Adrian Yekkes: Dee Dee Bridgewater - Fine and mellow live!

2024 Reading List

Teatime At Peggy’s - Stephen McClarence & Clare Jenkins
War And Peace And War - Andrew North
The Mistress Of Bhatia House - Sujata Massey
The Ashram Assassin - Andrew Cartmel
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me - Selçuk Altun
Slow Trains To Istanbul - Tom Chesshyre
Street Without A Name - Kappa Kassabova
The Museum Of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk
Gay Shame - Gareth Roberts
A Goddess In The Stones - Norman Lewis
Homage to The Eighth District - Giorgio and Nicola Pressburger
Patna Blues - Abdullah Khan
A Game Of Fire - Nanak Singh
The Diaries Of Mr. Lucas - Hugo Greenhalgh
Budapest Noir - Vilmos Kondor
Katalin Street - Magda Szabo
Mahmud And Ayaz - R. Raj Rao
Black River - Nilanjana Roy
The Vinyl Detective Noise Floor - Andrew Cartmel
Dragged Up Proppa - Pip Fallow
Art - Peter Carty
District Vlll - Adam Lebor
A Twisted Mind - Eva Carmichael
Bloody Sunday - Douglas Murray
Kossuth Square - Adam Lebor
Dr. B. - Daniel Birnbaum
Nobody Lives Here - Lex Lesgever
The Secret Of More - Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
Glorious People - Sasha Salzmann
City Of Lions - Jozef Wittlin and Philippe Sands
The Detective - Jay Chowdhury
Hymns In Blood - Nanak Singh
How To Kill Your Family - Bella Mackie
Dohany Street - Adam Lebor
City On Fire - Zeyad Masroor Khan
The Border - Erika Fatland
Things I Didn't Throw Out - Marcin Wicha
My Pen Is The Wing Of A Bird - New Fiction By Afghan Women

2023 READING LIST

Fire On The Ganges - Radhika Iyengar
Simla In Ragtime - Doz
West Jerusalem Noir
High Caucasus - Tom Parfitt
At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig - John Gimlette
The Corpse Flower - Anne Mette Hancock
Pyre - Perumal Murugan
Mercy - Jussi Adler-Olsen
Five Past Midnight In Bhopal - Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro
Dudiya In Your Burning Land - Vishwas Patil
Sovietstan - Erika Fatland
Cold Fish Soup - Adam Farrer
73 Dove Street - Julie Owen Moylan
Filmi Stories - Kunal Basu
The Sea Elephants - Shastri Akella
People Love Dead Jews - Dara Horn
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
Israelophobia - Jake Wallis Simons
Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan
On Sal Mal Lane - Ru Freeman
The Diary Keepers - Nina Siegal
A Death In Jerusalem - Jonathan Dunsky
Mud Sweeter Than Honey - Margo Rejmer
Sworn Virgin - Elvira Dones
To Hell And Back - Barkha Dutt
Broken April - Ismail Kadare
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere - Jan Morris
Free - Lea Ypi
Curry - Shrabani Basu
Azadi - Chaman Nahal
The Lost Victory - Khushwant Singh
History's Angel - Anjum Hasan
Hitler Stalin Mum & Dad - Daniel Finkelstein
The Vienna Writers Circle - J.C. Maetis
Minarets In The Mountains - Tharik Hussain
The New Life - Tom Crewe
A Boundless Fear Gripped Me - Pamela Philips
Truth/ Untruth - Mahasweta Devi
Crossing The Tees - The Sixth Short Story Anthology
The Seaside - Madeleine Bunting
Death In Fine Condition - Andrew Cartmel
My Policeman - Bethan Roberts
High - Erika Fatland
Cambodia's Curse - Joel Brinkley
The Story Of The Forest - Linda Grant
Trespassess - Louise Kennedy
Come To This Court And Cry - Linda Kinstler
Chowringhee - Sankar
I See The Face - Shahidul Zahir
Life And Political Reality: Two Novellas - Shahidul Zahir
The Education Of Yuri - Jerry Pinto
Tales From The Colony Room - Darren Coffield
One Small Voice - Santanu Bhattacharya
The North Will Rise Again - Alex Niven
Broken Heartlands - Sebastian Payne
One Hundred Saturdays - Michael Frank
Ramgolam - Harishankar Jaladas
Imaan - Manoranjan Byapari
We Move - Gurnaik Johal

