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Park Plaza Riverbank doesn’t deliver
22.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

A couple of weekends ago, Sam and I stayed at the Park Plaza Riverbank, a nice modern 4-star hotel in London, by the Thames, just a bit upstream from the Houses of Parliament.
We booked from LastMinute.com and got a double room for a mere £93 for the night. I completed the field for special requirements [...]
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‘Woody ‘n’ you’ - not what it seems
02.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

In idle moments, I’ve been known to wonder who the Woody is in the old jazz standard Woody ‘n’ you.
Well, last week BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Library programme solved the mystery. It’s not a who, but a what. ‘It’s very rude!’, said the guest.
Oops! That puts a whole new face on it!
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Thelonious Monk
18.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want — you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing — even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”
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The A-bomb was invented in William Burroughs’ old classroom
07.01.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

“[Burroughs] was pleased to hear that during the war the school was sequestered by the government for the Manhattan project and it was there, in Bill’s old classroom, the atomic bomb was invented. ‘It seemed so right, somehow,’ he commented later.”
Jack Kerouac, a portrait, by Barry Miles, p53.
It can’t seem more right.