Category Archives: Just Runnings

WORD SOUND & POWER @ PAINTED PRINTED PLAYED

WORD SOUND & POWER joins forces with PAINTED PRINTED PLAYED and it is on at Rich Mix in Shoreditch for the duration of the London jazz Festival In the summer of 2012 – to celebrate 50 years of Jamaican Independence … Continue reading

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PAINTED PRINTED PLAYED @ Rich Mix

PAINTED PRINTED PLAYED! A VITAL SESSION… THIS THURSDAY 7th November… Swifty & I will be representing at the opening of this collective exhibition event, conceived and curated by freedom loving painter Gina Southgate. OK people.. there’s a £6.00 guest – … Continue reading

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LOU REED : WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

LOU REED was a legend. From Warhol’s NYC to the Punk generation and beyond, Lou Reed’s music never failed to resonate. A musical innovator and Chen taijiquan devotee he recently passed away aged 71 as a result of complications following … Continue reading

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Defining Me: Musical Adventures in Manchester

Defining Me: Musical Adventures in Manchester is at The Lowry from Sat 28 September – Sun 23 February. Defining Me: Musical Adventures in Manchester looks to me like one essential exhibition. I discovered the show via http://www.northernsoul.me.uk and an excellent … Continue reading

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SUMMER READS Mo’Meta Blues, Black Bazaar, Blood Of The Wicked

FOLLOWING ON FROM TONY ALLEN’S EXCELLENT MASTER DRUMMER OF AFROBEAT I COULDN’T RESIST a BIG UP for a few more SUMMER READS: Mo’Meta Blues, Black Bazaar, Blood Of The Wicked… Having read a couple of reviews that expressed reservations about … Continue reading

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Afrika70…..Baddest Band In Africa – Stereophonic-Supply Pays Tribute!

Afrika70…..The Baddest Band In Africa – Stereophonic-Supply pays tribute… While it might look like a bit of a vanity overload I couldn’t resist popping off some shots of the stereophonic-supply Africa70 tees while I was in Greece….the light was intense … Continue reading

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TONY ALLEN: MASTER DRUMMER OF AFROBEAT

TONY ALLEN: MASTER DRUMMER OF AFROBEAT is the focus of a forthcoming autobiography co-written with saxophonist/writer Michael E Veal. Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat is out in September and Tony has got together with saxophonist/writer … Continue reading

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SALE! JAPANESE BLUE NOTE LPs

SELEKSHAAN OF MINT CONDITION JAPANESE BLUE NOTES FOR SALE! All titles £20 each + £3.50) P&P – except Jimmy Smith £10.00 each. Please share this list with your fellow Blue Note fans! Hit me back if you’re interested in any … Continue reading

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AT LAST! A SOUNDTRACK TO THE ART OF BUYING REGGAE MUSIC

Finally, a soundtrack to ‘The Art Of Buying Reggae Music…..’  is LIVE on our stereophonic-supply site. Back in October 2011, I posted a piece here that recalled my reggae-music buying missions, during the early/mid Seventies, from Dalston Lane to Seven … Continue reading

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BOBBY ‘BLUE’ BLAND – Farther On Up The Road

Another great voice from the pantheon great R&B vocalists, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, passes away at 83. Having been schooled on what’s become known as “Northern Soul” I was inevitably given a couple of post all-nighter introductions to the distinctive husky … Continue reading

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