Tag: jazz
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Six creative lessons from Herbie Hancock
Apologies about the delay to your Sunday newsletter: following a severe storm this weekend, we are currently dealing with a power outage in South Kintyre, and I’m posting this from the library in Campbeltown. I’m hoping our electricity will be restored in good time for this week’s pattern release (which very much depends on our…
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Blue in Green and me
Good morning, and welcome to your Rip it Up (and Start Again) Sunday newsletter. Today’s long read explores my personal connection to ‘Blue in Green’, which you can hear on this week’s two classic albums, both recorded in 1959: Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ and Bill Evans’ Portrait in Jazz. “Thanks, Dad!” It was my…
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Playtime
Although my dad did not take photography particularly “seriously” and would never regard his images as constituting, in any sense, an “archive”, the photographs and slides I have been scanning certainly reveal a lot about him and his character. To someone who didn’t know my dad, his photographs might seem a bit confounding. My dad…
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Dizzy’s Business
Good morning! I’m here with a rather different kind of diversion today. If you’ve read Handywoman, you’ll know what a huge influence my creative dad has been on me. Dad grew up in Prestwich, and after teaching himself to play alto and tenor saxophone as a teenager, worked as a bebop musician in 1960s Manchester,…
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playing in the New Year
Hello! I hope you’ve been enjoying the first days of 2015. We travelled down to England to spend some time with my mum and dad — the latter of whom is pictured above, on tenor sax. Its been quite a while since I’ve heard my dad play. One of the worst consequences of my stroke…