Unconsoled...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Souvenir XVI
Rheostatics – Introducing Happiness
John McLaughlin – The Heart of Things
Larry Coryell – Fallen Angel
Sonny Rollins – Sonny Rollns Vol 1
Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At
Herbie Hancock – The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions

To FOPP at lunchtime today but no CDs bought –instead, on instruction from Meg the Black Cat, a belated Mothers’ Day gift was purchased for Anne – “The Book of General Ignorance” – based around the same concept as the show “QI” i.e. "everything you thought you knew is wrong"...

I also purchased a book for myself – Kazuo Ishiguro’s apparent masterpiece “The Unconsoled” – whether I'll ever read it is another question...



The cover of my copy's much better than this but I couldn't find it online...

On arriving home I put this on the coffee table and fetched other recent unread purchases from the music room, Iain M Banks’ “The Algebraist”, “A Concise History of the World” by William Woodruff and two by Eric Hobsbawm, “Uncommon People” and “On History”...

My three CDs arrived from e-bay – the Sonny Rollins is a great Blue Note disc from 1956, Larry Coryell’s is a kind of tribute to the genius of his greatest influence, Wes Montgomery and John McLaughlin’s contains some rapid fire fusion jazz...

As tasty as predicted...

After some excellent home made lamb-burgers, with some of Anne’s signature chilli sauce, Sonny Rollins was switched off in his prime as Anne wanted to listen to the commentary of Barcelona v Celtic – I maintained she could just have watched with the sound down...

I retired upstairs and awaited the arrival of my musical cohort Mr James Jamieson, who duly appeared around 9 pm...

We ran through the set once and practised one of the songs a couple more times, then called it a night...

All set for tomorrow...

Late on, “Law & Order : Criminal Intent” entertained...

Highlight of the Day : Running through the set with Jamie