One of the many reasons I love film photography: an envelope containing scans and developed negatives is just about the only post I receive that puts a smile on my face.
Love having my desk under a skylight. Looked up from emails just now to see more than 10 red kites circling 😍
I’m always on the lookout for new quotes about my playing, and once again YouTube has delivered:
“xylophone player has got somewhere he needs to be. Playing double speed here. Slow down my man!”
I don’t know if it’s cool, but can’t stop coming back to this brilliant Dylan cover. So much joy in this music. I felt the same about Brad Mehldau’s duo with Joshua Redman.
Love the atmosphere we get at Yazz Ahmed’s Trio gigs. I think the intimacy and quietness of it draws people in in a very different way from her larger band stuff…
Here’s a video from a couple of months back
Is there a better view, on the whole of the tube network, than the one between Chalfont & Latimer and Chesham?
I think I’ve scared Facebook by not logging on for a few days. They’ve started sending me emails about random events in an attempt to lure me back. SAD.
Just received another email from another company asking me to confirm that I still want to be on their mailing list. These new data protection laws are proving to be very useful in purging my email subscriptions.
The last few days have been the first time (as far as I can remember) that I’ve had my vibraphone with me on holiday. Been such a pleasure to do some practice without any distractions/guilt/obligations etc. If only I could re-create this feeling at home.
Tonight, ‘Jazz Trumpet Sensation’ @YazzAhmed1 and her Hafla Band hit the Jazz Cafe. I’d never played here until December last year, but this is now my 4th time back. Weird how things come in waves.
In the studio with Miguel Gorodi. Mega music.
http://ralphwyld.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_4129.movThere’s no day quite like a scans day. Especially when I started some of these rolls 3 months ago.
This weekend I could have been gigging in Tunisia, but they couldn’t find a vibraphone. Or Dubai, but I couldn’t get a visa in time. Ah well, rainy England it is.
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New mallets arrived today, courtesy of the fastest percussion shop in the West (or South), @SPercussion. @mikebalter #teambalter
With all the Facebook stuff going on, it seems like the right time to start posting things on a platform over which I have some control. So here it is, a blog my website (ralphwyld.co.uk/blog) which is then syndicated by micro.blog (http://help.micro.blog/2015/why-i-created-this)