Okay, I am now obsessed with this track.

I downloaded it late last night. And since then have played it thirteen times. Once dancing around the studio and just now lying on the bed with my legs up against the wall, staring at the ceiling, totally blind.

Fourteen times now.

Oy vey.

Okay, it is just Ridiculously Awesome --- Awe! Some! --- to be able to listen to this song and actually see Jerry doing the cigar sequence in my head. He totally picked the perfect part of the number, too. Liek omg ( Read more... )

Last year at our work Christmas dinner --- we went to some Thai place in Cockle Bay Wharf that was supposed to be amazing and turned out to be extremely ordinary only we didn't dare say this to the boss --- I got talking to one of the transcriber ladies and discovered a shared Buckley love. That was the night Mikey and the Lucky Leo and I were ( Read more... )

Jazz is a different language, this is something I realised tonight. If, like me, you're used to the drum-bass-one or two lead guitars-vocals-keyboards combination of a live gig, then the strange rhythms and intrusions of horn and string and piano are disconcerting. Verrah disconcerting. Fascinating. And the whole banter tween the horn players is ( Read more... )