Last night I saw Martin Taylor and tonight I dragged Mike to a free gospel thing, with Big Al Carson (nickname thoroughly deserved). Martin Taylor was virtuosic, of course. Firefox is telling me virtuosic isn’t a word, but whatever. But he’s just so .. safe. He won’t suddenly do something outrageous [...]
I was going to write something about friends in Portsmouth and Gloucester and how my last week was awesome, but then I ran most of the way home from the pub and my chest decided to hate me. THEN I turned on Masada’s Live in Sevilla and was completely caught out by the utter [...]
Lovely little collection of jazz quotes at photomatt.net .. some of my favourites being:
Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
(.. implying that you need to get rhythm down to score well?)
Those songs to me don’t exist, you know? “So What” or Kind of Blue, I’m not going to play that shit, [...]
Saw the Esbjörn Svensson Trio on Sunday night at the Usher Hall, I hadn’t been quite so excited about a gig in a long time! After the brilliance of the show at the Barbican in 2005 I knew what to expect and I had that strange nervous chill that only gets you when you [...]