S'wonderful...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Proposed Happygolucky Set
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Splinterheart Set
Jutta Hipp – Jutta Hipp with Zoot Simms
Art Blakey – The Freedom Rider
Ornette Coleman – At The Golden Circle Vols 1 & 2
Cannonball Adderley – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

This morning’s listening convinced me to revert to the “Splinterheart” based set...

Meg the Black Cat was unimpressed either way...



Despite this, I will start work again at some point this week...

On Saturday, in Fopp in Glasgow, I’d noted the £3 Blue Note deal had returned but that no titles I did not already have were on display...

Today, at Fopp Edinburgh though, I found five LPs previously un-owned (ok I had an illegal burn of one of them) but now in the collection...

One from 1956 by Jutta Hipp, of whom I’d not previously heard – a German pianist and artist who fell in love with jazz whilst listening to it on the radio in Leipzig in the thirties and whose family fled the Russian occupation at the end of WWII...

Discovered playing the clubs in Frankfurt by Leonard Feather of Blue Note, she emigrated to the USA in the mid fifties and went down a storm in New York...

Hot bop indeed...

Chronically nervous when performing though, she retired from music before the end of the decade and spent the rest of her working life as a seamstress – indeed, when she died, her friends only discovered she’d once been a jazz pianist when her obituaries appeared...

A disc by Art Blakey of a couple of 1961 sessions including three bonus tracks only previously released in Japan – featuring the talents of both Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan no less...

Yowsa!

Two titles by Ornette Coleman, comprising both volumes of his famous 1965 concerts in Sweden (volume one was my previously owned burn – now in the “doublers box”)...

Far out, man....

And, finally, Canonball Adderley’s 1966 classic “Mercy, Marcy, Mercy - Live at The Club” – the second disc of the day with a Weather Report connection, featuring as it does, Joe Zawinul – writer of the famous title track...

Groovy...

Dark skies on the way home with my booty...



In the evening, in between listening to the new purchases and post an excellent tea from the Exec Producer, I was on fire during University Challenge, managing over 15 correct answers (ok not quite as on fire as the Edinburgh team which beat Jesus College 335 – 35)...

Then, as if things couldn’t get better, post more listening, at nine came the return of, probably, my favourite programme on the telly, the magnificent “Spooks”...

Oh yeah...

More listening and updating post “Spooks”...

Good day...

Highlight of the Day : The return of Spooks...