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flash_uk wrote:John Coltrane

No, but a fine guess.

PhilW wrote:Bix Beiderbecke?

Not in my collection.

PhilW wrote:Bonus question for JDAW only - If you had 20 CDs and there were 12 tracks on each, how many tracks would that be in total?

Not your question.

Miles Davis

djewesbury wrote:Miles Davis

Another guess both excellent and incorrect.

Clue: Derek.

Fats Waller

flash_uk wrote:Fats Waller

Unkind.
I am having trouble with the clue. Perhaps it relates to our Derek; he is Scottish and lives in England, has connections with Edinburgh, Derbyshire and London, is an amateur astronomer, likes Port, likes Pork… none of which leads me to any jazz players. Or maybe Derek is a reference to someone else. Derek and Clive. Derek and the Dominoes.
I'm disregarding the 'clue' until it's actually framed in a useful way.
In the meantime, if performers who have had some connection with be bop / hard bop during their careers constitute 'good answers', I'll say Charlie Parker.

djewesbury wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Fats Waller

Unkind.

Merely my supposition as to what Julian would find amusing, not my view

flash_uk wrote:Fats Waller

Of course. Your question.

djewesbury wrote:I am having trouble with the clue.

Flash didn’t have trouble.

“Just to let you that I paid my alimony, and I ain’t misbehavin’. … I’m saving my love for you.”

flash_uk wrote:Merely my supposition as to what Julian would find amusing, not my view

Established fact, acknowledged by man who knows it needs to change. And who is, slowly, changing it.

And to continue the Jazz theme, who is my favourite Jazz musician?

To answer JDAW, I could have gone as far as Tubby Hayes but any further would have seemed gratuitous.

Tubby Hayes?

djewesbury wrote:Tubby Hayes?

No

John Surman?

jdaw1 wrote:John Surman?

Nope. I suppose I'd better start thinking of some hints.

Duke Ellington?

Not the Duke.

Julian wants to guess Charlie Mingus.
Thanks Julian.
Charlie Christian?

No and no. Both slightly earlier than my fav.

Lou Donaldson?

Stanley Turrentine?

Bleeding Gums Murphy?

PopulusTremula wrote:Bleeding Gums Murphy?

An inspirational hero.
Sun Ra?

jdaw1 wrote:Lou Donaldson?

No

djewesbury wrote:Stanley Turrentine?

No

PopulusTremula wrote:Bleeding Gums Murphy?

No

My fav is primarily a piano guy.

The great Stan Tracey? Seen him at the Bull's Head in Barnes many times..

djewesbury wrote:The great Stan Tracey? Seen him at the Bull's Head in Barnes many times..

No. My guy is still breathing.

flash_uk wrote:

djewesbury wrote:The great Stan Tracey? Seen him at the Bull's Head in Barnes many times..

No. My guy is still breathing.

Stan Tracey's dead!! Jesus, I didn't know. Less than a year ago though. Oh. I'm putting on my disc of The Poets' Suite (funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland back in the glory days) right now.

Oh I have a guess!!! Quick someone guess!!!

EDIT: Julian just PMed to say Esbjorn Svensson.. Silly Julian, he died a few years ago. Saw the Esbjorn Svensson Trio in the Elmwood Hall in Belfast not long before he died, one of the best gigs I was ever at..

So - is it Kit Downes?

djewesbury wrote:Oh I have a guess!!! Quick someone guess!!!

EDIT: Julian just PMed to say Esbjorn Svensson.. Silly Julian, he died a few years ago. Saw the Esbjorn Svensson Trio in the Elmwood Hall in Belfast not long before he died, one of the best gigs I was ever at..

So - is it Kit Downes?

not your turn

Rum de tum tum.........
Dum de dooo........
Tap tap tap..
Come on someone.

To allow Daniel his turn, to continue the Swedish theme and pretending he's still alive; Jan Johansson esp. his jazzification of Russian folk music.

PopulusTremula wrote:To allow Daniel his turn, to continue the Swedish theme and pretending he's still alive; Jan Johansson esp. his jazzification of Russian folk music.

Nope.

Kit Downes?

djewesbury wrote:Kit Downes?

drum roll........no!

My guy is American.

Edit: and Kit D is a much more contemporary compared to my guy

flash_uk wrote:

djewesbury wrote:Kit Downes?

drum roll........no!

Contemporary American jazz pianists. Over to the Americans. Not my area. Unless it's that very smooth young chap whose name I can't utter since it's not my turn.

djewesbury wrote:Contemporary American jazz pianists. Over to the Americans. Not my area. Unless it's that very smooth young chap whose name I can't utter since it's not my turn.

He's over 65, so I wouldn't say contemporary, just not as young as Kit D.

Esbjorn Svensson?

jdaw1 wrote:Esbjorn Svensson?

Is dead. So no. Clues so far:

American, alive, over 65, pianist

I've no idea about this one but Keith Jarrett?

LGTrotter wrote:I've no idea about this one but Keith Jarrett?

Yes you got it!

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Merely my supposition as to what Julian would find amusing, not my view

Established fact, acknowledged by man who knows it needs to change. And who is, slowly, changing it.

High praise indeed. Thank you.

flash_uk wrote:

LGTrotter wrote:I've no idea about this one but Keith Jarrett?

Yes you got it!

I fall for it every time. I think 'one little guess can't hurt', next thing it's three in the morning and I am being tormented by folk wilfully guessing wrong.

I shall think of something, help yourselves if anybody else has a question. Back soon.

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Merely my supposition as to what Julian would find amusing, not my view

Established fact, acknowledged by man who knows it needs to change. And who is, slowly, changing it.

High praise indeed. Thank you.

Praise and firmness, in equal measure:

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=83800#p83800]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:

djewesbury wrote:Derek?

Only if ≤ 16st 5 lb.

Come on Owen, where's that question?

flash_uk wrote:Come on Owen, where's that question?

Correct! Your turn.

djewesbury wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Come on Owen, where's that question?

Correct! Your turn.

How can it be my turn?

flash_uk wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Come on Owen, where's that question?

Correct! Your turn.

How can it be my turn?

Haha. Nice try. Not my guess.

djewesbury wrote:

flash_uk wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

flash_uk wrote:Come on Owen, where's that question?

Correct! Your turn.

How can it be my turn?

Not my guess.

Correct! Your question.

Owen, please save this from further deterioration!

Reins: mine.

I recently received a gift pack of beer from someone I met on the Port Harvest Tour. This gift is hoped to provide me with another beer that doesn't taste like beer so that I might actually enjoy it.

The first such beer was Eric Menchen's beer, Friek, which is made by the O'Dell Brewing Company and is something of a cross between a Framboise and a Kriek (thus the name). The second such beer was Lindeman's Belgian Lambic Framboise, which to me tastes like raspberry Champagne. (Note: that's a good thing.)

This beer is not a fruit beer. Rather, it was aged differently and the giver of the gift is convinced that this aging will disguise the fact that it is actually a Stout. I have my doubts, because Stout is a very beery beer to me.

How was this beer aged?