Two good shelves...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2021

Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversounds 1996-2021

Al Green - The Hi Records Singles Collection

Hollwood Vampires - Rise

Die Arzte - Dunkel

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyone

The Quintet (Hancock Hubbard Shorter Carter Williams) - VSOP

Magnus Johannessen - Magnus

Clifford Brown - More Study In Brown

George Benson - The New Boss Guitar

Booker Ervin - The Space Book

Joe Henderson - Relaxin' At Camarillo

Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau & Charlie Haden - Alone Together

Joe Henderson - Porgy and Bess

Michael Brecker - Tales From The Hudson

Mungo Jerry - Baby Jump - The Definitive Collection

Various Composers - The Medieval Experience

Joe Zawinul - Brown Street

Mike Mainieri - An American Diary

Brad Mehldau & Renée Fleming - Love Sublime

Bach, J S - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains

Saturday and up, quite possibly, before the larks, to get the second half of the podcast done...

Luna was also up and so was given some things she likes...

...while my coffee cooked, during a particularly long track being podcasted upstairs......

Scenes..

Luna went back to bed, with the EP, while I worked away as quietly as possible...

Podcast up, around 20 minutes later than planned...

It joined previous volume 46's from 2014,2015, 2016,2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020...

Once my colleagues were up, some mischief ensued...

...as did our tasty breakfasts...

I was given the heads up by a Twitter chum re a particularly nicely stocked charity shop over in Portobello and so, set off, with the proposed new CBQ compilation in the cans...

A lovely, sunny day...

Arrived in around 30 minutes...

...and partook of these 11 items at the recommended shop, from two shelves packed with CDs which were much more interesting than the usual fare I trawl through...

A disc of a quintet seen by hundreds of thousands when they went on tour in the late 70's...

Some jazz from the Faroe islands...

The trumpet of the tragically short lived Clifford Brown...

George Benson's first album as leader...

A tasty Booker Ervin I'd not seen before...

A 4CD set of Miles Davis at the Newport Festival, across the decades...

A Joe Henderson title from 1979 - a little late but reasonably funky...

A drumless trio date on Blue Note from the 90's...

More Joe Henderson - the best "Porgy & Bess" related work disc I've heard...

...and a disc I saw someone else playing and raving about on Twitter recently - the inclusion of McCoy Tyner on piano a highlight...

...oh, and this - Mungo Jerry can rock out - when I was wee I had a few picture sleeve EPs of theirs which played at 33rpm...

So this brings back good memories...

As was deserved re the quality of the selections, I paid a bit more than would re my normal outlay for 11 titles...

Of course, I couldn't stop there and had a look in a few more venues...

I found this interesting 4CD box for just over a quid...

 

...and, in the same place, there was an unpriced sealed plastic bag full of CDs - at least two of around 20, I'd quite like to have...

I enquired about the price - £1 for the whole lot...

So, I paid, opened the bag, took those below and handed back the rest to be sold again...

Weather Report related...

A star studded disc with a particularly interesting curation of compositions

And this for my Brad Mehldau collection...

Finally - this - which it turns out I already bought a couple of years ago for a quid - oh well...

This - the original sleeve of the recordings included is much more interesting - but the music remains good...

...and finally, a mystery, which turned out to be some kind of electronic/rap thing - interesting, kind of...

I'd been in Portobello for less than an hour...

Back to the car...

...and home, noting this interesting derelict building in the distance as I queued at roadworks...

Home for an afternoon of ripping and listening...

Today's pile...

A call from my mum with her shopping list for tomorrow - which I turned into an imaginary setlist...

This evening, a tasty, unpictured, Indian Takeaway, more listening and some "Strictly" - your correspondent voted three times for the contestant "A J" as she had been so poorly marked by the judges...

And, I think it was tonight, we started watching "Dalgleish", a detective series set in the mid 70's by PD James - very good indeed...

So, that was Saturday I think...

Off to bed..

Highlight of the Day : Two good shelves...