Crispycat Recordings: Slave to the rhythm

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Slave to the rhythm

Playlist
Various - Recent Blue Note Purchases
Lee Morgan - Indeed!
Walter Davis Jr - Davis Cup
Paul Chambers - Quintet
Lee Morgan - The Final Session

Up at 6 - that's been happening quite a lot this week but not mentioned it till now..

No PC this morning though, with Meg the Black Cat, headed downstairs to watch "Terminator Salvation" - much better than the reviews would have led me to believe...

Very enjoyable - bring on T5...

Did some more work on creating a goodly number of rhythm tracks for the next CBQ LP - tentative steps at present...

Then, post breakfast, into town with Anne, leaving her to her own thing which included a visit to Tynecastle around midday for the Hearts v Hibs derby...

Took a bus uptown and met up with Dr Prog at the music library - Ravi Shankar returned, Monks, White Lies, Thee Silver Mt Zion Orchestra, Jonsi from Sigur Ros and LCD Soundsystem's debut borrowed...

To a nearby eaterie for some sustenance and chat with the good Doctor. He is heading to London in July for the High Voltage Festival, featuring all manner of Prog legends and I am swithering about accompanying him - he will go whether I do or not...

We took a walk down to FOPP - via The News Stairs with these treated views of Edinburgh...

I bought five new £3 Blue Notes - one of which I stupidly already have - left my list at home though - it will be returned...

Partook of discs by pianist Walter Davis Jr, bassist Paul Chambers and two by trumpeter Lee Morgan..

In fact they were his first and last Blue note sets, separated by around 15 years...

He was shot and killed in a night club in New York in 1972 by his girlfriend shortly after the last session...

Tragic...

Back home on the airport bus and soon joined by a triumphant Exec Producer, Hearts having defeated arch rivals Hibs 2-1 - while, by 4:45, Queeen of the South had taken their second thrashing in eight days, this time going down 3-0 at third bottom Ayr Utd - wheels off perhaps?

More rhythm work accompanied the score watching...

A proposed visit from Chris-with-a-Ch was postponed due to illness - despite this, we enjoyed Anne's tasty curry for tea...

"Harry Hill's TV Burp", "Eddie Izzard's Marathons" and "Law & Order" entertained before I undertook yet more rhythm work...

To bed pre-midnight, tired but reasonably happy...

Highlight of the day : Working on CBQ music again...

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