Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Not over the hill...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Blend
Locke – The Broken Consort
Uriah Heep – Wake the Sleeper
Andrew Hill – Andrew!!!
Andrew Hill - Pax
Andrew Hill - Several other albums on shuffleplay

The two CDs I purchased on e-bay on Saturday arrived today and brightened up my evening...

“Andrew!!!” and “Pax” by Andrew Hill, the latter recorded on my big sister’s 9th birthday (he also recorded a session on her 11th birthday)...

"How interesting, Dave" I hear you say...

Top tuneless jazz from Mr Hill – the type James Jamieson hates (and Anne’s not too keen on either)...

Here he is at the piano in the late 60’s - Andrew Hill, not James Jamieson...



There is an excellent appreciation of his music over at The Bad Plus’ blog...

Meanwhile, a lovely lasagne was created by said tuneless-jazz-unliking Exec Producer...

In the evening, played a couple of songs and spent some time organising music on the hard drives and jukeboxes...

As of tonight, there are some 24,013 tracks on the jukeboxes, from a total of 2,214 albums, representing over 11 weeks of non-stop music, that’s 78 days (24 hours a day), or 1,875 hours, or 112,494 minutes - which occupies 93.42% of the 120GB capacity available...

Of this music, 49.84% might be deemed rock or pop, 26.04% classical or jazz and 24.13% comprises compilations (containing rock, pop, classical or jazz)...

There you go...

Highlight of the Day : New Andrew Hill...

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