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Untitled 21 Jun 2004 | 08:45 pm
THE NAKED MAJA’S TOP 100 BRITISH ALBUMS Why? Because I knew exactly which 100 albums were going to be in the Observer poll, because I knew exactly in which order they were going to appear – those han...
Untitled 18 Jun 2004 | 12:14 am
...BUT WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ERIC DOLPHY? He was on screen for barely two seconds in the 'Trane doc (and not at all surprising, incidentally, to read in Victor Lewis-Smith's review of same in today's...
Untitled 17 Jun 2004 | 07:37 pm
COLTRANE: THE TAINTED SAINT Last night's BBC1 documentary on Coltrane was predictably unfulfilling and frustrating. OK, (un)fair enough, we know that because the BBC is what it always denies it is, C...
Untitled 11 Jun 2004 | 07:36 pm
DON'T LET THE BLOGOSPHERE CATCH YOU CRYING So: Elvin Jones gone, Robert Quine gone, Steve Lacy gone, and, last night, the biggest of the lot, Ray Charles, gone, also from liver cancer, aged 73. If y...
Untitled 10 Jun 2004 | 01:19 am
BLOCK OUT THE WRITER These two articles have really knocked me for seven. The Propertius quotes in the second one hit me particularly hard like the punch of an oncoming and long-deserved fist. The m...
Untitled 3 Jun 2004 | 09:04 pm
WHAT THE ALBUM MADE TO LOVE MAGIC BY NICK DRAKE IS LIKE Like installing a lifesize cardboard cutout at the dining room table and pretending you're coming home to her. Like cooking Marks and Spencer m...
Untitled 25 May 2004 | 12:32 am
OGUN RECORDS UPDATE - URGENT AND KEY! Talk about synchronicity. Well you can talk about any Police album you like, but you'd be far wiser to get to your nearest decent record shop, as I did on Friday...
Untitled 20 May 2004 | 10:51 pm
EUROVISION I would guess one way to start would be to observe how Greece managed to come second in this year’s contest with a Jazz Insects cover version. No, alas, it was a different “Shake It,” an e...
Untitled 19 May 2004 | 08:57 pm
THE JAZZ INSECTS “… Music (and the writing that goes with it, bad AND good) is so routinely used to access and to frame feeling - genuine feeling, masked feeling, mistaken feeling, fake or manipulate...
Untitled 13 May 2004 | 11:09 pm
WHY THERE ISN’T AN ARTICLE ON THIS WEBSITE ABOUT THE YEAR 1962 I spent a rather fruitless and frustrating evening yesterday trying to revise and rework the piece that I did on ILE back in January 200...
