Northern Lights 24/9/14 - Jazzy D's Jazzy Mix

I arrived at the Northern Lights at 8 pm , so a bit later than i would have normally liked. Eamon, the events manager at the brasserie, had forgotten that i was doing the gig and i had to wait for a couple of ladies to finish their Swedish meatballs before i could hump my equipment on to the table. So in the end, i didn't start till just after 8.30 pm, By then i had already downed one Tuborg lager. I think i had about six of them in the end , all free!

It turned out to be a busy night and i finished dead on midnight. So here is the playlist.

Nancy Wilson - Moon River
Johnny Guitar Watson - It's Too Late
Jean Carn - Don't Let It Go To Your Head
The Futures - Ain't No Time For Nothin'
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
Black Eyed Peas - Sexy
Bah Samba - Soul King
Brand New Heavies - You Are The Universe
Cybil Shepherd - Triste
Wilton Felder - Bullitt
Marlena Shaw - Last Tango In Paris
Herbie Hancock- Blow Up
Dianne Reeves and Grant Green - Down Here On The Ground
Gene Harris - As
Curtis Mayfield - Keep On Keeping On
Dee Dee Bridgewater - People Make The World Go Round
Creative Source - Who Is He And What is He To You?
Free Design - An Elegy
Donovan - Season Of The Witch
Clifford Jordan Quintet - John Coltrane
Ian Thomas - Painted ladies
Grady Tate - Moondance
Haki R. Madhubuti and Nation - Children
Art Ensemble of Chichgo - Theme De Yo Yo
Sun Ra - Space Is The Place
Ramsey Lewis - Jade East
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Jon Lucien - Mi Vida
Pharoah Sanders - You Got To Have Freedom
Nina Simone - Do What You Gotta Do
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Cavril Payne - When I Open My Eyes
Gil Scott Heron -The Bottle
Blind Willie McTell - I keep On Drinking
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Bjork - Play Dead
Staple Singers - Respect Yourself
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Peggy Lee - Don't Smoke In Bed

And that was that. A jolly good evening and caught the last bus back to Seaford (the 12:18) and slept like a log.

Bellota and The Lunch Club

Today was our monthly lunch club event at our usual venue, Bellota in Brighton. Tasty Spanish tapas washed down with beer, wine, a coffee, and cognac. As usual hop along Lesley was the last to arrive. We all virtually went for the tasty pescado dish, and i had a spanish cold sausgae dish and albigondas (Spansh meatballs). GC could not eat all her tortilla  so i had half of that as well. Another fun outing on a lovely sunny Day.



This was the moment of atisfaction after the meal. GC had left to do a mystery shop by this time , around 3 pm. We started etaing about 1.20 pm. Left to right, Mike, Graeme, Phil and Lesley.

Afterwards, i walked down the North Lianes , stopped at the JUbilee library for awhile, and then go up to the station car park where \gc had parked her car. I was too stuffed to do any drinking anyway, and as i shall be on the station concourse tomorrow i shall visit the Evening Star pub after my survey.

I did take a pic of this old geezer outside the Acroos The Tracks record shop.



Back to kent on the Saturday.

Spiritual Jazz

Here is one of those discovries lurking on my external hard drive, a jazzy tune with children's voices, and a bit of scat singing and in that spritual jazz groove, by Haki R Madhubuti and Nation and the track Children, all ten  minutes of it. Played it last night. Went down a storm.

I also played this spiritual jazz groove by Pharoah Sanders, You've Got To Have Freedom.

Enjoy.

Final Thought Of The Day

I was going to post some after midnight music as i have not done that for ages,but due to feeling proper tired now, i shall postpone it to another day.

Forgot to mention that on the way from Kent yesterday i stopped in Maidstone to do a chazzer visi., Bought a Michael Palin book, "Full Circle" , a DVD of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" and a CD by Swedish band, The Cardigans.

Another full day awaits tomorrow. Good night.