Late Night Bach

Time for some Bach i think -


Glenn Gould -J.S. Bach-The Well Tempered Klavier (HD)

Glenn Gould - Bach - Contrapunctus XIV

Flare Up

Harry Beckett: Flare Up (Philips 1970)

Stare into Harry’s eyes on the cover shot and you get the sense he wants to do the nasty with your frontal lobes. Harry, you see is hardcore. This is a hard hitting LP with a very British flavour.

Folkshienne


For your pleasure the whole album -

Track list
A1 Flare-Up 0:00
A2 Go West 4:01
A3 Where Fortune Smiles 10:36
A4 Scarlet Mine 14:13
A5 Third Road 18:07
B1 Flow Stream Flow 23:37
B2 The Other Side 27:21
B3 Rolly's Tune 31:23
B4 Fools Play 37:42

Alto Saxophone – Mike Osborne
Arranged By – Graham Collier (tracks: A2, A5, B2, B3), Harry Beckett (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B4), John Surman (tracks: A3)
Baritone Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – John Surman
Bass – Chris Laurence
Drums – John Webb
Engineer – David Voyde
Piano – John Taylor
Producer – Terry Brown
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Alan Skidmore
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Harry Beckett
Vibraphone, Congas [Conga Drum] – Frank Ricotti
Written-By – Collier (tracks: A2, A5, B2, B3), Beckett (tracks: A1, A4, B1, B4), Surman (tracks: A3)

Lunch Club Day

Today Phi land i travelled down to Brighton for our monthly lunch club visit.We first met up with the lads at the Post and Telegraph pub for beers.




Graeme, Phi land Mike .

Notice which is is not the tech savvy one?

We had this beer,and the lads kept calling it Red Bollocks. It tasted very good.




After a couple of beers we then walked down North Street to Bella Italia for lunch.



Phil,Graeme,Mike on the left,Lesley and her son , Chris ,on the right. This is the first time he has been to one of our lunches. He is a student at The University of Kent in Canterbury studying social anthropology.He lives on campus at the moment but will be moving into student digs at some point. I suggested he check out the Spoons pub in the city and in particular The Westgate Inn.

We started with the small ciabattas dipped in garlic. Mike had his usual pizza and this time i tired a beef and red wine ravioli. It was delicious.

A thoroughly enjoyable day as well.

Graham Collier Sextet

When Phil dropped me back home i rested for awhile listening to some Tubby Hayes jazz music. I just want to explore some of the great jazz that came out of this country back in the late sixties,sixties and early seventies.

Mike is getting me a lovely three CD set of Graham Collier's music for my birthday. I gave him a couple of books.



Graham Collier's Sextet made some extraordinary jazz albums between 1968 - 1972.

Collier's compositions on the LP "Songs For My Father" range from the modal to free in a comprehensive and capable outing of British Jazz. The track 'Song One' Is a 9 min + mid tempo assault.

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Just Wondering

Describe one moment from your youth that is impenetrably seared into your memory.

Do you have a specific place that you go to get work done? If so, where is it? What is it about that place that helps you focus on the task at hand?