Tuesday, March 03, 2015

A Love Supreme


recorded 9 Dec 1964 - Feb 65 released
New Jersey
  • Elvin Jones
  • Jimmy Garrison
  • McCoy Tyner
the vocal chant "A Love Supreme", sung by Coltrane (accompanying himself via overdubs)
An alternative version of "Acknowledgement" was recorded the next day on December 10. This version, which included tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp and bassist Art Davis, did not feature Coltrane chanting "a love supreme" 
The only live performance of the "Love Supreme" suite was on July 26, 1965 at the Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France

Played at Gaumont State, Kilburn - Coltrane played there in 1961

1964-04-27, 1964-06-01 recorded Crescent  (1964)

1965-02-18, 1965-05-17 recorded The John Coltrane Quartet Plays  live (1965)

1965-05-26, 1965-06-10 recorded Transition (1970)
1965-06-10, 1965-06-16, 1965-10-14 recorded Kulu Sé Mama (1967)




KIND OF BLUE

recorded New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959 ("All Blues" and "Flamenco Sketches") - released on August 17, 1959


Davis had only given the band sketches of scales and melody lines on which to improvise -  Once the musicians were assembled, Davis gave brief instructions for each piece
many scholars and fans believe that Bill Evans wrote part or the whole of "Blue in Green" and "Flamenco Sketches"
Producer Quincy Jones, one of Davis' longtime friends, wrote: "That [Kind of Blue] will always be my music, man. I play Kind of Blue every day—it's my orange juice."
Evans and Chambers played on the sessions for The Blues and the Abstract Truth by Oliver Nelson in 1961

Milestones - Recorded: April 2, 1958 – April 3, 1958
1958 Miles - Recorded: May 26, 1958
*
Someday my prince - Recorded: March 7, 1961 – March 21, 1961


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b051s0fp

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Today's Happiness Experiment entry - Beautiful


Up on the Roof and Natural Woman in Beautiful (Carole King musical) with Ma

Reading about A Love Supreme (while listening to it) Ashley Kahn book

Signing off 3 eps of 24 Hour Party Politics

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Today's Happiness Experiment entry - Woods & Zombies

Buying a gig ticket for Enfant Terrible No. 2 (Flatbush Zombies) - he's so excited, planning his trip to Brixton weeks in advance

A lunchtime chat with an Australian and an American colleague (followed by a short burst of book reading, Into The Woods)

The late afternoon sun as I worked up on the top floor of C4






Sunday, February 08, 2015

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Watching a young England rugby team beat Wales at the Millennium Stadium, in particular Jonathan Joseph's masterful try

Reading Breaking the Code in the sunlit back garden

Watching the film BAFTAs with the Enfants Terribles (after a roast beef dinner together)






Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

The text from N telling me Spurs had beaten Arsenal thanks to two goals from Harry Kane

A shower in the coloured dot shower

Breakfast with Eileen and Matthew at Joan's


Saturday, January 31, 2015

Un Moment

Yesterday I had the satisfaction of knowing a French phrase that the two Francophones at the table did not know: Un ciel maquereau

= mackeral sky

= altocumulus undulatus

Coming to terms with the Human Condition

The essence of a conversation in the car this morning with Enfant Terrible No. 1 which started from talking about a young woman (26) who has recently lost her father to whom she was very close.

To come to terms with our mortality - which could be called Wisdom - we need to do two things, from my experience:

(1) live in the present - as opposed to religion which usually tries to convince us that there is a future beyond death (meditation is one way to regularly drag yourself back to the present) - this is the best way to make use of the limited time you do have, appreciating and using every moment (which does not mean you need to be constantly active/productive)

(2) decide what you want to do with your time - will you use it for yourself or others? ultimately it is most satisfying to do the latter.