2022 reading list

Modern Times - Stephen Pogany
Death On Diagonal Lane - Pashupati Chatterji
Half Blood - Pronto Datta
Sunset Club - Khushwant Singh
No Way In - Udayan Mukherjee
The Hunter Of Lalbazar - Suhit Sen
Byomkesh Bakshi - Saradindu Bandopadhyay
Conviction - D.A. Mishani
A Little London Scandal - Miranda Emmerson
Gods And Ends - Lindsay Pereira
The Blood Divide - A.A. Dhand
The Lost Man Of Bombay - Vaseem Khan
Calcutta Nights - Hemendra Kumar Roy
1232 km The Long Journey Home - Vinod Kapri
The Glass Pearls - Emeric Pressburger
Edgeware Road - Yasmin Cordery Khan
Tawaifnama - Saba Dewan
I'll Die After Bingo - Pope Lonergan
The Reluctant Carer - The Reluctant Carer
Take Away - Angela Hui
Clubland - Pete Brown
Ladies Tailor - Priya Hajela
The Girls Of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
Corner Shop - Babita Sharam
Lucky Bunny - Jill Dawson
The City Of Good Death - Priyanka Champaneri
The Cook - Ajay Chowdhury
The People of the Abyss -Jack London
Ironopolis - Glen James Brown
Two and a Half Rivers - Anirudh Kala
Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
Delhi In Thy Name - Adrija Roychowdhruy
The Vinyl Detective - Attack and Decay - Andrew Cartmel
The Return Of Faraz Ali - Aamina Ahmad
The Evenings - Gerard Reve
The Housing Lark - Sam Selvon
In The Midst Of Civilized Europe - Jeffrey Veidlinger
The Ballad Of Ayesha - Anisul Hoque
The Library - Bella Osborne
The Parcel - Anosh Irani
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy - Mark Hodkinson
House on Endless Waters - Emuna Elon
The Good Girls - Sonia Faleiro
Taxi Wallah And Other Stories - Numair Atif Chowdhury
Mothers Boy - Howard Jacobson
Adda! The College Street Coffee House - Jael Silliman
Train To India - Maloy Krishna Dhar
To Egypt With Love - Viviane Bowell
Should We Fall Behind - Sharon Duggal
Dead End Street - Trevor Wood
On Division - Goldie Goldbloom
A State Of Fear - Laura Dodsworth
Some Kind'a Soho - David Saunders and Darren Russell
Victoria Park - Gemma Reeves
Homebound - Puja Changoiwala
Ways Of Living - Gemma Seltzer
Plunder - Menachem Kaiser
Mud Sweeter Than Honey - Margo Rejmer
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
Against The Law - Peter Wildeblood

2021 reading list

The Hiding Game - Naomi Wood
London Triptych - Jonathan Kemp
When Time Stopped - Ariana Neumann
Lifting The Veil - Ismat Chughtai
In Plain Sight - Mohamed Thaver
Victory Colony 1950 - Bhaswati Ghosh
The Satapur Moonstone - Sujata Massey
A Death In Shonagachhi - Rijula Das
The Island Of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
An Observant Wife - Naomi Ragen
Longing Belonging - Bishwanath Ghosh
One Way Street - Trevor Wood
The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story - A. Revathi
Pink Sari Revolution - Amana Fontanella-Khan
Lobster The Kosher Way - Garbo Garbo
The Walls of Delhi Three Stories - Uday Prakash
The Dying Day - Vaseem Khan
The Waiter - Ajay Chowdhury
The Man On The Street - Trevor Wood
Shameless - Taslima Nasreen
The Fortune Men - Nadifa Mohamed
A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam
Crossing The Tees - The Fourth Short Story Anthology
The Lost Cafe Schindler - Meriel Schindler
Ratno Dholi - The Best Stories Of Dhumketu
Legal Fiction - Chandan Pandey
London Burning - Anthony Quinn
Lajja - Taslima Nasrin
Mountain Tales - Saumya Roy
Nobody Can Love You More Than Me - Mayank Austen Soofi
Baghdad Noir
Midnight's Borders - Suchitra Vijayan
The Far Field - Madhuri Vijay
China Room - Sunjeev Sahota
Brixton Hill - Lottie Moggach
Suncatcher - Romesh Gunesekera
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - Esther Safran Foer
Three - D.A. Mishani
Noon Tide Toll - Romesh Gunesekera
Midnight In Cairo - Raphael Cormack
Untouchable - Mulk Raj Anand
Twilight In Delhi - Ahmed Ali
The Ravine - Wendy Lower
The Taming of The Jew - Tuvia Tenenbom
The Passenger - Ulrich Alexander Beschwätz
The Language of Thieves - Martin Puchner
The Hidden History of Burma - Thant Myint-U
The Gran Tour - Ben Aitken
The Book Of Dhaka A City In Short Fiction
No Presents Please - Jayant Kaikini
The Age Of Kali - William Dalrymple
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
Our People - Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust - Ruta Vanagaite and Efraim Zuroff
Karachi Vice - Shamira Shackle
Kalkatta - Kunal Basu
Jews Don't Count - David Baddiel
Girl Zero - A.A. Dhand
German Jerusalem - Thomas Sparr
Free Speech And Why It Matters - Andrew Doyle
Capital - The Eruption of Delhi - Rana Dasgupta
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Jung Chang
A Savage Dreamland - David Eimer
A General Theory of Oblivion - Jose Eduardo Agualusa
A Coup In Turkey - Jeremy Seal
Kololo Hill - Neema Shah

