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@ChicagoBlue I'm curious what your motivations for turning to far left extremism were? I must admit I struggle to envisage both you and @FogBlueInSanFran going to bed at night clutching your limited edition Marx and Engels hot water bottles. I've looked at both my copy of Das Kapital and VI's...

Unless she joins a cult and disappears, she's going to haunt public life at these kind of events for years to come. Maybe it's right that she does, so she can finally provide some service to the nation as a walking cautionary tale.

Sounds like a good haul, we should defo stick tracks from at least a couple of those on the playlist. I noticed a while back that Blue Note and Verve were sharing catalogue reissues which I thought was a bit odd until someone explained to me they are both owned by Universal these days :-(

I personally think it's a harsh portrayal of her. She's branched out from jazz at times but I think jazz was and remains her first love. Her Dad played stride and Ray Brown took her under his wing. She's suffered a bit from being marketed as the golden girl etc. She's not a great innovator or...

Well, I think after that we can definitely add Stormy Weather too the playlist :-(

This whole discussion around the Democrats "talking down to ordinary people" confuses me. How much "talking down to" has actually gone on and how much is it people simply falling for populism 101? There's definitely been times where the Democrats have walked into traps and given Trump the...

Agree, seen her a few times including at the RAH. But she wasn't even born in the era we're discussing now so we probably need to desist to avoid slapped wrists from Robert!!!

Sorry just edited it - Norah Jones.

Jones is American. There's a couple of emerging brit singers who I really like but they have a long way to go. Krall sometimes gets dismissed as pizza express jazz but I think she's excellent. But we shouldn't be surprised, for all that it's been adopted around the world, fundamentally Jazz...

Absolutely no argument from me on that.

Haha. I've just noticed you've relocated Ipanema across the pacific ocean! :-)

Well Transnistria has been providing a pretext for decades but despite extensive Russian interference, Moldava has just made it pretty clear in their recent elections which trajectory it wants to pursue so the west abandons them at their peril. The CSIS has made it clear where it thinks US...

OK, we are all muppets - does anyone want to rectify our collective omission of one of the most beloved jazz musicians who is often not thought of as a jazz musician because his beautiful rich voice tends to transcend genres? (I don't mean Sinatra who I'm hoping we can save to a later playlist...

Absolutely, to your point when we get to the 60's there's rich pickings on the Bossa nova front, including the track me and MrsSpires danced to at our wedding :-)

Happy hunting, let us all know if you bag something cool.

I don't know if it was a TV impressionist or someone who cemented the vision of Laine scatting away in the public mind but I think it does her a disservice. I was thinking about this when @mancity111 mentioned her and her hubby, though we have never produced anyone quite as iconic as the four...

Could easily fill a playlists full of these wonderful standards. Strange Fruit, God Bless The Child, Someone to Watch Over Me, What A Wonderful World, The Very Thought of You, Let's Do it the list just goes on and one covering the whole spectrum of human experience and emotion. It's a cliché...

Try the version by Cake.

I'd like to claim it was someone edgier like Jimmy Giuffre who inspired me to take it up the clarinet but in reality it was probably more to do with the fact that my Dad liked Benny Goodman and my Mum liked Acker Bilk! Like most kids I took it up with a view to moving onto the (imo opinion at...

Yep, until we have proper discourse about this we are going nowhere good. There's a book called Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson which does a good job of going back to the 70s and the choices western leaders made in response to the shifting geopolitics, which set on us...