If anyone is a Jazz fan, then this evening on BBC Radio 3 there is Jazz from 11 o'clock until 6 am tomorrow morning. Jazz is usually only on at set times on various BBC stations but very little really. I have free-view and Record as much as I can during the week. Radio recordings take up very little space on the hard disc, far less than normal TV. I then replay through the Hi-Fi. There are probably few of us on here with jazz interests but any way...
Jazz on BBC R3 11pm 13/11/2020 until 0600 14/11/20
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Will listen to Snarky Puppy, Gregory Porter and watch the Metropol Orchestra on Youtube... ooh and Robert Glasper.
Actually, NPR Tiny Desk on Youtube have a lot of decent sets on there including Tom Misch.
I have to admit that I can't stand jazz that's missing any funk whatsoever and point blank won't listen to Cleo Laine/Johnnie Dankworth stuff, it has to move my feet as well as my soul.
Actually, NPR Tiny Desk on Youtube have a lot of decent sets on there including Tom Misch.
I have to admit that I can't stand jazz that's missing any funk whatsoever and point blank won't listen to Cleo Laine/Johnnie Dankworth stuff, it has to move my feet as well as my soul.
That is amazing Deaky, how wonderful. Do you still play? There appears to be so little of it around other than in larger cities or at something like Wavendon. I used to hear Jazz being played in a pub in the 80s I believe it was Cleo Laine and Johnnie Dankworth son. It was just turn up, have a pint and that is all it cost, we could sit in close and chat with them, there was audience interaction. They where very talented musicians. I have Vinyl and SACD CD of Charley Parker, Miles Davis, Andy Sheppard, Getz Jazz at the Porn Shop and many others. Buddy rich was a phenomenal drummer and had a massive ego but few could compare with his abilities. I had an uncle who was a drummer and he was always going on about him.
Jazz Programs are spread about the BBC Radio 2, and 3. Usually they come on regularly a bit here and there. I manage to record much of it. Every now and then something else comes up on R6 but I blink and miss it, it might just be incidental. I only came across last nights performances by chance, I would have posted earlier if I had know. There has been series documentaries on many of the great Jazz leaders but some one here who shall not be named, inadvertently wiped them so I will have to look again I have only come across one other Jazz aficionado on this forum before and there is a classical orchestra performer on the forum also. I am listening to one of Jamie Cullum's Radio Jazz shows from February as I write.
You are certainly a dark horse and not only a talent in all things T6
That is OK, Jazz is an acquired taste and I think something to be grown into unless born into a family of musician or have found your way to it by some other twist of fate. There are so many different forms of Jazz and cross fertilizations, Blues and Soul are very closely related in any case. I have very eclectic tastes and also listen to plenty of other forms music, classical but also blues and much else but there are also things that I am not so keen also. I am so very enthusiastic about Jazz and it pleasant surprise to find other that might also appreciate at lease some of it.Will listen to Snarky Puppy, Gregory Porter and watch the Metropol Orchestra on Youtube... ooh and Robert Glasper.
Actually, NPR Tiny Desk on Youtube have a lot of decent sets on there including Tom Misch.
I have to admit that I can't stand jazz that's missing any funk whatsoever and point blank won't listen to Cleo Laine/Johnnie Dankworth stuff, it has to move my feet as well as my soul.
Stay Frosty how about some of Thunder Cat a very acumplished six string basist. He is leading a little charge in base led fiunk. Its tinged with Jazz or perhaps Esperanza Spalding who is a extremely talented and credited bassist who plays a range of base insruments from the traditional upright base to several four and other multi strung bass. She is very diverse and it would be hard to pin her down to just one style.
Ironically Thundercat is another artist who has been on NPR Tiny desk on Youtube, I'll give Ezperanza Spalding a look/listen.
Coming from Northampton Wavendon was a short drive down the M1 but as a 61 yr old I'm afraid back in the day we carried on down for a bit of jazz funk at the California in Dunstable, proper pounding sweaty dance floor stuff!
As I'm going to listen to your gal give Robert Glasper a look, especially his sets on Youtube from the Capitol Records studio, cheers.
Coming from Northampton Wavendon was a short drive down the M1 but as a 61 yr old I'm afraid back in the day we carried on down for a bit of jazz funk at the California in Dunstable, proper pounding sweaty dance floor stuff!
As I'm going to listen to your gal give Robert Glasper a look, especially his sets on Youtube from the Capitol Records studio, cheers.
