I know a lassie..

Listening and watching Roy Orbison on telly in concert with loads of famous names 

I like you.

Don't forget it.

Fankoo 

Glasgow Metals..

Belfast.

Feck Rory McIlroy  

Does anyone think iTunes music downloads are over-priced?

To be honest I have never paid for any. All my downloads have been from free vouchers. I have got a £65 voucher each time I bought an iMac. But to be honest I am a CD purchaser. I prefer the physical item.

Over the last few weeks I have bought a shed load of Miles Davis and other Jazz CD's for between £3.99 and £5.99. The most was a double cd at £7.99. And these are not on unknown labels, they are the proper label releases.

I reckon I have 30+ Miles Davis cds collected from the mid-90’s onwards… and almost that many by John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. At times I simply can’t get enough Be-bop, Hard-Bop and Post-bop!

However, over the last few months I have bought a few albums from iTunes – but somehow they don’t represent (to me at least) good VFM.

Clearly you like your Jazz . I added a couple of Monk, Mingus and Blakey albums too which I did not mention.

I'm just filling in a few holes in my listening knowledge being that they are so cheap.

Do you delve into artists like Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman? I looking out for a bit of Sun Ra too.

I struggle with free-jazz in general but hugely enjoy listing to the "out"put of 60's Blue Note artists such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson and several others...

Hi Slinki,

I've let you down a bit haven't I.

Said I would look up some more tunes for you, but to be honest I've only been  on my computer for brief spurts - and been out most of day again.

No rush EC  

( you have till tomorrow morning or kaffybaffy will be on slap standby !) !

Listening to ( and watching) something on BBC4 just now .. folk stuff

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

heheheh !  

For Charlie Travers who's just a girl who is misunderstood..

Here is a tune I had forgotten about. Ride's Drive Blind. This song would feature in my all time greatest 1000 tunes.

Now this is a band that seems to divide people right down the middle. I started off with them being off radar and not bothered, then suddenly I was hooked and a fan.

This is one of my favourite Smiths songs.

Fatboy slim at his finest!