Stewart Smith

More affordable than an OG copy of the album at least!

John Coltrane - Ascension View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1966 Vinyl release of "Ascension" on Discogs.

Yeah made for radio and jukeboxes. The 7 is much sought after. www.discogs.com/release/6405...

The digital jukebox in Glasgow’s wonderful Doublet had an avant-garde jazz section with the single edit of John Coltrane’s Ascension 🔥🔥🔥

Daily Record is using the same language and arguments as they did then, just for another group, ie treating them as a danger, brainwashing kids etc. I remember how homophobic Scotland was in the 90s and the Records KTC campaign felt like the last gasp of that. Sadly it’s reemerged as transphobia.

Yep the language and structure of their arguments is exactly the same: the othering, raising the threat of sexual violence etc.

I remember them being against the repeal of Section 28 with hysterical headlines about porn lessons in school and the like

Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US

Good to see, although the paper’s reporting and op/ed broadly leans GC.

Was surprised to see this tbh. Although they’ve got still McKenna churning out his usual pish.

If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.

The real victim at the centre of this absurd case is very clearly Dr Beth Upton

To witness the way in which she’s been dehumanised and vilified by Peggie and their (Sex Matters) legal team, the tribunal judge, the British media, and UK politicians has been beyond horrifying

Solidarity Beth

The institutionally transphobic media are already trying to spin this as an outright victory, but the truth is that most of her claims were dismissed, there’s no trans bathroom ban, and the judge recognised Peggie’s vile comments about Pakistani flood victims & trans people for what they were.

Also can’t be emphasised how much this went hand in hand with the war on terror and Islamophobia. The liberal & cosmopolitan vibes of the first term were gone by 2001.

Yes, they definitely legitimised those views, both through their policies and willingness to entertain “legitimate concerns”. From the proudly bigoted Blunkett to the Ed Stone to Starmer, it’s all part of the same trajectory.

We’re very lucky that he was openly clueless about music but was happy to employ those who did.

That whole Virgin ambient series is so great, not least cos so little of it resembles what’s now marketed as ambient. Ocean of Sound and Jazz Satellites are personal touchstones.

He established his own language, but I love how he placed that in different contexts, eg pirate radio jungle, harmolodic funk, noisy Japanese prog etc. Very much focused on the future, challenging orthodoxy whether in the mainstream or experimental worlds.

Oh definitely. I really appreciate his ongoing interrogation of his own ideas, his openness to new approaches, the playful yet artistically curious bringing together of different musicians with Company etc

At the end of the day, noise is just sound and like anything else, it can be done well or not.

I am interested in asking artists about their motives and process, but ofc their’s isn’t the last word. As the DB comment shows, context is everything, and the Dada antics of the Dutch school are often more challenging to musicians and audiences than “out” sounds.

I do think too much emphasis can be placed on the intention behind noise being provocation. Noisy and dissonant textures just sound good.

Bailey wasn’t averse to playing harsh noises to annoy certain people - see the Mark Wastell piece in the current Wire.

The Blair government talked up the necessity of economic migration while introducing increasingly harsh anti-migrant legislation. Playing into media hysteria about migration was a convenient distraction from the failure of their neo-liberal policies and paved the way for the horror of Farage.

"I was introduced to Herbie Nichols' music when I still considered myself to be a mainstream jazz singer. It was also a moment when I was reconsidering whether or not I wanted to be a mainstream jazz singer."

Fay Victor: Giving Voice to Herbie Nichols
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Global campaign launched to free jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti Known as Palestine's Nelson Mandela, he has been in prison for more than 23 years and subjected to brutal abuse.

Known as Palestine's Nelson Mandela, he has been in prison for more than 23 years and subjected to brutal abuse.

transphobes using money and power to bully little kids is absolutely no different from mobs turning up to intimidate refugee families, and you should treat anyone who so much as excuses either of these things with complete contempt

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

I've got an EOY essay in here about the dialogue between jazz/improv, underground hip-hop and electronic music, and the exciting new open-genre music emerging from it.

Plus a full page of jazz & improv reviews, inc the incredible @xcrswx, Marilyn Crispell, Angharad Davies & John Butcher...

There's not a single anti-trans campaigner or group with a major platform on twitter who haven't posted *horrifying* things and it's a stain on our entire media ecosystem that not a single major outlet has done even basic reporting of it.

Had a similar experience on a local Glasgow to Stirling train a couple of years back. Complained to Scotrail on twitter in real time, who said it left the depot like that. Doubt many of the stations en route had working loos either.