OK, I'll introduce myself. I'm Graham Scales, I'm branching out from
Splinters mailing list having seen messages cc-ed to both Splinters and Acid
Jazz for a while and never getting round to doing anything about it.
Oh happy daze, at the beginning of last week a friend returned from Japan
and brought me a copy of the UFO double CD "Now and Then" and it was only
£15, that's alot better than having to pay £27 plus for the imported copy in
a shop here in the UK, if I could ever find it. I'd been looking for the
last 3 months in London's west end but with no joy. Quick plug Soul Brother
Records are selling it but buying mail order just isn't the same!
Well, what else can I say about myself other than the fact that once I start
typing I soon go into waffle mode! Let's see.
Mmmnnn.....Jazz.
First got into it through Paul Weller/The Style Council "Cafe Bleu" album,
yes, I hadn't even thought about CD back then.
Around the same time Each and Every One by Everything but the Girl, not acid
jazz but smooooth.
Next Venceremos-We will win (excuse the spelling) by Working Week followed
closely by their album Working Nights.
Forward a bit more, Prestatyn Soul Weekenders.
Dingwalls a couple of times, Sunday Afternoons. On that note has anybody
been to the Jazz Cafe's Sunday Afternoon sessions?
Giles Peterson on JazzFM Saturday morning (even his anti war show that got
him sacked!) then on KissFM, remembering him enthusing about the Paul Weller
album Wild Wood and playing lots of it when that was released (very tenuous
Jazz link but I had to get it in).
The Brighton Jazz Rooms, love it there, when I go there for not somucha
dirty weekend but a Cool weekend!
Am I going to like it here, probably.
'laters
Graham