13 thoughts on “My Playlist tonight”

  2. LW – iTunes playlist, random selection. Output is to my Bose Wave radio.

    And a mate just sent me a link to this – amazing trombone solo.

  3. Dunno half of your list, Bravo, and of the others only Deep Purple for me.
    Incidentally, it’s sad to hear Jon Lord is battling cancer at the moment.

  4. Phew! Apart from the bum note at about 2:40 and another at somewhere around 3:30, it was pure technical wizardry! Plaudits to the player.

    But it was also trombone abuse of the first water. A wonderful instrument when used correctly, it was not designed for that sort of nonsense – the composer (or arranger – whichever it was) should be shot for cruelty to brass instruments. 🙂

  5. Which half, TR – probably Cai Jing, a bit specialist that one, Taiwanese singer. It’s said, (whether apocryphally or not,) that back in the ’70’s she was enlisted by manufacturers of hifi gear to calibrate their sound spectra because of her ability to sing with perfect pitch. She only sings in Chinese.

    Surely not Helen Shapiro?

    Norah Jones and Stacey Kent are both soft jazz singers in the Diana Krall style, (but each with their own unique talents.)

    Isn’t it often the way with these concert/competition pieces, Bearsy?

  6. Dunno- du Pre, Mambazo, Jing and Kent. I haven’t heard any of the Royal Marines Band either.
    I’ve just noticed that you uploaded (downloaded, whatever) a Deep Purple track earlier on another post. You said modern “pop” music is dead. I take it you haven’t heard any stuff by Airborne or Avenged Sevenfold. 🙂

  7. Is it? I guess it probably is – I don’t follow that sort of thing.
    Anyway, I’m more of a Chris Barber aficionado when it comes to trombonism, rather than a Black Millsian. 😉
    Whoops, I see that should now be ‘Black Dykian’; not quite the same, somehow.

  8. bravo22c :

    Which half, TR – probably Cai Jing, a bit specialist that one, Taiwanese singer. It’s said, (whether apocryphally or not,) that back in the ’70′s she was enlisted by manufacturers of hifi gear to calibrate their sound spectra because of her ability to sing with perfect pitch. She only sings in Chinese.

    Surely not Helen Shapiro?

    Norah Jones and Stacey Kent are both soft jazz singers in the Diana Krall style, (but each with their own unique talents.)

    Isn’t it often the way with these concert/competition pieces, Bearsy?

    I don’t mean to be a pedant, Bravo, but you misspelled her name. The correct spelling is Tsai Chin.
    In Taiwan people almost exclusively use Wade-Giles for personal names with the second largest portion using Tongyong Pinyin, something developed in Taiwan and seen in much of the country outside of the Taipei area for signs. Cai Jing is used on the Chinese mainland only.

  10. Eclectic, yes, but hopefully not contrived as was the case here.

    I remember listening to this when it first aired and thinking what a complete pillock the man was. I first heard about Laurens Van der Post in about 1981. Everybody at the time was raving about his books, ‘The Lost World of the Kalahari’ and ‘A Story Like the Wind’, ‘A Far Off Place’ etc. I was given one of them to read by a girlfriend at the time, an avid fan (of the author, not me). I rapidly concluded that the man was a con artist.

    When he wrote that book, I think it was A Story Like the Wind, he attempted to rewrite nature. At about that time, Prince Charles fell under his spell and he was asked to be Prince William’s godfather. That he had a fertile imagination and was a man of obvious ability I will acknowledge, but he deceived many people as was shown in the biography by J.D.F. Jones. Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post. When I read it I felt vindicated for my earlier suspicions. Regardless of whether or not he was a ‘Paper Tiger’, nobody but a pretentious twit would choose ‘The Bushmen Of The Kalahari Desert, The Song Of The Rain’ as one of the 8 pieces of music to take to a desert island. The song consists of a one stringed instrument being twanged erratically while the singer clicked his tongue from time to time.

    Sorry for going off topic, but I always think of that particular program when I see lists of music that people listen to.

  11. Christopher, just colour me ‘pin yin,’ 🙂 We had to learn the Wade-Giles system as an adjunct at the Army school, and that awful Barnett-Chow for Cantonese, but Hanyu Pinyin is the standard.

    Playlists. Like everyone else, I guess, I have so much music stored that it would probably take the rest of my rapidly decreasing years to listen to it all, so I skim the music files, select a random assortment of albums/pieces for a playlist in iTunes, then hit the random play button.

    TR. I tend not to listen to ‘modern’ pop on the not entirely, imo, unjustified assumption that it is over-marketed crap. I do try out recommendations and I’ll look out those two 🙂

    Interesting to see that someone else shares my opinion of Mr Van der Post – easy to see where our very own Prince Charles got his whacko ideas from.

  12. “Whoops, I see that should now be ‘Black Dykian’; not quite the same, somehow”

    Bearsy, were you referring to the Black Mills Dyke Band, I wonder. 🙂 Nice girls.

  13. Bravo: one problem with the Romanisation systems is that the bulk of scholarship and majority of classics were translated using Wade-Giles, yet it is rarely taught any more so people won’t really know what was written without having to go through three more steps to figure it out. Ironically, most people who actually know how to use both prefer Wade-Giles and only use Pinyin because the Chinese government says so. There’s still a minority, including me, that just won’t use pinyin in formal work.

    As for the names… It’s a sensitive issue and very tricky. It’s a cultural slight to use pinyin for Taiwanese names, they don’t use it and prefer that people don’t use pinyin for their names. That’s for mainlanders, not Taiwanese. A number of Taiwanese have explained it that way.

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