Listening to these in 2021

Roy Hargrove - Nothing To Lose
Johnny Hodges - Creamy
Roy Mor - After The Real Thing
Ari Erev - Close To Home
Yaala Ballin - Sings Irving Berlin
Judith and Dave O'Higgins - His 'n' Hers
Tubby Hayes - Mexican Green
Ian Shaw, Iain Bellamy and Jamie Safir - What's New
Francois Moutin and Kavita Shah Duo - Interplay
Aaron Diehl - Vagabond
Redman Mehldau McBride Blade - Round Again
Diana Krall - This Dream Of You
Mark Kavuma - Kavuma
Connie Han - Iron Starlet
Nicholas Payton - Relaxin' With Nick
Kandice Springs - The Women Who Raised Me
Dizzy Atmosphere - Dave Douglas
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'
Jazzmeia Horn - Love And Liberation

2020 reading list

Kings of Shanghai - Jonathan Kaufman
Delhi Noir edited by Hirsh Sawhney
Where The Indus Is Young - Dervla Murphy
Foreigners, Aliens, Citizens Medway And Its Jewish Community 1066-1939 - Irina Fridman
The Paper Bark Tree Mystery - Ovidia Yu
Midnight At Malabar House - Vaseem Khan
Essential Items And Other Tales From A Land In Lockdown - Udhayan Mukherjee
A Teesdale Death - John Nicholson
The Widows Of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey
The People On The Beach: Journeys To Freedom After The Holocaust - Rosie Whitehouse
One Way Out - A.A. Dhand
Bombay Stories - Saadat Hasan Manto
Death In Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh
Prelude To A Riot - Annie Zaidi
Streets Of Darkness - A.A. Dhand
The Nine Lives Of Pakistan - Declan Walsh
The Mysterious Ailment Of Rupi Baskey - Hansda Sowendra Shekhar
Truck De India - Rajat Ubhaykar
Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi
City Of Sinners - A.A. Dhand
Low Action - Andrew Cartmel
All The Devils Are Here - David Seabrook
The Adivasi Will Not Dance - Hansda Sowendra Shekhar
The Gurkha's Daughter - Prajwal Parajuly
Maximum City Bombay Lost And Found - Suketu Mehta
Pomeranski - Gerald Jacobs
My Father's Garden - Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
A Burning - Megha Majumdar
Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul - Taran N. Khan
You Beneath Your Skin - Damayanti Biswas
Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line - Deepa Anappara
House Of Glass - Hadley Freeman
Bad Day At The Vulture Club - Vaseem Khan
Here We Are - Graham Swift
The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul - Deborah Rodriguez
Curry - Lizzie Collingham
The Teacher - Michal Ben-Naftali
The Ratline - Philippe Sands
Coming Soon: The Flood - Zvi Jagendorf
Fabulosa - Paul Baker
Kanpur Khoofiya PVT. LTD - Richa S. Mukherjee
10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World - Elif Shafak
Pain - Zeruya Shalev
Clear Light Of Day - Anita Desai
Helium - Jaspreet Singh
Sufi: The Invisible Man Of The Underworld - Aabid Surti
Mr Bowling Buys A Newspaper - Donald Henderson
The Tunnel -A.B. Yehoshua
This Lovely City - Louise Hare
The Red Address Book - Sofia Lundberg
London Belongs To Me - Norman Collins
The Street - Ann Petry
Behind Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
Greenlight - Kalpana Swaminathan
The Secrets Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
Flip Back - Andrew Cartmel

