Jazz Library.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Been listening to all my old tapes of Jazz Library to avoid the Thatcher fest.

THIS depth and content is what R3's sad and sorry output so lacks. Hell, its even got me liking MarK Murphy, no mean achievement after 40 years.

BN.

[Bryn]

Been listening to all my old tapes of Jazz Library to avoid the Thatcher fest.

You needed an excuse?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Fair point! But it means digging all the old C90s out of the orange boxes. Low tech, high value.

BN.

[Bryn]

My old cassettes (lots of Cage, Messiaen, Stravinsky, AMM, etc. - not much jazz as such) are stored in Spanish strawberry boxes (the corrugated cardboard ones which the punnets came in). The ones I used to grab from supermarkets, etc. were just right for holding around 120 cassettes in their cases.

[Serial_Apologist]

My old cassettes (lots of Cage, Messiaen, Stravinsky, AMM, etc. - not much jazz as such) are stored in Spanish strawberry boxes (the corrugated cardboard ones which the punnets came in). The ones I used to grab from supermarkets, etc. were just right for holding around 120 cassettes in their cases.

I would need ten of those then...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i just dumped all mine ... yer can't take em with you and it sounded much better in mp3 format any way ... now hard drives are another matter!

[Serial_Apologist]

i just dumped all mine ... yer can't take em with you and it sounded much better in mp3 format any way ... now hard drives are another matter!

It'd take me a lifetime to transcribe all my cassettes - not to mention needing a wetnurse on constant hand to help me with the complicated technology. I guess I'm really lucky they mostly still sound OK, some after 27 years, and that I have the equipment necessary for playing them!

A mate bestowed me all his jazz broadcast cassettes, going back to 1974 or thereabouts. One was of a broadcast of a Kenny Wheeler group from must have been '79, playing materials from the "Around 6" LP, but with a line-up with John Taylor, Alan Skidmore, Evan Parker, Chris Laurence and Tony Oxley. (Funny this should come to mind, given Calum's posting of a KW link on another thread). I phoned Kenny, asking if he would like to have it, adding that I thought these particular versions even better than the ones on the album, and he suggested I post it off - which I did, after making myself a spare copy! A few months later I asked Kenny, had he thought of trying to get it put out; he replied that he had listened to it, but couldn't agree about his own playing being better, and that in any case the recording quality was inadequate!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

My ex wife mistakenly taped a Tina Turner album on a C90 of Mike Osborne's Qrt very last R3 broadcast as a present to me. Hence the ex.

No! I have forgiven her...but remind her everytime we meet. The annoying thing is there's almost one Osborne track at the end of the tape...the promise of what was. Sobs into brandy.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

My ex wife mistakenly taped a Tina Turner album on a C90 of Mike Osborne's Qrt very last R3 broadcast as a present to me. Hence the ex.

No! I have forgiven her...but remind her everytime we meet.

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The bit, well its more than a bit, is wonderful. Marc Charig on cornet....sobs some more...punches duck. And it was a genuine mistake. It taught me to put big felt tip labels on things. Including my wife.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

lay off yer ducks El Senor .... i dumped me lps too ....

actually had mp3 back fill by the ton and needed space; now for the books ... way past time for a clear out

not letting anyone have me cds!

it is mysterious every time i clear the attic it just fills up again ...

ant one see the Arne Dahl mystery on BBC4 theme tune was [you guessed]

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

NEVER ever throw your books out Calum, Im re-buying all mine, costing a fortune.

Back in the day you could get Bakunin's collected works for £1.75 and still have enough change to buy a petrol bomb.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep that's what i think too El Senor ...still got a couple of bombs somewhere ...

as Old King Kenny used to mutter RAR RAR ...

[Serial_Apologist]

NEVER ever throw your books out Calum, Im re-buying all mine, costing a fortune.

Back in the day you could get Bakunin's collected works for £1.75 and still have enough change to buy a petrol bomb.

BN.

The Maoist cream-cover versions from China (proper cotton-sewn bindings) from the CPB (M-L) off the Old Market in Bristle have proved the most durable of mine. The "brothers" from Militant didn't think much of the Cardew Peoples Liberation Music gig they put on at the Arnolphoney around '76: "You wouldn't dare put that s**** on in a working man's [sic] club" etc etc. Poor old Cornelius - respects an' that - they never found out who done him in.

[Quarky]

Been listening to all my old tapes of Jazz Library to avoid the Thatcher fest.

THIS depth and content is what R3's sad and sorry output so lacks. Hell, its even got me liking MarK Murphy, no mean achievement after 40 years.

BN.

If I may be forgiven for doing something so simple minded as commenting on a Jazz programme actually played on Radio 3, it seemed to me that the last JRR live at Gateshead had a lot of the old Alyn of Jazz Library. Many thought provoking incisive comments and musical items - Daylight Express - Zoe Rahman - yippee! Just shows what Alyn might do with JRR if allowed some rope from the management.