Staying In Listening To Music

Ugh! We had sleety rain this morning so i think i will just stay at home today. I had a really good night's sleep anyway and now just finishing off my six reports for the train journeys i did yesterday.

I have been listeing to the music of Milford Graves, whom an article was written about in last month's Wire magazine.

This one arrived in the post yesterday.

Milford Graves - Grand Unification (Full Album)

1. Grand Unification - 5:12
2. Transcriptions - 5:21
3. Gathering - 10:29
4. Decisive Moments - 15:17
5. Memory - 5:24
6. Know Your Place - 5:25
7. Intuitive Transformations - 12:54
8. Transcendence - 3:48
Drums, Percussion, Music By – Milford Graves
Recorded at Avatar, NYC on October 11, 1997.

"Professor, herbalist, healer, Milford Graves is first and foremost one of the world's great geniuses of the drum. Rarely heard live, even more rarely found in the studio, a new recording by Milford Graves is a special event. Long overdue, this is the CD that free jazz fans and every drummer in the world has been waiting for: his music for solo drums. Intense, shooting off in all directions at once and yet always firmly rooted in the tradition, Tzadik is proud to release this important and historic solo recording by one of the world's legendary drum masters."
(John Zorn's Tzadik label catalogue)

Book 19 - Clive James "Sentenced For Life"

Clive James "Sentenced For Life" (Picador)





Your review .His delicate use of the English language is inspiring. Each one of these poems would take an entire volume if it was prose. If your poetry has to rhyme and be amusing then this isn't for you. If you want an insight into the state of human life, from a man who knows that we all fail one way or another, then this is for you. Poignant, engaging and truth to experience in every line . This moving collection is , in many respects, a painful emotional read , yet, at one and the same time , strangely comforting too . Lyrical with beautiful and memorable imagery , these are poems you will return to time and time over . A triumph