Volume 81
31 Oct 2007
30 Oct 2007
29 Oct 2007
28 Oct 2007
I saw these guys playing on Saturday night in Zef's in Ambleside - they were very good indeed.
26 Oct 2007
25 Oct 2007
24 Oct 2007
Just back from David Murray Quartet at the Caedmon Hall. Most excellent indeed. (Andy Hamilton (89) turned up to watch him.)
San Diego sunrise (link needs a .jpg - I think the link is longer than my database field so it keeps going wrong....)
23 Oct 2007
22 Oct 2007
21 Oct 2007
I can't work out which is more annoying - the even earlier start to xmas nonsense or the sticker on a bag of apples saying "Happy Halloween". Halloween is not a festival (in this country) so please don't try to make it one.
19 Oct 2007
18 Oct 2007
Birdland : Maynard Ferguson. I love the way at on epoint he stands in front of the section sort of pretending to conduct and they are all just ignoring him. They also manage to make parts of the tune sound like "Jump". Nice tenor playing.
17 Oct 2007
Coldest night so far and the central heating breaks. Oh well.
An emusic download today of Miles In Copenhagen 1960 - Coltrane in the band of course. Fabulous, fabulous live version of So What. Amazing solo from JC.
15 Oct 2007
See proof!!!! (And find out about those christian-built highways back home) (Update: seems it is a spoof. Thank goodness)
12 Oct 2007
Regular service resumes when I'm not ill....
10 Oct 2007
Clifford Brown really was amazing.
9 Oct 2007
7 Oct 2007
6 Oct 2007
Jazz workshop at the Sage, Gateshead today. Which was good.
5 Oct 2007
Damn, the Bajofondo Tango Club are touring but are not coming anywhere near here (unless I've missed them) - go and see them if you get the chance though.
4 Oct 2007
3 Oct 2007
I just saw someone wearing a t-shirt that read "You will regret reading this t-shirt when the sketch artist asks you to describe my face"
This is more like it. (But since when have broccoli and corn been exotic vegetables? Even in India.)
2 Oct 2007
1 Oct 2007
30 Sep 2007
Just finished the new Pratchett
- very good indeed I thought. There's a new Bill Bryson too
29 Sep 2007
To Edinburgh today
28 Sep 2007
27 Sep 2007
Great quote on No Rock&Roll Fun : "So, that's Shed 7, MC Hammer, the Inspiral Carpets and EMF all on tour in the UK at roughly the same time. No wonder nobody's bothered to invent time travel; there's nothing bloody left in the past to go back and visit."
26 Sep 2007
25 Sep 2007
What is the point of a "Best of Complete XXX" album?
24 Sep 2007
23 Sep 2007
RIP Marcel Marceau - I saw him once in a tiny theatre in Edinburgh in the 60s. He was fantastic. The only people in the audience were me and my friends. About 6 of us.
I popped into SL for a minute - still as buggy as ever. Crashed three times within 30 secs of logging in.
Thanks to the BBC catch-up weekend I am now up to episode 5 of Heroes.
22 Sep 2007
21 Sep 2007
19 Sep 2007
18 Sep 2007
17 Sep 2007
16 Sep 2007
Just been on a boat at the mouth of the Tyne watching the QE2 come up the river (on the 3rd attempt). Lots of boats, firework display, parachute flares to make a "red carpet". It was good. If I have any decent photos I might put them online.