What are you playing tonight?

[Gary the Enfield]

Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim and American Slang , Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager and assorted Frank Turner all mixed up onto a Frankie's Gas Cape playlist. Weeeeeekend is here.

Not a bad album at all.

[TANGODANCER]

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFzdLQkLPNo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Stick me in a corner of some bar in southern Spain, behind an iced Lumumba, watching and listening to this and I'd be one very happy hombre.

[William the White]

For Tango - and anyone else...

Flamenco Arabe - fine fusion...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9jbTMu3LgE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[TANGODANCER]

For Tango - and anyone else...

Flamenco Arabe - fine fusion...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9jbTMu3LgE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In return I'll give you Alabina WTW. Amazing voice frm Ishtar and she throws the dance in for free. Worth watching a few vids from this group with Gypsy Kings, Los Ninos de Sara etc. (Sara is the patron saint of the Camargue Gypsies of Southern France. Reminded me of Alaistair McCleans Caravan to Vaccares) )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78I88RVX1eg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[thebish]

Miles Davis - Jean Pierre - featuring (I think) Mike Stern on funky guitar...

cool and (indeed) awesome...

from the album:

[TANGODANCER]

Miles Davis - Jean Pierre - featuring (I think) Mike Stern on funky guitar...

cool and (indeed) awesome...from the album:

Got his Sketches of Spain album. Takes some beating.

[thebish]

Miles Davis - Jean Pierre - featuring (I think) Mike Stern on funky guitar...

cool and (indeed) awesome...from the album:

Got his Sketches of Spain album. Takes some beating.

not my favourite Miles Davis - I think the penguin book of Jazz or some such described it as "elevator music"... a bit unfair - but perhaps amongst his most "easy-listening" stuff...

that said - the fact that is isn't the BEST miles davis doesn't mean it's no good - just that it isn't him at his most challenging/electrifying - that would still have to be "Kind of Blue"...

[TANGODANCER]

not my favourite Miles Davis - I think the penguin book of Jazz or some such described it as "elevator music"... a bit unfair - but perhaps amongst his most "easy-listening" stuff...

Oh dear, the Penguin book of jazz said that? Flamenco hondo (the purest kind, in this instance Solea with its complex emphasis on beats three, six, eight and ten with eleven and twelve often silent) ) and Saeta( the holy week hymns that are personal to every single person that sings them describes it as elevator music? Wow, well done Penguin.

[thebish]

not my favourite Miles Davis - I think the penguin book of Jazz or some such described it as "elevator music"... a bit unfair - but perhaps amongst his most "easy-listening" stuff...

Oh dear, the Penguin book of jazz said that? Flamenco hondo (the purest kind, in this instance Solea with its complex emphasis on beats three, six, eight and ten with eleven and twelve often silent) ) and Saeta( the holy week hymns that are personal to every single person that sings them describes it as elevator music? Wow, well done Penguin.

indeed it did (IIRC) - like I said - a little unfair, but hey - it's a world of subjective opinion... it is Davis at his most "accessible", which is where, I suspect, the comment came from...

there is no BAD Miles Davis though...

[William the White]

not my favourite Miles Davis - I think the penguin book of Jazz or some such described it as "elevator music"... a bit unfair - but perhaps amongst his most "easy-listening" stuff...

Oh dear, the Penguin book of jazz said that? Flamenco hondo (the purest kind, in this instance Solea with its complex emphasis on beats three, six, eight and ten with eleven and twelve often silent) ) and Saeta( the holy week hymns that are personal to every single person that sings them describes it as elevator music? Wow, well done Penguin.

indeed it did (IIRC) - like I said - a little unfair, but hey - it's a world of subjective opinion... it is Davis at his most "accessible", which is where, I suspect, the comment came from...

there is no BAD Miles Davis though...

I have to say that jazz pretty much escapes me as a musical pleasure... with two exceptions, and can't even remember how I came to possess them... Sonny Rollins, saxaphone colossus and Thelonious Monk Live at Paris Olympia.

