Thursday, March 22, 2007

The creator has a master plan...

Playlist
Tracks from 100 “Good” Albums:-
Rheostatics – 2067
Eels – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Uriah Heep – Demons and Wizards
Genesis – Foxtrot
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Love’s a Prima Donna
Die Fehlfarben – Monarchie und Alltag
King Crimson – Starless and Bible Black
Radiohead – OK Computer
The Cure – Pornography
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
Cockney Rebel – The Human Menagerie
King Crimson – Thrak
Genesis – Wind and Wuthering
The Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sparks – Hello Young Lovers
Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets
Die Fehlfarben – Die Platte des himmlischen Friedens
Plus
Sonny Rollins – The Freelance Years (5CD Set)

Called James Jamieson today to see if he’d be up for the 250th OOTB tonight but he advised he was going to Tynecastle for a night out with his football club – so I was going to head along on my own but, when push came to shove, I stayed in...

Instead I bid for some jazz CDs on e-bay (having sought out and rejected the Sun Ra disc today at HMV)...

I was successful on these four...



I found out later, whilst perusing the reviews on Amazon, that at least one of them has been deemed a real klunker...

Can you guess which one:-
Paul Chambers - Whim of Chambers
Lee Morgan - Candy
Grant Green - Am I Blue
Hank Mobley - Flip

I’ll still approach them all with an open mind though...

Then, inspired by a review of an album on All About Jazz, I enjoyed listening to some Sonny Rollins music recorded between 1956 and 1958 when, apparently, he was at his creative peak - man, cool jazz...

These days, not working on my music and not performing, I feel like I’m just frittering my time away – and time is a precious commodity....

But, am I really wasting my time if I’m listening to music which is so much better than anything I could ever hope to create?

Highlight of the day : Successful bidding on e-bay

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