"Stay Frosty for me!" Sorry I could not resist that, from the Clint Eastwood Film
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He usually has plenty of Jazz in his Dirty Harry Films
I will definitely listen to your suggestions. I have pulled some of them up but we have almost a live Jazz band going on in here over the Hi-Fi Jamie Cullum's Radio Jazz shows from February It is loud enough to be live played through PMC MB1.
I am not the only one listening and I am outvoted for the moment. Oh blow, I have just been told that we are watching Return of the Jedi. I may be the boss or think I am the boss or was but been demoted but I have no say anything these days.
They are pulled up for a little later. Time I think for an early DRINK then to start us all off on this dark wet stormy day. Question is what now, Ummm...
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He usually has plenty of Jazz in his Dirty Harry Films
I will definitely listen to your suggestions. I have pulled some of them up but we have almost a live Jazz band going on in here over the Hi-Fi Jamie Cullum's Radio Jazz shows from February It is loud enough to be live played through PMC MB1.
I am not the only one listening and I am outvoted for the moment. Oh blow, I have just been told that we are watching Return of the Jedi. I may be the boss or think I am the boss or was but been demoted but I have no say anything these days.
They are pulled up for a little later. Time I think for an early DRINK then to start us all off on this dark wet stormy day. Question is what now, Ummm...
Radio 6 djs will slot in the young UK jazz next gen recordings plus those from the US like Glasper. Mary Anne Hobbs even played a Coltrane tune during the week.
Deaky, do you still have your saxes?
Any other players on the forum?
I play double bass, well not since March!!
Any other players on the forum?
I play double bass, well not since March!!
Yes still have it, haven’t played in a few years though.
@Kind of Blue I still use a pair of Tannoy 12" gold dual concentric speakers in sealed Chatsworth enclosures, not really hifi as they form the front right and left to my surround sound and are fed from a decent Pioneer AV integrated amp however these were made in 1969.
As I said though not hifi as the bass extension comes from a REL sub, so boom rather than bass!
As I said though not hifi as the bass extension comes from a REL sub, so boom rather than bass!
I don't want to be a hero and have no shattered dreams about turning back the clock however hating jazz is a bit extreme.
I know the Tannoy Gold Duel Concentric, very efficient. They would allow valve amps to reach significant levels. Years ago I did a lot of reading around the drive units used by Tannoy they also used 15" duel concentric. I was considering making a set of speakers that incorporated them. My speakers also have 12" bass units. Mine are PMC MB1 identical to MB2 and MB3 with a few subtle differences, actually the MB3 uses exactly the same drive units as the MB1. MB stands for Medium Box. I waited for years to buy used BB5s Big Box but they never came up used at less than astronomic prices. BB5 can cost £26,000 for passive, the actives cost significantly more. The MBs use the same tweeter and mid range as the BB5 but only have 12" bass, they go down to 20 Htz The BB5 uses 15" bass and also has a far larger Transmission tunnel, going down to 16Htz. I would sell my sole for a pair of BB5 in any form but I have not won the pools. I do not do them.
A new set of MB3 even commercial versions start at £11, 000 plus discounted the domestic versions now £18,000. Silly prices. Chatsworths will also be very expensive, I am quite sure.I use ATC pre-amp and power-amp only 150W. I was a little put out to find that ATC did a 300W version or I would have bought that. There is no substitute for power. I would really like to convert mine to active or buy a very much more powerful power amp. 600w perhaps Bryston but I shall probably be left with what I have. I was born before the dinosaurs, so I am constantly informed
so after sorting the Truck out, that will be it I guess... As you will know its not the absolute volume but the reserves of available power allowing instant response. Very much like large power units in vehicles a big good one is better than a little good one sort of thing. I heard a pair of BB5 being actively driven by what must have been well over 1000W per channel and they where the absolute Dog Bollocks. They are used by many recording studios and the BBC.Any way we can have our pipe dreams can we not. One never knows
Did it take you some time to adjust the Rel Sub or does it have some automatic internal computer levelling? I would not feel it is not hi fi, it depends on how it integrates and weather it is over blown accurate and so on. There is an awful lot of rubbish spoken in the World of Hi fidelity sound just as in the car industry. It is whether we are happy and what we can afford and compromise against living in the real world with all the other pressures of life tugging and pulling. Not some joker from a Hi-Fi or Car Mag tells us. They may not be unbiased and and I have been informed nor would some pass scrutiny so far as impartiality and how many of them have science degree or or have music degree either.. They have to sell magazines and make a living and advertising is probably their greatest source of income just like for News Papers.
