Jazzy D's Soul Notes

... is a kind of genius putting so many strange compilations and getting artists from all genres to cover music by Nina Rota, Charles Mingus, Kurt Weill, and this one on vintage Disney movies.
Oh yes, thespian15



Disney going avant-garde lol!!

It has been another sunny day and a bit warmer than Sunday.

I deferred my visit to Ramsgate for tomorrow now, as I had to pick up a CD tower that I purchased on Sunday for a fiver. I have been filling it up today. Shoe boxes are not ideal for CD storage on the whole.



did a couple of hours sunbathing as well.

Well, after the sodden wet day just gone, today was back to sunny weather and blue skies. It made me feel much more ebullient and bouncy. Sunshine makes me feel good. Full stop.

Anyway, on my travels, I picked up some CD bargains from a few Charity Shops. Roughly working out at 25 pence to 30 pence each as some shops were offering a bundled price such as four for a quid.

So today I found -

Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (Domino)
Joni Mitchell - Blue (Reprise)
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (679 Recordings)
Tchaikovsky Symphonies 1- 3: BPO / Karajan (DG)
Shostakovitch - Symphony No. 5: RPO / Ashkenazy (Decca)
Tchaikovsky / Prokofiev Piano Concertos: Richter (Supraphon)
Sibelius - Symphony No.2: Boston S.O./Davis (Phillips)


So, good listening for the weekend.


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These are recent finds and purchases -

First off CDs -

Yep,classic soundtrack music and an opera from the ragtime composer.




The Penguin Guide To Opera says that "Performance and recording are first class" and both are Wire mag recommendaions.


Now for the books from various charity shops in town -

Back from my excursion to Westwood Cross and Canterbury and just finished a very large mug of tea!

Whilst in the cathedral city I picked up three brand new Blue Note jazz CDs from HMV for £3 each  and all are reissues. Playing one now -

Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrents.




The other two are -
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

Well, I have reports to do soon so ta-ta for now.

Dinner this evening will be cod and chips.

Oh and Brain of Britain is back on Radio 4 and  so far i have done quite well with the quiz.

Finally back home,
Brolly was useless in the extreme gusty gale and soaking rain.
It finally became defunct...
So now I am listening to my one CD find of the day from MVE, Notting Hill.




Wonderful modern minimalist style modern classical music. Reviewed in Wire in 1991.

Michael Torke - Adjustable Wrench



I found these from the charity shop visit -




The middle book is a poetry collection about bees.


When I finished the bar visit at the IOE Bar I found in the foyer area of the institute a box with some books in them with a notice saying " These are free. Please take" and there was just three left of which two did not seem interesting enough except for the one I took.




Arrived back in Faversham and just missed my last bus home so I popped into Spoons and then the weather got rather nastier. It started really nice and sunny during the day in London.

On the whole a good day except for the torrential downpour in the evening.

I have some other pics to post as well.

So, this is the haul for two quid -




Nat King Cole - Nat King Cole Sings / George Shearing Plays (Capitol)
Jo Stafford - Collectors Series (Capitol)
Mel Torme - California Suite / The Velvet Fog (Jasmine)
Peggy Lee - Basin Street Presents Miss Peggy Lee  (Capitol)
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Best Of (Verve)
Peggy Lee - Latin A La Lee / Ole ala Lee (Capitol)
George Shearing - Grand Piano (Concord Jazz)
George Shearing Quintet and Orchestra - White Satin / Black Satin (Capitol)


So generally the lighter side of jazz veering towards the pop and easy listening of the period. But what bargains on the proper labels and not cheap shit companies like Limelight.

Well, everything has been done now. I received twenty quid for the CD's at Rays Jazz Shop and popped over to Flashback and MVE to sell or exchange some other CD's I had.

These are the ones that I got today in exchanges -

Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool(Capitol Jazz)
Andrew Hill- Point of Departure (Blue Note)
Mike Westbrook - Live 1972 (Hux Records)
Dr.John - The Very Best Of (Rhino)
Ali Farka Toure - Radio Mali (World Circuit)
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Shuffering and Shmiling/No Agreement (Barclay)
Jenny Hval- Viscera (Rune Grammofon)
Goldie - Saturnz Return (FFRR Records)
Antony And The Johnsons - Debut (Secretly Canadian)

Also, this paperback for a quid.





Nothing mainstream really!

These will be listened to over the weekend.

When I started listening to music and buying albums it was back in the seventies when it was just vinyl or cassettes and that was it -forget the eight-track cartridge - they were unreliable on the whole and awkward.

Since 1986 CD became the standard - but I resisted for a few years as vinyl was still relatively cheap and plentiful, and CD's initially expensive. Then once I discovered the generally superior sound of the CD, its compact size, and the fact that a whole two sides of an album can fit on it plus more, vinyl was on the way out.

Now in 2019 vinyl is back with a bang and shops are open devoted to just that format, whilst shops like HMV have a large section devoted to vinyl, and whilst it has been growing for a good few years, and I am happy to see vinyl back,what stops me most going back to it,is this -

They are just too expensive when compared to the CD version. £20 to £30 for vinyl is just way too much for me when I can get five CD's for same said price. I do like the idea of vinyl, as it is fun to own, and looks cool. However, compared to a CD it is so much more fragile.  Vinyl will wear out. I do have some vinyl, all found secondhand for reasonable prices, for example, the Michael Jackson Thriller LP I found for only five quid! Also, I would not play vinyl on any cheap deck such as those foisted for around fifty bucks, and thus for now and  the foreseeable future I am staying with the practical and superior CD.

The only reason for buying new vinyl would be for a new recording reviewed in Wire that is only available on vinyl.

For other views follow the links -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOfkM0f5Zc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVVTJejmpw

It was a very productive day. I popped over to Canterbury and completed four visits, which included a free lunch in a supermarket cafe, free groceries from another supermarket and from a charity shop,( when the research companies pay me back that is), free CDs and info gathering on lighting from a furniture shop.

For lunch, I had the all-day breakfast brunch as it is very filling and delicious. From the other supermarket, I found some hazelnut flavoured instant coffee which is divine.

Amazing jazz finds in the charity shop - all of them in lovely digipak formats. The lot, just £5!

Charles Mingus - Pre-Bird (Verve)
Roland Kirk - Domino (verve)
Clifford Brown - With Strings (Verve)
Lambert Hendricks And Ross - Sing A Song Of Basie (Verve)



Lots of cool listening there.

Right, better finish these reports.