Ian Rankin talks about jazz

[Guest]

On New Year's Day, BBC Radio Scotland's The Jazz House was given over to an interview with author Ian Rankin. In addition to being a successful crime novelist, Rankin turns out to be a serious jazz buff, and selected all the music played on the show. His choices included pieces by Art Pepper, Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Miles Davis and his picks generally aren't the most obvious track by the musicians. He also includes performances by Edinburgh-based musicians Graeme Stephen, Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock.

It's available via Listen Again</a> until Sunday 9th (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018vcln). It's a very enjoyable programme: as well as having excellent taste in jazz, Rankin is an engrossing interviewee.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

thanks Byas'd ... mebbe we should all just move to Scotland eh ....

[Byas'd Opinion]

I wouldn't bother unless someone finds a way of relocating the country to somewhere with a less awful climate: just off the Canary Islands would do me.

the Met Office has confirmed that Scotland has secured a series of unwanted metereological records in 2011, with the country suffering its wettest year since records began.

("Wettest, coldest, windiest: Scots weather strikes again" http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/wett...gain_1_2031638)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

jamaica is looking good man ....