By the way I listened to your list of music and took some notes if i can read them as I was on London Pride last night I will give a comment latter, someone else wants the web at the moment but I can say that I generally like whet I played.
PPS you could make up some damping panels from rock wool insulation covered in cloth. It would cut down on any excessive boom.
I'll leave the Tannoys as they are in their battered Chatsworth sealed enclosures as going to ported enclosures is always a battle between lower frequency response and increasing group delay or slightly higher tuning and a peaky response at say 40Hz.
The REL is only a baby Stampede and is a down firing 8" speaker so pretty quick and adequately providing the fill required between 40 to 30Hz, with the best will in the world though it is still a cheaper/smaller model so can't pressurize the whole room but is fast enough to work with the Tannoys as a stereo pair.
Years ago I worked in London rewiring a large house including the guys listening room, I can still recall the heat coming off his Krell Pam 12s, too hot to touch for long, mad!
I've always fancied some transmission line floorstanders but a quarter wavelength at 20Hz is massive however you fold it!
The REL is only a baby Stampede and is a down firing 8" speaker so pretty quick and adequately providing the fill required between 40 to 30Hz, with the best will in the world though it is still a cheaper/smaller model so can't pressurize the whole room but is fast enough to work with the Tannoys as a stereo pair.
Years ago I worked in London rewiring a large house including the guys listening room, I can still recall the heat coming off his Krell Pam 12s, too hot to touch for long, mad!
I've always fancied some transmission line floorstanders but a quarter wavelength at 20Hz is massive however you fold it!
Will listen to Snarky Puppy, Gregory Porter and watch the Metropol Orchestra on Youtube... ooh and Robert Glasper.
Actually, NPR Tiny Desk on Youtube have a lot of decent sets on there including Tom Misch.
I have to admit that I can't stand jazz that's missing any funk whatsoever and point blank won't listen to Cleo Laine/Johnnie Dankworth stuff, it has to move my feet as well as my soul.
I have a little more time, they are watching Mulin Rouge Ballet Recorded from Sky Arts cutesy of Free View. Lovely and the music is very pleasant.
I took some notes in the semi dark or gloom Ludwigssyndrom. (discovering an undecipherable note in ones own hand writing)
Snarky Puppy, we quite enjoyed listening and watching this band on U Tube via the TV Free View/ internet We realised that we had used NPR Tiny Desk before unbeknown to us and may have seen Thunder Cat on this and have a Vinyl, It is what it is. I like Thunder Cat, I had a friend since deceased who was a fantastic multi instrument multi genre musician His main instrument the guitar and played complex classical pieces as well as anything else on electric and without grotesque physical expression unlike many popular rock players though he also played that and Yes stuff as well as Jazz. any way Thundercats 6 string bass performance reminded me of him a little. I liked his leading with the bass.
Any way back to Snarkey puppy were upbeat an innovate and amusing we liked his band. We shall need to watch the NPR Tiny Desk more frequently. I am not sure that I would by him yet but would definitely watch it and see.
Tom Misc, upbeat and amusing. On one piece the seemed to play a riff or two of Ricky Lee Jones (Chuk E.'s In Love) They had an off beat feel a fusion feel i can not read the rest. My thoughts are I would look at them again on NPR I did like them but as above felt as though it was not quite finished but did like.
Robert Glasper, now him and his little band we liked a lot I would buy him for sure. I believe I have heard him possibly on BBC R2 certainly on the few looks on U Tube. I did not like one of his female singers I think "I need your Love" I love the human voice in most genre but do not like the trend of poor vocalists trying to sound clever by wobbling and singing off key. I loved the Capital Studio Version "So Beautiful" by his Trio. I shall look him up defiantly and buy some in the future. Very relaxing could easily be a mood modifier when stressed or anxious. Excellent stuff we loved him.
Metropol Orchestra on Youtube. yes big bad stuff very good, slick. I have seen them before I can not think Jules Holland Perhaps??? I do watch Jules Holland by the way. great player very good compare I have seen him live. Deaky may like them perhaps.
Must go, there is a grab for this lap top, see ya!.............
@Kind of Blue do you have the BBC Sounds app?
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