Jerry Dammers, Duke Ellington and The Queen

The human being has patterned his every move, sound, and image after God’s other creatures and natural wonders. So begins Music and the Primeval by Duke Ellington. Tonight alongside Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz Orchestra I kicked off the first half of the event with his words at The Queen Elizabeth Hall through a piece written by rising star of Jazz Peter Edwards. The entire event was introduced by a letter from The Queen. Read more [...]

Lost in the edit Without a Key.

Pelecanos compliments me on my quilted chucks (quilted all star converse) and asks where I got them from. It was a cool note. And with pride I tell him Hackney, only in green. But I think it was a sampledesign linenot sure you can get them, but I tell Pelecanos that there are stores all over the country. That's George Pelecanos who wrote The Wire. Read more [...]

Shipwrecked.

The parents had to decide which child must be eaten for the survival of the others. So terrifying was the process that they convinced themselves God would choose who must be eaten. When the children enquire after their brother they tell them He must have left us and tried to get break free of the island The parents cried in front of their children as they ate. And their children secretly resented their brother for this. where is this food from asks one of the children. God provides says the mother, tears filling her eyes. Read more [...]