"Help! I'm being repressed!" Some thoughts on Accident, watched last night.

A ★★★★ review of Accident (1967)

Accident was a runner-up which lost to Antonioni's Blow Up, at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival - another film shot in England at that time by a non-British director. Interesting how both film makers wer...

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About one third of the way into Michael Powell's autobiography and absolutely loving it. The descriptions of his childhood years living on a hop farm in Kent are beautifully evocative. He's like an old charmer, recounting tales over a bitter in some oak-panelled Soho boozer.

Tonight's movie

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#NowPlaying Seems like every new-to-me jazz record I've recently listened to instantly takes a place in my top 5 jazz records of all time.

Tonight's re-watch. A haunting, revenge drama set in the fog-drenched forests of Czechoslovakia during the final days of WW2.

#NowPlaying Such an interesting hotch-potch of different styles, all inimitably Ayers.

#NowPlaying Some classic MPB from 1972. Those harmonies... <swoons>

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Discarded Barry Manilow record in Norwich Market. Someone is going through a tough break-up.

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#Nowplaying Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, bringing the heat

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#NowPlaying The Great Concert of Eric Dolphy (1974) Collects each of the three Dolphy 5-Spot LPs into one triple album. Some seriously special music.

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#NowPlaying Sun Ra - Cosmos (1977)

#NowPlaying Woody Shaw - Love Dance (1976)

#NowPlaying Azar Lawrence - Summer Solstice (1975) Energetic spiritual/latin jazz from McCoy Tyner's favourite sax player. This album cooks 🫕

#NowPlaying Vinicius & Baden - Os Afro Sambas (1966)

Deerhoof tearing it up at Norwich Arts Centre last night 💥

#NowPlaying Bobby Hutcherson- Montara (1975) "When you think about music, it's got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy" - Bobby Hutcherson

#NowPlaying Don Cherry - Complete Communion "Nowadays, you can bring the whole world into one room, and this capacity for unity is an element that jazz has always had for me." - Don Cherry

#NowPlaying Luiz Henrique - Mestiço (1975) Wonderful lost gem of offbeat samba-jazz, bossa & MPB. Quality 2022 re-issue by Somatoria Do Barulho.

#NowPlaying Burnier & Cartier Beautiful MPB / soul-jazz from 1974

#NowPlaying "That’s what it’s really all about—it’s how you feel, not how much money you make or how popular it is, in this kind of music I play." - Freddie Hubbard, 1973

#NowPlaying Caetano Veloso - Cinema Transcendental (1979) The cover says it all

Happy Birthday, Don Luis Buñuel - here looking ineffably cool. BOTD 1900.

#NowPlaying Jorge Ben - África Brasil (1976)