Crispycat Recordings: Careful with that Prosecco Dave...

Friday, December 11, 2015

Careful with that Prosecco Dave...

Playlist

Various - The Best Xmas EP in the World...Ever!

Kenny Burrell - God Bless The Child

Alexi Tuomarila - Quartet 2

Hamerik - Asger Hamerik : Complete Symphonies

VArious - Blue Broadway - Show Tunes Blue Note Style

The Cal Tjader & Stan Getz Sextet - The Cal Tjader & Stan Getz Sextet

String Trio Of New York - Gut Reaction

T Rex - Hits!

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Christmassy today...

A visit to the dentist first thing, with The Best Xmas EP in the World...Ever soundtracking both the journey there and the journey back...

Breakfast with Anne and then the final jazz CDs ripped...

In all, 419 previously missing rock/pop and jazz albums (over 420 hours of music) have been added to the laptop based iTunes over the last 10 days...

Ready for some (careful) Xmas shenanigans with chums uptown...

Anne very kindly gave me a lift in...

...and the festivities ensued...

Secret Santa resulted in some Miles Davis and Chet Baker being received...

...which was very thoughtful and better than a novelty thong...

I took it much easier than previous years - no trips out to the airport and back due to falling asleep on the bus this year...

A couple of pink proseccos...

...a nice meal, good chat and a few Peronis and I was fine...

Sort of...

But, sadly, there was none of this for me...

Around ten, the pain was starting to take hold and so a taxi call to the Exec Producer brought me home absolutely not the worse for wear...

Ended the day with "Graham Norton" and "Josh" before conking out...

Highlight of the Day : Celebrations...

2 comments:

Unknown said...: That looked like a great party. Glad you were well enough to go and enjoy yourself. You're getting there. Good!; 1:08 am
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: Tomorrow it'll be 7 weeks since the op - which has flown by. There's no doubting I'm much better but still a wee bit to go yet. I can do almost everything I was able to before. Paracetamol isn't good for the liver and Cocodamol has other unfortunate effects so I'm striving not to go back to painkilling - which is probably why the pain is so noticable. Onwards ans upwards though; 7:33 am

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!