Harvest of Highlights

  • April 2025 Playlist

    Before embarking on a house move (which is the reason this monthly playlist post is so late by the way) I indulged a musical itch I have been dying to scratch for many years attending a Friday night show at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. As a jazz lover whose appreciation and journey into… Read more

  • March 2025 Playlist

    I cannot claim to have worried too much about the impact AI might have on my musical world. I trust my own ears to recognize the authenticity in older music and I would argue my tastes in newer releases tend to lead me towards the more organic sounds played by legitimate musicians and even in… Read more

  • February 2025 Playlist

    Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565 Toccata’ opens a three-disc set of Bach’s Organ Works played by Karl Richter that I have been listening to. As far as pieces of classical music go, this is as famous a piece that you could find even if its full title may not… Read more

  • January 2025 Playlist

    It seems like there was a lot of mess around me at the end of 2024, not literal mess as that is always there, more like life mess that needed wading through before I could get the new year started. So, this monthly playlist is a little later in the month than usual but, I… Read more

  • December 2024 Playlist

    I think the past month might go down as the juncture in my musical journey when I finally started to love King Crimson. It is certainly not the month when I started listening to them, that began at least five years ago when I began collecting the remastered anniversary CD re-issues of their original late… Read more

  • November 2024 Playlist

    One of my first ever interactions with another music journalist occurred after a Paul Simon concert in 1991 that I attended. I think it was in the Daily Telegraph that the review appeared and, having loved the gig from start to finish, I was rather disappointed with a write up focusing on Simon’s spontaneity zapping… Read more