I'm overdue a catch up...been busy doing lots of stuff including this episode of #Screenshot on doppelgangers and clones. Psyche bending stuff with Richard Ayoade, a history lesson from Prof. Monster @adamgolub.bsky.social & acting secrets from Martha Byrne www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it. TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.

For those of us lucky enough to have had a proper break over Christmas: good luck getting to sleep tonight. The exhausting familiarity of reality will resume shortly

Rays of Light over Glasgow

My album of the year for @everythingjazz.bsky.social is @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's wonderful Technically Acceptable Read the full collection of writer's picks from the year.... www.everythingjazz.com/story/our-al...

Douglas Gordon’s nod to Hitchcock’s Vertigo in Glasgow’s Trongate

Published this yesterday on @everythingjazz.bsky.social, it was wonderful to revisit this album which still sounds so timeless and forward thinking. Thanks to Andrew Taylor Dawson for a great piece.

The @uofglasgow.bsky.social in the purple fog

no place has a weirder street culture and it's great

Sorrow remembers us when day is done. It sits in its old chair gently rocking and singing tenderly in the evening… —Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done” published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021) www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

Just published on @everythingjazz.bsky.social a great first piece from our latest new writer, the composer @jonopstad.bsky.social on Jan Garbarek's beautiful 1971 Afric Pepperbird and the emergence of the ECM aesthetic www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...

Ya beauty!

Just published this on @everythingjazz.bsky.social Daniel Spicer's great survey of Max Roach in his centenary year www.everythingjazz.com/story/max-ro...

YES! this is such a great Christmas movie for everyone except those left by their families at boarding school

This is horrible, and a great reminder that we are in the wild west of media at the moment I hope it comes with a disclaimer for listeners that guests have paid to be interviewed

Great piece full of context, sense and feeling

Here, I got you one of those you like: those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small and sweeter than they’ve any right to be… —Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple” Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022 www.donpaterson.net/about-1-1

Just published this on @everythingjazz.bsky.social @bluenoterecords.bsky.social's hottest new band is a supergroup in the making Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Gerald Clayton, Matt Brewer, & Kendrick Scott - Avengers Assemble! www.everythingjazz.com/story/sowing...

New on @everythingjazz.bsky.social this week - a clutch of Christmas jazz on vinyl that is properly swinging and good. Guaranteed not to drive you mad! www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-co...

We were lucky to be in the Barrowlands for the shooting of James McAvoy’s directorial debut “California Schemin” - the true story of two rappers from Dundee who were laughed out of London by the music biz for being Scottish…/

"Listen Moira, I'm no in the mood. It's a baw or nothin". An exasperated looking Santa meets his match in the form of a crowd of Glasgow nursery weans. 📷 Newsquest

Great Coltrane context

@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social right on the money, as always

Bonny Light Horseman joined by the wonderful Aidan O’Rourke & Martin Green from Lau at the QMU in Glasgow

Read the Everything Jazz feature on “The Jazz Discovery of the Year” --> McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson's "Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’" including an interview with producer Zev Feldman! www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-ja...

Never noticed this massive chimney behind The Garage on Sauchiehall Street before. Anyone know which building it served? Perhaps the pre Garage Locarno Ballroom, or the earlier Charing Cross Electric Theatre? Anyway, it looks nice against all the straight lines and the blue sky

My #library tour of Glasgow continues…yesterday it was Langside (closing in a few weeks, so go soon!) Looking down on the kid’s section is this beauty of a mural depicting Mary, Queen of Scots’ defeat in 1568, just up the hill at Battlefield. painted by Maurice Greiffenhagen in 1921.

Applications are open for the James McCune Smith (JMS) Scholarships here @uofglasgow.bsky.social. which fund Black UK students to undertake PhD research in Glasgow in any field. They provide an enhanced experience and are very well-supported. www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships.... Please share this widely

More #Glasgow #library action. Today it’s stained glass in Govanhill

The skull of a hippo, found in the River Kelvin years after its skeleton was put there by museum staff to let nature strip the bones clean. Currently on display in #Govanhill #library would love to know the full story, any ideas @pastglasgow.bsky.social ?

Iconic library carpets of Glasgow ❤️

I had a lovely time chatting to @ellenejones.bsky.social about MGM musicals, Arthur Freed, and the blasphemy that is Ryan Gosling’s hand on the LA LA LAND poster for this great ep of Screenshot, also with impassioned contributions by @daveyjenkins.bsky.social et al.! open.spotify.com/episode/40f1...

Absolutely stoked-beyond-words to be asked as a guest on one of my favourite shows. That it was to wax lyrical about The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Jacques Demy, well that’s just the icing on the gateau... And what incredible company too!!

Always a joy to be back producing with Team Screenshot, and what could be more life enhancing that the musical? Check out another glitzy podcast 👇

Spent a v fun day working with Jumoké Fashola and the jazz superwomen Samara Joy, and Brandee Younger. The stories will appear on www.everythingjazz.com soon…

Bliss! Brandee Younger with Rashaan Carter (bass) and Allan Mednard (drums) playing Alice Coltrane’s “Turiya & Ramakrishna” at Earth Hackney

“Love takes off the mask that we fear we can’t live without, and can’t live within” The wonderful Meshell Ndegeocello (+ Justin Hicks & stunning band) bringing the words of James Baldwin to life at the London Jazz Festival last night ❤️

👋 Blue Sky, I just deactivated my Twitter account. I'll be sorry to miss some great people, but the horror : benefit ratio got too bad. I'd appreciate any pointers to good #music #radio #podcasts #jazz #classical #film #culture everywhere but especially in #Glasgow & #Scotland