SEEN:

Couple of things on Netflix: “Pretend it’s a City” – New York “humourist” Fran Liebowitz in conversation with Martin Scorsese – acutely funny, smart observations on Big Apple life and beyond. “The […]

More jazz.

Bit late for Burns Night…but this sublime musical version of “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” by the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra is very lovely. You can skip to 4.34 for the music – unless you […]

The vid pretty much chimes with my limited experience as a parish councillor. A neighbour asked me to join because they were short of numbers and you could be co-opted without an election. Thankfully, it was short […]

Tata Vega does a great disco version of this – but it’s been a while since David Cassidy put in an appearance here.

And some jazz – courtesy of Fergus McCreadie who has a new album out later this week. Very fine young player and if anything like his first album will have a distinct Scottish flavour to it.

Also – some scenery – […]

The best:

Pat Metheny – From This Place
Eddie Chacon – Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
Jimmy Heath – Love Letter
Elina Duni/Rob Luft – Lost Ships
Cory Wong and Jon Batiste – Meditations
Vox Clemantis – Cyrillu […]

Thank you – though I haven’t seen dear, dear Dickie and Hughie for many years now…

Always thought that someone else had used the Emil and the Detectives name but imagined it would be some fey jangly 80s Brit […]

Well, it wasn’t the best year to go into retail after a 20+ year break. I’ve sort of opened a record and book shop in so far as I’ve taken increasing amounts of space in one of those “antiques” centres that have […]

Very briefly – just one gig and then “musical differences” foiled wider global acclaim and riches.

We were called Emil and the Detectives – a four piece – drums/bass/guitar/vocals – and played a set of punk-ish […]

Indeed @dai – so:

Various Artists – For the love of you
Nat King Cole Trio – Straighten Up and Fly Right/The Best of Hittin’ the Ramp
Dee Dee Bridgewater – Afro Blue

Thanks for doing this – look forwa […]

Like the sound of the Yumiko Morioka album – and the description on Bandcamp:

“Whilst by no means a commercial failure, the album was mostly found in the background of Japanese TV documentaries, maternity […]

Favourite this year is “For the Love of You” – via the Athens of the North label – a brilliant compilation of 70s/80s Lovers Rock with UK homegrown reggae covers of various rare groove/two step classic […]

This – found a copy in a Byres Road chazza last time I was in Glasgow.

And this from Airto is quite some tune.

Not long to wait now for Boris’s Brexit backers to cash in on a no deal!

This was published over a year ago. It would be interesting if the various hedge funds still hold these positions.

“From the financial […]

SEEN:
The Vow on Sky Documentaries is a fascinating if overlong series about NXIVM – a US “professional development” company turned sex cult. The early episodes reminded me of some of HR fuckwittery I used to en […]

The Cambridge Jazz Festival also now underway – lots of free streaming of gigs over the next week or so. It’s been a great festival the last few years – always an interesting mix of not so big names from overseas […]

Yesterday – Friday the 13th – was the fifth anniversary of my near fatal heart attack. If I didn’t live within a ten minute ambulance ride of Papworth I’d have gone into cardiac arrest, according to the docs. […]

Already mentioned on here a couple of times – David Boulter’s “Yarmouth” – just released and a lovely musical homage to that strange part of the world.

Bernie Flintlock

Joe Brown and his Famous Flames

Clodagh Rodgers and Hammerstein

Jackie Trent Reznor

Bill Haley and the Comet is Coming
Broston
Goldfruup
The Brotherhood of Manfred Mann’s Earthband
Jim Reeves and the Vandellas
The Beagles
The Flaming Pips