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cameraman/librarian/music lover https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/ nottingham, uk
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she's got her finger on the pulse. on the PULSE.

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hear me out: stath lets flats next bond

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Hoo boy, let me tell you about that Summer of 1976. I was 6 months and not allowed to leave the caravan.

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Julian Priester was born in Chicago on this day in 1935. He turns 90 today. 📸 Frans Schellekens/Redferns, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1983

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is this guy me? no, but it could be one day. that kind of piece.

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God, I've got to go out.

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I'll buy any Bobby Hutcherson record I see. What a great improvising musician.

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James Bond will return in: The World Used To Be Enough, But Now What With All The Different Gadgets And Whatnots, Everybody's Lost Their Damned Minds.

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Finally back in the dark and cool of the kitchen. Not good in this weather.

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Blog post: A short piece on the series of pretty music scores published by Penguin Books in the late 40s/early 50s. heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

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Hoping they show Kneecap, for the sake of all the Patella Zealots.

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a pauper's wang chung

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Blog post: A Latin Jazz Playlist For A Warmish Weekend heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/2025/04/jazz...

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Contains some useful, helpful pointers for anyone who'd like to try getting involved in music-making projects in the community. #FirstLastAnything

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Jeff Bezos's All-Gabrieli Reception Playlist

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At the age of 92 Alfred Brendel was thrilled to have discovered Handel. But he thought Grieg was a gateway to Rachmaninov. Which was not good. My conversations with the great pianist who died recently. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/70308/...

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Back on Jeremy West's superb The Age Of Extravagance, with a good morning and H/T to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social

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Busta Rhymes lived in Morecambe?

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thinking about Louis Moholo again (obit on Guardian now) I re-read this piece about the Blue Notes. Writing about music is hard, and never sure I really know how, but this is as near as I’ve got to what I wanted to say about some of it. #jazzsky ukjazznews.com/ogun-blue-no...

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