Things can only get (butter) better...…

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Following the incisive faster-forward post-modern cultural analysis of one of the leading contributors to this incisive bored, my new band, The BLA! ("The Bluesnik Latino Aces") has now totally reviewed our approach to our "art".

Today is SO yesterday! That’s our new exciting motivating maxim. Yesterday we were in the studio cutting tracks for our new album "Jazz = MC2" (geddit) and as we sat in the control room, listing to the playbacks, our bass player Brian O'Perrier shouted angrily, "You know, by tomorrow this stuff will be SO dated. Let’s wipe the masters and come back next Thursday!" We all concurred, but on reflection we realised…" Wouldn’t next Thursday also be SO dated by next Friday?”" So, next month we are going back to cut the album but first, stopping all the clocks, hiding the electric egg timers and burning the page 3 calendars with the lib-dem girls on!

We were invited onto Jamie Cullen’s show as the "Sound of 2011" but have now decided to wait until 2013.
BN.

(Today’s lesson - Miles Davis’s last Rap Shoo Bop records were SO much better than his rubbish from the 50s and 60s…cos it was recorded sooooo much later and Miles was wiser and had heard more vital "stuff". As Miles often said, “Later is More Butterer.”

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

we iz all retro now El Senor

here is a tribute to music of 50 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vVOfppqBr4

beware the Japanese Introduction ....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Things can ONLY get, can only get'
Things can ONLY get, can only get,
Things can ONLY get, can only get,
Things can ONLY get, can only get,

(Jazz chorus)


BUTTER!!!

Other spreads are available.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

I have always loved this song!! This song is just pure perfection!! This song takes me back to days of true happiness and innocence. I miss those days. My heart just aches for those days so much. What a time that was! Never to be forgotten! There was a magic in the air back then that you just cant feel today and that is a real shame. This song is pure magic in itself! Missing those days but hold the memories in my heart forever!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OO9LloDSJo

BLA Lead Singer as he will appear in 2030 or maybe today my clocks are all spiralled



what is this 'other spreads' thing, man, is it the new thang?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Calum ~ you mean you've never heard Coltrane's "Giant Spreads" from 1959? Oliver Nelson's "Spreads Ahead"" from the same year with Dolphy? Jackie Mclean's "One Spread Beyond!" (1963)? Ornette's "This is our Marg!" (1960) and Nelson again, "Olive Oil and the Abstract Truth!"

IT ain't TOAST...It's the sound of NOW!
BN.

No more pictures of our drummer/singer please ... he's in marmite rehab.

[charles t]

Harkening back to that patron at Birdland, who remarked 50 years ago:

'WHEN YOU GONNA' STOP PLAYIN' THAT JU-JITSU STUFF!!!!!!"

[charles t]

"...who remarked MORE THAN 50 years ago"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

hey man Popeye won't like Olive playing around! who is this Abstract Truth cat .... ?

that marmite thang is a bad hang man, bad ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWwoAGYrFIk

i can't believe it's not tomorrow .... a croissant man meself ....

[Ian Thumwood]

The ducks of Hampshire are agitated (as much by the picture of Howard Jones as anything else) and out to seek vengence against their Welsh counterparts. However, it is unlikely that their strident calls were be heard in the mountains as the Welsh ducks only hear in Mono and are blinkered even to the thought that there might be other ducks out there who have anything other than black and white plumage. The plight of the Welsh ducks is surely one to bring a tear to the eye of even the most hard-hearted ornithologists - denied access to any recordings more modern than 1975 and relying upon old episodes of "Ivor the Engine" played in a constant loop to prevent them ruffling each other's feathers. Their taste in jazz too is limited to the likes of "Duck" Baker, Hamid Drake, Mallard Ferguson and Scoter Betts with the sound of something are unboppish like Duke Ellington's "Blue Goose" likely to reduce them to a state of paranoia to say nothing of the soporific music produced by Manfred Eider. The latter is known to have a very negative effect upon the behaviour of this duck. Other than the delight of finding a half-chewed Werther's Original that had fallen between the cushions of the settee, it is well known that the Welsh duck (Anas Cambrensis) can be easily mesmerised by lengthy quotations from "Down beat" magazine with which can learn by rote in order to attract a mate. During the breeding season, the male Welsh Duck sports an unusual attire with feathers sprouting from beneath the lower mandible and rings around the eyes which are said to resemble spectacles. In this respect, it is said to resemble a poor imitation of the Californian Whistling Duck and it's monotonous call consisting of repeated notes of a flattened fifth interval is one of the least interesting amongst the duck and goose family.

There was a time when the Welsh Duck was almost endemic but , prefering to sing their once familiar mating call acoustically, they were soon drowned out by their amplified counterparts so that the species eventually became isolated in it's habitat. They were known to have a particular dislike of guitarists. Bird-watchers of an older vintage lament the passing of the Welsh Duck but it's migration route to Scandinavia made its reintroduction increasingly unlikely. Consequently, preservation societies were created in order to ensure that this duck could survive with even Bill Odie being recruited to see that the Welsh duck could regain the status of it's heyday. At one stage the celebrated composer Olivier Messaien was drafted in due to his fame at notating a wide variety of bird song but unfortunately he quickly lost interest when it was discovered that the Welsh Duck's song was typically limited to just a 12-bar blues with the odd use of a standard being employed when a drake found himself in the compnay of several alpha males. Songs in excess of 32-bars were rarely heard even in the remoter parts of Wales where large flocks of the ducks were once said to exist before they were all shot to provide feathers for the hats of Dame Shirley Bassey and Catherine Jenkins.


I am not sure as to the Welsh Duck's fondness for butter, but I trust that you will find this clip featuring Quentin "Butter" Jackson salty enough. No ECM style margarine here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqISuuiNgyM

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRMvg5TAl8

sometimes things just work out [watch till end]

[Ian Thumwood]

Forgot to mention Merganser Ellington, Kenny Smew Jr and Clare Teal.

[burning dog]

John Surman's "Road to St. Ivel" anyone?

And this

Remember A rich man is butter poor man with money

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Ian ~ As someone who has debated life and revolution long into the night with Jazz Ducks, OK, an adopted flock of six on my local river, I can assure you that there's nothing they like better in the morning than the "Elmo Hope Trio" album (Contemporary 1959) and later as they are settling down, "Harold Land/Kenny Dorham Quin- "In New York", Riverside 1961). They are also partial to Mr Sonny Boy Newk's '60s duck noises ~ "Bro Rollins speaks to us - He's a DUCKISTA!".

DUCKS - they KNOW.
Never seen a (REVOLUTIONARY) duck listening to Billy Frizzled.

BN.

[burning dog]

[burning dog]

Ducks only pretend to find jazz difficult. It's faux canard.