Quartet for the end of time...

Playlist
Haftor Medboe Group – In Perpetuity
Vivaldi – L’estro armonica
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Soft Machine – Third
Deodato – Prelude
Thelonious Monk – Straight No Chaser
Grant Green – Am I Blue
Messaien – Quartet for the End of Time
Heinichen – Dresden Concerti
Art Blakey – Moanin’
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Through the Day (Soundscapes 2005)
Various – Two Minute Tracks
Adams – Earbox
Earthworks Underground Orchestra - Live
John Coltrane – Giant Steps
Haydn – Symphony No 92
R Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra
Shostakovich – The Gadfly
Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No 1
Happy Apple – Body Popping Moon Walking Top Rocking
Barber – Adagio for Strings
Cloudland Blue Quartet – A Small Selection of Songs

A great big “Happy Birthday” to Count Brodski today and to my esteemed colleague Margarita...

Spent the early part of the morning uploading a 10 CD Box of works by composer John Adams, along with my two Thomas Ades discs and a box disc set of 20th Century composers to the Classical & Jazz Jukebox...

After a porridge breakfast and continuing the modern classical project, we went to Silverknowes and took a walk along the promenade to Cramond...



It's below the main flight path into Edinburgh Airport...



Everyone was out walking their dogs...



There are some lovely trees there...



The man in the coat on the left of the pic below is the actor Tom Conti...



By chance, we met Anne's old schoolfriend, Pauline and her husband Derek and sat for a while chatting - Derek and I comparing notes on long term leg injuries...

On the way home, I bought a pump for my bike to keep the tyres inflated...

Watched a bit of Celtic against my home town team St Mirren. The latter were robbed by a penalty that never was, which also resulted in a sending off...

First Old Firm cheat of the new season...

Watched some of the Queens game from yesterday on Youtube – better than expected, a clear cut penalty not awarded and many chances created (though, it must be said, not taken) so I am buoyed for Thursday’s European tie...

Played through eight songs and, for the first time in ages, I actually sounded not too bad...

Nothing planned performance-wise though, just keeping my hand in as they say...

To Anne’s mum’s for tea and stories of an Italian trip from brother-in-law Keith, his wife Maureen and Maureen’s daughter, Rebecca...

Back home, eschewed the telly again for the internet, tracking possible 4GB MP3 players for “holiday use”...

Highlight of the Day : Partially restored confidence...