Thursday's Happiness Experiment entry



Some flakes of snow outside La Rugoletta with Marco & Clemence, N & D

Kick-off meeting for Just Cos with Kell & Dan

Drinking Madeira wine with Marco

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Wander around St Pancras & Islington cemetery with Marco & Clemence in late afternoon

Enjoying the paintings and interiors at Kenwood with M&C

Laughing at the dinner table with D & family (near Saracens)


Star Spot #516

w/e 30/1/15 Alex Brooker (Last Leg) - HFR


Saturday, January 24, 2015

Star Spot #515

w/e 24/1/15

Dr Christian Jessen - HFR

Jacques Peretti - HFR

Sue Perkins ?? - Parliament Hill




Creative Accounting #409

Two Days, One Night = Ken Loach X Arthur Schnitzler X Brecht




Sunday, January 18, 2015

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Picking up Bowie's Berlin trilogy near Checkpoint Charlie and listening to it

Saturday night at the flicks with D

Doing a walking tour of Berlin with D including the Holocaust memorial





Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Seeing bits of the Berlin Wall with D (especially a section inside a new building)

Going round a flea market (in Mauerpark)

D delighting in cafe society

Friday, January 16, 2015

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Late afternoon sun catching the top of the eucalyptus tree

Lunchtime run around St Pancras & Islington cemetery

Lavender bath

Sunday, December 21, 2014

The Cure - Hammersmith Odeon 21/12/14

Shake dog shake
2
3 change???
4
5 (wailing wall)
6
Caterpillar
Japanese walk (visiting time)
Close to you
Spiderman
Let you go (sticky as chips)
1
Just like heaven *
Pictures of you **
1
I will always love you
Bass bass
(Miles and miles and miles)
(I hate my mum ) *
1
2
3

Encore 1
(Soldier song)
Charlotte Sometimes *
(The very first time)
The top? (pls come bk)

E2
(Dressed to)
2
It's never enough
4

En3
3 imaginary boys*
(Twist and turn)
(Waiting for something to happen)
Forest

En4
Love cats
Let's go to bed
Why can't I be you
Boys don't cry **
Hey you yes you

Friday, December 19, 2014

Van Morrison - Nell's Jazz & Blues Club, W. Kensington

Baby please don't go *
I just Want to make love to you
You Don't love me no more
Blue money
Days like this
Magic time
Did ye get healed? **
Think twice before you go
Symphony said
I believe
Moondance (so what/god rest ye merry gentlemen/my funny valentine) *
In my memory (the comedown)
Wherever god Shines his light *
I can't stop loving you
Enlightenment
It's too late to stop (walk when I walk) *
Brown eyed girl



Celtic Swing
Higher Than the World

Baby Please Don't Go/Parchment Farm/Don't Start Cryin Now
I just Wanna Make Love To You
You Don't Love Me No More
Blue Money
Days Like This
Magic Time
Did Ye Get Healed
Think Twice Before You Go
I Believe to My Soul
Moondance/My Funny Valentine
In the Midnight
Whenever God Shines His Light
I Can't Stop Loving You
Enlightenment
Help Me
Brown Eyed Girl


Dave Keary (Guitar)
Paul Moore (Bass)
Paul Moran (Keyboards)
Bobby Ruggiero (Drums)
Dana Masters (Vocals)

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

YHEE

Man hugs with an uncool half with KG - Futurgasm cast & crew screening

N getting two work experience offers and talking docs at the event

Tats and a hint of naughtiness - Codename One Step Beyond sleeve

THEE

A chat about street art and a book gifted

Reading Men Women & Children

1st Christmas lunch of the season - at C4

Sunday, December 07, 2014

THEE

Shooting Scattergun with N in Chislehurst, Kent

Watching What We Did On Our Holidays with D

Christmas party at Dan & Stef's in Stoke Newington


Thursday, December 04, 2014

Peter Gabriel - So - Wembley Arena


1 Shock the Monkey
2 This Time You've Gone Too Far *
3 Undergrowth
4 Solisbury Hill (remember that now gone single)
5 Why don't you show yourself? (Mexican film)
6 SO
Don't Give Up *
Mercy St
This is the picture? *
7 Biko (encore)


Saturday, November 29, 2014

Star Spot #412

Fenella Fielding (Carry On Screaming) - Mayfair Hotel 29/11/14

Horst - V&A 29.xi.14


Protege of Hoyningen-Huene
Bauhaus under Gropius
"The only real male elegance was English"
Beaton
Lee Miller

