Yard

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yard art by a hero in distress and with more on offer ...


now these two events will get me to lunnun .....

tonight 2200 Night Waves

Anne McElvoy discusses the case of the artist Ai Weiwei with Dr Katie Hill of the University of Westminster, the archaeologist Mike Pitts, and the journalist Peter Aspden. Weiwei is currently in prison in China and his work is being shown in his absence in a new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London, while his "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" have just been unveiled in the courtyard of Somerset House.

[charles t]

[QUOTE=aka Calum Da Jazbo;48789]if there is a band on the planet that can get within reach of these guys i'd love to hear them too ...

"Initially, the repertoire of MOPDtK included both originals by Elliott, Evans and Irabagon, and jazz standards such as "Skippy," "Moanin'" and "A Night in Tunisia." All of Elliott's compositions are always named after towns in Pennsylvania which gives his titles both conceptual distance from the musical material and an amusing back-story."

Will MOPDTK get around to a composition honoring (my home State's) little sleepy town of:

Intercourse ?

Natch, there would have to be a - what's word - euphenism.

At least 499 potentials.

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and a movie ... Witness was filmed in that sleepy Amish enclave ..... apparently the Town Signs are frequently stolen

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yard-birds with adventurous ears might care to hear the fusion of the Pakistani Sufi praise tradition with jazz in the Rez Abassi Quatet's Newport set courtesy of NPR i think it's a gasser, edgy, clearly of two traditions but without a hint of ecm noodling .... and my how NPR puts R3 to shame on Jazz Coverage ....

on the clasical front they, NPR, premier a series of new pieces celebrating and exploring the music of the Brandenburg Concertos commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra ... a self organising ensemble who work without a conductor .... a principle to inspire us all, wonder what the music is like, not heard it yet but all new compositions ...

[Byas'd Opinion]

More Indo-jazz fusion on the Delhi Jazz Festival site: Trio AAB (Phil and Tom Bancroft and Kevin MacKenzie) in collaboration with various Indian musicians. http://sehernow.in/Jazz2011/gallery.html (scroll to the bottom of the list of bands to find them).

The entire festival's available there so there's plenty of other stuff to explore. No big names, but a good range of acts from India, Europe and Canada.

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you can not make fiction that out guesses life ... even if you were J G Ballard

[Serial_Apologist]

A case of boot fetishism - or bonnet? (Americans, I always forget, call the car boot the trunk)

[Tenor Freak]

Official Emission Station N661 indeed....

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watched for about the 100th time the Russia House and caught the ear worm last night

Bill Evans LaFaro Motian don't tell me he can't swing or that he was morose, not here, this is brilliant and in its time transforming

Ben Webster ... he creeps up on it ....

Charles McPherson live in London he just launches straight in ...




Billie

[eighthobstruction]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg&feature=related

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¡basta!

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not enough Jimmy Giuffre lately

with Pee Wee Russell [and Jo Jones] ... mellow

and here with Jim hall being ... Careful

Bley & Swallow ... Flight

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not enough Ben Webster either

with Stan Tracy ...Perdido

and in stellar form with Gerry Mulligan ... Who got rhythm

and he was born to play this song ... Solitude

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this is a slow cool movie, pretty good too and still on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k2drg/Honeydripper/

namesake:

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early twelve string masterpiece

and a real treat from 83; St Sonny Pat Metheny Alphonse Johson and Jack De Johnette live

smokin weather in the yard .....