Amsterdam Russ
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It was comped on the album Dance Juice Vol 2 in 1988 by the label BGP (Baz Fe Jazz & Gilles Peterson). This was at a time when London's dance jazz scene was in full swing and it was getting heavy plays at places like Dingwalls (as Wiggyflat has pointed out) and the World's End in Camden. -
An almost menacing arrangement with a great, moody feel, and I love the punchy brass. It gets my vote.
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Not mine, but a lovely little video filmed yesterday morning showing people ice skating here in the Netherlands at sunrise. The skating has continued across the country today, but most places have given out official warnings to now get off and stay off the ice as it's melting. Unless there's another super-cold snap, that'll be it for the year.
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Idiots! I've read there have been a number of instances where people have had to be rescued after falling through the ice. In Amsterdam last week, the city council banned all boats from sailing on the canals specifically so the ice could form and skating could begin. Thing is though, the weather changes tomorrow and the ice will quickly thaw, which means today is really the only chance people have for skating - even if it isn't thick enough to do so safely.
Ice staking - it's what the Dutch live for in winter. In this instance though, it's what they might die for as the ice has been deemed by the local authorities to not be thick enough (every local authority has "ijsmeesters" - ice masters - who determine such things). That's not stopping people and I hear there are hundreds out skating on our local lake. You wouldn't catch me out there!
This one does it for me...
Very interesting. Bit of a shame the museum doesn't offer much in the way of online content in these lockdown times. A missed opportunity there, I think. One thing I did learn from scanning the museum's press releases is that a film has recently been made about the legendary Buddy Bolden, known as King Bolden and often described in the modern era as the "father of jazz". Trailer here: For anyone interested in Bolden and the embryonic years of "jazz" in late 19th century/early 20th century New Orleans, I highly recommend the book Buddy Bolden and the last days of Storyville, written by Danny Barker (b. 1900 - d.1994), a jazz musician who actually knew and worked with Jelly Roll Morton, and played with Cab Calloway, Benny Carter and many others. ISBN: 9780826457028
Very sorry to hear this tragic news. RIP Dave.
An updated list of the most expensive records sold on Discogs. There are a number familiar tunes in the list... https://blog.discogs.com/en/discogs-top-100-most-expensive-records/
I don't actually know it, but am guessing it's somewhere in the Nieuw Land National Park. That's in the province of Flevoland and about an hour away from us by car. Must check the park out when we're allowed to be out and about. Great opportunities for bird watching and thus photo taking.
The Superlatives "I don't know how (to say I love you) Don't walk away" Simply because with 12 words it's got to be one of the longest song titles out there!
From the first thread (from 2013) posted up by Blackpoolsoul, the last comment - a quote from John Manship - is the most telling:
"Yaffle" (green woodpecker) has always been one of my favourites, although as I understand it, the name is - or was - quite widely used in many parts of the land. "Londoners" is also another favourite - once upon a time a West Country nickname for puffins, and born from the fact that - in the early days of tourism - Londoners visiting the spectacular rugged coastlines of that part of the world for the first time would stand staring out to sea with their hands behind their backs in a classic puffin pose!
Ok by me. ðĪŠ Funny - the different names for birds in different parts of the world reminds me of a lesson at senior school when I was probably about 13 years old. In the lesson we had an alphabet quiz on animals. You know the thing: someone starts with the letter A and has to name something beginning with that letter related to the chosen subject. Then the next pupil has to name something beginning with B, etc, etc, etc. When it came to my turn, I got the letter L and offered up "loon". The teacher said there's no such animal as a loon, so you're out of the game. I had to explain that loon was the north American name for the birds we call Divers (great northern, red-throated, etc). Very begrudgingly, she accepted my answer and I stayed in the game. Ha, and that reminds me of another time we had a geographical place name alphabet quiz (sorry, I'm digressing here). I was a couple of years younger. I think it was in first year of senior school. I got the letter T and came up with Transylvania. The teacher absolutely insisted there was no such place as Transylvania except in fiction, and therefore I was out of the game. Teachers - what do they know, eh? (If there are any teachers walking among us here, I'm only joking.)
Yes, they're different birds, and I was confirming exactly that to Dave (Davenpete) who stated "Surely goosanders and mergansers are different species?" However, while the Mergus merganser is known as a merganser in north America, it's a goosander in Europe. Best to stick to its common European name of goosander and all confusion will be avoided.
