Saturday, April 9, 2016

i have been trying to find ten interesting versions of "my favourite things", starting with the obvious ... did i say ten ?
















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33o32C0ogVM

















pomplamoose ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvYZMqQffQE

























john coltrane ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmpIA_bLcE















joey alexander ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzIlq7jZzw

























sarah vaughan ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusavln6Cjw















j rabbit ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqRoCwkH0M






















dave brubeck ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43T0HdVNOD8

























mary j blige ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCMl-620to



















stephen hough !!! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pih_W62LOVc

























bjork ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9jjjKShQ4

















kagyuma ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7j9eiXkY2I















youn sun nah ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3q6L8ONqCI















danilla ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQqaPzri0c

















jade williams ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0_-lAuTZao

























akihiro tanaka ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFPBT7iV6rQ

























al jarreau and kathleen battle ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQwzaNOyXQE























the lennon sisters ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-reAa2ushQ
















bill evans ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_PUZkJ79BE






















motis chamorro big band ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9QGvQqMnU













avila ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDtMj6aQZ7g















anna mansonn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItBdW_Tt5Q















youn sun nah creaky jackals remix ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItBdW_Tt5Q


















betty carter ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDtE1PhaC34

















brad mehldau ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiXs0nJZNYg

























grant green ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eShJiIRxm0

























levi barcourt ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJZar4PyFYg



















supremes - dj iLLume re-mix ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HloqNRffEiY





unknown ... maybe dan hardin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d372MMi0Dg

























lloyd conley ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJPst3ZvCIE




















christine moore and bev lewis ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFuI7KtjECU







unknown ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mx9K3g7Tk















two violins and lebedeva's jazz trio ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mx9K3g7Tk















strictly ... sophie ellis bexter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_UM6zGOcNs















yum-kyoung ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MI2gWTVLGQ
















john stoddart ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_UesC0q-0o














bobby macferrin ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Th4KleuBo















peter sprague ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0pyxsMAROY

Saturday, April 2, 2016

zaha hadid moves on ...




































Two days after Zaha Hadid’s untimely death, I’d been trying and failing to remember many details of an extended interview about her life that she recently gave on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.  Not much had lodged in my memory except for the impression of a passionate and determined woman with an exceptionally strong and capacious mind. 

Then last night, in dreamland, I found myself in the unlit Chapter House at Wells Cathedral, with a party of old friends, all exactly as I remembered them even though some are long since vanished; and although we’d never met, I wasn’t surprised to see Zaha Hadid among the group, now settled on a long bench that somehow reminded me of that pile of stone goddesses looted from the Parthenon and displayed in the British Museum.

They were being entertained by a group of standing minstrels, maybe troubadours, colourfully dressed.  They seemed to be a combination of Roxy Music c. 1972 and Piero della Francesca’s angelic musicians present at the Nativity, painted c. 1475.

I don’t remember what the band were playing in this dream but I do remember their heavenly glitz, especially the various lutes and citherns and a Bo Diddly square guitar, and every single instrument being enveloped in thin blue and gold Pentecostal flames.