{"id":12903,"date":"2024-03-09T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12903"},"modified":"2024-03-10T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T08:06:11","slug":"music-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12903","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC\/MEDiA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Looks fantastic!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wowzers! I\u2019d love this. It looks incredibly beautifully put together. And I can imagine that it would have me delving down a warrens-worth of musical rabbit-holes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

British jazz isn\u2019t something I\u2019ve ever taken too much of an interest in, per se, to be brutally honest. I mean, there\u2019s such vast amounts to be explored coming out of the birthplace of jazz, the US of A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the few Brit-jazz albums I own.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve explored the tiniest amouts of European jazz, and even less British stuff. I have Stan Tracey\u2019s Under Milk Wood<\/em>, somewhere. And I have a terrific Chris Bowden album called Time Capsule<\/em>. And more recently there\u2019s stuff by local heroes, like the Portico Quartet, and Resolution 88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, all of the latter – save Stan Tracey – would fall outside the chronological remit of this very handsome looking tome, which covers the golden era that spanned 1960-75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What (else) can I sell, to fund purchasing this, I wonder? Trouble is, I\u2019m not having much luck selling the stuff I\u2019m already trying to flog. Which (so far non-existent) money is to go towards paying basic things, like bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trunk Records Mole Jazz T-shirt (sadly sold out!).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I lived in London I used to love visiting Ray\u2019s Jazz and Mole Jazz. There were other jazzy joints, I think, like Honest Jon\u2019s. But I very rarely fit out that way (West London). And towards the end of my time In\u2019t Smoke, some new ones began appearing, like Mr Bongo, that carried a lot of jazz, but were a bit broader in their catalogues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ah, those old and fading memories!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Both Ray\u2019s and Mole closed. I didn\u2019t realise this, but Ray\u2019s Jazz is actually still going, as a sub-department, within Foyle\u2019s Bookshop, London. I\u2019m glad to learn that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also didn\u2019t know that, like me, Ray was both born in Ealing, and a drummer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ray Smith, at his drums.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I really must get this book, if humanly possible. And, whether I succeed in that endeavour or not, I gots to start digging into British jazz history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOOTNOTE<\/strong>\u2026 Oops! I forgot about this<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I talked about not really digging into Brit-Jazz above. And I suddenly remembered that, actually, whilst that\u2019s still broadly speaking very true, there are some things I forgot I\u2019d checked out. Such as the Torrid Zone collection of Ian Carr\/Nucleus recordings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve also started to check out recordings by Neil Ardley. And then there\u2019s the connections between UK prog and Brit-Jazz\u2026 and so it goes, on and on. The musical multiverses multiply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wowzers! I\u2019d love this. It looks incredibly beautifully put together. And I can imagine that it would have me delving down a warrens-worth of musical rabbit-holes. British jazz isn\u2019t something I\u2019ve ever taken too much of an interest in, per se, to be brutally honest. I mean, there\u2019s such vast amounts to be explored coming … <\/p>\n

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