What are you listening to?

[Vicki]

I'm still waiting for one of you Boy Jazz Nerds (BJN) to tell me who is playing bass on that Bill Evans CD. Come on guys, it's a bloke thing. Please? You Must Believe in Spring is the title.

[Adam]

Hi Vicki - Adam Armstrong here - occasional lurker, though not really a BJN. That's Eddie Gomez on You Must Believe in Spring.

[isaacs]

Hello my dear Adam! Nice to know you still lurk here . .

[vicki]

Hey Adam

Post more, if you lurk without posting too much you might get hairy palms. ;D

Thanks for the info mate.

[Uncle Bob]

Traffic, all day. Me flippin cd player is shite, its broken down and I cant figure out how to download radio on the net yet got any tips anyone? I'm sufferin from old man syndrome

[Kenny]

Whew - a long day on the sports desk, FA Cup, footy, union, league, GP qualifying etc et al.

Aaron Choulai - Place
Don Ellis - How Time Passes
Joe Lovano - I'm All For You
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Live In Paris
Tim Wilson - Sorry, Pardon, What?
Count Basie - At Newport
Soweto Kinch - Conversations With The Unseen
Denys Baptiste - Let Freedom Ring
Jack Montrose - Arranged/Composed/Played
Various - Delmark: 50 Years Of jazz And Blues
Andy Vance Trio - Lost In Space
Magnusson/Di dario - Boundaries

[wow]

KW so much Aussie jazz, good for you mate! ;D

[Kenny]

Hmmm. Not a lotofOz this week. I fact, none at all ...

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet - Shades of Blue/Dusk Fire, Phase III/Live. Unadultered brilliant Brit stuff from the '60s
Duke Ellington - Masterpieces, Uptown, Festival Session
Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
Various - The Complete Nocturne Recordings Vol 1

Why do they call it cool - the opposite of warm - when so much of it is HOT?

Would we be better if Johnny Howard was a jazz nut?

What's you favourite coffee haunt? (My Mum's over from NZ for a week and I can hardly wait to drag her over to Brunetti's and get into some serious artery-clogging.)

Should we nominate Mark Isaacs for the next Miss Universe get down?

Who's gonna help me start a Western Suburbs Jazz Festival?

How do you like your lentils - rare, medium or well-done?

How can we get those Cougar bourbon people to spend some of their $$$$$$$$ in the jazz sector? (We seem to have the perfect demographic for them.)

If Kenny G played jazz, what instrument would he play?

When I take Bennie to see the Wallabies beat up on Scotland next Sunday, should I get him a hot dog - or should I get serious and teach him how to eat a pie? (That's providing I can afford one - it's been a looooong time since I've been to any kind of footy match.)

What's your fave non-jazz album/artist?

How long will the Krall/Costello marriage last?

Urg!

[Mrs VHB]

Got two new

Jessica Williams CDs this week form the net:

Both Solo

1 x plays Ellington

1 x Standards for Lovers (eeek what a title?) both excellent she has so much emotion. Even Joe Chindamo likes her.

Also listening to some old stuff,
Mel Torme, TORME - dated but brilliant arrangements
Jay Leonhart - love the bass, love the songs.

Loads of Keith Jarret lately

and 'bout to listen to Soaring at Dawn Fionna Burnett which I have only heard live (at the MIJF a few years ago thanks to Adrian Jackson) and I really enjoyed that gig, so there.

[Kenny]

Hmmm feels weird - or should that be Weird? - posting on a Saturday from home. The fire is roaring we're having toasted sangas for din dins and then we're all gonna watch It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on DVD. I remember watching it with my Dad a couple of times when I was wery wittle and laughing myself sick. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up 40 or so years on.

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet - Phase III/Live
Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet - Shades Of Blue/Dusk Fire
Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet - Change Is
The Jack Montrose Sextet
Shorty Rogers - Martians Come Back/Way Up There
Bob Brookmeyer - Traditionalism Revisited
Stan Kenton Presents Bob Cooper, Bill Holman & Frank Rosolino
Stephen L Carter - The Emperor Of Ocean Park

This is what we're gonna eat when Bennie and I go to see the rugby tomorrow:

[Tim S]

Shelley Scown - Angel
Aaron Choulai - Place
Fleurine - Close enough for love
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (Kenny might understand? 'Pusher Man' in particular*)
Robert Schumann - 'Mondnacht' from op. 39
The Necks - Aether
*If not, please don't launch a libel or defamation action. Nothing to do with drugs, more a parents-of-young-children kind of thing.

[Kenny]

OK - I'll say it, coz no one else will: The bolied sultana cake I cooked last night is the finest of its kind ever to be created in the Entire History Of The Known Universe. And Footscray, too.

[VHB]

Kenny: that hot dog is the MOST disgusting thing that has ever been posted on OJF and that includes Cartman! I cannot believe you will feed that to your offsping! You, bloke you! Can, I have one too please?

Papa Stevens: thank you for your lovely playing at the Southbank tonight. It was a very emotional gig and it was hard stiffling tears and that was just Henk's!

take care folks.

V

[Kenny]

Guest-VHB said:

Kenny: that hot dog is the MOST disgusting thing that has ever been posted on OJF and that includes Cartman! I cannot believe you will feed that to your offsping! You, bloke you! Can, I have one too please?

Ha - I offered a slice of it to Bennie post-brekkie this morning; he took an excited, tentative nibble and handed it back, saying: "Me not like it." Moron.

Shit. I thought you were talking about the sultana cake. At the rugby he had chips and a doughnut (that last being a bribe so dad could stay and watch the second half). Bennie didn't like the rugby very much, but he liked Circus Oz even less. As we were leaving (before the intermission) I asked him if he didn't like it. He said. "Too loud!"

[VHB]

Whoah, Superfly!

I can remember my Mum and her pals listening to that record (vinyl LPS in the 1970s folks) when I was a kid. They also listened to loads of Jazz but - Curtis Mayfield, phew! Next you'll tell us you have loads of John Cale cds tucked away somewhere. (I love his songs.)

Ever surprising this OJF thing you started Mr Isaacs.

What goes around comes around!