Music For The Night People

Some jazz from the sixties -

Graham Collier Sextet ‎– Down Another Road (1969)

A1 Down Another Road 0:00
A2 Danish Blue 5:17
B1 The Barley Mow 22:57
B2 Aberdeen Angus 28:32
B3 Lullaby For A Lonely Child 34:40
B4 Molewrench 40:22


Credits:

Bass – Graham Collier
Composed By – Graham Collier (tracks: A1 to B2, B4), Karl Jenkins (tracks: B3)
Drums – John Marshall
Engineer – David Voyde
Flugelhorn – Harry Beckett
Piano, Oboe – Karl Jenkins
Producer – Terry Brown
Saxophone [Alto, Tenor] – Stan Sulzmann
Trombone – Nick Evans

Good Night

More Jazz

Yep, awoke early as I needed to pee so here is some jazz -

Graham Collier Music - Mosaics Part 1

Ian Carr Wıth Nucleus - Belladonna

Henry Lowther Band - Puppet Song

Michael Garrick Septet - Ursula

British Jazz from the album Black Marigolds (1966) released on Argo. The LP combines poetry by John Smith with the musical abilities of Michael Garrick (piano, harpsichord, celeste), Ian Carr (trumpet, flügelhorn), Joe Harriott (alto sax), Don Rendell (tenor and soprano sax), Tony Coe (tenor sax), Dave Green (bass), Trevor Tomkins (drums), Colin Barnes (drums, poetry).

The Don Rendell & Ian Carr Quintet - Cold Mountain

Don Rendell Tenor & Soprano Saxophone
Ian Carr Trumpet
Dave Green Bass
Micheal Garrick Piano
Trevor Tompkins Drums


Enjoy.

Book 101 - Philip Pullman "Northern Lights"

Philip Pullman "Northern Lights" (Scholastic)




I started reading this book a good while back after seeing the film version, The Golden Compass, and well before the recent BBC TV series. Since I have been watching the TV series I was intrigued to see how well the TV adaptation follows the book. There are some minor differences such as introducing Will much earlier on in the television version, but not enough to distract from the book.


This story takes place in a world parallel to our own. Lyra's amazing spirit makes her the heroine to save children from being experimented on. The young adventurist travels across insurmountable odds with her daemon,(the manifestation of souls in animal form) and defeats evil forces at every turn. This mythic journey has mystic guides and animals who are able to communicate with humans.

I’m intrigued, but I’ll need to withhold comment on the larger meaning until I’ve read the whole thing= the second and third in the series. Lyra must fight some great battle without knowing she’s doing it, with the help of her alethiometer, a device that looks a bit like a golden compass. My understanding is that the later books will become quite vociferously anti-organized religion, but this book certainly shows it in a bad light which endorses my opinion about organised religion. The Church , the Magisterium, stifles valid research that challenges its teaching, while at the same time permitting the atrocities of severing children
's daemons. It’s definitely a sophisticated story that whilst aimed at children or teenagers can be read quite easily by adults. I was quite surprised to see one character say "The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon" which children may not understand unless they have heard of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle fro quantum mechanics! A very good read and I look forward to devouring the next book, The Subtle Knife.

Good Morning

Tuesday Thoughts

O'er, have I not posted since morning? I suppose I been busy doing something else. We had our common room buffet today. And sorry, no food porn pics, as it upsets fairy69 but what I can say is that the Thai dishes and spring rolls that Anna cooked (upstairs at 26) were absolutely delicious. Some had pigs in blankets but that is a bit passe now. We had some bubbly in the form of Bucks Fizz as well.

The morning was drenched with rain so I did not bother going out but after the buffet, I did pop into town and post of some items. I also met Ewart in The Bear pub and had a chat with him.

This evening I wrapped up the pressies for Mike and Ros and posting them tomorrow, first thing before anything else as the post office is getting busy now.

I also watched the remake of John Carpenter's The Thing movie.

Tomorrow I am heading over to Bluewater and Gravesend and might have four visits in the end.