Why don't jazzers record pop tunes any more?

[cloughie]

Few people know that Mary Hopkins was the daughter of Lightnin' Hopkins. Jazz came up the River Wye to Brecon and a new art form was born. Hence the Brecon Jazz Festival where Caerphilly Joe Jones and Count Shirley played.

BN.

You made that up - it's Hopkin and she's white! Was Booker T Welsh and his MGs made at Cowley?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Damn! Seen thro again.

BN.

[Beef Oven!]

Reading University 1975...over run with Thatcherite "Popperian" groupies. And that was just the bar staff! As for the Philosophy faculty....I give you Anthony Flew. Oh go on.

BN.

I think you're mixing your Poppers

[Beef Oven!]

Damn! Seen thro again.

BN.

Twice in one day

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

As one of Bishop Berkley's happy flock...you should know.

BN.

[Beef Oven!]

As one of Bishop Berkley's happy flock...you should know.

BN.

That's immaterial.

[Tenor Freak]

You'd struggle to do that these days with a Katy Perry tune, which is almost bereft of melody, being a series of hooks almost impossible to detach from the accompanying video in which KP 'ironically' makes her points.

And yes maybe it is just the effect of age. I'm sure after a certain point one looks and finds further depth in the melodies one knows really well, making it harder - but never impossible - to absorb new tunes. Hence the preponderance [not here] of excuses for ageing rockers.......

Now I would like to see someone cover a Katy Perry tune, if only to see if it could be done.

[Tenor Freak]

Reading University 1975...over run with Thatcherite "Popperian" groupies. And that was just the bar staff! As for the Philosophy faculty....I give you Anthony Flew. Oh go on.

BN.

The situation at Reading U was unchanged in 1988....Sociology dept was run by Libertarians...I managed to get through unscathed, though. I doubt any of the staff have appeared on Thinking Allowed, especially since it was closed in 2009.

....and in a foretaste of things to come, the uni videoed demos on campus ... oh yes the pres of the students union is now a Tory MP (Rob Wilson if you must know).

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I read Politics at Reading for a year and then transferred to Warwick! Couldn't get clear fast enough. The cheer leaders for embryo Thatcherism and proud of it. Christie Davis taught Sociology then....author of the Reactionary Joke Book and all purpose tosser.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

I read Politics at Reading for a year and then transferred to Warwick! Couldn't get clear fast enough. The cheer leaders for embryo Thatcherism and proud of it. Christie Davis taught Sociology then....author of the Reactionary Joke Book and all purpose tosser.

BN.

Prof. Davies was head of department in '88...I did joint honours with politics, ended up doing intl relations though by then Avi Shlaim hadbalready gone to Oxford for some strange reason. ..

One of my contemporaries at Reading was Jules Baggini

[Beef Oven!]

I read Politics at Reading for a year and then transferred to Warwick! Couldn't get clear fast enough. The cheer leaders for embryo Thatcherism and proud of it. Christie Davis taught Sociology then....author of the Reactionary Joke Book and all purpose tosser.

BN.

Wyn Grant is still at Warwick!!!

[muzzer]

Now I would like to see someone cover a Katy Perry tune, if only to see if it could be done.

Well, fresh from the book of Rachmaninov transcriptions for alto sax I picked up in Foyle's yesterday for a song, perhaps that's a suitable task for what remains of the year........if only I knew any of her tunes..

[burning dog]

Electricity was invented by a fish.

Respect where its due.

BN.

Bloody Prog Rockers again!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Non! "The electric RAY Charles!"

I will leave the comments about "Sole Brothers" to others.

BN.

[burning dog]

Non! "The electric RAY Charles!"

I will leave the comments about "Sole Brothers" to others.

BN.[/QUOTE]

There's a plaice for us