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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Behind the facade
I spent a couple of hours wandering around Bath – my home town – yesterday. It’s always fun to get a glimpse of the other side of Pulteney Bridge. By the weir at the front, there’s an open-air platform that … Continue reading
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Notebook
For much of the time that it was a resort serving the Georgian power elite, Bath was a building site where finely dressed visitors in brocaded coats, hoop petticoats and sack-back dresses shared the narrow streets with sweaty labourers in … Continue reading
Blue sky at last
After what felt like a month of dank, grey clouds… The Thames this morning.
Critic on critic
Jay Rayner, jazz man, good egg. From my review in The Times Some mistake, surely? The big, bearded bloke from MasterChef? Is he a jazz pianist too? Well, it’s true that no one would mistake Jay Rayner for Oscar Peterson, … Continue reading
Echoes
With Trump and Le Pen in the news, it seems a good time to revisit an old Sinclair Lewis novel. He got there before Philip Roth…
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Jazz albums of the year
My pick of 2015 in today’s Sunday Times [£]. Indra Rios-Moore: Heartland (Impulse!) Timo Lassy: Love Bullet (Membran) Charlie Hunter: Let the Bells Ring On (There) Erroll Garner: The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia) Dee Dee Bridgewater/Irvin Mayfield, New Orleans … Continue reading
World music & folk albums of the year
My 2015 choices in today’s Sunday Times [£] Shye Ben Tzur/Jonny Greenwood/Rajasthan Express: Junun (Nonesuch) Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch) Lila Downs: Balas y Chocolate (Sony) Various: Joy of Living – A Tribute to Ewan MacColl (Cooking Vinyl) … Continue reading
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