The exit of Waxy Maxy

[Paul Sherratt]

Was it the Sufijan bloke-person who was covering the Felix Mendelssohn hit ? ( I was barely conscious last night )
Well I'm still waiting for someone to play the other fine Felix Mendelssohn,featured below :

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

Here in a special medley for loyal listener John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4kSv3e6F8

FM is a distant relation of FM, btw.

[johncorrigan]

Was it the Sufijan bloke-person who was covering the Felix Mendelssohn hit ? ( I was barely conscious last night )
Well I'm still waiting for someone to play the other fine Felix Mendelssohn,featured below :

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

Here in a special medley for loyal listener John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4kSv3e6F8

FM is a distant relation of FM, btw.

I'm sure that first FM was recorded in Fingal's Cave on Staffa, Paul; and you'll be delighted to hear that FM's Scotlandia is now the official anthem of the Commonwealth Games in Glescae next year, and must be in the running for the first dance if Independence is chosen. Wi' a hunner pedal steel guitars 'n aw 'n aw!!!

By the way Mela Mela, followed by Voice Squad, followed by the other Felix is a late runner for segue of the year....well done Maxy boy!!!

[Paul Sherratt]

and well done Maxy boy for the Thursday show in which he really put a shift in, exceptional ! (yes, I've been watching too much football )

[johncorrigan]

A triumph, Paul, I would say! North Mississippi Allstars was somethin'!

[Paul Sherratt]

Very enjoyable noise indeed.
Now I wonder which Yusef Lateef albums Mr Max has on his heaving shelves ?
The recently late great needs to be heard outside of the jazz shows.

[Globaltruth]

Now the good thing about the Boxing Day Maxster was that after 30'ish mins of the good stuff, it was possible just to stop listening as the rest of the show was devoted to the self-indulgent burblings, scrapings of another rather dreadful & unlistenable 'session'. Not for me...

Shame I had to miss traditional the Angolan track at the end, but it was a sacrifice worth making.

And the Luscombe returns next week, on previous form should be scaling new heights of unlistenableness...Bah.

[johncorrigan]

At the tail end of last night's programme Max read an e from a correspondent wishing for the return of Luscombe - not me - last night's was a triumph - Birelli's Waltz excellent, Lal Waterson (no comment required), Nonhlanhla Kheswa and Her Martians (top notch Southern African Jazz); and there was Yusef Lateef and also the Swan Silvertones - nah, think I'll stick with Max...and on Wednesday he played a lovely version of Moon River sung by one of me and Miss C's favourite of a few years back, Piney Gir (minus her Country Roadshow) - nice to hear she's still around - and what a Blind Willie J!!!! Thanks Max!

[Globaltruth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApN_V0B7lhA

the Lotte Lenya/Rosa Krebb/James Bond/knife in the shoe fact deserved an airing.

Max & Neil show last night - as we've said elsewhere, bringing fresh young blood in is A Good Thing. A nice leap last night, from Lotte Lenya to Philip Glass, & i'm spotting a fondness for the works of Arthur Russell. Put that one on the Max shelf next to the predilection for the Good Cap'n. That'll do nicely.

[Globaltruth]

So what do you call a show that starts with Sun Ra, has Fela Kuti in the middle and ends with John Coltrane,McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, Elvin Jones & Eric Dolphy playing Cole Porter?

Oh that'll be the Max on Late Junction show then...

[Globaltruth]

Well, a quick glance at the pic illustrating this show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046cs34

and I knew that it would be worth listening to.
Why has there never been a film made about the tragic story of the Comedian Harmonists?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Why has there never been a film made about the tragic story of the Comedian Harmonists?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128133/

[Globaltruth]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128133/

Terrific stuff - thanks a lot, now to track it down!

[Globaltruth]

He loves that funky white boy Arthur Russell that Waxy Maxy don't he?

If he ever visited here then he might like to visit there...

http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/13/the-essential-arthur-russell/

[johncorrigan]

By the time I caught up that I'd missed Max on LJ last week I only had one still available on I-player. Nonetheless it included, among other fine contributions, this rather excellent track by Mariam the Believer which he played from a very fine live performance at Latitude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6exE-Z2IRM

[johncorrigan]

Still struggling to catch up with LJ and caught last Tuesday's show from Edinburgh - most enjoyable bunch of live guests from across the globe. Max was having Mike probs - seems they could only run to a couple. Very good Scottish duo, and some funny Glaswegian hiphop, and Martin Carthy; but most of all I enjoyed Jordi Savall and Hyperion X. Good stuff.