A back to front kind of week
Last week, very much concentrated on new work based on the music of Kenny Wheeler, saw a 21 per cent uplift in marlbank readership compared to the previous week. Meaningless let’s be frank beyond anal trainspottery and the lure of vanity metrics but great, eh, that the flock is getting a bit bigger. Ewe never had it so good.
Oh, and we will sheepishly lob in the fun fact given Wheeler was a well known palindrome lover even if the irony isn’t lost that aibohphobia, a palindrome itself, is the fear of palindromes.
‘You fear jazz. You fear the lack of rules’ (The Mighty Boosh)
It’s not one man and his dog round here. Well, not recently, anyway.
But of course we aren’t getting zillions of readers either.
So, big up the trickle.
Welcome new readers, strays, blow-ins, rescue animals, canines, all. Woof. Sniff around
Pedigree chunks
Last week’s popular stories
- Wheeler With Words
- Kind of Kenny
- Stunning from Arild Andersen
- Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories
- Etudes / Quietudes
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WHAT’S GNU
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Preview: Blair/Huber to surface at SJQ on the evening of Easter Monday down in Dalston
Not even a case following frequent replay of once smitten twice shy.
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John Beasley with the SWR Big Band, Invisible Piano, O-tone music ****
Currently performing through until Saturday – as a member of Unlimited Miles at the Birdland jazz club in New York along with Sean Jones, Marcus Strickland, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Williams and Terreon Gully – John Beasley on Invisible Piano is here in a big band album incarnation to be released in May which features originals…
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Shalosh, What We Are Made Of, ACT ***
Covering Oasis, Muse and Aqua is not only a bit but a lot gimmicky. Otherwise beyond the purist baiting the trio continue doing what they have been accomplishing for a while. That is delivering accessible contemporary piano trio sounds as “invented” back in the late 1990s by the likes of e.s.t, The Bad Plus and…
