A Lark Ascending

Great news! Now go out and buy 'Watts at Scotts' to celebrate, his recent Tentet double CD. A hugely enjoyable disc with great playing by old codgers like Dave Green, Brian Lemon and Henry Lowther and young whippersnappers like Gerard Presencer and Mark Nightingale. With Evan Parker in there to throw things off beam every now and then. And some of the most beautiful baritone playing I've heard in a while from Julian Arguelles.

Not one I play often - I prefer Weber in a group setting, and this one is solo with overdubbing. Having said that Weber's solo concerts are very enjoyable. He's really amusing, not an impression you get from the pictures of him where he looks quite glum. 'Yellow Fields', 'Silent Feet', 'Little Movements' and his marvellous contribution to Ralph Towner's 'Solstice' are my favourite Weber discs.

Richard Cook is more angled that way. Morton, on his radio programmes, always had a modernist/avant bent, though with an ability to reference the history of the music.

Mahler's 10th is interesting. Unfinished with only the first movement in close to complete form, the rest in unorchestrated sketches. Deryck Cooke used the sketches to put together a performing edition in the 60s which I find as beautiful as any of the 'proper' symphonies. What is interesting is that it ends in a glowing, positive manner. The previous two 'symphonies' ('Das Lied von der Erde' and No.9) are almost textbook examples of the sad, longing farewell.

When did Jarman and Moye start doing the cabaret on Caribbean cruises?

Close again. Like Tim Henman she never quite got to the finals. [Clue: there's a big pink connection!!!!]

Close!

Who is THIS mystery woman?

Where do I go to collect my prize? Should I hand my notice in tomorrow?

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Charlotte Rampling

In the olden days you knew where your post was coming from. The GPO. Today it seems to come from all sorts of delivery companies. If you are not in this can involve journeys across the length and breadth of the UK to pick up your package! Or maybe I just didn't have packages delivered in the olden days! My post person still comes round on a bicycle which is nice.

Humph is old but he's far from a fogey. Alongside Morton, Armstrong and Ellington you'll hear the latest releases from younger musicians on his programme, discussed respectfull, intelligently, positively. One of my few life ambitions is to be as open-minded as he is when I reach his age!

In a perfect world a station would have a nice balance between programmes of 'classic' jazz and more contemporary jazz. Given how wide jazz is any jazz programme is going to displease a large chunk of the jazz audience. There's only a limited amount of jazz time on the BBC and I think they do a pretty good job of representing the range of the music. Jazz on 3 will give you an idea of contemporary jazz, often with a UK or European dimension. If you want classic jazz then there's plenty on Jazz Record Requests and Humphrey Lyttleton's Monday night Radio 2 programme. If you like a carpet and slippers approach then Jazz Line-Up does the job. If you like your jazz one step from hip contemporary rock/pop then there's a regular Courtney Pine programme on Radio 2. And the BBC regularly does one-off series around musicians.

