At the Jazz Band Ball

Matt Palmer's Rhythmic Reeds with Christine Tyrrel 8/5/16 Matt Palmer: Reeds George Huxley: Reeds Nick Ward: Skins Mark Challoner: Drums Brian Lawrence: String Bass Christine Tyrrel vocals It has been a while since I have been able to attend two sessions in a row and this has only occured due to Bank Holiday Monday giving …

Jazz Time

Millennium Eagle Jazz Band. Jazz Club 90 24/4/16 It is something of a sad affair that my sojourns to Jazz Club 90 are the exception rather then the rule these days, but it is an unfortunate situation which cannot be avoided at the moment. So here we into May and the account here is only …

The Hidden Skeleton

Closet When I saw the prompt my immediate thought was of the phrase "skeleton in the closet", the term used to described a hidden secret normally of dark nature. A concept which is the drive of many a crime or horror story, and in the case of Psycho a literal skeleton in the closet. Now as far …

On the Street Where You Live

A lot of Brits will no doubt always associate the titular song with Quality Streets, thanks to a long running advert in the mid-90s. The song itself originates from the musical "My Fair Lady" which we all know is an musical adaption of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmallion and will probably always be associated with Nat …

The Return of the Discontinued Man Supplemental

After holding back on my spending for a few weeks I put in an Amazon order last week which arrived over the weekend. It was a music led delivery with three collections from the Proper Boxes range, an Avid Records retrospective and a double whammy of a book and its film version: So we have …

A Sentimental Serenade

Sentimental My  immediate thought from Today's prompt is of the big band number I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, which was the signature tune for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Now call me a heathen but I  always preferred the Dorsey Orchestra to the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Miller have the legacy of his band while Dorsey was …