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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 2d

Music afternoon. Following up Duke & Coltrane with Duke's Big 4 (Duke, Joe Pass, Ray Brown & Louis Bellson). Kicks off with Cottontail, which we heard a cracking version of last night.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 2d

Music afternoon. Before I fire up the wake playlist, which will see me through the rest of the day, some Ellington to follow up last night's concert. Coltrane & Duke, released 1963. Starts with In a Sentimental Mood, which is v precious to me because M loved it so. A gorgeous album altogether.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 2d

Things I never thought I'd witness: Robert Fripp heckling & gesticulating furiously at Craig Revel Horwood for (rightly) giving Toyah a low score. Felt like two v different worlds colliding.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 2d

Probs a good thing (for my equilibrium) they didn't play In A Sentimental Mood as that was one of M's fave tunes to improvise around. Will play it tonight at home on the 4th anniversary of his death.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 2d

Gorgeous Sheffield Jazz gig last night at the Crucible. The Pocket Ellington. Classic Ellington with only 4 horns and rhythm section. Alex Webb piano, Alan Barnes baritone & alto sax/clarinet, Robert Fowler tenor sax, Simon Finch trumpet, David Lalljee trombone, Dave Green bass, Alfonso Vitale drums

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 6d

Dreading it.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 6d

My annual (since 2021) Jazz Record Requests pick in memory of M is on the show this pm (4.00pm Radio 3/Sounds), just ahead of the anniversary on 9/10 and what would have been his 70th birthday in November.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 7d

Last night’s music

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 8d

Music night - following up last night's James Allsopp Quartet tribute to Stan Getz with the man himself, Getz/Gilberto from 1964 with Joao Gilberto, also feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim (piano), Tommy Williams (bass), Milton Banana (drums) & Astrud Gilberto on vocals.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 8d

Buffy Revamped! Turns out Brendan Murphy's one man (one vampire?) show compressing 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer into 1 hr 20 mins of loving & ridiculously funny parody was precisely what I needed tonight.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 8d

Music Night: paying tribute to Danny Thompson with Pentangle's Reflection, from 1971.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 8d

Great opener for SheffJazz autumn season: James Allsop Quartet paying tribute to Stan Getz.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 10d

As a former Uni administrator I am appalled - it may be 'one isolated error' but so many people must have had the opportunity to query it, and didn't - surely if he got a 2:1 the erroneous result would have prompted someone to check? So not just one error, not really.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 13d

Not only that but many us somehow manage to love superhero movies AND French new wave movies, Proust AND Stephen King, Boulez AND Motown. And why the hell not?

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 13d

The article also assumes that if one likes, thinks about, even (gasp) writes academic studies of 'lowbrow' culture, one has abandoned any interest in or love of 'highbrow' stuff. I think it's daft to stick to just one kind of brow. Popular stuff is interesting & its popularity worthy of analysis.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 20d

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 21d

Music night - Summers & Fripp - I Advance Masked, from 1982. Their first collaboration. Both basically play the same instruments (apart from Summers contributing some piano) - guitar, synthesisers, bass, percussion

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 21d

It's growing on me.

Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 21d

Music night - back to vinyl. Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park NJ. Springsteen's solo debut, from 1973. I have no memory of hearing this before, & the opening track is far more familiar in Manfred Mann's Earth Band's version. Kind of enjoying it.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 21d

...Janis Ian, Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground, 10CC, Global Village Trucking Co., Billy Cobham, David Essex, Genesis, Clapton, Crimson, Bee Gees, Lou Reed, Tange Dream, Eno, Diana Ross, Purple, Queen, Sparks, Cockney Rebel & Graham Kendrick.

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 21d

Music Afternoon - a playlist put together for a reunion of friends who came to Sheffield in 1975 to train as teachers. Of the 8 of us, 3 have died in the intervening 50 years, so we honoured them, and reminisced with help from Bowie, Hendrix, Floyd, Hatfield, Tull, Mahavishnu, Joni, Steely Dan...

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 26d

Current reading. Plus Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road on the Kindle

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Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you for alerting me to this - I've been looking out for opportunities to see it for years, but never spotted it because of the change of title - though I fear other commitments will now have to be downgraded to 'optional' whilst I immerse myself in it!

Dr Cath Annabel @cathannabel.bsky.social · 28d

One of the most sublimely beautiful pieces of music I've ever known. And guaranteed to make me weep, as I recall my lovely mum, a huge VW fan, who also loved the Tallis so deeply.

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