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(Bet some of the musical heathens out there never heard of Charlie Christian nor Wes Montgomery!)

(copied from another forum) 1. Most Blues should begin, "Woke up this morning." 2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like "I got a good woman with the meanest face in town." 3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first...

Found this Vivaldi sonata with unusual/unexpected instrumentation http://www.baroquemusic.org/DLower/BMC35T9VivaldiSonataOp13.mp3

I like the organ tracks, 1, 9 & 11 on this Album, particularly No 9 on a Silberman organ (right click track when playing, select "Save audio as" for free download) http://www.baroquemusic.org/30Web.html

I've been unable to acces the forum for the last 2 days, just getting the "Timed out" message?

As old age creeps along

Off to hospital at 7 am for a bit of surgery, to try and restore my voice back to normal instead of the current whisper or croak; scheduled for an overnight stay.

To all our readers!

In the piece linked below the drumming sounds acceptable to me as accompaniment but the solo towards the end (around 2.30) doesn't strike me as relevant to the rest Same sort of thing on other tracks of the CD. (I do like the singer tho', Jean Lamb, not heard of her before)...

I wonder if this has been arranged for organ? There is a score on IMSLP but it's very old handwritten that has been scanned into PDF image http://www.baroquemusic.org/DLower/BMC13T1TelemannRecorderGamba. http://imslp.org/wiki/Sinfonia_in_F_major%2C_TWV_50:3_(Telemann%2C_Georg_Philipp)

A helicopter and a piper cub went fishing. Who brought the bait? The helicopter, of course, everyone knows that the whirlybird catches the worm.

2 sides of Vinyl as .zip files; Free download here https://archive.org/details/TheTimekeepers-CountBasieMeetsOscarPeterson-Vinyl24-bit

A’s for arthritis; B’s the bad back, C is for chest pains, perhaps cardiac. D is for dental decay and decline; E is for eyesight, can’t read that top line. F is for fissures and fluid retention, G is for gas, which I’d rather not mention. H is high blood pressure--I’d rather it low; I for...

As you read this you are the oldest you've ever been! To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer...

Two examples today that make no sense to me, a 10 pack of Jaffa cake bars for £1.25, next to them on the shelf 5 packs of the same size same product £1.40. Then in the DIY store, hobby board 1150mmx200mm £4.96, in the same rack 2350mmx200mm £14.25; now 2x 1150 is 2300, so why is the 2350 near...