Dali (1943)
Mainbocher Corset 39 ***
A torturous item of clothing
Original & Touched-up
Original better as clothing more artificial

Isherwood

Lisa Fonssageives 39 *
Nude behind veil Louis 14th style
Hand only thing in front of veil plus slit of raw reality down right

Hats by Best Lord Taylor 43 *
Red White Blue triangle
3 women reading papers

Dress by Sally Victor - Muriel Maxwell * 39
Red and white lipstick and sunglasses





Thursday, November 20, 2014

YHEE

East Finchley Library Users Group's first campaign meeting in Martin school - Polly & I have been campaigning for the library for 10 years now

Meditation in the garden before work

Robert Elms Show - piece on the birth of The Who

Monday, November 03, 2014

Van Morrison opening Nell's Jazz & Blues Club, London W14

Van & 7 players
With Neil T
Front row, 5 feet from the Man

1 Celtic Swing
2 Long Long Long Gone?
3 the new Symphony sid

4 Someone like you
5 Magic Time **
6 Turn Away = who can I turn to

7 veedon fleece song? = In The Midnight
8 Rough God - actor impressions
9 Mose Allison

10 Bo Diddley You don't love me *
11 Baby please Dont Go
12 sometimes we cry

13 John Lee Hooker
14 Streets of Arklow
15 John Lee Hooker Boogie Chillin *

16 brown eyed girl
17 whenever god shines his light
18 Moondance *

19 Somerset (Acker Bilk)
20 Lonely Avenue ***



NELL’S JAZZ & BLUES CLUB
LONDON
ENGLAND
3 NOVEMBER 2014
1h 51m

:Celtic Swing
:Lost John
:The New Symphony Sid
:Someone Like You
:Magic Time
:Who Can I Turn To?
:In The Midnight
:Rough God Goes Riding
:If You Only Knew
:I Can Tell
:Baby Please Don't Go >
Parchman Farm >
Don't Start Crying Now
:Sometimes We Cry
:Think Twice Before You Go
:Streets of Arklow
:Boogie Chillen
:Whenever God Shines His Light
:Brown Eyed Girl
:Moondance >
My Funny Valentine
***
:Somerset
:Help Me > Stormy Monday >
Night Time Is The Right Time >

Lonely Avenue >
Mansion On The Hill >
Mean Old World


Van Morrison : vocals, saxes, harmonicas, maracas
The Van Morrison Band :
Dave Keary : guitar;
Dana Masters : vocals;
Paul Moran : keyboards, MA;
Paul Moore : electric and double bass;
Bobby Ruggiero: drums, MC;
Alistair White : trombone, tuba;
Chris White : saxophones, flute.

Setlist:
Celtic Swing
Lost John
Symphony Sid
Someone Like You
Magic Time (Dedicated by Van to Mary Bell)
Who Can I Turn To
In the Midnight
Rough God Goes Riding
If You Only Knew
I Can Tel (You Don't Love Me)
Baby Please Don't Go/Parchment Farm/Don't Start Cryin' Now
Sometimes We Cry
Think Twice Before You Go
Streets of Arklow
Boogie Chillin
Whenever God Shines His Light
Brown Eyed Girl
Moondance/Funny Valentine
Somerset (Acker Bilk tribute)
Help Me/Stormy Monday/Lonely Ave/Stormy Monday

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Leipzig Museum der bildenden Kunste

Max Beckmann of Leipzig
Portrait of a Carpet Dealer 46
Blessing hand

SP on green in a green shirt 38/9

Otto Mueller
Liebespaar 1919

Frans Masereel
Bolougne harbour 27
De Chirico

Archipenko
Wife of Artist 22
White stone

De Chirico
Two seated nudes 26
Cf Picasso classical

Friedrich
Lake by Moonlight 1827/8
Chioscuro

Graveyard in the Snow 26/7
What lies beyond?

