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Quick Quiz Answer
Dec. 23rd, 2019 09:03 amSorry it is a day late
The answer is revealed - it is
40
The answer is revealed - it is
40
Dec. 23rd, 2019
Morning Jazz
Dec. 23rd, 2019 10:17 amThelonious Monk Quartet - Ruby, My Dear
Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor sax), Thelonious Monk (piano), Wilbur Ware (bass), Shadow Wilson (drums)
from the album 'THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE' (Jazzland Records)
Miles Davis - Oleo (Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris)
Associated Performer: Miles Davis & John Coltrane
Composer: Sonny Rollins
Piano: Wynton Kelly
Bass: Paul Chambers
Drums: Jimmy Cobb
Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor sax), Thelonious Monk (piano), Wilbur Ware (bass), Shadow Wilson (drums)
from the album 'THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE' (Jazzland Records)
Miles Davis - Oleo (Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris)
Associated Performer: Miles Davis & John Coltrane
Composer: Sonny Rollins
Piano: Wynton Kelly
Bass: Paul Chambers
Drums: Jimmy Cobb
Monday Musings
Dec. 23rd, 2019 07:17 pmAnother quiet relaxing day.
Spent the morning reading and then popped into town midday.
Had two beers and steak and kidney pudding for lunch with peas and mashed tatties.
Very filling and satisfying comfort food.
I had a Xmas card form Gareth and I was gobsmacked and flabbergasted to learn that finally, he is on the net. This is awesome The man has gone from the 19th century into the 21st!
We were at the same school way back in the late sixties and early seventies!
Think I will skip London visit till the New Year. Rays Jazz Shop are not doing any exchanges till then anyway.
Roll on Xmas Dat.
Spent the morning reading and then popped into town midday.
Had two beers and steak and kidney pudding for lunch with peas and mashed tatties.
Very filling and satisfying comfort food.
I had a Xmas card form Gareth and I was gobsmacked and flabbergasted to learn that finally, he is on the net. This is awesome The man has gone from the 19th century into the 21st!
We were at the same school way back in the late sixties and early seventies!
Think I will skip London visit till the New Year. Rays Jazz Shop are not doing any exchanges till then anyway.
Roll on Xmas Dat.
Book 102 - W. Somerset Maugham "Ashenden"
Dec. 23rd, 2019 09:51 pmW. Somerset Maugham "Ashenden" (Vintage)
In 1914, W. Somerset Maugham was recruited by the British Secret Service to stay in Switzerland, posing to work on a play, and in this disguise execute his work as a liaison and spy. The stories in Ashenden are based on Somerset Maugham's own experience as an agent. The main character, modelled on the author, is an aristocratic, suave gentleman, ruthless enough to face blackmail, interrogation and murder, in the service of the Motherland.
Somerset Maugham cleverly borrowed Conan-Doyle's formula of a collection of loosely connected stories that each form an episode around the main character on an ongoing mission, similar to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
John Ashenden might as well be the model for James Bond, perhaps a bit more aristocratic. Another similarity is that, like in the James Bond novels, the chief of the secret service is never named other than merely by the use of an initial, thus Colonel R.
Ashenden, or, The British agent breathes the atmosphere of Conrad's Under Western eyes, in which foreign operatives, with long, foreign-sounding names meet in obscure hostels, plotting and conspiring to do mischief. The stories are not as exciting as later spy novels in the genre, but Maugham does bring an intriguing cast of characters together, Russian, Mexican and Indian, with characters such the hairless Mexican, The dark woman, or Giulia Lazzari.
Ashenden, or, The British agent was written and published in 1928, but based on Somerset Maugham experience during the Great War. It is a book that offers a different perspective on the First World War.
In 1914, W. Somerset Maugham was recruited by the British Secret Service to stay in Switzerland, posing to work on a play, and in this disguise execute his work as a liaison and spy. The stories in Ashenden are based on Somerset Maugham's own experience as an agent. The main character, modelled on the author, is an aristocratic, suave gentleman, ruthless enough to face blackmail, interrogation and murder, in the service of the Motherland.
Somerset Maugham cleverly borrowed Conan-Doyle's formula of a collection of loosely connected stories that each form an episode around the main character on an ongoing mission, similar to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
John Ashenden might as well be the model for James Bond, perhaps a bit more aristocratic. Another similarity is that, like in the James Bond novels, the chief of the secret service is never named other than merely by the use of an initial, thus Colonel R.
Ashenden, or, The British agent breathes the atmosphere of Conrad's Under Western eyes, in which foreign operatives, with long, foreign-sounding names meet in obscure hostels, plotting and conspiring to do mischief. The stories are not as exciting as later spy novels in the genre, but Maugham does bring an intriguing cast of characters together, Russian, Mexican and Indian, with characters such the hairless Mexican, The dark woman, or Giulia Lazzari.
Ashenden, or, The British agent was written and published in 1928, but based on Somerset Maugham experience during the Great War. It is a book that offers a different perspective on the First World War.
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