It's very strange at the moment, to have an abundance of work that I really love.
Some of my jobs (it has to be said) are a little like getting blood out of a stone, but the majority are great to research and write. There are times when I'm sitting at my desk and the words won't come - that's when I know that it's going to be a boring story. Luckily, there are really few of those and they usually come from a brief that is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
There's a joy in writing. Putting words together so that they inform or entertain and it really matters little what the subject is.
I am so fortunate that I can actually earn my living as a writer, with such a wide variety of outputs and subjects. Fortunate, too, that I was blessed with the ability and desire to work hard. Considering how utterly, utterly unhappy I was this time last year, it is almost incredible.
My first visit to Jazz Cafe Posk in London's Hammersmith coincided with the 60th anniversary of Posk - The Polish Social and Cultural Association - and the first performance in the club by pianist and composer Darius Brubeck. Photo credit @ Hilary Seabrook Darius was 10 when he joined his father on a historic tour of Poland. The Dave Brubeck Quartet toured Poland from 6 to 18 March 1958, just three years after the communist regime's ban on jazz was lifted. Without a doubt, this was the biggest jazz event in post-war Poland, with the archetypal and hugely successful outfit of Dave Brubeck (piano), Paul Desmond (alto sax), Eugene Wright (bass) and Joe Morello (drums). Sixty years later, in 2018, Darius took his own quartet - the same one he brought to Posk in May 2024 - to Poland for a significant tour, recorded and released as the Live in Poland album. Several of the tracks from this album were in the set at Posk and this quartet displayed in depth the benefits of playing to...
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