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The guy who I studied with when I was 15/16 got me into jazz. He leant me the cd of Miles at Montreux on this tour.

Totally off topic, but Rietveld does a beautiful solo here:

I liked Foley’s piccolo bass playing with Miles. Benny Reitveld was playing regular bass.

My oldest student will soon be 81. I think that says it all about never being too old to learn. He’s just bought a 5 string too. I have a few students in their 40s and 50s. You just need to have the desire and time to learn, that’s all.

I do it all the time.

I’ve had a lot of success using Facebook. There’s usually a sales group for a specific item, effects pedals there are a few, there’s a couple of good bass guitar ones, a great synth one. Obviously there’s gumtree too which I’ve had luck with.

I've heard of trading fours, whereby each member takes it in turn to solo for four bars. it only lasts until each member has solo'd though.

It’s quite scary really the lengths people will go to scamming you. Did the person who did the buying here use a normal PayPal payment funded by a debit or credit card? If they did then surely they could get their money back from the bank. I bought something from eBay once that never got sent, NatWest refunded me in a few days, I just had to send them screenshots of the emails and eBay screens as proof.

Won’t the court award compensation?

Michael Manring's Thonk. https://www.allmusic.com/album/thonk-mw0000622623

The Motown book is good.

Practice?

Cassette tapes haven't disappeared at all, if anything they're growing in popularity. There's at least five cassette only labels that I know of. I released a cassette album in January, it sold surprisingly well, there's another being released by the same label early next month, and a release is scheduled on a different label in September. Cassettes are probably quite genre specific. Check out these labels : https://rustedtonerecordings.bandcamp.com/music https://softerror.bandcamp.com/album/care-work

Birmingham. Just an hour and a half from London, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool. Great motorway access, excellent railway access.

Songs, I have whole genres.

A piece composed as part of my MA composition course. Featured at the moment as part of an exhibition called Sounding Images at the Barber Institute of Fine Art in Birmingham.

Purely improvising though, similar to Steve Lawson.

None. One of the downsides I guess of only ever playing reading gigs. I know a fair few jazz standards, but only the changes that I’d improvise over.

I’ve got a 6 string set of flats that I’ve been advertising for ages in the sales section if you’re interested. They’re brand new and unused.