I know a little of his work via his association with Bill Frisell.
I had (somehow!) totally missed this 2020 release on Blue note, which features Frisell and other great players. Really lovely album. Turns out to be his last.
Nice review here.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/rainbow-sign-ron-miles-blue-note-records__9969
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Decided to keep a log of useful resources for following the Ukraine invasion.
Beyond the obvious press sources, I will add to it as the days unfold.
List: Ukraine - Curated by CNN Daniel Dale (@ddale8) - Reporter for CNN, fact-checking the president and others.
Thread: Let me tell you a story from 2008, Putin, NATO (Andrew Levi, @AndrewPRLevi 25th Feb)
Thread: Defending vs Russian cyber ops (Mick Douglas, @bettersafetynet - 23rd Feb)
Ukrainecast - BBC: Victoria Derbyshire and Gabriel Gatehouse make sense of it all.
Listening to this new ECM release this morning. Some mellow vibes, beautifully recorded as always with ECM.
New to me.
Listen to Eraldo Bernocchi - Like I Wasn't There (from 'Like A Fire That Consumes All Before it') by RareNoiseRecords #np on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/rarenoiserecords/like-i-wasnt-there
Nice review here:
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/like-a-fire-that-consumes-all-before-it-eraldo-bernocchi-rarenoiserecords-review-by-john-ephland.php?width=393
This (from 2011) is all worth a read however these comments on digital vs analog are worth paying attention to:
What are your feelings on digital versus analog?
The linear storage of digital information is idealized. It can be perfect. It can never be perfect in analog because you cannot reproduce the varying voltages through the different translations from one medium to another. You go from sound to a microphone to a stylus cutting a groove. Then you have to play that back from another stylus wiggling in a groove, and then translate it back to voltage.
The biggest distorter is the LP itself. I've made thousands of LP masters. I used to make 17 a day, with two lathes going simultaneously, and I'm glad to see the LP go. As far as I'm concerned, good riddance. It was a constant battle to try to make that music sound the way it should. It was never any good. And if people don't like what they hear in digital, they should blame the engineer who did it. Blame the mastering house. Blame the mixing engineer. That's why some digital recordings sound terrible, and I'm not denying that they do, but don't blame the medium.
Via:
https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2011/05/rudy-van-gelder-signature-sound.html
The most important news which should affect every political & economic decision we make.
I don't think we (as a species) have any intention of changing from 'business as usual'. We'll just watch the calamity play out.
#HopeImWrong
Global warming must not exceed 1.5C, warns landmark UN report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0blvnxbBen Mcintyre's thrilling history tells the breathtaking story of a KGB double-agent operating at the height of the Cold War.
Passing countless secrets to his British spymasters at M16 over the course of a decade he undermined the Soviet Union's intelligence gathering machine from deep within. Eventually, he was betrayed and what followed was a sequence of events involving ingenuity, duplicity, and fearlessness.
Read by Tim McInnerny.
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar. I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar. I'm not a pornstar, I'm not a wandering star. I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar
Manchester based trumpeter, composer, arranger and band-leader Matthew Halsall is one of the rising stars of the UK jazz scene. http://www.matthewhalsall.com/
Halsall’s jazz sensibilities constantly lead him to energise the gentlest passages with contrastingly prodding bass hooks, tough drum patterns and rimshot snaps (as on The Land Of), McCoy Tyner-like piano lines edging through Rachael Gladwin’s harp swoops
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/24/matthew-halsall-gondwana-orchestra-into-forever-review
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Taken By Sue on Friday
Hospital Details: Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey
Bill is in the Swift Ward (01932 722201) which is in the Duchess of Kent Wing (To the rear of the site)
Guildford Road, Chertsey,
Surrey, KT16 0PZ
Switchboard: 01932 872000
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A couple of good articles by heavy hitting tech commentators around the recent Moto X announcement.
Greeks turn to the forests for fuel as winter nears | World news | The Guardian: "Greeks turn to the forests for fuel as winter nears
As austerity tightens its grip, many of the middle class find themselves in a desperate struggle to make ends meet"
Climate change is happening now – a carbon price must followThe extreme weather events of 2012 are what we have been warning of for 25 years, but the answer is plain to see - James Hansen
"Lord Justice Leveson more than once referred to the internet as "the elephant in the room". Leveson is in fact more like the tea hut in the elephant sanctuary by that measure. The scope of the work puts him in self-imposed isolation from what is happening in the wider world of information."
http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/28/leveson-irrelevant-21st-century-journalism
North Yorkshire PCC election: Julia Mulligan winsConservative Julia Mulligan has been elected as North Yorkshire's first police and crime commissioner (PCC).
Mrs Mulligan, a former local councillor and school governor, beat Labour's Ruth Potter by 47,885 votes to 34,328 votes.
The result comes after a low turnout, with figures showing just 13.3% of the electorate went to the polls. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-20349102
Interesting looking resource:
"The world has 50 months to go before the dice become loaded against us in terms of keeping under a 2C temperature rise. We asked Guardian readers and public figures what they would do to lead us out of this climate predicament. From mass protest to pensions to personal carbon targets, here are their suggestions "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2012/oct/01/50-months-climate-interactive
I've read a couple, Rob Hopkins (Transition Towns Project) is as always sane, balanced and serious. He's a hero - kind of like a Tim Berners-Lee in that he has quietly created a movement/model which can be adopted/adapted golobally. Wouldn't it be great if it caught on like the WWW."The question here is "what should we do differently?" The answer is: pretty much just about everything. Nationally and internationally, while the scale and pace of climate change are accelerating, meaningful responses are dwindling. Part of our collective paralysis comes from the fact that we struggle to imagine a world with less energy, less consumerism, less annual GDP growth. What will it look like, sound like, feel like? Does it inevitably mean that you should start seeking out your cave on Dartmoor as we speak, and developing a taste for slugs? Of course not."http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/01/50-months-rob-hopkins
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The Independent's Andy Gill[21] and Simmy Richman[22] consider the brass instrumentation the greatest strength of the album with the latter declaring the work "a skewed and funky instant classic."Worth checking out. I've been listening on the great (yet audio quality challenged) Rdio.
David Robert Jones, known by his stage name David Bowie, is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Wikipedia
David Robert Jones, known by his stage name David Bowie, is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. Wikipedia