I've often felt, given the number of friends I have who love jazz, that I should try harder... But the flesh is weak, the spirit unwilling, and the desire for real music overwhelming...

[TANGODANCER]

I have to say that jazz pretty much escapes me as a musical pleasure... with two exceptions, and can't even remember how I came to possess them... Sonny Rollins, saxaphone colossus and Thelonious Monk Live at Paris Olympia.

I've often felt, given the number of friends I have who love jazz, that I should try harder... But the flesh is weak, the spirit unwilling, and the desire for real music overwhelming...

Never been a real jazz lover, Will, except maybe the traditional New Orleans style stuff. Biggest change in musical tastes has always been as a result of fusion. No new thing but each time it happens a whole new genre of music fans grow. Jazz lends itself to it more than most other types, hence the sheer number of jazz styles. Some years ago a group called Ojos de Brujo (Eyes of the Wizard) caused uproar in flamenco by fusing it with rap, hip-hop etc. Gypsy Kings created another style with Gypsy Rumba using flamenco as a base. The Pogues kicked traditional Irish music up the ass and punked it. The pure styles will always remain, but new genres are being created each era. There's still plenty room for both. Music is a massive world.

[William the White]

I have to say that jazz pretty much escapes me as a musical pleasure... with two exceptions, and can't even remember how I came to possess them... Sonny Rollins, saxaphone colossus and Thelonious Monk Live at Paris Olympia.

I've often felt, given the number of friends I have who love jazz, that I should try harder... But the flesh is weak, the spirit unwilling, and the desire for real music overwhelming...

Never been a real jazz lover, Will, except maybe the traditional New Orleans style stuff. Biggest change in musical tastes has always been as a result of fusion. No new thing but each time it happens a whole new genre of music fans grow. Jazz lends itself to it more than most other types, hence the sheer number of jazz styles. Some years ago a group called Ojos de Brujo (Eyes of the Wizard) caused uproar in flamenco by fusing it with rap, hip-hop etc. Gypsy Kings created another style with Gypsy Rumba using flamenco as a base. The Pogues kicked traditional Irish music up the ass and punked it. The pure styles will always remain, but new genres are being created each era. There's still plenty room for both. Music is a massive world.

De acuerdo...

Mariza comes to Manchester in May... not often people get a chance to lose themselves in the sublime experience that is Portuguese fado at its very best... Mariza is coming, if you miss... you're daft... or deaf...

[thebish]

I have to say that jazz pretty much escapes me as a musical pleasure... with two exceptions, and can't even remember how I came to possess them... Sonny Rollins, saxaphone colossus and Thelonious Monk Live at Paris Olympia.

I've often felt, given the number of friends I have who love jazz, that I should try harder... But the flesh is weak, the spirit unwilling, and the desire for real music overwhelming...

you are a tease william...

It surprises me, though, a little, that you (to some extent) shun populist (easily accessible) film and fiction in favour of deeper sub-titled works dealing with complex and often harrowing themes - and yet so easily dismiss Miles Davis (the musical equivalent) as not "real" music....

I guess it is true of most performance - but, I think particularly of Jazz - it is a whole different thing live than recorded.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Or it could just be a desperate attempt to appear too cool for school

I don't like Kings of Leon, me, not since other people started liking them

[Prufrock]

Or it could just be a desperate attempt to appear too cool for school

I don't like Kings of Leon, me, not since other people started liking them

Yeah exactly. They like totally sold out when they started singing comprehensible lyrics, man.

[Lord Kangana]

They are a bit shit live though.

[Il Pirate]

Yes; Close to the edge,
Mike Oldfield; Tubular bells,
Genesis; suppers ready


having a reflective moment

[Prufrock]

New Frank Turner- I am Disappeared. This, again and again. Leak from the new album, England Keep my Bones, which is out a week after my birthday. Giddy. Rock n Roll Poetry at it's best.

[Prufrock]

I lied. This, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKfk2nHIsFw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, the new single too.

[Bruce Rioja]