Listening to these in 2020

Stop Over - Hideto Sasaki and Toshiyuki Sekine
Cool Struttin" - Sonny Clark
Echo Of A Heartbeat - Tamuz Niskim
Afro-Cuba - Kenny Dorham
Liquid Melodies - Tamuz Nissim
Iron Starlet - Connie Han
Relaxin' With Nick - Nick Payton
Kavuma - Mark Kavuma
Crime Zone - Connie Han
Love And Liberation - Jazzmeia Horn
Right Down Front - Sam Jones
The Blue Yosef Lateef
Afro Blue - Dee Dee Bridgewater
Walkin' - Miles Davies
Feelin' Good - Mary Stallings
Perpetual Optimism - Herlin Riley
Bird At 100 - Bobby Watson, Vincent Herring and Gary Bartz
Interplay - Francois Moutin and Kavita Shah Duo

2019 reading list

The Perplexing Theft Of The Jewel In The Crown - Vaseem Khan
City of Djinns - William Dalrymple
Delhi: Adventures In A Mega City - Sam Miller
The Crow Eaters - Bapsi Sidhwa
Vinyl Detective : Victory Disc - Andrew Cartmel
Ice Candy Man - Bapsi Sidhwa
State Of Emergency - Jeremy Tiang
The Scatter Here Is Too Great - Bilal Tanweer
Kaleidoscope City - A Year In Varanasi - Piers Moore Ede
The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam
The Librarian - Salley Vickers
Murder At The Grand Raj Palace - Vaseem Khan
Blue Is Like Blue. - Vinod Kumar Shukla
The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
Delhi a novel - Khushwant Singh
Paradise Towers - Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
Partitions - Amit Majmudar
A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam
Heretics - Leonardo Padura
The Choice - Edith Eger
The Rage Less Traveled - Kay Wilson
A Stranger City - Linda Grant
Dancer From The Dance - Andrew Holleran
Dignity - Chris Arnade
Bloc Life - Peter Molloy
The Betel Tree Nut Mystery - Ovidia Yu
Live A Little - Howard Jacobson
Hong Kong Noir
Our Man In Havana - Graham Greene
Dear Mrs Bird - AJ Pearce
The House Across The Street - Lesley Pearse
Heat And Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Reparation - Gaby Koppel
The Ladies Of The House - Molly McGrann
Partition - Barney White-Spunner
The Diamond Setter - Moshe Sakal
Bombay Brides - Esther David
The Householder - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Evening In Paradise - Lucia Berlin
Antisemitism: Here And Now - Deborah Lipstadt
Baumgartner's Bombay - Anita Desai
London Triptych - Jonathan Kemp
The Cut Out Girl - Bart Van Es
Insurrecto - Gina Apostol
The Woman In The Window - A.J. Finn
The Strange Disappearance Of A Bollywood Star - Vaseem Khan

