Is Professor Brian Cox Pete Burns Without Make-up?

Of course this post is entirely unrelated to this blogs' mission, for which I apologise, but I can't help but bring to readers' attention the uncanny facial similarities between Professor Cox and Pete Burns in his more recent facial incarnations.

As ever, I leave readers to make up there own minds.

Regards

Lee Morgan - Search for a New Land

Search for a New Land

Just came across this track from Lee Morgan's album of the same name.  A great line-up which includes Shorter on sax and Hancock on keys.  The wonderful horn theme blown by Morgan and Shorter echos the track's title perfectly, with Shorter's solo more melancholic and longing than Morgan in his.

Bob Cranshaw talking about Lee Morgan and Sidewinder

Bob Cranshaw talking about Lee Morgan and Sidewinder

Bob, who played bass on Sidewinder, talks about Lee in this clip.  Great section toward the end when he relates a tale of a forgotten pick-up on Sidewinder and spliced tapes....

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Bill Evans - Symbiosis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRTrqzUrcyI

This is what I've been listening to of late.

Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, New York, New York on February 11, 12 & 14, 1974.

The album runs the stylistic gamut: there are moments of Philip Glass-like minimalism, samba-flavored big-band passages, echoes of the early 20th century Russian composers, Third Stream jazz, lush yet slightly ominous string arrangements and '70s film music. Throughout, Evans, alternating between acoustic and electric pianos, shimmers and entrances with his inventively lyrical solos. Not your "typical" Bill Evans album--but that's what makes SYMBIOSIS such a fine, gently challenging listen.

Check out the other 4 movements on You Tube too; they're all pretty different.

The whole album in FLAC can be downloaded here:

http://holyfuckingshit40000.blogspot.com/2011/02/bill-evans-symbiosis-flac.html