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Captain Beefhearts Strictly Personal - not jazz, I know, but wonderful stuff! (7.15pm here and I'm playing poker on the net)

87 - but only if I don't put any more weight on and make sure I cycle every day!!! Scary stuff. I will retire in 3 years at 60 and that 27 years looks very attractive to me just now.

The Band - Greatest Hits compilation then Byrd Greatest Hits compilation. Actually I'm cheating, played them on cassette copied from vinyl in the car. Every click and scratch from years of vinyl playing faithfully reproduced.

Well I got a Ben Sherman cotton green shirt on Ebay for 99pence! Whoopee! One of my sons got me a black T shirt with a large repro of Tina Brooks Back to the Tracks LP cover all obver the front of it. Amazing what the local University Reprographics dept can do. Stll need that Buffet Superdynaction though. Ayone want to buy a Buescher Trutone alto for £350.00

Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Vol 1. I remember hearing this first almost 30 years ago, I think, in a coal celler turned into a basement flat. It sounded weird as hell then and no matter how many times I play it I still get the same frisson. I just know there is a tune in there somewhere and every now and again I get the merest hint of it but what the hell, they sound as if they are having a wonderful time anyway.

I didnt say he wasnt patronising, I was comparing his "unconscious" with some people here's "conscious" staments - comparing someone to a mongoloid, only giving him a nickname after he is safely out of sight - you know the kind of thing a feart little boy does after the big bad bully is out of sight. BTW he wasn't a comrade of mine, far too right wing for me.

Well, whatever faults Che had he didn't show himself to be quite so self righteously patronising as some of you on this thread.

I hit 57 this month and like all young mid life crisis wonks I replied to my wife's question about what I wanted as a birthday present with a request for either Miles shirt or a new saxophone. She told me to find a shirt on ebay. But which shade of green am I looking for?

The big news here is that you have to buy the tickets with Mastercard (who have an exclusive deal to sell the tickets) or a bank cheque from a euro bank. Now only a third of cardholders in the UK are Mastercard, the other two thirds being Visa and hardly anyone has a Euro account so they will get charged about £35.00 by their UK bank to get a Euro cheque sent (says Which on radio this lunchtime). Lots of MEPs getting hot under the collar about this.

Easter Monday afternoon. Wife at work, sons out on their bikes visiting their pals. Just me and three cats at home alternately reading Serge and surfing the net. Kenny Burrell at the Five Spot Cafe on the turntable.

tasty!

""Is This The Way To Amarillo - by Tony Christie. Can't get the song out of my head. Che. " Too much Peter Kay can be bad for your health. I think everyone in UK is humming this tune just now because of that DVD. Me, I've been stuck on Bills Bounce for the past week. I've just discovered I've been playing with the most atrocious timing and I'm desperately trying to correct myself before I play it with anyone else again.

"Pub Crawling with Jimmy Deuchar" from 1956 featuring a 21 year old Tubby Hayes on tenor and a 21 year old Vic Feldman. Every track is named after a brand of beer and, like the originals, the music is pretty damned good. The copy I have is American, issued by Contemporary Records and has that lovely thick card cover I remember so well from when the first Electra albums arrived here in Scotland sometime in the early sixties. Gee, I feel old. Stamped all over the cover is "SAMPLE RECORD NOT FOR SALE. I got this on ebay some time ago but "lost" it amongst the junk pile that has taken over "my" study. Very nice - I just wish I had been into Jazz when I was young and had seen Tubby in particular play.

"P.S. Is "I Can See For Miles" the greatest rock song ever written? " I just know this is entirely the wrong place for this but "Gimme Shelter" gets us all going every Hogmanay when the tables are moved back to the walls.

Milt Jackson and Lucky Thompson on a London Records album called Jackson'sville which seems to have been a Savoy release in the USA. Great stuff, Nows the Time, In a Sentimental Mood, Mood Indigo, Azure plus a couple of Milt's own compositions. Thompson is just wonderful.

He certainly hasn't stopped playing. I saw him play here in Aberdeen last thursday and he was in tremendous form. I've seen him play three times in the past 18 months and previously he has sounded technically excellent but somehow disjointed. But last week he was sensational, a blistering session that had me searching for superlatives (and the malt whisky). I know it was taped and hope that the tape reaches daylight sometime in the future. I've never seen him in a kilt so maybe this is something he only does while "abroad". I'm astonished he is selling his sax. I remember him telling me over a year ago in the interval between sets that he had had it for years and years. I can't imagine why he would sell it - I mean even if he has found a better one its the kind of thing you would want to keep locked away just for the memories. So what's the story?

The Guardian yesterday had a review of a new issue of Tina Brooks "True Blue" and today I found it a a few other new BlueNotes in the local Fopp. Can anyone tell me if this is copyprotected? I'm sure I read here some months ago that they were abandoning copyprotection. The CD I have I have tried to copy, for the car (I swear it!) to no avail so if this one wasn't I would shell out for another copy pronto. Is there a site that announces Blue Note reissues ahead of time?

How does it compare with Crouching Tiger?

I run the housing development programme of a charitable housing association building mainly houses and flats for rent. The bane of my life is that don't get time to raise my abysmal sax playing off the floor.

Alas I still have about twenty betamax tapes full of highlights of Aberdeen Football Club in their golden years when they thrashed everyone in sight and won the European Cup Winners Cup. I even still have a betamax machine lurking is a dark corner to play these gems. What should I eventually transfer this marterial on to and how easy/cheap is it to get it done?

Of course its exploitation but then so is every job where some boss takes some of the value the workers have created as "profit" since profit is just legitimised theft. As for strippers I used to know quite a few in London when I lived and worked there. A high percentage were or became lesbians, quite a few ended up whoring for a living, so depressed and cynical did they become, especially about men and almost all were on uppers to keep up the gruelling schedule they had. Their home/personal life was usually a mess and a fair number ended up on heroin to blot their lifestyle out.

Does anyone know where any of these products - Cadence or Jazz Loft - or something similar can be found in the UK?

tonight in Aberdeen Konrad Wiszniewski! KONRAD WISZNIEWSKI - 11th November New great young lion of Scottish jazz Konrad Wiszniewski will be in the Blue Lamp with John Rae on drums, Paul Harrison on piano and Andrew Sharkey on bass. Konrad is making a big name for himself in the UK with performances with Claire Martin, Tommy Smith and his own quartet.

Have any of you tried a wonderful fruit/herbal tea called Red Zinger from some organisation called Celestial Seasonings of Boulder Colorado? I can get it here in Scotland from a couple of places and it is just wonderful hot or cold. Green tea is nice once in a while but tjhis stuff is great - and no caffeine!

but does it mean we will have to go back and buy all those Cds again just to get copyable ones?