Conference marvin::uk_music

    Nearest to Jazz I wanna get is my Fairground Attraction and Simply Red
    LP's.

    not very close then.
    
    Does anyone like Lou Rawls "At Last"? Its jazz/blues/soul, with
    guest artists such as Ray Charles and David "Fathead" Newman on
    sax.  Excellent.
    
    Rich

    Yep, I can go for some jazz, but I feel it's such a big field I
    don't know really what to listen to. Having grown up with pop/rock,
    that is the kind of music that gives me that ol' gut feeling best,
    (I just love them geetars best) but in the jazz field I go for
    slightly left field artists like a bit of Miles, Coltrane, Monk, 
    Lester Bowie etc.
    
    Bob

    Me too....
    
    I started listening to jazz at college and now I hardly listen to
    anything else! My favourites are Miles, Jaco, Brecker, Metheney
    but lately I've been getting into big band stuff like Maynard Ferguson.
    
    What a pity this country is a jazz desert!!
    
    Tony
    

    Time Out this week have got a section on Jazz, inc their top 10
    jazz albums, but more importantly some Jazz venues to go to.
    
    Anyone been to any that they can recommend ?

    Ronnie Scott's, Frith St, London
    
    Can be quite expensive unless you are a member. In addition MU members
    get in for reduced rates. I saw Flora Purim there a couple of weeks
    ago - �6 with an MU card (�12 without) but man, what a gig! The
    music started at 9:30 and went on till gone 2am!!
    
    Tony

    I've always been a bit nervy of Ronnie Scotts - do they have a dress
    code?  Or just a cash code!
    
    Mikef
    
    PS - Are you the famous Tony, of Dave Davies fame?

>>        I've always been a bit nervy of Ronnie Scotts - do they have a dress
>>    code?  Or just a cash code!
  
    No need for nerves (unless you're one of the performers!) Ronnies
    is a very friendly place - great atmosphere, no dress requirements
    (other than required by laws of decency 8^))
    
    If you go midweek and are a member then entrance is only something
    like �2 (or �1 with MU card). They try to make a distinction between
    regulars and real jazz fans during the week and one-off tourists
    at weekends. 
    
    Drink prices are always very silly, however!
    
>>>        PS - Are you the famous Tony, of Dave Davies fame?
   
    erk... sounds like me! What's he been saying about me 8^}
    
    Tony                                        
    

    If you like Modern Jazz, watching Jazz dancers do their stuff,
    etc...try Dingwalls by Camden lock, Camden on Sundays from 12 midday
    til 6pm. 
    Excellent music; great atmosphere but no room to dance!
    
    �3.50 before 3pm, �6 after.

    James

    Jazz FM sounds great but why oh why oh why do the cruddy DJs get
    bought up by the fledgling stations (perhaps a partial view)?
             
    In the distant days when I used to listen to Capital, usually under the
    car fixing fings, I used to wish Roger Scott would not take holidays
    as they always got Peter Young in.  And aghhhhh he shows up on Jazz
    FM.      
             
    Why when GLR took on the Radio London mantel did they have to engage
    tent modelling Janice whatsit - can't keep her gob shut and opines
    on and on and on and on?
    
    And it's repeated everywhere.
                                 
    Yes, they start with great enthusiasm and promise, it's just the
    voices between the music that cods it up.
                                 
    Gimme someone with a brain who is interested in the music not a
    motor mouth who thinks the music is an interfering diversion from
    his own self agrandisement.  
                                 
    I think I'll start a note called "Get it owf ya chest".
                                 
    Mr Angry.                                                          

    102.2 have printed a broadcast schedule. I got my copy from Our
    Price Records in Broad St., Reading. If you have difficulty obtaining
    a copy, I will be happy to send a photo-copy via internal mail.
    E.M. to Richard Pullan @REO or SUBURB::PULLANR.
    
    Richard.

    Do they have the stickers in there also?
    
    Mikef  

    Yes, they do (or did) have stickers.
    
    Richard.

    
    Jazz FM seems very inconsistent. Some very "middle of the road"
    stuff is being got away with. I wish they'd mix it up a bit more.
    At times you can go at least 5 or 6 slushy soul numbers before 
    you come to anything remotely resembling jazz. I hate the way 
    the say "the jAAAAZZZ station". It's far brassier and bolder 
    than I expected. Most of the dj's just don't sound like Jazz p
    eople (whatever that means). I must admit that most of my listening
    has been "daytime" . What's their evening line-up like ?
    
     As far as Jazz being a vast scene to begin to get to know. I think
    the best lp for a discerning rock listener with little knowledge
    of jazz is probably "Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis. It's very
    accessible, but at the same time a very sophisticated and revolut-
    ionary jazz record. 
     
     Richard
    

    Kind Of Blue is one of those records everyone should own, whether you
    think you like jazz or not.  It is sheer genius from start to finish,
    one of the best albums ever made.
    
    I agree about the slushy stuff, seems to be a lot of latin type things
    going round also, but I haven't listened to the evening shows.  Are there
    any shows covering areas like Bitches Brew, and all that Fusion stuff?  And
    why are the tickets for Miles Davis in June so @$#%#$@# expensive???
    
    Mikef