Acker Bilk

This is another good programme on BBC Radio Scotland. Should keep those 'expecting to hear the greats' happy. Same archive system as the BBC in England. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotlan...how.shtml?bebop Latest playlist: 15 / 19 SEPTEMBER FIRST HOUR C WHY DON’T YOU DO RIGHT CD MOJO Take Four- 49 Essential Tracks McCoy=Chappell-Morris=Na Disc 2 Band 7 MOJO/EMI=07243 4 73075 2 2 MARK MURPHY C PUT ON TRAIN CD Live At The It Club Vol. 2 Monk/Higgins=Na=Na Band 2 BLUE NOTE=7243 5 23997 2 5 GENE HARRIS & THE THREE SOUNDS C HERE’S THAT RAINY DAY CD Jazz Jubilee Burke/Van Heusen/Morris=Bourne/ASCAP=NA Band 4 MARTINE AVE PROD=MAPI1521 DUDLEY MOORE TRIO C POMPTON TURNPIKE CD Historic Carnegie Hall Concerts - Birth Of A Legend Rodgers/Osbourne=Na=Na Band 12 GIANT STEPS=GIST 011 OSCAR PETERSON C FERDINANDO CD Les Tresors Du Jazz Blakey=Na=Na Disc 28 Band 9 LE CHANT DU MONDE=574 1273 BUDDY DeFRANCO C GIRL FROM INPANEMA CD Finest Hour Jobim/de Moraes/Gimbel=Na=Na Band 11 VERVE=490 669-2 ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM C GEORGIA ON MY MIND CD Jazz Moods – ‘Round Midnight Gorrell/Carmichael=Na=Na Band 4 COLUMBIA LEGACY=516428-2 BILLIE HOLIDAY C LUSH LIFE CD The Life Of A Song Strayhorn=Tempo/ASCAP=Na Band 3 TELARC JAZZ=CD-83598 GERI ALLEN 08.11 C GOT TO GET BACK TO LOVE CD The Essential George Duke Duke=Mycenae/ASCAP Disc2 Band 11 COLUMBIA LEGACY=516191-2 GEORGE DUKE SECOND HOUR C SHIMMERING CD Libera Me Danielsson=ACT/GEMA=Danielsson Band 6 ACT=ACTSACD 9800-2 LARS DANIELSSON C TAKE YOUR TIME, CHANGE YOUR MIND CD Under The Munka Moon Russell/Holland=Full Thought=Na Band 10 TRU THOUGHTS=TRUCD 046 ALICE RUSSELL C DRAGONET CD Novo Tempo Meets Eurasian Suite Volume 2 Ozaki=Na=Na Side AA Band 2 NOVO TEMPO/EURASIAN SUITE=ESEP 004 KOICHI OZAKI C EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME CD Too Hot - The Best of British Jazz Miller/Godrey=Lawrence Wright=Na Disc 1 Band 6 CASTLE=CMETD 992 JOE HARRIOT QUARTET C GOT MYSELF A GOOD MAN CD MOJO Take Four- 49 Essential Tracks Whitfield/Strong=Jobete=Na Disc 3 Band 11 MOJO/EMI=07243 4 73075 2 2 PUCHO & THE LATIN SOUL BROTHERS C CHANGING WOMAN CD Black Is … Na=Na=Na Band 7 COUNTERPOINT=CRCD024 FERTILE GROUND C A LOVE SUPREME CD Stolen Moments – Red Hot + Cool Coltrane=Jowcol=Na Disc 2 Band 2 IMPULSE!=GRP97942 ALICE COLTRANE

There's so much wonderful Shorter. But this year I've been especially haunted by 'El Gaucho' off 'Adam's Apple'. The structure of that piece brings out some marvellous playing.

When it was originally remastered in 1999 something terrible happened with what had been side 2 of the record. It sounded like it had been taken from a badly warped LP. BGO have now sorted that out. All new copies should be fine. Best to avoid buying it secondhand! How can you tell? You can't from the cover. But you'll soon know from Part V onward. Just play the last variation with Harry Beckett's solo. If it sounds 'wowed' to hell you have the duff version. Don't listen too critically. I think some of the ensemble playing is a little ragged that might mislead. Believe me, the duff version sounds really, really whoozy!

Digging ponds...

Been awake since 9.00 a.m. Nearly time for the afternoon nap!

I'm posting this here as well as on AAJ as a. I expect I've grumbled about the initial reissue here too; b. I think there are a few people interested in Westbrook:

I love the sound of the voices of The Corrs. Their recordings are overproduced, full of unnecessary electronic effects. The songwriting is often weak. But those voices... I'm thinking of offering my services to guide them into a more suitable style for a discriminarting audience. They can come to my house, though it's quite small so the brother might have to stay in Drogheda.

Hope you're not still awake. It's 10.30 a.m. here now!

I'm totally with you, deus62. I regard all the jazz, classical etc music I've grown to love over the last 25 years as 'additions' rather than 'replacements' for what I listened to as a teenager. I get great pleasure playing the rock music of the early 70s I grew up with. In my case I still have my 'Moody Blues' LPs which get the occasional spin. Worse still I still buy recordings from that time that I didn't know then but hve grown curious about. I recently bought anthologies by The Turtles, The Association and The Fifth Dimension!