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Roll Of Honour

Category: Jazz

The Spirit of 77
Culture, Jazz, Music, Rubén González, Vinyl

The Spirit of 77

Not for impressionable maiden aunts or spinster librarians, or their dude equivalents. Continue reading The Spirit of 77

Interjection Used To Stir Up Excitement
60's, Culture, Jazz, John Coltrane, Music, Vinyl

Interjection Used To Stir Up Excitement

Sketches from Spain? Continue reading Interjection Used To Stir Up Excitement

Ruth’s Heels
Culture, Jazz, Music, Record collecting, Reviews, Sonny Clark, Vinyl

Ruth’s Heels

In which our young hero struts in a cool fashion Continue reading Ruth’s Heels

Blue, Blue, Eclectic Blue
African Music, Dollar Brand, Jazz, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Blue, Blue, Eclectic Blue

Warm genius from the artist formerly known as Dollar Brand. Continue reading Blue, Blue, Eclectic Blue

No Frills Hard Bop
Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Lee Morgan, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

No Frills Hard Bop

Mmm, cornbread. Continue reading No Frills Hard Bop

Ting!
Culture, Jazz, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting

Ting!

You don’t get to add ‘The Great’ onto you bands’ name for nothing. Continue reading Ting!

Bhasobha (Be Careful)
African Music, Culture, Hugh Masekela, Jazz, Music, Tony Allen

Bhasobha (Be Careful)

Sometimes you simply just get the right record at the right time. Continue reading Bhasobha (Be Careful)

Stinkin’ One Thing And Reviewin’ Another
Culture, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Miles Davis, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

Stinkin’ One Thing And Reviewin’ Another

Callow young man buys jazz LP in Leeds, sort of understands it 13,780,000 minutes later. Continue reading Stinkin’ One Thing And Reviewin’ Another

Call Me Ishmael
African Music, Culture, Dollar Brand, Jazz, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Call Me Ishmael

Is it a girl Sean Connery? no Ishmael. Continue reading Call Me Ishmael

Le Jazz Gratuit
Archie Shepp, Culture, Jazz, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Le Jazz Gratuit

Free Jazz: Headache, or Headcleaner? Continue reading Le Jazz Gratuit

Mr Incredible
Culture, Jazz, Jimmy Smith, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Mr Incredible

A learned dissertation on the wisdom of adopting the epithet ‘Incredible’ before one’s name. Continue reading Mr Incredible

No Sweeter Song
Culture, Jazz, Music, Record collecting, Sonny Rollins, Vinyl

No Sweeter Song

‘Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold’ as the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band put it.  Luckily for the multiverse Sonny Rollins Way Out … Continue reading No Sweeter Song

It’s So Easy
Dollar Brand, Manic Street Preachers, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Rock, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

It’s So Easy

Ya get nothin’ for nothin’ If that’s what ya do So there I was yesterday in Birkenhead with 20 minutes to … Continue reading It’s So Easy

Nine Sinatras In A Sack
Charles Mingus, Culture, Jazz, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Record collecting, Vinyl

Nine Sinatras In A Sack

Here’s my favourite Mingus LP and so, by definition, near enough my favourite jazz LP, Blues & Roots.  Prior to Mingus … Continue reading Nine Sinatras In A Sack

My Mother Was a Friend Of An Enemy Of The People
Blurt, Culture, Indie, Jazz, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

My Mother Was a Friend Of An Enemy Of The People

My brother, my brother, is a drummer, a drummer, in a band from Stroud called Blurt – They break my ears! I once … Continue reading My Mother Was a Friend Of An Enemy Of The People

Winging The Infinite
Culture, Jazz, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Winging The Infinite

A moment of sublimity in a chaotic world:  After a gentler more bucolic number a new track starts.  Quite frankly its a … Continue reading Winging The Infinite

My Rhythmic Credentials
Acid Jazz, Culture, James Taylor Quartet, Jazz, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

My Rhythmic Credentials

I have mixed feelings about this LP.  The best track here Snowboy ‘Snowboy’s House of Latin’ is the whirling kind … Continue reading My Rhythmic Credentials

All Zila, No Killer
African Music, Culture, Dudu Pukwana, Jazz, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

All Zila, No Killer

Dudu Pukwana Zila ’86 – Here’s one I saved from my dad’s shed. No, really, my dad keeps Anglo-African jazz … Continue reading All Zila, No Killer

Kölnic Irrigation
Jazz, Keith Jarrett, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Kölnic Irrigation

A 17 year-old promoter, a pianist who’d missed some serious sleep over a few days due to a chronic back … Continue reading Kölnic Irrigation

Mingus Plays Piano, Pretty Well
Charles Mingus, Culture, Jazz, Music, Record collecting

Mingus Plays Piano, Pretty Well

‘Most of my heroes ain’t appeared on no stamp’, one of my heroes rapped, well this one of mine has. … Continue reading Mingus Plays Piano, Pretty Well

Cross-Criss
Be-Bop, Music, Thelonious Monk, Vinyl

Cross-Criss

Now, I may have just mentioned it in passing once or twice, but I’m big on sleevenotes.  In this case … Continue reading Cross-Criss

Jazz Sand
African Music, Dollar Brand, Jazz, Music, Record collecting

Jazz Sand

I love South African jazz pianist / band leader Dollar Brand, he was a big favourite of my father’s and … Continue reading Jazz Sand

Best Jazz Composition Of More Than Five Minutes Duration, 1960
Jazz, Miles Davis, Record collecting, Vinyl

Best Jazz Composition Of More Than Five Minutes Duration, 1960

Ahh, the effortless poetry of Grammy categories … anyway, as all you happenin’ hepcats and hepkitties know the winner that … Continue reading Best Jazz Composition Of More Than Five Minutes Duration, 1960

Awful Pygmy Music
Herbie Hancock, Record collecting

Awful Pygmy Music

The scene: My front room (lots of LPs, lots of cushions) Dramatis personae: Mr & Mrs 1537, to say nothing … Continue reading Awful Pygmy Music

Mercy Mercy Buddy
Buddy Rich, Jazz, Music

Mercy Mercy Buddy

Warning contains industrial-strength language: What kind of playing do you think this is?  What kind of miscues do you call … Continue reading Mercy Mercy Buddy

Too Betty Davis
Betty Davis, Funk, Miles Davis, Record collecting

Too Betty Davis

Too wild for husband Miles Davis*, too rock for black radio in 1973, too intelligent to carry on working as … Continue reading Too Betty Davis

The (Iron)-In Sound From Way Out!
Beastie Boys, Hip Hop, Instrumental, Jazz, Obsessive behaviour, Vinyl

The (Iron)-In Sound From Way Out!

Since I started this blog I’ve noticed I’ve evolved two types of listening there’s BL and LL.  let me explain. … Continue reading The (Iron)-In Sound From Way Out!

Dollar Brand: Black Lightning
African Music, Dollar Brand, Jazz, Vinyl

Dollar Brand: Black Lightning

Okay so no smart-ass titles for once, listening to this LP just now has made me fall in love with … Continue reading Dollar Brand: Black Lightning

Hard Bop
Be-Bop, Jazz, Miles Davis

Hard Bop

I own quite a bit of jazz although I know very little about it really.  I mean I can bluff my … Continue reading Hard Bop

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