My tweets

• Mon, 16:22: Dover done and dusted as it was bloody wet and cold. Arrived back at 3pm.
• Mon, 19:56: The Dover Deviation http://t.co/SN9OK3IJ
• Mon, 23:53: Drat went upstairs to read at 8.30 pm and fell asleep for one and a half hours.
• Mon, 23:55: The book on Charles Dicken i bought today looks really good. Lots of illustrations.
• Tue, 00:09: Now we stay due - anagram of Tuesday
• Tue, 00:11: Spot ,Mike and Phil were talking about pies earlier.My favourite has to be Abbot ale pie
• Tue, 00:12: One pie i have not tired is the classic Beef Wellington pie
• Tue, 00:13: Did quite well on the Univerity Challenge earlier tonight.

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Donations

After the rain soaked trip yesterday I took a more languid attitude.

Awoke just before ten this morning. Read a bit from a John Le Carre novel, posted a few items off and listened to some immigrant music from the USA (“Stranded In The USA” (Trikont CD)). Stroked Jasper the cat for awhile. Completed the crossword in the Independent.

I watched all the episodes now from The Big Bang Theory Series 3 , last six watched last night. Another reason for getting up late.

Then I thought of donations.You can donate to the cause of this blog via Paypal. The address is davesmusictank@gmail.com. Thanks.

Mike Taylor Remembered

I have been playing this fine jazz CD "Mike Taylor Remembered" (Dusk Fire)

This is what Rob Greville says about it from Amazon -

Though he co-wrote for Cream, pianist and composer Mike Taylor never made the jump to jazz's rockier climes of the late '60s and early '70s. Jon Hiseman moved to Colosseum, Ian Carr to Nucleus - both play beautifully on this elegant, previously -unreleased 1973 tribute to the jazz genius who walked into the sea in the spring of 1969. 'Mike Taylor Remembered' was the brainchild of Neil Ardley (also sadly gone now) and it was he who corralled up the genre's finest to make a compilation of Taylor's quirky and original creations, originally recorded with his quartet across only two albums before he effectively took off on a two-year extended acid trip that reduced him to a gibbering and unrecognisable vagrant. Taylor's experience matches that of rock's Syd Barrett, but for his early (and still unexplained) death. The rest of the line-up here speaks reams for the regard and affection Taylor was nonetheless held in: Norman Winstone, Barbara Thompson, Henry Lowther, Ray Warleigh, Peter Lemer, Tony Fisher and more, including Dave Gelly, today jazz critic on The Observer newspaper, who recounts the tragic story of Mike Taylor and the making of these memorial recordings in an expansive, well packaged release that is truly a lost-and-found essential of modern British jazz.

I totally concur.

Mike Taylor Remembered

I have been playing this fine jazz CD "Mike Taylor Remembered" (Dusk Fire)



This is what Rob Greville says about it from Amazon -

Though he co-wrote for Cream, pianist and composer Mike Taylor never made the jump to jazz's rockier climes of the late '60s and early '70s. Jon Hiseman moved to Colosseum, Ian Carr to Nucleus - both play beautifully on this elegant, previously -unreleased 1973 tribute to the jazz genius who walked into the sea in the spring of 1969. 'Mike Taylor Remembered' was the brainchild of Neil Ardley (also sadly gone now) and it was he who corralled up the genre's finest to make a compilation of Taylor's quirky and original creations, originally recorded with his quartet across only two albums before he effectively took off on a two-year extended acid trip that reduced him to a gibbering and unrecognisable vagrant. Taylor's experience matches that of rock's Syd Barrett, but for his early (and still unexplained) death. The rest of the line-up here speaks reams for the regard and affection Taylor was nonetheless held in: Norman Winstone, Barbara Thompson, Henry Lowther, Ray Warleigh, Peter Lemer, Tony Fisher and more, including Dave Gelly, today jazz critic on The Observer newspaper, who recounts the tragic story of Mike Taylor and the making of these memorial recordings in an expansive, well packaged release that is truly a lost-and-found essential of modern British jazz.

I totally concur.

Muhal Richard Abrams "Blu Blu Blu"

This is another of my favourite big band jazz albums -



Muhal Richard Abrans is a former member of the fluctuating line up of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

Blu Blu Blu is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams released on the Italian Black Saint label in 1991 and features performances of eight of Abrams' compositions by a big band. Abrams dedicated the title track on the album to Muddy Waters. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow called the album "One of pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams' strongest big-band dates... The music occasionally glances back at the past but mostly looks forward in its own unique way. Recommended".