Feuerbach
Portrait of Roman woman 1866
Modern classical



Sunday, October 05, 2014

Yesterday's HEE

Going with U to see Ida at the Phoenix

Local Greek en famille (Genco)

Walking to comic drawing course at Institute with D

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Tuesday's and Wednesday's Happiness Experiment entry

Wed 17th

Breakfast with Tim Lovejoy at Wolesley

BAFTA sesh with Anna Rafferty

Joan Baez singing House Carpenter (Festival Hall, with Jon & Manu)

Tues 16th - N's 18th, our 19th anniversary

Cocktails and dinner at The Wolesley en famille

N's smile (post-braces)

Having an adult son

Thursday's Happiness Experiment entry

Crit Room with Anna Rafferty at Dome Theatre, Brighton as part of Brighton Digital Festival and Let's Get Real (Culture 24)

Returning to the Beech Hill, Derry the week of our wedding anniversary

Watching the Scottish Independence Referendum most of the night and getting the Union Saved result

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry - Derry

Walking around the walls of Derry, sitting on them, speaking on them - and passing various costumed historical characters (Culture Day)

Jogging around Beech Hill among the WW2 history (Camp One Europe)

Dinner at Browns with 360 degree Productions

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Joan Baez

1 Angelina
2 Flora
3 it's all over now baby blue
4 Jerusalem
5 (house carpenter) the demon lover**
6 joe hill
7 corn bread*
8 house of the rising sun
9 diamonds and rust
10 Imagine
Swing Lo Sweet Chariot
Hills hell
Seven curses

Festival Hall
Jon, Manu

Starspot #366

Andrew Marr
The Wolesley
16.9.14

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Today's Happiness Experiment entry - birthday special

Jogging listening to David Crosby - bought 1971's If Only I could remember my name as my birthday present to me

A fresh blackberry as first food of the day

A clay pipe from Wexford from D

The new David Mitchell novel from U

Easy Rider and Dennis Hopper photos of the 60s from Ma

Shower with new gel from Burren

Watching first cut of Bez ep 2

Long chat with Steve Moore at Temple

Guided tour of Temple Church by vicar, discussing Magna Carta

Sunday, September 07, 2014

Saturday, September 06, 2014

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Interviewing Jamie Oliver in his office for When Sparks Fly

Finding loads of old music to download - listening to Michael Franks now

Lunch at 15 - a celebratory sausage




Star Spot #809

Russell Brand cycling along the Regent's Canal at Hackney
31/9/14


Creative Accounting #671 - Jude Law cast as Damon Albarn

Jude Law = Damon Albarn





(Jude top, Damon bottom, if the mike wasn't a giveaway)

Monday, August 25, 2014

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Brunch in Upper St with N

Playing Otello with N while listening to records

Visiting book shop with N




Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Sorting out my records (recent acquisitions)

Watching Marathon Man with N - discovering the golden age of 70s cinema

Meeting Buddy & Bella for the first time (including an outing to Sunny Hill Park involving eating Israeli food including jachnun)




Creative Accounting #268

Marathon Man = Boys from Brazil + Odessa File




Creative Accounting #267

The Usual Suspects / Inception = complex plot + narrative layers



Creative Accounting #266

The Usual Suspects / True Detective = police office interrogation





Friday, August 22, 2014

HEE Wednesday - to Edinburgh

Writing opening of Jamie Oliver chapter of When Sparks Fly on early morning train to Edinburgh

Views of the Lake District

Listening to BJ Novak of Inglorious Basterds reading his stories at the Edinburgh Fringe with Dan and Steph

YHEE Edinburgh

Honours salad with Compte from Savoie at Honours restaurant with Maverick

MacTaggart lecture and briefing session by David Abraham at Edinburgh TV Festival

Signing off Tattoo Twists eps 5-8

Star Spot #488

Gerry Sadowitz - York Place, Edinburgh

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

THEE Naxos

Plaka

Laughing in the sea with the Enfants Terribles

Playing bouncing water ball with D

Late lunch chat with N

YHEE Naxos

Chora
Pyrgaki

Reading D's Infinity comics

The wind on Pyrgaki beach

Sunset from outside Grotta hotel, enhanced with a coffee

Monday, August 11, 2014

YHEE Plaka

A reggae track at the Yazoo full moon party (by Gobey)

