So, my impending move to Darwin is getting closer and with each day so the thoughts regarding how I plan to transplant my life to this distant city become more concrete. You can only make a decision like this if you can imagine yourself there, but this does not always translate into the practical reality of making a life there.
Much like when I moved to Alice Springs in 2006-07, I plan to document the life of those around me as I encounter it. I’ll do my best this time to not bore you all with too many words but to also capture this visually. I hope to give you all a view of the easily misunderstood world of Darwin. I can’t promise I won’t be part of the misunderstandings, but this is invariably part of the process of learning to live somewhere new.
At the same time, I’ll be talking more about music and books. They both tell stories, albeit in different ways, and I plan on reviewing the stories I’ve been most interested in lately as well as the ones that will surely capture my attention later.
At the moment, I am working on two reviews: Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band’s 2008 release, Season of Changes, and Ahmad Jamal’s 1958 release, Live at the Pershing: But Not For Me.
Seeing the Brian Blade is likely to be the first off the blocks, here is my favourite Ahmad Jamal clip of his trio playing Darn that Dream.
