Good man Tiggs. I’ll check out Melanie, Agnes, Zara, Melody. You need to do the same with Mary and Tomeka.
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1 Road To Freedom – Young Disciples
2 The Raven That Refused To Sing – Steven Wilson
3 Based On A True Story – Fat Freddy’s Drop
4 Tomeka Reid Quartet – Tomeka Reid
5 Even Better – Halvorson/Formanek/Berne
6 […]

A specifically Irish one. Justin the Turkey was not easy to like nor cuddly in any way but somehow, mind-bogglingly, represented Ireland at Eurovision.

Zorn is a trans-genre genius. He can play jazz but doesn’t restrict himself, in fact many of his recent works have been as composer and conductor rather than musician. His 80s project Naked City included […]

Actually, Open is too new (2001) so I’ll have
10 – John Zorn – Spillane
instead.
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1 – Gaucho – Steely Dan
2 – The Nightfly – Donald Fagen
3 – Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics – Brian Eno + Jon Hassell
4 – Discipline – King Crimson
5 – Coup De Tete – Kip Hanrahan
6 – Time Out Of Mind […]

Will you look at that, Elvis only made #2. It’s a fair cop, guv, society’s to blame..

Get Lucky might well though, to represent the, ahem, post-noughties. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, yeah, unlikely. When’s […]

I’m tipping these 10 nuggets:

Grapevine
Heartbreak Hotel
Lovin’ Feeling
Knowing Me
I Feel Love
Ghost Town
Queen Boh. Rap.
Walker Bros. Sun
Beatles’ Hand
Be Lucky

Didn’t actually get around to taking part in this one and it’s admittedly a long time ago, but have you all gone off Hendrix or something? Electric Ladyland was always a sure thing for lists like this down the […]

I’ve been using Zoom, GoToMeeting, and BigBlueButton (client decides). These programs all do the same basic job, although BBB is educational sector and has several extra features. Don’t really get the hysteria […]

Just played Parachute, 50 years old and a cherished item, the point (possibly) where The Pretty Things discovered tunes, as opposed to 12-bar variants, and it’s stuffed full of the best of what the Abbey Road […]

“This”.
Good man yourself, KFD.
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Belated birthday wishes, @fentonsteve. Might not be your taste, but there’s a lot to be said in favour of a decent tweed jacket. I’ve got four, all with their own “personalities”, just like my various acoustic […]

But, who is calling! Very tricky little construction there. Reminds me a bit of what was the name? This notional distance by means of more remote tenses for extreme politeness (=distancing). Kind of the way a […]

Good point with the statives there @Gary, where an exclusive and powerful bunch of verbs aren’t used in any “ing” tenses at all, so no I’m understanding or she’s been knowing or we’ll have been believing, etc. […]

Have a hamper, mate.
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PS How do you know about that piano solo being 45 bars long? I don’t even know how to count bars.

Okay Tiggs, you’ve made me listen to it again. Side one is solid gold the whole way through, loads of nice production touches, sonically daring (love the phasing on the guitar and coffee-jar percussion on Panic In […]

This has got to be some sort of clincher about how our pace of life has slown, that we’re listening to different versions of a classical piece and comparing them!
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Actually..
this is the one I wanted to post. Great lady on cello. Stunning.