Radio Silence

Sorry I've been a bit quiet on here for a while now. This is for two reasons:

1. I've been working on a big review of the decade - 200 best albums and 50 best films.

2. I've been busy with the Write Stuff journalism course organised by Serious and Jazzwise magazine. I'll publish a full diary of my London Jazz Festival week here in due course. In the meantime, here's a link to my rapturous review of John Surman at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last night:

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/write-stuff-mainmenu-145/11043-john-surman--queen-elizabeth-hall--181109-review-daniel-paton

To quench your thirst for new content just a little, here's a hint at what I've been/will be listening to:

Kit Downes Trio - Golden (Basho)
Gwilym Simcock - Blues Vignette (Basho)
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic (Something In Construction)
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (Dead Oceans)
Molina and Johnson - Molina and Johnson (Secretly Canadian)
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live (Anti)
REM - Live At The Olympia (Warner Bros)
Dave Rawlings Machine - A Friend of A Friend (Acony)
Elvis Costello - Live At The El Mocambo (Universal)
TrioVD - Fill It Up With Ghosts (Babel)
Jim Hart's Gemini - Narrada (Loop)
Keith Jarrett - Testament (ECM)
Stefano Bollani - Stone In The Water (ECM)
Ralph Towner/Paolo Fresu - Chiaroscuro (ECM)
John Abercrombie - Wait Til You See Her (ECM)
Tomasz Stanko - Dark Eyes (ECM)
Tord Gustavsen - Restored, Returned (ECM)
Antipop Consortium - Flourescent Black (Big Dada)