope that helps. If I dwell on the expense and problems don't let that put you off. I'd never live anywhere else...well, maybe Ireland (but that's become just as expensive in the last 15 years!)!

Neither am I! I get locked out of 'songs' and 'credits' but have no problem seeing 'discography' or 'biography'.

If you look at the AMG bio it mentions him playing with: Chris McGregor and the Blue Notes Steve Lacy's quartet, Don Cherry McCoy Tyner Abdullah Ibrahim and Alan Shorter Xaba with Mongezi Feza and Temiz. Irene Schweizer, Han Bennink, David Murray, Leo Smith, Joseph Jarman, and Don Moye. Witchdoctor's Son with Dudu Pukwana and John Tchicai Clifford Jarvis, Charles Davis John Stevens, Frode Gjerstad, and Bobby Bradford Harry Beckett These two discs are excellent:

Possibly playing along with Kylie Minogue!

With computer technology/sampling advancing as it is, it can only be a matter of time before that sextet will exist.

I believe Hum Dono is due to be re-issued as part of the Universal reissue programme that has followed from the success of the Impressed series.

Wait until you hear 'Modal' off 'Abstract'!

Look on the bright side. Mr. Eicher will get his come-uppance in 15 years time when these all come out as part of Proper boxes!

Compared with most labels ECM has done an admirable job in getting most of its catalogue back out. Yes, there are MIA things we'd all like to see. Dave Liebman's 'Lookout Farm' is one I'd like to hear. As for Europe-only...well, think of all those USA-only releases on many labels! Economic reality, I suspect.

Dust.

There's another beautiful new Pieranunzi on the marvellous Egea label: Highly recommended! And, of course, Egea also has a nice Wheeler recording.