Lead Sheets
An epochal day Continue reading Lead Sheets
Tag: Jazz
Nina Inch Nails
When the working day is done, troops just wanna have fun Continue reading Nina Inch Nails
Interjection Used To Stir Up Excitement
Sketches from Spain? Continue reading Interjection Used To Stir Up Excitement
Ruth’s Heels
In which our young hero struts in a cool fashion Continue reading Ruth’s Heels
No Frills Hard Bop
Mmm, cornbread. Continue reading No Frills Hard Bop
Ting!
You don’t get to add ‘The Great’ onto you bands’ name for nothing. Continue reading Ting!
Bhasobha (Be Careful)
Sometimes you simply just get the right record at the right time. Continue reading Bhasobha (Be Careful)
Call Me Ishmael
Is it a girl Sean Connery? no Ishmael. Continue reading Call Me Ishmael
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
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
Ride Out Of The Sunset
I’m dirty, mean and mighty unclean I’m a wanted man Public enemy number one Understand So lock up your daughter … Continue reading Ride Out Of The Sunset
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
39 in ’43
Dinah, Is there anyone finer In the state of Carolina? If there is and you know her, Show her! Here’s … Continue reading 39 in ’43
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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