Month: March 2022

Pymlico

A house in Pimlico, London Today, Crotchety Man has followed the sign at the Burning Shed, and headed in the direction of Pymlico. We have agreed to meet there on 20th May to celebrate the release of that band's seventh album, Supermassive. In the meantime, I have been mugging up on both the Pymlico band…Read more Pymlico

Sympatheia

For the next two weeks or so, Calum Graham, acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, is running a crowdfunding campaign for his next album. He has appeared in these pages twice before (Waiting, Billie Jean) and on both occasions I have marvelled at his work. CG's last album, Thread of Creation (2019), was self-released and doesn't appear on…Read more Sympatheia

Breathing Istanbul

This track-of-the-week is just under five minutes of cool jazz, courtesy of my Hubzilla friend, Manuel. How he finds these tunes I can not imagine, but his taste is impeccable. https://youtu.be/u0eBHd_VK00 Breathing Istanbul is from Marco Vezzoso's 2021 album, Travel, whose eight tracks take us from the famous Turkish city with its spectacular mosque, through…Read more Breathing Istanbul

Those Were the Days

I well remember the sixties. It was a time of unbounded optimism. Well, except for the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of JFK, it was. Bright young things were putting a fresh coat of paint on everything - fashion, art, music and even politics. The kids were wearing flowers in their hair, and the…Read more Those Were the Days

Kaipa

Ura Kaipa was the name of a Swedish chieftain, and also the original name of the Swedish prog rock band, Kaipa. Less original was the title of their first album, Kaipa, which was released in 1975. The band was unknown to Crotchety Man until it was brought to my attention by the latest issue of…Read more Kaipa

Concert for Ukraine

Newsflash: On Sunday, 13th March, at 7 pm, the Jazz After Hours website will be streaming a Concert for Ukraine. The headline act is Alina Bzhezhinska and the HipHarp Collective. Alina is a Ukrainian-born jazz harpist, and she comes with a 5-star rating from the Crotchety Critics Circle. For further details, click the image above.…Read more Concert for Ukraine