KINGDM can't get over you

Great new track on soundcloud by London duo KINGDM

great vibe great lyric 

already a dance and club classic

https://soundcloud.com/wearekingdm/cant-get-over-you/s-9kHqZ

Oxford Brooke's craft fair

Come and see my jazz inspired artwork at Oxford Brooke's Craft Fair OX3 OBP on weds 3rd December 2014 

Jazz Icons the complete series

Amy Winehouse

Mile Davis

Duke Ellington

Jamie Cullum

Miles Davis

The  jazz icons twenty  greetings cards 

B B King

Louis Armstrong

Eric Clapton

Jay Phelps

Jimi Hendrix

Jive

Chris Barber 

Bloomin Sax

Chet Baker

Reuben James

Ray charles

Sonny Rollins

Gregory Porter

Jazz Art as Greetings Cards

Hi Y'all 

I'm selling my jazz art as a series of greetings cards. They come with envelope and plastic wallet  (Wooooooo). It's a series of 20 which includes Nat King Cole, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie amongst others.

I'll be selling them at craft fayres and jazz festivals,

If you buy the full set of 20 its £30 plus p&p . Individually they are £2 each. At festivals they will be £3 each.

Not just a greetings card but a unique collectable history of jazz and my art.

Jazz Art at St Barnabas Market Jericho Oxford 12th April

Thanks to everyone at Bristol Jazz Festival.  Our next next gig will be at

St Barnabas Market

Jericho 

Oxford

OX2 6BG
https://www.facebook.com/Jerichoproducersmarket?ref=ts&fref=ts

12th April 

10.00 till 1.00pm

Please check out Ruth Butler's superb Jazz photos

https://www.facebook.com/jazzfineartphoto?fref=ts

It's all kia-ora now baby blue

Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes

come senators congressmen

The election news from Italy is so refreshing. I dont know much about Beppe Grillo or the movement here. But It has certainly woken up all the white men in grey suits ( yes, you too Merkel ) who dominate our lives.

Horse trading

Enjoy this vid with the superb Alun Armstrong especially 2min 20 secs in.

You see the horse meat scandal rumbles on apace. The Guardian blames lack of regulation,  The Telegraph blames Europe.

Me.......... I'm not eating anything I haven't personally slaughtered. So watch out I'm partial to a bit of rump.

what does that cymbal mean ?

The French Communist party is dropping the hammer and sickle as it's logo here.  Designed after the Russian Revolution to show the unity between worker and peasant,  it has long lost it's meaning in our world.

I used to practise drawing it on the back of school exercise books and rejoiced in it's power to frighten calmer souls than mine.  But I remember my shock when I saw that the swastika had become the motif of choice for Hells Angels in the sixties.  That alternative to Stalin and Hitler, the peace symbol, with its neat and simple design  will be associated for me with the duffle coats, beards, and hearty pacifism of CND.

Written words are complicated symbols, but whereas an essay might reach a few thousand of those with the time and energy to read it, a symbol can be read and understood by millions in a glance. Madison Avenue understood this as it reached into our subconscious mind with it's Nike logos, and half eaten apples.

They talk about brand visibility and other such manipulative tosh, but the unfortunate truth is that it works and I remember with some shame the unbridled joy I felt, wearing my first pair of Levi jeans and its branding. Horses trying to pull apart a pair of "original riveted" jeans, another symbol of a lost and simpler world.

Cuba Libre

 Fifty years ago today the U.S. banned it's citizens from travelling to Cuba.  I wonder who lost out more?

Here is a film celebrating Afro Cuban jazz, everyone looks really downtrodden dontcha think.

milk and alcohol

I was saddened to hear about Wilko Johnson's illness in today's Guardian here.  He seems to be very
calm about things, which is truly inspiring.  I wasn't a huge fan of Dr Feelgood but I enjoyed them especially for Johnson's manic take on the Shadows foot twirling routine.

Here they are in their prime on the Old Grey Whistle Test

Well what is Jazz?

I found this piece, which apart from any musical considerations is an amazing social document.

Back after universal clamour

Hi , you didn't even notice I had been gone for 2 months.

Bloomin' Sax

Buy a giclee print of this painting here

Blowin like it's gonna kill me dead x 3

Blowin like it's gonna kill me dead x 2

 buy a print of this painting here

Dont start me talkin' x2

further to yesterdays post found this gem on youtube.  I have to smile at the existentialist audience, maybe you can see me in the corner.

Dont start me talkin' Michael

Had a night out with my mate John. We went to hear Michael Gray author of the Bob Dylan Encyclopedia at the Bedworth Arts Centre in a talk called Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues. First time of hearing Michael, whose Blog is also well worth a gander here.

Michael has always struck me as a master of the bon mot, and of course much more, and he didn't disappoint last night. He was urbane, witty and erudite by turns and displayed a complete grasp of the Dylan oeuvre and a wide ranging knowledge of the blues. Although he started slowly he warmed to his task and the audience and the second half of his talk really sparkled.

The highlight for me was his account of an Live appearance by Dylan on the Letterman show in 1984.
Michael told the story that Dylan recruited the punk band The Plugz to help him promote his new album "Infidels" on the show. After a week in Malibu he had rehearsed dozens of songs with them and then on the day of the live broadcast agreed a set list of three songs from the album.

Apparently when Letterman introduced him Dylan turned to the band and completely unexpectedly called for a version of the Sony Boy Williamson number "Dont start me Talkin", unfazed the band backed him in this glorious performance

Talk about being in the moment. I wonder if Bob could do a knee bend like that now?

Early Roman Kings x 2

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