During one of the several lives that have, thus far, comprised my forty four years on this God-forsaken shit-hole, I used to play a bit of trumpet. No great surprise, then, that I’m a bit of a Jazz cat. Not all Jazz, of course. There are few genres of music quite so diverse, eclectic and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jazz’
Dark Magus : The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis
Posted: 29th July 2011 by Harry in BlogTags: A Kind of Blue, Bop, Charlie Parker, Freddie Hubbard, Jazz, Miles Davis
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Dead, Jail Or Rock ‘N’ Roll?
Posted: 13th March 2011 by Harry in BlogTags: Classical, Hank Williams, ipod, Jazz, Led Zeppelin, Metal, Tapes, Vinyl, Whitesnake
For The Auld Yin, Joe Daly and Glenn. Because they get it… I don’t know If it’s symptomatic of my increasing decline into a state of old fartage or just some innate irascibility and intolerance but, increasingly, the ipod generation mystify, anger and disappoint me. I think this is best illustrated by an exchange a [...]