Wizzard – Wizzard’s Brew
Wizzard – Eddy and the Falcons
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Through the Day (Soundscapes)
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Ersatzreal 2
Handel – Chill With Handel
Moby – I Like to Score
Capital Models - Anthology
Spent the early part of the day finishing off my research into the Miles Davis 10CD Box I bought last week...
I identified each track’s source session in turn and then the album from which each comes, then printed off the details to keep with the box...
It really is an excellent find and, over its eight and a quarter hours of music, contains 92 tracks taken from the following Davis releases:-
Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis with Horns
Conception
Dig
Miles Davis Vol 1
Collector's Items
Miles Davis Vol 2
Blue Haze
Walkin'
Bag's Groove
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
Musings of Miles
Blue Moods
Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet
‘Round About Midnight
The New Miles Davis Quintet
Steamin'
Workin'
Relaxin'
Round About Midnight
Basic Miles
Cookin'
You can get it right now at FOPP for just eight quid...
For the first time in several weeks, we drove to Stockbridge for breakfast at Patisserie Florentine – no croissants for me though – I had the “Toast Breakfast” – two slices of brown toast with orange marmalade, strawberry jam, a small glass of orange juice and a cup of coffee - Anne is still allowed croissants of course, as she is svelte...
In the Oxfam shop, I was struggling to find anything but eventually plumped for Moby’s collection of music from films, “I Love to Score”, including one of my favourites of his “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters” and his take on Joy Division’s classic “New Dawn Fades”...
Then, along the main street, I bought a disc of Handel’s sublime music for just a couple of quid at the Shelter shop and we shelled out around the same for a lovely loaf of brown bread at Herbie’s deli for lunch later on...
Then home and I set up the studio to record a rehearsal for next month’s gig – spent ages trying to locate all the right leads...
As I put things together and burned the latest version of the backing track disc, Anne was watching Hibs draw with Dundee Utd before heading to Tynecastle to see Hearts defeat bottom of the table Gretna 2-0...
I spent the afternoon playing through the set till my fingers hurt (a good thing – getting my calluses back)...
Meanwhile Queen of the South beat St Johnstone 3-1 at home, their sixth win in a row. This was a real six pointer as QoS are 4th and Saints 3rd. No change in the positions following the game though but QoS are now just two points behind Saints...
In the evening it was out to meet up again with Nicky and Jim – the attempted grand reunion failed due to the short notice but the four of us drank and talked into the night at the Cask and Barrel bar in Broughton St. We’d taken the car as we were running late and, since I’ve got a bit of driving around to do tomorrow, this wasn’t a problem – I spent the night on fresh orange with the occasional Red Bull – that didn’t stop me from spilling Anne’s first drink over everyone though...
Around 11:30, we were joined by Jamie and the tales of life growing up in South Queensferry were highly entertaining, including the one about a particular young man who, at the age of 15, used to spend his weekends, “getting it on” with his biology teacher – sobering to think she’s probably pushing 60 now...
One of the best tales of the night was Jim's regarding one of Nicky's dad's old friends in Bolton who, when Jim visited them a few years ago, insisted unequivocably that Elvis Presley was shortly to play at Bolton's football stadium...
It was only later that they realised she was talking about Elton John...
I discovered that in 1977/8, independently, Jamie and Nicky’s band in SQF and my own in Midlothian, were covering songs by Devo...
At 12:45 we left the trio of ex-Capital Models to it as the last orders bell rang...
Nicky, Jamie, Jim
It was great to see Nicky again and I gave him a copy of the Models Anthology while he presented me with two of his own discs - he's off shortly to Barcelona where some pieces he's written are being performed by a classical guitarist at a Music festival - he is undoubtedly the most musically successful ex-member of the group...
A good day...
Highlight of the Day : Chewing the fat with old chums
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