I flew over from Brazil on Thursday and, as usual, had raydio 4 on the raydio wen I was drivin out of Lundun. One of the subjeks on the program was wether Inglish shood becum fonetik as in sum uther youropian countries (sorry, had to spell that properly for any younger readers!!). Aparently, one in […]
Archive for May, 2008
May 18, 2008
Bob Florence dies at 75
I’ve just heard that Bob Florence died Thursday night, 5 days before his 76th birthday.
May 13, 2008
How well do you tell your story?
I’ve lived in Brazil now for 5 years. When I came here I spoke virtually no Portuguese whatsoever. Hello, please and thank you was about it. Obviously to make my self understood I had to learn, very quickly. After a year or so I could hold a conversation quite well and although my vocabulary wasn’t […]
May 10, 2008
Introducing the Judy Carmichael Septet
I’m taking a break from catching up on emails and I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you a bit about the band and the musicians therein because there are some names that you may not be familiar with. … That the band is going to be good, and put on a superb show goes with out saying - it is made up of THE best swing musicians in the world and led by the worlds leading stride pianist, Judy Carmichael .
May 4, 2008
Twitter not
Just a quickie. Back at home for day in the middle of the tour with Judy Carmichael. I was messing around with Twitter a while ago and finally signed up a few days before the tour started - the idea being to ‘Twitter’ away on the road and use them as small blogs. However, due […]
