Hoagy Carmichael with the Pacific Jazzman.

^Didn't know that. Interesting.

There was always something mid-Atlantic in Fleming's Bond.

Surya Botofasina new album. Check it via Bandcamp.
It is In A Silent Way, early Harold Budd, Alice Coltrane style somewhere between Jazz and Ambient.

Very well done.

Thanks for the tip off FSC, I’ll set up to record, I believe the guys who made it were the same guys who made the JS Modernist film, I’m sure others would know better than me,

On 01 December the JS docu is on at 02:25, followed by Tubby Hayes at 03:40.

Stax, I think a lot of them rejected pop music to the point that they couldn’t see that it was going to take their living away.
I don’t think they should be blamed or seen as being blinkered in any way. People forget that there was a lot of discussion around that time as to how long the pop music craze would last. I don’t think anyone then would have put their money on sixty years!

Staying off topic, Stax you mentioned Jake Arnott and 'the Long Firm'. About 20 years ago I bought his trilogy of books including True Crime and He Kills Coppers. I've just checked and the books survived the cull after a downsizing excise  10 years ago. I got rid of hundreds of novels which I now regret but I hardly read these days. Missus keeps on at me to read more so perhaps I will re read Jake Arnott. I did see the film production of the Long Firm.

''One thing it highlights very well is the way the jazz guys either couldn't or wouldn't register the incoming tsunami of pop music.''

It was a big bang and the zeitgest that was jazz was no more. But within jazz you had the battle between the modernists and the moldy figs, as played out in university campuses in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

You have the beginning of the death of the big band too at the end of WWII and the rise of the small combo, including bebop. By the mid-fifties, with some exceptions, the era of the big bands was over.

Currently reading 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded by Jon Savage, certainly by then, jazz as a youth culture in the UK was effectively over. But I understand that in France and other places on the continent, jazz was still hip.

His track Sandalia Dela is one of many fine tracks on the album.

Wonderful track with Flora Purim's lovely vocals.

This time of year I chuck on his Merry Ole Soul album.

I also bought the Blue Bossa album, from Gerry Potters Music store which was a few doors up from the old Richmond Ivy Shop. Ivy League & Jazz almost next door to each other.

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Alvey- That's an interesting list and matches what me and the missus used to listen to in the week run up to Christmas. I checked out the RL Holiday collection and it appears identical to a CD I purchased once from the Sunday Times.
Missus sat next to Tony Bennett on an internal flight in Canada about 1993 when TBs career was going through a low. She became a fan soon afterwards.
My dad was a bit of a singer in his youth and he was a fan of Sinatra so we used to have a few of his records.
In recent years I've listened more to Christmas carols but we will have to revert back to our old listening habits.

AlveySinger,

I actually bought my wife a CD box set of TB recordings maybe 25 years ago and I seem to remember I was a bit surprised at the quality of the recordings. They didn't seem to be up to scratch. I didn't know about the Columbia recordings having the echo effect. When I am back in UK I will have to dig out the CDs and listen to them again.
We never saw him live but I get the lack of stage craft or presence.

Always rated the two TB albums he did with Bill Evans. Also, If I Ruled the World: Songs for the Jet Set.

An old mucca of mine, use to explain that everyone thinks the crooner Johnny Fontane in The Godfather is based on Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin, it is infact, TB.