BillF

I really like that one, Peter. A 12 bar blues on altered changes, with a key change at the beginning of every chorus - or so it sounds to my amateur ear.

Eddie Locke Dennis Stock John Barrell

Cock Robin Emily Wick The Blue Flames

Mrs Ramsay Virginia Woolf Alfred Lion

Daddy O Daly Everton Weekes

Douglas Fir Mick Pyne Al Cohn

Clark Kent David Essex Bucks Fizz

Billy Kyle Kyle Eastwood D H Lawrence

M.A.S.H Potato Valdes Lyle "Spud" Murphy

Gift Horse Dippermouth Tito Gobbi

Willem Dafoe Enemy of the People Emmanuel Goldstein

Wallace Beery Brew Moore George G Ale

Beautiful spring day: 50F, sunny.

When Kinda Blue reached best-selling-jazz-album-ever status, I just couldn't believe it. On release it seemed like just the next album from Miles, not essentially different in likely popularity from Milestones or Miles Ahead. The technical innovations of Kinda Blue passed clean over my head at the age of 19. It just sounded sophisticated, cool and hip. Milestones had been more of a shock with Coltrane doing sheets of sound and Cannonball taking on something of this, too. To a youngster bred on Bird, this was a lot to take!

Joe Farrell Tom Harrell Wesley Barrell

But there's a very good Vancouver jazz scene. Even at this distance I know about Cory Weeds and club dates like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsBApFh2f9E

Kay Starr El Cid Siddhartha

Phil Dwyer and Don Thompson playing "What's New". Mind you, it's only Monday morning ...

Gemma Arterton Jimmy Jewell James Joule

Not exactly "live music", but today I went to a saxophone masterclass by Dave O'Higgins on the subject of using the pentatonic scale. Referring to the clip below, his subtitle was "From J Lo to Giant Steps". Fascinating! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH9l8KlcuBA

Sandra Blow Thumper Bumps Meyers

Playing the spoons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtOl3HGjU3k

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/01/without-music-would-jews-be-jewish