Sunset dip at Plaka in intense golden light

The sea breeze up at Grotta (reading Amos Oz)

Saturday, August 09, 2014

Today's HEE Plaka

Plaka
Hora

Finishing Mitla Pass on the couch overlooking the old city

Fertility rite in Naxos town

Backgammon showdown at sundown in Yazoo vs DG

YHEE North Naxos

Yoghurt, honey and walnuts at Apollonas port at sundown (plus Greek coffee)

Fertility rite at upper Kouros

Crimson sunset on North-West coast on way home

Friday, August 08, 2014

YHEE coastal Naxos

Watching Casablanca outdoors beside the Venetian Castle of Chora

The marble pebbles of the beach in Abram

The seaside tavern on Abram beach

Abram
Old Chora

Wednesday's HEE

Halki
Filoti
Plaka

Playing backgammon with the Enfants Terribles on a stone step in Halki

Reading and drinking coffee under a hundred year old plane tree in Filoti

Walking and talking about deep stuff with the Enfants Terribles through Filoti

Wednesday, August 06, 2014

YHEE Naxos Yazoo

Naxos Old Town
Plaka

Finishing Foreign Country by Charles Somebody, poolside spy thriller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on her Right Buttock

Hanging at Yazoo including backgammon with the Enfants Terribles

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

YHEE Naxos

Naxos town
Plaka
Anna

The shade netting of the Yazoo bar, Plaka

Underwater handstands at sunset at Plaka

Laughing off adversity (codename: swordfish) with D

Monday, August 04, 2014

Yesterday's HEE - To Mykonos and Naxos

Dinner en famille by the sea at sunset

The Enfants Terribles asleep on each other on the early morning plane

Greek white buildings

LGW to Mykonos
To Naxos

Dream

A Madmen creative ideas development session of some sort

Sunday, August 03, 2014

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment Entry

A cappuccino from Maurizio's with N

Watching a video of D performing in Mile End

Meditating in the deckchair in the garden

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Star Spots #255

W/e 18/7/14

David Morrissey
Northern Line from Highgate

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Keo

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Recording Britain - Sheffield Art Gallery

Kenneth Clark
Pilgrim Trust
39-43


John Piper - Tithe barn, gt coxwell
Brooding style - De Chirico
c40

Deller and Alan Kane - Protest House, Cardiff 2001
From Folk Archive project
Size gives it the grandeur of art

What's the enemy? Hitler, change, progress, modernisation, development

Paul Nash
Woods on the Avon shore
c39
Fluid, quick watercolour with his abstract sense

Alan Reynolds
Dorset LS
58
Klee inspired
Try this style

Ravilous
Sutherland
Turner

Richard seddon
Cottages at norton, Derbyshire
41
Brown and green and pencil

Ditto
Porter valley Derbyshire *
40
A good artist
A touch of Nash

Michael Rothenstein
Old cottages Norby
40
Very accomplished

Photography can do much, but it cannot give us the colour and atmosphere of a scene, the intangible genius loci
Herbert Read 1941

Richard Long
A 6 hour run
75
Essential

A green and pleasant land whose features have been moulded in liberty, whose every winding lane and irregular building is an expression of our national character

H Read 41


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Saturday, June 07, 2014

Today's Happiness Experiment entry - West & East

Watching House of Cards (2013) episode 1 and House of Cards (1990) episode 1 back to back

Walking&talking with U around Red Lion Square/Lamb's Conduit St/Bloomsbury

Graffiti safari around Brick Lane



Creative Accounting #178

House of Cards = Macbeth + Othello


You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

Starspot #366

Michael Portillo (Short's Gardens WC2) in a candy stripe summer jacket

Tuesday, June 03, 2014

The weekend's Happiness Experiment entries

SAT

Coffee with Ciara at Lisboa

Record shopping at Honest Jon's

Picking up a 60s copy of a Hemingway novel Across the River in Kensington on 8 mile Canal to River walk


SUN

Cross-Isle of Dogs walk with D to a beach overlooking the North Greenwich peninsula

Reading What Was Promised in the garden at dusk

Playing Urban Lion Hunt