Month: May 2026

The Monday prompt is obvious. Less so the candles mention. But the Someone Tried to Sell Me a Bridge Lead Belly cover therein is a Monday one and links. Because Its inclusion chimes with the fact that its interpreter Sir Van Morrison is 81 today. While he does other styles he is the greatest jazz musician in spirit and sometimes style that Ireland, north and south, has ever produced whether distracted away from the genre which he clearly knows inside out in terms of feeling and empathy singing the blues, country, blue eyed soul, trad Irish, skiffle or early rock and roll as is his frequent wont. You want proof? OK. His best jazz album is below as one example, others include his work with the late Joey DeFrancesco and a certain pick your jaw up off the floor appearance with Chet Baker years before that like How Long... took place in shrine of all shrines Ronnie Scott's eternal home of jazz in England - that ain't gonna change any time soon - since it decamped over from what is now Chinatown where it began in 1959.