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For those of you listening in black and white, this one’s in technicolor.

The Jam – The Gift

I’m still sad that The Jam split up.

It’s been 23 years, since this, The Jam’s final album, came out. It’s full of signposts pointing at the exit Weller was heading towards. And whilst some of his subsequent work has been good (a lot has been shite, to be fair), I can’t help thinking that there isn’t a solitary tune in his oeuvre that wouldn’t have sounded better recorded by The Fucking Jam.

Steve Nichol, who played trumpet on this album was later one of Loose Ends, trivia fans.

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12-Tone?

John Coltrane – Giant Steps

The title track of this album is supposed to be a motherfucker to solo over. Ask poor Tommy Flanagan, the pianist on this recording, who had the sheet music dropped in his lap mere hours before the recording session, and – despite being thrown under the jazz-bus - made a better job of it than any of us ever could.

Whilst listening to this, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole over whether this piece was 12-Tone or not. There’s an interesting article here (blog.danreitz.com/why-giant-st…), if you’re as dull as me.

Nowadays, as far as difficulty playing music is concerned, I’m just glad when I can see the numbers on the label without my glasses, to be honest.

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