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  • Jonathan
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    • Mar 2007
    • 945

    #91
    Recently it's been the main theme from the TV series "Good Omens"
    Best regards,
    Jonathan

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    • Serial_Apologist
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      • Dec 2010
      • 37617

      #92
      Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
      … Or indeed on 'Good Morning' from Sgt Pepper, or who played the Indian instruments from 'Within you Without you' from that album. It's quite odd having uncredited musicians on albums they must have known would be quite big...
      Ronnie Scott played the tenor break on "Lady Madonna" - that's the only famous one I know of.

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      • burning dog
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        • Dec 2010
        • 1510

        #93
        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        Ronnie Scott played the tenor break on "Lady Madonna" - that's the only famous one I know of.

        Additional musicians

        Ronnie Scott – tenor saxophone
        Bill Povey – tenor saxophone
        Harry Klein – baritone saxophone
        Bill Jackman – baritone saxophone

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37617

          #94
          Originally posted by burning dog View Post

          Additional musicians

          Ronnie Scott – tenor saxophone
          Bill Povey – tenor saxophone
          Harry Klein – baritone saxophone
          Bill Jackman – baritone saxophone


          Thanks for that info. Harry Klein is another of those musicians from Ronnie's generation who would have been known to older jazzers from that time. And one sometimes hears older jazz fans mention Bill Povey. As to Bill Jackman? Never heard of him tbh. Now, I expect someone, possibly a few years my senior, to say, "What? You've never heard of Bill Jackman? Dear me, tut tut".

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          • jayne lee wilson
            Banned
            • Jul 2011
            • 10711

            #95
            The finale of the Szymanowski 4th Symphony (the Concertante for Piano/Orchestra) - listen and you'll soon know.....!
            Keeps me awake at nights sometimes.... (not that I need much encouragement to do that....)...

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37617

              #96
              Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
              The finale of the Szymanowski 4th Symphony (the Concertante for Piano/Orchestra) - listen and you'll soon know.....!
              Keeps me awake at nights sometimes.... (not that I need much encouragement to do that....)...
              Ta ta tum, tat tat tum, tum tat tat tum.. etc. Yes, it has some of the drive of Ravel's LH Concerto finale, but different rhythm.

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              • jayne lee wilson
                Banned
                • Jul 2011
                • 10711

                #97
                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                Ta ta tum, tat tat tum, tum tat tat tum.. etc. Yes, it has some of the drive of Ravel's LH Concerto finale, but different rhythm.
                No, not the rocking, waltz like percussion rhythm at the very start, but the theme that the piano enters with, something like -

                ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta - ta - ta - tatata - taaa

                The Ravel piece I'm most reminded of by the initial perc-di-valse is ....the almost inaudible opening of.... La Valse, of course.... try it.... the similarity is the more striking given the use of bassoon in both passages - as if Szymanowski was inspired by that texture, the rhythm and theme emerging from dark depths....

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                • Joseph K
                  Banned
                  • Oct 2017
                  • 7765

                  #98
                  For some reason, various cuts from Slayer's Reign in Blood have been stuck in my head for over a week now.

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                  • DracoM
                    Host
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 12962

                    #99
                    Spiegel im Spiegel.
                    Play it three or four times a week....day, Don't want to lose it.

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                    • teamsaint
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25200

                      Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                      For some reason, various cuts from Slayer's Reign in Blood have been stuck in my head for over a week now.
                      You would certainly know all about that when it happens.

                      Haven’t been able to shift a snippet from a Squeeze song, that I haven’t heard in ages , for a couple of days.

                      It is a linking passage with the lyric” Have confidence , have faith”. I think somebody is telling me sometjing. The deep ancient wisdom of SE. London I guess.
                      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                      • gradus
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 5606

                        Ernestine Anderson and Sibelius were vying for control of my inner ear for a few days. Eventually, 'Someone Else is Steppin' in' (apt) gave way to the big tune in the last movt of Sibelius first symphony; fortunately both have now faded.

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                        • kernelbogey
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5737

                          Having by chance heard the shipping forecast etc on Radio Four two or three nights running, invevitably Sailing By has become an earworm.

                          I'm mystified by the amount of affection this bland piece inspires. But there it sits, in my brain.

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                          • johncorrigan
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 10349

                            Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                            Spiegel im Spiegel.
                            Play it three or four times a week....day, Don't want to lose it.
                            'Spiegel Im Spiegel' was the subject of a very moving 'Soul Music' on 4 extra on Tuesday, Draco.
                            Exploring the impact of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel on listeners' lives.

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                            • Sir Velo
                              Full Member
                              • Oct 2012
                              • 3225

                              Monteverdi's madrigal Vago augelletto has burrowed deep into my auditory receptors recently. Alessandrini's version is voluptuously irresistible.

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                              • visualnickmos
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 3609

                                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                                Having by chance heard the shipping forecast etc on Radio Four two or three nights running, invevitably Sailing By has become an earworm.

                                I'm mystified by the amount of affection this bland piece inspires. But there it sits, in my brain.
                                I rarely hear it, mercifully, and yet it's there forever; and I can't bear it - that and the "world's worst earworm" the Archers theme!

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