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Ride Out Of The Sunset
I’m dirty, mean and mighty unclean I’m a wanted man Public enemy number one Understand So lock up your daughter Lock up your wife Lock up your back door And run for your life The man is back in town So...
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Nine Sinatras In A Sack
Here’s my favourite Mingus LP and so, by definition, near enough my favourite jazz LP, Blues & Roots. Prior to Mingus cutting this album in 1959 some crazy fools sniped that he didn’t swing enough...
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No Sweeter Song
‘Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold’ as the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band put it. Luckily for the multiverse Sonny Rollins Way Out West falls decidedly into the delicious category, there are times when I...
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Call Me Ishmael
Well, wouldn’t you just know it, here I was playing my very favourite bit of jazz at the moment and it occurred to me that my favourite track on this LP by my favourite jazz pianist doesn’t feature...
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Bhasobha (Be Careful)
Last Tuesday I was worried, angry, fed up and just really weary, for all the obvious reasons*. I got in late, had a good rant to my family, had another good rant on the phone to my parents and then...
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Ting!
I have recently been blasting The Great Count Basie Orchestra The Atomic Period at full volume. It’s a combination of circumstances, a desperate need for some happy music*, overexposure to Fallout 4...
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No Frills Hard Bop
‘No frills hard bop‘ was my friend Richard’s verdict on Lee Morgan when I mentioned that I was really getting into his work. I should explain, this was meant purely as a compliment and Richard is,...
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Ruth’s Heels
If I ever want a touch of that elusive NYC late 50’s cool in my life, you know the whole Mad Men cocktails, broads, skeins of cigarette smoke snaking through a spotlight in a jazz club thang, I slip...
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Interjection Used To Stir Up Excitement
1961 was a bit of quiet year for John Coltrane, he only released 5 LPs. This one, Olé Coltrane, was recorded 48 hours after the recording sessions for Africa/Brass were completed*. It is probable that...
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Nina Inch Nails
Uncompromising, driven by inner turmoil, external rage, mental health issues, activism, a virtuosic ability to blend mend and bend genres and musical forms and a need to simply and uncompromisingly...
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