Post Midnight Musical Selection

For the night people -


Philip Glass - Knee Play 5 (Einstein on the Beach)

Arvo Pärt - De Profundis

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ
Tonu Kaljuste, percussion
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint II. Slow

Leos Janácek - Glagolitic Mass (Introduction)

ENJOY

Good Morning

Right ..

Monday Musings

First thought.
YAY .. all that snow and ice has gone.
We are in a week of much milder weather. Around 12C by my app.
I took my first Ziffit package to the collection point today. From the same place, I picked up my physical copy of Wire.

Posted off three more sale items.
Had a beef chill and rice dish.
I washed it down with French Malbec wine.
Looks like that wine will finish soon so expect an afternoon siesta.

If Aliens Received Our Scrambled Up TV Signals It Might Look Like This.

Just Wondering

Did your parents play with you as a kid?

What made you feel accomplished this weekend?

If you had to write a biography of yourself in one sentence, what would it be?

Book 13 - Ashley Kahn "Kind Of Blue: Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece"

Ashley Kahn "Kind Of Blue: Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece" (Granta Books)





Kind of Blue is probably one of the most important and influential jazz records ever made. Recorded in two sessions, in March and April 1959, by one of the most outstanding jazz combos of all times (Coltrane, Cannonball, Bill Evans, Chambers, and Cobb, under Miles leadership) it was recognized as a masterpiece shortly after its release. A hauntingly beautiful, mesmerizing, trance-inducing performance whose successive listening are always rewarding, those forty-five minutes of exquisite beauty have now a fitting literary companion in this book. With two first chapters on the early career of Miles, and two last ones on the selling of Kind of Blue, the central part of this work are the two chapters with the detailed account of the two recordings sessions, based on a number of interviews with some of those present, and on the addition of the complete master tapes, including the studio chatter, some of which is reproduced. A beautiful, well-conceived book that, however, should only be read in tandem with the music.