VIII by John Illsley, bassist for Dire Straits.
Went to an ‘intimate’ gig, only @200 people, in my home town followed by a Q&A.
Amazing to hear his solo music mixed with Dire Straits classics.
Bought a CD there and got it signed!
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I love Neil Ardley’s Kaleidoscope of Rainbows. I have a worn out vinyl and a CD version. I managed to snag the Jazz in Britain’s live double CD, before it sold out.
Looks like an interesting CD to hunt down.
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Anything by Neil Ardley is worth picking up. These are BBC radio broadcasts - not previously known, at least to me.
I have a copy of that Festival Hall 2CD set as well. It didn’t last too long on Jazz In Britain’s site - and is more expansive than the studio LP release.
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I have been on a spree lately. Along side some downloads, I bought the CD’s recently.
An interesting laid back disc.
A very classy set.
Enjoyable, for those days you want something to brighten your mood.
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I have a remastered Darkness on the edge of town CD and it sounds great. Have you heard that one?
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No, have early and later vinyl and later Japanese CD. And this one now. Still not played it.
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That’s a great find
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Just bought Aaron Parks: Little Big III
A very enjoyable album, but strangely, one which I found myself playing “spot the influence”.
Keith Jarret, Mark Knopfler, Bruce Hornsby, Brad Mehldau, and touches of Pat Metheny, all came to mind when playing this one.
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Was in Sister Ray last week and picked up a few things the way you do, one of which was this.
Live recordings but without an audience.
Not heard it before, but excellent!
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Saw Armatrading live a couple of years ago at the RAH. She was very good.
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Used to watch this every week in the ‘80’s. OMG, just doesn’t time fly…… 
ATB, J - older but probably not any wiser.
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These “silver” discs, often rule!
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So I went to look a potential new car today.
It does not have a CD player!
Apparently, this is the norm these days……….
I was so disappointed that I slammed my latest acquisition into the CD player on my crappy old car for the drive home:
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Feel your pain, to a large extent, and the record will show I am regularly keen to bang the drum for CD, but…
Although my 2017 VW has a CD player (just), I have found there is a certain pleasure in putting together a USB stick full of music - getting the cover art just so, titling tracks exactly right, even separating tracks that have needed separating for years (Heaven & Hell by Vangelis is my recent favourite example). It’s a pleasure not unadjacent to getting a mix tape just right Back In The Day.
So there may be a compensatory bright side to look on. Perhaps.
Mark
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Can you please reference the steve huffman piece? My Born to run Cd sounds rather muffled too! Unlike the remastered badlands or tracks cds or recent Bruce CDs.Thanks
Also Wildflowers