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

Fascinating read. I picked up a copy of this album a couple of weeks ago in a local auction lot – a mix of immaculate condition early 70s Japanese quadrophonic vinyl and drum’n’bass twelves! I only bid because […]

Sad to hear – she had a beautifully pure voice. Another wonderful track from that great Kokomo first album with Dyan taking the lead.

Not sure anyone has left it quite as late for a flourish as tenor man Jimmy Heath – who recorded the sublime “Love Letters” shortly before he passed away at the age of 94. Beautiful playing on a ballad-heavy set – […]

This – new from Melody Gardot:

Mountain Men – Shaker Quaker music

Mary Halverson feat.Robert Wyatt – gets a bit rowdy in the middle.

1 – The Godfather II – 1974
2 – Sunset Boulevard – 1950
3 – Come and See – 1985
4 – Atlantic City – 1980
5 – North by Northwest – 1959
6 – Bad Day at Black Rock – 1955
7 – This is Spinal Tap – 1984
8 – We […]

SEEN:
Nothing really. Spend most days with an unruly young retriever, walking miles across the West Cambridgeshire Hundreds – a patchwork of ancient woodlands dotted across the local prairie. Learning to i […]

I think they’re all worthy of a listen – but Part 5 is the regular spin as it’s the only one I have on CD. I bought it after seeing the choir perform the music at one of the Cambridge College chapels – with the […]

The best:

1 – Here I Am – Burt Bacharach/Ronald Isley
2 – Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell
3 – Once to Every Heart – Mark Murphy
4 – Eternal – Branford Marsalis Quintet
5 – Just a Little Lovin’ – Shelby L […]

Some Delius – accompanied by suitable images from the world of John Atkinson Grimshaw.

And for added effect, I bring you Ronnie Ronalde and his amazing bird impressions. He also yodels.

1 – Just Ain’t Good Enough – Johnnie Taylor
2 – Abandoned Garden– Michael Franks
3 – Here’s to Life – Shirley Horn
4 – The Audience With – Betty Carter
5 – Love Remains – Bobby Watson
6 – We Live Her […]

The YSP is fantastic and a frequent stopping off point when I’m on my way to the North West to see my mother. There’s a great long running Damian Hirst exhibition on currently with vast pieces of work scattered […]

Blimey, think I saw that film when it came out – think it was about the “singles scene”?

One highlight – minor Teddy P classic as title track – featuring top quality squidgy bass.

Mojo editor @JohnRMulvey has regularly recommended the music of Tuluum Shimmering – spacey extended…sometimes over an hour…guitar-based mellow psychy noodling based around lesser known 60s/70s classics. […]

Agreed @duco1 on the “Americana” album – play it very regularly. I’d be tempted to give “Promontaire” a go. It isn’t spiky like Craig Taborn or Paul Bley quoted in the Amazon review – tending towards lyrical […]

Indeed. Some beautiful architecture in Preston and the whole area around Avenham Park and Winkley Square is a delight – but head further north and it gets a little more gritty. We used to go to a pub in amongst […]