Musical Mileage

NPR has a 60th anniversary tribute to The Year of Great Jazz.

My 1959 Jazz collection is rather limited, consisting of Kind of Blue and Time Out. Something that I feel has contributed to the enduring success of these albums is their superb sound quality. They were recorded live, in the then-new format of S-T-E-R-E-O.

Happy Birthday to Prue!

Prue’s birthday isn’t until the 24th, but I’d better take advantage of this brief video while it’s available. Unfortunately, the BBC iPlayer doesn’t work in America.

Prue recently appeared on The One Show, talking about her old boss and chum Mary Quant, as a preview of an exhibition about the fashion designer at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, aka the V&A. I’ll have to ask Prue who the woman is speaking, standing next to her. Prue was clearly looking for an opportunity to speak up, but without more video there’s no way to see if she succeeded.

This is a preview video for the exhibit.

https://youtu.be/e_6oZoFDd48

A Hard Brexit’s Gonna Fall

The Zombies — Rod Argent (center), Colin Blunstone (rear), then clockwise the late Paul Atkinson, Hugh Grundy, Chris White

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47747351

“A band who secured success in the United States… was only a one-hit-wonder in the UK.”

Talk about damning with faint praise! I just don’t get what Britain doesn’t get about the Zombies. For that, the UK deserves the painful hard Brexit that now seems to be inevitable! The very reasonably priced “Zombie Heaven” is the collection to get. I love LP, but CD is still the best audio format.