Keith & Julie Tippett youtube video
Keith & Julie Tippett live in Jazz à Luz 2007 video YouTube
The great couple is joined here by Paul Dunmall for a beautiful improvisation.
Famous as Julie Driscoll before her marriage, since the 1970s she has concentrated on experimental vocal music, married jazz musician Keith Tippett and collaborated with him. Her name is now ‘Julie Tippetts’, [...]
bonuses, unemployment and BA profit failure
US bank bonuses
US bank bonuses bear no relation to their performance, says a report by New York Attorney Andrew Cuomo’s office.
A quote from Bloomberg: “When the banks did well, their employees were paid well. When the banks did poorly, their employees were paid well,” Cuomo’s office said in the 22-page report. “When the [...]
Coastal footpaths concern
On the radio this morning, Natural England reported that about 1,000 miles of the English coastline are inaccessible. This is about one third of the total.
Natural England state- “The findings come as the result of an extensive audit – conducted by Natural England, in partnership with 53 local access authorities – into existing access to [...]
watercolour – chairentity conducts classical guitar recital
The chairentity, Number 12, conducts the pliable no 9 in verse 1 of the planned song.
J K Rowling – quidditch through the ages
The book j k rowling – quidditch through the ages has just been released by Bloomsbury.
WHSmiths’ description: Did you know that there are 700 ways of committing a foul in Quidditch? The game first began to evolve on Queerditch Marsh? What Bumphing is? That Puddlemere United is oldest team in the Britain and Ireland league? [...]
Bhagavan Das on video
Bhagavan Das AH 2002
the lengths i go to to provoke comments from LD!
Bhagavan Das is most widely known for bringing Ram Dass to his guru, Maharaji. Here Bhagavan Das celebrates the release of his classic album AH to CD/DVD.
Karl Seglem youtube videos
Karl Seglem Kvintet: Nye Nord
Karl Seglem is a Norwegian tenor saxophonist, goat horn player, composer, producer and poet. Called one of Norway´s foremost musicians – with an unique sound, He often uses Norwegian traditional music as a starting point for his own compositions, improvisations and poetry.
This is a live recording of the Karl Seglem Quintet [...]
shell profits and house prices
shell profits
Shell profits are down 70% compared to this quarter last year. Much worse than BP.
“World oil prices fell back from record highs last summer as the global economic bubble burst, and the recession took hold, sparked by the crisis in the credit markets.
Crude prices fell as low as $30 a barrel [...]
organics, soul and planet
organics, soul and planet
On today’s news there is a report that organic foods show no benefit to the consumers compared what they call ‘normal’ foods. By normal, they mean artificially fertilised, pest controlled etc.
It seems typical of this fragmented age that the report doesn’t even mention the planet or the human psyche and soul. The [...]
sunbed ban likely following cancer evidence
Until recently, the medical establishment had declared sunbeds a ‘probable risk’ to health through skin cancer. On today’s news this has been changed to ‘definite risk’.
the World Health Organization made its decision following a review of research which concluded that the risk of melanoma – the most deadly form of skin cancer – was increased [...]