http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fr273

Nothing to say re this except-as per a couple of earlier posts here-he pretty much invented the electric guitar solo back in the late 30s, and John Etheridge's illustrations-and the warmth of the presenters-are a joy.

Up for a few more days, *this* is what I pay my licence fee for ...

Partly as a note to myself, partly for anyone else who wants to catch it while it's still up but Barb Jungr apparently has some live songs here for another day or so

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fd417/In_Tune_14112008/

Just wanted to say that anyone who loves the trumpet might want to check out a *superb* BBC podcast where Enrico Rava talks about his life's work. Should be up at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00drsyd
for a few more days, and on iTunes. I'd known his name for 25 years, and even used to be on an ECM Records mailing list back in the day, but had never actually heard him. A real shame, because it turns out that the sound of his early records The Plot and The Pilgrim and The Stars is just what I've always loved about ECM. Pleased to see they are still in print, will rectify pronto.

Have greatly enjoyed the discussions in a couple of threads about "what is music ?" but wanted to ask the question a different way, prompted by some of the posters. How do you, dear listeners, *experience* music ?

Some people, like me, cannot hear a a song without immediately noticing the words-and so singer songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Dylan etc etc have meant a lot to me. Some people I know would be hard put to tell you any phrases from songs they love. Some people tell me music is all about emotion, and will talk about symphonies, for example, as emotional journeys, while another friend, who plays the oboe and loves Brahms tells me music for her is much more about architecture than emotion. And so on.

I was reminded of this watching the superb pianist Helene Grimaud on telly tonight when it was remarked that she "experiences synesthesia, where one physical sense adds input to another, for example tasting words, or in her case, seeing music as colour" [Wikipedia].

I wouldn't say I consciously experience an emotional response to music very much, and yet was absolutely knocked out by the power of the sequence chosen by Howard Goodall in Part 1 of his series on How Music Works-see

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/H/how_music_works/music_melod...

The effect has remained on repeated viewings-by the point of Appalachian spring I am putty ... ;-)

I also don't really "hear" remembered music and yet often know equally well that I have a tune going through my head and which one it is - and also often find a song has popped up that seems to be apposite to/suggested by a thought or a current situation.

I am sure there are as many different responses to music as people-I'd love to hear from the Massive as to just how you do hear music.

Enjoyed Judy Collins' appearance on Radio 3's Private Passions last weekend-up at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00d9z02/
until Sunday lunchtime.

Told the story of being phoned up by Al Kooper early one morning-he had a young singer-songwriter who wanted to play a song down the phone. Rest is, as they say, history. Version of Both Sides Now used in the programme was the late one from her first big band album-leading to some interesting chat about the London session orchestral players who formed the "band".

And for a remarkable reminiscence of Mike Bloomfield by Kooper check out the Gadfly archive-see
http://www.gadflyonline.com/archive/marchapril01/archive-bloomfield.html

While spring cleaning, as it were, last night I found an airline freebie copy of a magazine I'd saved a few years ago-"Gadfly"-specifically the March/April 2001 issue with an article by Nat Hentoff on Lenny Bruce, see
http://www.gadflyonline.com/archive/MarchApril01/archive-lennybruce.html

Was at the time very impressed by its ambitions to cover all of culture with a "rockish" sensibility-their tagline was "Culture that matters". They didn't have aspirations to a cover disk and shelf space in ASDA ... probably thought their task was hard enough as it was ;-). Never got round to subscribing but looking them up now I see that was the last print copy of a 3 year run, and that magazine lasted another year or so online. Thought that Word readers might find quite a lot to enjoy in their archive, this one tickled me:
http://www.gadflyonline.com/onlinearchive/music.html

"For about the past ten years, when not doing special project albums with other artists, Van Morrison seemed to be making the same album again and again. It seemed that one could almost write the generic Van Morrison song the way one could write the generic country song. Van has three types of songs: The "I was in the garden wet with rain listening to the radio in the alley" song. The "I was lost in the rapture of Yeats, Blake or the poet of your choice while wandering in the garden wet with rain while my Telefunken blasted into the alley" song. And the complaining song, which is basically: "I was screwed by the businessmen, the press, and the morons on the Internet who think they know about me but won't leave me alone because they're all idiots wearing fashionable clothes and following the current trends which has nothing to do with the glorious rapture while listening to Sidney Bechet and reading Wordsworth while searching for the eternal eternal vision of John Lee Hooker jamming with Ray Charles in the Celtic mist in the alley wet with rain" song."