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Dave Pegg

This week’s show will be concerned with multiinstrumentalist singer-songwriter and producer Dave Pegg, who may be more familiar to everybody as the bassist of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull. He also did some pretty nifty solo work, though.

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Malaclypse

260 Transports of Delight: Boats.

A great show, concentrating on boats as a means of transport, with contributions from Hugh and Malaclypse and assembled by myself.  For some reason the audience was slow to build and didn’t reach our usual numbers – perhaps the end of Summer had everyone laid out?  Peak listeners 15, so not that bad.

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Transports of Delight, take 3

“It’s a plane!”—”It’s a train!”—”No, it’s… a boat!”

The third section of our transportation-oriented series brings us to where there is only a thin sheet of metal between us and the water. There will be all sorts of modes of transportation, historical as well as contemporary.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

Miles Davis at CBS

This week’s theme is the seminal work of Miles Davis at Columbia Records, notably including his setting the world of Jazz on its ears not once, but twice.

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Malaclypse

259 Jazz Now

A collection of recent releases (2020 – 2024) in the jazz genre, a selection picked by our resident experts Hugh and Nigel.   Some lovely music, well appreciated by our audience too.  Look up these bands if you like what we played.

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Jazz Now!

No Apocalypse for Jazz can be seen in the near future, so we will have a look at how Jazz is doing these days—it may be doing it quietly and in the background for the mainstream listener, but it’s there, it’s alive, and it’s kickin’!

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

132R Chicago part II

Covering the period from their recovery from the death of Terry Kath onwards, there were a lot of changes to go through and some lacklustre albums too.    Hugh had selected the best tracks, and we updated the show with two tracks from the latest album Chicago XXXVIII: Born For This Moment, released in 2022.

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Chicago Part II

This week, we will continue the saga of Chicago: what happened after their fatal hit.

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Malaclypse

258 The Sky’s the Limit

A great set of tracks put together by Hugh around the subject of the sky.   Lots of slower stuff and a wide variety of styles, but all great music and well liked by our audience, which grew to 31 at one point and stayed at 28 for a long while.   Very happy with that.

The Michael Feinstein track Skywriting was cut short in the main show, and the full track was added to the postshow.  My fault, a bad reformatting of the wma original by Audacity.

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