Jutta Hipp - With Zoot Simms
Ornette Coleman - Live at the Golden Circle Vols 1 & 2
Art Blakey - The Freedom Rider
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercy
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Souvenir XVIII : Spinterheart Live Set
The Bad Plus - Never Stop
Soundtracked today, in the main, by the jazz discs bought a week ago at FOPP - brilliant stuff - especially Coleman...
Along to FOPP at lunchtime with the idea of perhaps purchasing more £3 jazz CDs - instead I found the new album by The Bad Plus, "Never Stop" (hope they never do) for a very reasonable £10, along with David Sylvian's new collaborational compilation "Sleepwalkers" at the same price...
So I forked out a bit more than planned but got discs by two artists which fall into my category of "if I see a new LP I will buy it"...
No time to listen though, as I was meeting up with Dr Prog for tonight's inaugural concert of the 2010/2011 ECAT season, which featured, shall we say, "challenging" music from the likes of Xennakis, Rihm, Birtwhistle and Vivier along with three equally "non-melodic" pieces being given their world premieres...
Prior to the "gig", we partook of some spicy fayre at Kebab Mahal and a couple of drinks at the Queens Hall bar...
You absolutely have to be in the correct frame of mind to enjoy music like this - and there's nothing like a kebab and some cider to get you in the mood for some avant garde classical music played by a trio of piano, clarinet and cello - so, luckily, we were in the correct frame of mind...
...even though it could of course have quite easily been categorised as "tuneless shite"...
A bus home to the Exec Producer, who put her status in doubt by declaring the new Bad Plus CD as "rubbish"...
I had not previously noted her ears having been made of cloth...
Granted it was midnight and she was not in the best frame of mind to hear clattering drums and atonal piano...
Not to worry..
Lights out on a fine day...
Highlight of the Day : New Bad Plus / 2 hours of difficult listening with Dr Prog...
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