Jun 20: Music for a New Crossing

I bought this CD from a record shop in Durham back in 2001. I was up there for a meeting with Professor Tim Burt who had agreed to help me with some research that I was doing at the time.

The album was commissioned by Music North and premiered at the opening of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in September 2001. 

It's a limited edition CD and I'm not sure how many of them were made.

The Millennium Bridge was a 'new crossing' of the river Tyne.

I visited and crossed the bridge when I was up in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2024 to give the Cath White Memorial Lecture.

Image: Alan Parkinson, shared on Flickr under CC license.

Apr 17: Nordic Light

A surprise new release today from Jan Garbarek... not new material - there's been none of that for a long time now sadly... but a lengthy compilation album called Nordic Light. 

The track selection is actually really good on this one, and gives you a good sense of the variety of styles that he has been involved with over the years.