Monday, December 04, 2006
News From Everywhere
Monday, November 20, 2006
Deep Fried Missionary

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Old Bastards

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Californian Sob

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Geometric Blues

Monday, November 13, 2006
Two From Georgia, One From Norway
From Georgia, USA, comes Madeleine Peyroux with her new CD "Half The Perfect World". Technically good, polished, easy on the ear but a little too much Patsy Cline and not quite enough Billie Holiday. Jazz singers have to walk a precarious line between being too challenging and being too banal - Madeleine takes a safe course. From Georgia (formerly the USSR) via Belfast, Northern Ireland comes Katie Melua and her new CD "Piece By Piece", When I had the Samsung on shuffle I sometimes had trouble working out which was Madeleine and which was Katie and that says something about the course they both steer. Again it is pleasant, comfortable, safe. And from Norway came Solveig Slettahjell - by way of a Guardian review - and her recent CD called Pixiedust. Now she takes a different course - certainly more adventurous but I'm not sure if it is more challenging. Backed by the aptly-named "Slow Motion Quintet" she, at times, reminds you of an old wind-up record player which is just beginning to wind down. But whilst Madeleine Peyroux has hints of lazy drawl, Solveig Slettahjell is all Ice Queen and very much in the mould of 21st century Scandinavian jazz. At the end of the day (quite literally) no winner emerged. They are three CDs which I will keep on the player for a while but which, I suspect, will gradually fade away. The search, therefore, continues.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
A Special Way With Cats
Friday, November 10, 2006
All That Jazz

Thursday, November 09, 2006
Delhi Sealing Drive

Richard Oastler

Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Incongruity


Pain and Suffering in Downtown Halifax

Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Bulent Ecevit
The Guardian 07 Nov 2006
Burton Salmon

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