Bilbo

I used to love a gatefold sleeve, even better if it was triple etc. The artwork enhanced the experience.

Funnily enough, my first working title was Dive, Dive, Dive! 15 entries!! Marvellous!!

Not read the thread but, for my money, the problem is that there are more and more musicians fighting for fewer and fewer gigs. I remember when I started going to see live bands, there were several choices every night of the week. Now it feels that there more genres I don't like, more bands I don't want to see and those that I do fancy having a look at are getting less and less exposure. It is also more and more expensive to see stuff that used to be free. That is why we put our Jazz East events on in Felixstowe for nothing; exposure of a vital art form to increase interest outside of the cogniscenti.

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1455958992' post='2983890'] jealous!!! Any top 10 tips for budding jazz enthusiasts??? [/quote] These 10 will get you a long way.... [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1. Kind of blue - Miles Davis[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]5. Now's the time - Charlie Parker[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]8. Waltz for debbie - Bill Evans[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]12. saxophone colossus - Sonny Rollins[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]15. getz-gilberto - Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]17. mingus ah um - Charles Mingus[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]22. Sketches Of Spain - Miles Davis[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]28. The Blues and - Oliver Nelson[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]50. Sonny Rollins - The Bridge[/font][/color] [color=#141414][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]71. Miles Davis Milestone - Miles Davis[/font][/color]

Learn to read music - Iain Ballamy

There is nothing 'basic' about learning on a four string. You just learn with what is available to you. Yours is an entirely legitimate starter instrument. I went from 4 string to 7 in one step. I didn't have to go up one string at a time

I am in. My idea was based on the fact that the image was seven sections of the same event. So my piece is written in 7:4. There are loads of tricks and musical sleight of hand things going on the fool the ear and, just like the image, it is tripping over itself a little. I tried some new recording procedures as well which got me a better overall sound, I think. Still not at the level of Skol et al but it's fun to learn. [url="https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/motion-capture"]https://soundcloud.c.../motion-capture[/url]

I have more than half of them and wouldn't want most of the rest but it is an impressive collection. All legitimate content.

All part of life's rich tapestry, mate!! You win some, you lose some.

I think the OP makes an interesting point regarding the relationship between location and a scene and the ability of a musician to immerse themselves in music that will help him or her to progress. Jaco was playing percussion with Cubans before he was in his teens. If he had grown up in Boston, Lincs, he wouldn't have even HEARD of Cuba until he was 34 If you are living is a time or a location where you are surrounded by musicians who want to improve and play all day etc, and who play different musics at a high level you are going to get better quicker. If your experiences are less intense and less varied and the opportunities to play revolve around a small coterie of rock players who can't move past AC/DC licks, your rate of progress is going to reflect that. If you want to play Jazz at the highest possible level, you will need to be somewhere where that is encouraged and supported. The 'where' you can influence; the 'when' is in the hands of the Gods but Anthony Jackson particularly made the point that that era was a special time for players in parts of the US that is unlikely to be repeated. We have the unlimited resources of the internet available to us now but the consequence seems to be that the greatest of our musicians are scraping a living doing party tricks at music fairs. We have our own time and must do with it what we can.

I look like a git in a tee-shirt so that's the end of that!

I am the same as the OP and now only play the gigs I want to do. No Stagecraft for me!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aDuymevgNA Tony Malaby, William Parker and Nasheen Watts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSir05KwGw0

There is an Abbey Lincoln lp on which she is supported by the Wynton Kelly trio with Paul Chambers on bass. The last tune of the session features no piano because Wynton Kelly plays bass in place of an ailing PC.

Reading takes you places you would probably never otherwise go. I bought a book of Ron Carter solos last week and can play most of several of them right off the bat just by reading them. It means I can focus my study on the passages I struggle with and not waste time learing every scrap of the solo.

Interviewed Ron Carter. He was lovely.

No brainer http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-P-C-Chambers-Popular-History/dp/1845536363

If Yes can do tour with a dep for Chris Squire at 72 hours notice, I guess you probably can!! I have heard of guys learning sets in vans on the way to gigs

The Tony Banks album 'A Curious Feeling' was originally a concept album linked ot the 'Flowers for Algernon' book by Daniel Keyes (not sure why the connection broke). Also, there is a 1976 Michael Mantler LP called 'The Hapless Child' based around the poems of Edward Gorey. 'Winter Morning Walks' by Maria Schneider is based around the poetry of Ted Kooser Steve Swallow did an album based around Robert Creeley poems I guess it all depends on your definition of a concept album.

Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans Camel - Nude Eloy - Planets

Carla Bley - Escalator Over The Hill. Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder Wakeman - Six Wives, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Had it a month ago but still not watched it (time). Will get to it soon. Can't wait. I thing Jaco was one of the greats in that his bass playing was exquisite but his musicality was equally important. An intelligent voice on our instrument.

One of my 'things' is solo performers on monophonic instruments e.g. solo sax players etc. The tricksie solo bassists do next to nothing for me whereas a single voiced horn solo, weaving the harmony into the lines really excites. At the end of the day, I love music in all it's myriad forms, with or without a bass guitar.

It's not all about us, you know.