Shelved...

Playlist
Various – The Milano Jukeboxes 2005-2007
Miles Davis – Circle in the Round
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Introducing
Pat Metheny – The Way Up
Sonny Clark – Sonny’s Crib
Eric Dolphy – Out There
Lee Morgan – The Cooker
Jackie McLean – Demon’s Dance
Grant Green – Am I Blue
Hank Mobley – The Flip
The Bad Plus – Prog
Chris Lyons – The Ill Tempered Klavier
John Surman – How Many Clouds Can You See
Steve Reid Ensemble – Spirit Walk
Return to Forever – Where Have I known You Before
Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Happy Apple – Back on Top
Various – Smokin’ Blue
Joni Mitchell - Travelogue
John Coltrane – Soul Train
John Gorka – The Company You Keep
Horace Silver – The Stylings of Silver
Lucy Kaplansky – Over the Hills
Brad Mehldau – Live in Tokyo
Craig Armstrong – World Trade Center
Various – Relaxin’ Blue
Annie Lennox - Medusa
Various – Evenin’ Blue
The Story – The Angel in the House
Average White Band – Very Best of
Jonatha Brook – 10c Wings
Dexter Gordon – One Flight Up
Jewel – Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
Art Blakey – One Night at Birdland
Suzanne Vega – Beauty and Crime
Various – Feelin’ Blue

Didn’t feel like a Sunday today – I guess because it’s nearly Xmas...

Up early after yesterday’s big sleep and set to compiling this year’s best of CD for Anne – a tradition which goes back to 1999. I choose a CD’s worth of music from the CDs I’ve bought during the year which I remembered she’d said she quite liked, and burn it for her – generally she listens to half of it on Xmas day and then it’s filed away...

Anne prefers telly or radio to CDs...

Listened back to 2006 and 2005 after finalising 2007...

Around mid-day we headed round to Jane and Bobby’s where preparations for Xmas Day are not in full swing as suspected – as wee Kitty has a sick bug...

We dropped off a couple of bottles of Champagne and then headed on to Anne’s brother Keith’s – we had the drill and tool box in tow as Keith’s partner’s daughter, Rebecca, needed a shelf to be put up over her bed – and I was just the man to do it...

Here’re the before...



...and after...



...pics...

Just after 2, a delicious late lunch beckoned at Vittorio’s on Leith Walk – while my tagliatelle was mouth-meltingly tasty, I made a mental note on Anne’s recommendation, to try the cannelloni next time, should there be one...

Back home we caught up on some video’d TV – a couple of very funny episodes of Jack Dee’s “Lead Balloon”...

And a wee black and white cat came to visit – but not the notorious Black and White Cat with the Bell – unless it’s lost its bell....



In the evening I had the idea of proving to Jane, Bobby, Keith and Maureen that, although they think I’m mad for buying so many CDs and spending so much time listening to music, I actually have similar tastes to each of them....

To do this, I compiled a disc for each of them containing tracks from my CD haul of 2007 – Keith’s is mostly hard-core jazz, Maureen’s is a cross of easier on the ear jazz plus some singer-songwriter stuff, Bobby’s is a mixture of alt.country , punk and oldies while Jane’s is almost completely mainstream but with a couple of things thrown in she’ll never have heard of before...

Finished Keith and Maureen’s (see playlist) tonight before “Match of the Day 2” and then bed...

Highlight of the Day : Lunch with Anne at Vittorio’s