A Lark Ascending

Good God, no! Came off a website someone posted a few months back. I can't recall where. I like bright!

Quite! Had celery been around in the 12th/13thC the Sheriff and his men might have had the nourishment they needed to beat Robin Hood (that's Raw-bun Huud).

Why do some of these pictures come out huge, some tiny?

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The two discs I have are so much fun that I wanted to make them look nice. Anyone mad enough to do covers of their own?

Probably Henry II. Terribly powerful, responsible for innovations in the English legal system that probably also seeped through to US law. He did, however, spend much of his later reign at war with his wife and sons. Ask Peter O'Toole. Henry III, by contrast, was a bit ineffectual. ********* Charles XII of Sweden was bananas (if you can be bananas in Sweden!). Buggered up everything Charles XI left for him. ********** Charles II and Philip (?) - now you might mean Charles V who was both Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of Spain and his son Philip II who ruled Spain at its height. Both 16thC. Or Charles II (the one who had every illness and deformity known to man, the one everyone spent the second half of the 17thC waiting to die but he wouldn't) and Philip V his successor. Both were kings of Spain at the time when Spain nearly disappeared, all ready to be swallowed by France. ********** Louis IV - you mean 'Louis XIV' of course. Not nearly as powerful as he liked to think himself. Got badly mauled by the English, Dutch and Austrians in his last two wars. Indirectly responsible for introducing the citizens of Nottingham, England to celery. *********** See what I mean. A pedant.

Aha! A male chauvinist! No! A pedant.

The connection between Blindfold 3 and Jesus Christ Superstar lies here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=Abv8o1v08zzza How UK (and Republic of Ireland!) jazz musicians keep bread on the table! Incidentally, that horn player at the end canit be THE 'Mr J.............'?

How come Ed Bickert has virtually disappeared from the catalogue? His Concords seem deleted. On CD Universe just "The Guitar Mastery of Ed Bickert" 'back ordered.' On Amazon UK the same disk, everything else 'limited availability'. Any thoughts on "The Guitar Mastery of Ed Bickert"? I just know Bickert from those Rosemery Clooney discs.

Delete that photo instantly. If someone from Verve sees it you just know what the next boxed set they issue will look like! (Can I just point out that in the UK we did not have lunch boxes. I carried my piece of dry bread and morsel of cheese in a piece of greaseproof paper. Marshall Aid? Pah!)

Well.. There's a recent Enja (2002) called 'Dedalo' with the WDR Big Band that covers many of his tunes from over his career. A very nice retrospective. His best known and much praised recording is 'From G to G' by a great octet (including the magical Pino Minafra on trumpet) on Soul Note (1992). I really like 'Les Hommes Armes' (Octet, 1996) and 'Around Small Fairy Tales' (with large orchestra, 1998) both of which have a strong baroque flavour. 'Round About A Midsummer's Dream' (nonet, 2001) also has a baroque feel but with some wild Hendrixy guitar in places and some great pantomime from the dazzling tambourine player and singer, Carlo Rizzo (you really have to see it!). At the gentler end he's also recorded with accordionist Gianni Coscia at least twice. I have his ECM from 2000, 'In cerca di cibo.' Strong folk influence here. As you've probably gathered from 'Fugace' Trovesi is a real genre-mixer - jazz, Italian folk music and baroque classical figure very strongly in his music. But it never sounds ragbag...his wonderful playing always provides a focus. Ultimately you get something quite new, quite different and distinctly Italian out of it. I'm a big fan. Oh, and as an afterthought he's also a major voice on the Orchestra National de Jazz's 'Charmediterranean' of last year on ECM, probably my favourite disc of 2002.

I was sitting in the coffee shop in Rays Jazz in London on Saturday and they were playing ESP and it was bliss! You know what its like when you hear something you know out of the blue in a place you don't expect it. It made me get on with the process of CD-Ring the box into the original LP sequences...I like to hear them like that rather than in recording order. What jumped out there was how good a record Sorcerer was. One that gets overlooked because of its more famous neighbours. And then Filles de Kilimanjaro. I agree with Guy when he says "it's so unique and opened a bunch of interesting doors that very few musicians have entered since." I'd go further and suggest it opened possibilities that have yet to be explored. A simply astonishing sequence of recordings all round.

'The Dolphin' is indeed a glorious tune. I know it from a great Stan Tracey version.

Special thanks to all for showing restraing and not nominating "***king Hell".

Now I know how they wrote those 'sociology of education' books a quarter of a century ago when I was doing my teacher training. Talk about zero practicality...

Elizabeth and Victoria were queens, not kings. You are disqualified. Can I offer a special thanks to whoever voted for Charles XI of Sweden. I wanted to vote for him but was told that I'd already voted. Which I hadn't.

Mushy to my ears, I'm afraid.

That was a great disc that I will be keeping...and using the answers for liner notes! Special thanks for reconnecting me with Louis Stewart. I bought 'Overdrive' on Saturday as a result of track 4 and now have my eyes on some of those Jardis discs. The thing I like about these Blindfold discs is that they are like radio ought to be!

Damn! I knew I'd missed one!

After a long day wrestling with the history of Sweden I found myself puzzling over this essential question.

I'm so concerned about this that I've just sent an e-mail to Candid records requiring them to ensure that no copy of Tomilinson's 'Brazilian Sketches' goes within 100 miles of Texas!

Note to JSngry, On no account listen to or buy a CD by Jim Tomlinson (Mr. Stacey Kent). And rather than buy a Stacey CD get someone to burn you a copy with the tenor playing removed. Take this as advice from your doctor!

As usual I'm hopeless when it comes to guessing this stuff. But I'd just like to say how much I've enjoyed this disc. In particular the guitar tracks. I love the sound of the standard jazz guitar and this disc has given me plenty to explore (when I know who is who!). One thing I've found with both discs. It gives a little insight into the comments people are making on the board. When I see posts from Dan and Jim R in future I'll have some sort of context as to where they're coming from, something the little soundbites we talk in on these boards often disguises. Now, here's a further puzzle. What's the connection between Blindfold 3 and Jesus Christ Superstar?

I'm afraid Nicholson is a classic case of someone who has developed what he considers a 'big idea' and intends to defend it and make all the facts fit it regardless. Something you frequently meet on bulletin boards!!! I suspect many of us have been guilty to a greater or lesser extent!!!!! (let me explain how the Australian jazz experience once more proves the non-existance of 'art'....). The difference is that Nicholson gets to put his notions into print and on the radio!

Currants Raisins Sultanas I know the difference in taste. But I can never quite work out which comes from what.