I got into Buddy Rich when he was into Jazz-Rock Fusion. I actually saw him in concert in the 70's, with Oscar Peterson as the support act. At the end the two combo's jammed together. Nice. I bought an album released at the time called The Monster - pretty good but not actually Fusion, and when I was looking to get a CD earlier this year it wasn't out (it is now) so I bought this.
Does anyone out there know if he ever released an album of Fusion? And if so, what was it called?
it was just a pity about the sentences
This isn't the edition I read - Vox doesn't offer amazon.de (where I bought it). I was disappointed with the book in so far as I understood it - a reasonable deconstruction of conventional morality, but he doesn't really start to offer anything in its place.
A favourite Bob Monkhouse joke: "When I die I would like it to be like my father - asleep and peaceful - and not like his passengers - awake and screaming." Had this on in the car this morning and I reckon I was in a trance for most of the journey.
See my review on amazon.co.uk.
See my review on amazon.co.uk
I refer to Trollope's Irish novels. I posted an essay on them here on 4.12.06
Just bought this. Great stuff. Takes me back to my first year at college, when The Sting had just come out, and a mate of mine got mad into ragtime and played it continuously.
Just bought this. I was going to get "In the Summertime" of i-tunes (well, alright, get my daughter to get it for me), and then I decided I also wanted "Baby Jump" and then "Alright, alright, alright". So i thought: what the ...& got the whole album. It was great to hear "Baby Jump" again - i don't think I've heard it since it charted. The bass line is just hypnotic. But to be honest, after the three tracks I mentioned, there isn't much else to excite.
Just finished this. Not what I expected. I thought I would be reading translations of the Nag Hammadi library. Instead i got a discussion of Gnosticism. Very interesting though. Anyone who reads this and also my Thomas smug stuff (posted 5th April) will see how some ideas refuse to die.
In view of what I said in my last post, you may think it odd that I'm now putting up a book by Balzac, but this is one of his less well known. I thought I would give his La Comédie Humaine a try - I enjoyed the extracts in Michard et Lagarde - and this is one of the first novels in the sequence. Very odd it is too - philosophically very interesting, but some lengthy passages - most of the "orgy", much of the business with Fœdora - could usefully have been omitted. Indeed, the editors include a piss-take of the orgy scene, written near the time, in the Dossier. I think I might jump to one of the better known, later novels next, to see if he gets more consistent.
I haven't been putting classical music up here, for a couple of reasons. The first is that my taste is pretty mainstream. Saying I like Bach, Beethoven or Mozart (which I do) says virtually nothing about me. (For similar reasons I don't put big name authors such Tolkien, Pratchett or Rowling, Dickens or Austen in the Books section). The second is that I'm not sufficiently musical to be qualified to make any remarks of value. Rock and pop are different. But I think Ravi Shankar should be classified as "Classical" ( I once heard him play at the Liverpool Philharmonic, rather than at the Liverpool Stadium where I saw most bands) and is yet sufficiently off the mainstream to make putting it up here something of a statement. I still can't judge just how good Shankar is though - I remember some other sitar players of the time were very sniffy about him, but perhaps that was just professional jealousy. Anyway, this album makes good listening, and I've put another album of his on my wish-list. Enough said, i think.
