Crispycat Recordings: Plenty blue but not blue...

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Plenty blue but not blue...

Playlist

Creek - Creek 2015
Jacaszek - Catalogue des Arbres

Sarah McLachlan - The Freedom Sessions

Various - Rock Revival

Various - True Blue : Lady Day & John Coltrane

Various - New Blue : Blue Note Now

Various - Blue TV

Second day of summer - will it last?

Out under the sun and sky...

All set for a scorcher...

Walkabout at lunchtime involving posting orders and collecting photos for Anne's mum...

Good skies on the way home...

...to another very tasty salad from the Exec Producer of tasty, zingy salads...

Then, some ripping and listening - ten new arrivals today - a splurge re funds received for my birthday a month or so ago...

A further 10 hrs of Blue Note has arrived...

Music by and inspired by Coltrane and Holiday...

Artists new to Blue Note way back in 2001, some still going strong, others going perhaps not so strong...

Seventeen classic Blue Note tracks featured in TV commercials over the years...

Blue Big Bands - should do exactly what it says on the cover...

Count Basie, Dukes Ellington and Pearson, Buddy Rich etc etc...

Blue Broadway - show tunes Blue Note style...

All the greats, all the hits - but, hopefully, in a more acceptable form...

Around fifty years of top jazz, curated for the French market...

Sixteen love songs, including, in an overkill stylee, three (count 'em) versions of "My Funny Valentine"...

"Blue'n'Soul : Hear It Through the Grapevine" - fourteen soul classics, covered by the stars of Blue Note...

The only "solo" title of the crop - the second of just two albums as leader on Blue Note by forgotten genius of the organ, "Baby Face" Willette...

Last but not least of the 10 new discs today, "Codex Faenza", beautiful music from the 14th Century...

That's not a typo, despite the cover...

All the featured composers had lived and died by 1399 - this music is over 700 years old...

A break to watch new crime series "The Interceptor" which looks very promising...

Then, late on "Sun Trap", which is "not bad", this the third of six episodes...

Right you two..

Highlight of the Day : Arrival of a package...

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Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!