Yard

[charles t]

Calum: Thank you for that link to 'Techno' Ben (belatedly following on the heels of 'Cowboy' Ben).

The head of NPR recently got caught in a sting operation (calling the Tea Party: 'racist' and other sundry stuff) and Republican Congress voted to cut-off a good chunk of their funding.

Potentially, not good for jazz.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

there are so many cuts of funding over here and no doubt over there Chas .... it is a random process and any excuse will do .... alas the PC Inquisition is never ending, and as dogmatic and rabid as the Spanish ...... once it was faith, now it is terminology, what has the linguistic turn done for us ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

more self indulgence ....the great Oscar Pettiford:

There

Donna Lee

[Byas'd Opinion]

One for cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, 50 years ago today:
Space is the Place

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

way to go Byas'd ... we stood on the Cromwell Rd A4 to cheer him into London back in '61, whole school turned out ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

what did you think was hip when you were a kid?

not just jazz, what was it you party to? what did your buddies and you get into ....

Ray Charles CC Rider

Muddy MoJo

Dimples

and

Corinna

on the farm

and Dylan was played to death from Highway 61 on ....

and Mingus was always present

and Rollins Hold em joe



nowadays hip is something else altogether, can i have a new one Mr Lansley?

[Ian Thumwood]

This was "hip" but I was into Coleman Hawkins and Thelonious Monk at the time:-

Never really understoof the (musical) appeal. I think she has an unremarkable voice. Not a great musical instrument, in my opinion.

[Serial_Apologist]

What was Ronnie's joke, to the effect that hip hops were something people of a certain age should be expected to prepare themselves for?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

looks like he knows what Ronnie meant

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Ian don't take affront at this but i wonder whether you had a melancholy bypass - no Brahms, no Bill Evans and you don't get Sade .... the longing in her voice turns me to jellied whatsits

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

if there is a band on the planet that can get within reach of these guys i'd love to hear them too ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

when i grow up i am going to Smalls, in the meantime there is always the archive

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

[Serial_Apologist]

And I'll second that nomination for the Turner Prize.........

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

interesting hour long interview with Perry Anderson on his life and work as a Left Wing Intellectual and historian .... [and many others on the side bar] .... just the kinda stuff to keep ageing jazz fans and other boredees happy in da yard .....