Is any one listening?

[burning dog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEku-ILA1Qc

Its seems to work, the name thing, elsewhere on You tube "The Bag Men" are praised with "well mental - old farts don't get such contemporary far-out Jass influenced music" type comment. Just the sort of things old farts would like I'd have thought, it goes in to a Herb Alpert version of In a Silent Way if you wait. They sound like they are good musicians who would be better off playing "Stella by Starlight" Portishead were better. Some of Courtney Pine's stuff with turnatablists sounded more relevant but that was after his 15 minutes fame. Can't here much Ornette influence

[Serial_Apologist]

Limiting my response to a lingering reaction to Ian's nubile insights re:

contemporary Brit jazz

I can only list some acquisitions of same...mostly via places like jazzcds.co.uk or the actual U.K. labels.

Here they are:

Dave Mannington Quartet - Headpush (Loop Records)
The Convergence Quartet - Live In Oxford (FMR Records)
St. Cyprians 2 - Larry Stabbins - (FMR Records)
Four At St. Ciprians - " "
Justin Quinn's Bakehouse - Before I Forget (F-ire)
Partikel - Cohension (Whirlwind Recordings)
Aquarium - Aquarium (Babel)
Ma - The Last (Loop)
Ma - Jyketie (Loop)
The Golden Age Of Steam - Raspberry Tongue (Babel)
Alex Maguire Sextet - Brewed In Belgium (Moonjune Records) Only 1/6th Brit but was purchased Down Texas Way

To be (mostly) truthful - I don't recall a disappointment in any of 'em.

But having snuck into Birdland while under-aged and having had Bud Powell look into my eyes, I haven't been the same boy since.

Coming from Your Experienced Pa Excellence this is praise indeed!

[Serial_Apologist]

Hancock satirising rather than exemplify I'd have thought...

Yes - I omitted the winky emoticon for reason of irony there.

[burning dog]

Yes - I omitted the winky emoticon for reason of irony there.

[Tom Audustus]

"Part of the reason that I stopped subscribing to Jazzwise was that I felt I could no longer believe a lot of the hype. There seems to be too much attention given to young musicians who burn brightly before ending up playing in the pits for "Les Mis." "

Yep. Jazzwise does seem to be be dominatated by hype merchants. But I find it a useful read.

It would be good if they would feature the sort of musicians who turn up at ordinary jazz clubs up and down the country. I does tend to have a trendy metropolian bias.

[charles t]

addendum: (for the benefit of younger readers)

" But having snuck into Birdland while under-aged and having had s c a r y Bud Powell look into my eyes, I haven't been the same boy since. "

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

addendum: (for the benefit of younger readers)

" But having snuck into Birdland while under-aged and having had s c a r y Bud Powell look into my eyes, I haven't been the same boy since. "

my uncle had a manic depressive episode in 1954 and was 'given' a course of electro-convulsive therapy [about fifty times what would later be deemed an appropriate number of treatments in a few weeks] much as Mr Powell received [see also] ..... my uncle was a much reduced man in consequence but not volatile nor alcoholic ... and never scary after the ECT but seriously so to my young mind before .... he enraged me by his 'wicked' hyperactivity and conversation but surprisingly amenable to reason i found ... i am sure Mr Powell would have been given half a chance ..... here then are two of the scariest cats in Jazz