2018 reading list

Last Flight Of The Flamingo - Mia Couto
The Teesside Vote - John Nicholson
Mystery In White - J.Jefferson Farjeon
Shtetl Love Song - Grigory Kanovich
Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
Ghachar Ghochar - Vivek Shanbhag
The English Teacher - R.K. Narayan
Shalom India Housing Society - Esther David
Teesside Outsiders - John Nicholson
Imagining Lahore - Haroon Khalid
Soho In The Eighties - Christopher Howse
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
The Inexplicable Unhappiness of Ramu Hajjam - Taj Hassan
Abandon - Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
Book of Rachel - Esther David
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
History of Violence - Edouard Louis
The Book of Esther - Esther David
The End of Eddy - Edouard Louis
Hostel Room 131 - R. Raj Rao
A Strange and Sublime Address - Amit Chaudhuri
Crossing The Tees The First Short Story Anthology
Istanbul Istanbul - Burhan Sonmez
The Boyfriend - R. Raj Rao
Ants Among Elephants - Sujatha Gidla
The Sad Part Was - Prabda Yoon
I've Lived In The East End for 861/2 Years - Martin Usborne
Teesside Dreams - John Nicholson
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao - Martha Batalha
Feinstein's Theory of Relatives and other Hessel Street Stories - Eric Levene
Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
Lioness - Francine Klagsbrun
High Tees - John Nicholson
Hannah's Dress Berlin 1904-2014 - Pascale Hugues
Alexandrian Summer - Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
Three Floors Up - Eshkol Nevo
Stork. Mountain - Miroslav Penkov
Such A Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
Havana - Mark Kurlansky
Contemporary Left Antisemitism - David Hirsh
The Book of Tbilisi , a city in short fiction
An Unrestored woman - Shobha Rao
Where The Past Begins , A Writer's Memoir - Amy Tan
The Crime Writer - Jill Dawson
Selection Day - Aravind Adiga
Conundrum - Jan Morris
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
DJ Tees - John Nicholson

Listening to these in 2018

2017 reading list

The Vinyl Detective, The Run-Out Groove - Andrew Cartmel
Libyan Twilight - Raphael Luzon
Ahmedabad City With A Past - Esther David
Uprooted - Lyn Julius
Ahmedabad, A City In The World - Amrita Shah
The Walled City - Esther David
East West Street - Philippe Sands
Calcutta A Cultural and Literary History - Krishna Dutta
Inside The Haveli - Rama Mehta
Teesside Shadows - John Nicholson
The Accusation Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea - Bandi
Steal My Heart - Mark Brazaitis
Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars - Miranda Emmerson
Hello Refugees - Tuvia Tenenbom
The Lives of Others - Neel Mukherjee
A State of Freedom - Neel Mukherjee
The Last Jews of Kerala - Edna Fernandes
Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
Murder In Mahim - Jerry Pinto
Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry
Queen of the Tees - John Nicholson
The Palaces of Memory - Stuart Freedman
The Epic City - Kushanava Choudhury
The Teak Almirah - Jael Silliman
Tyne Tees - John Nicholson
The House By The Lake - Thomas Harding
Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk - Kathleen Rooney
Singapore Noir
Hooghly Tales - Sally Solomon
Freedom Song - Amit Chaudhuri
The Archive Thief - Lisa Moses Leff
Five Seasons - A.B. Yehoshua
Today We Die A Little - Richard Askwith
The Strange Death of Europe - Douglas Murray
The Left's Jewish Problem - Dave Rich
City of Death - Abheek Barua
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 - Hillel Cohen
The Patriots - Sana Krasikov
Teesside Meat - John Nicholson
The Genius of Judaism - Bernard-Henri Levy
Denying The Holocaust - Deborah Lipstadt
Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Adina Hoffman
The Price of Escape - David Unger
Blood on the Tees - John Nicholson
The Lies They Tell - Tuvia Tenenbom
An American Decade - Richard Aronowitz
Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
Calcutta - Amit Chaudhuri
Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood - Victor Perera
Three Daughters of Eve - Elif Shafak
From The Land of Green Ghosts - Pascal Khoo Thwe
A Manual For Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
Nine Love Letters - Gerald Jacobs

Listening to these in 2017

Pyassa Soundtrack
1970 - Avishai Cohen
Turn Up The Quiet - Diana Krall
Cities Between Us - Allegra Levy
A Social Call - Jazzmeia Horn
Love Walked In - Charenee Wade
Give Me The High Sign - Denise King and Olivier Hutman
Avi meets Avital - Avi Avital and Omer Avital
Live at the Lampie - Liane Carroll and Brian Kellock
Code Noir- Carmen Lundy
Blues For Naomi - Tamar Giladi sings Naomi Shemer
יסמין לוי - רק עוד לילה אחד
Sleepwalkers - Omer Klein
Roads - Mark Eliyahu
The Shadow of Your Smile - Scott Hamilton
Nightingales -China Moses
Paris In The Rain - Sarah McKenzie
La Sombra - Chip Wickham
Free Spirit - Kenny Wellington

2016 reading list

Submission - Michel Houellebecq
The Dark Circle - Linda Grant
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma - Ruth Fredman Cernea
Asylum City - Liad Shoham
Two She-Bears - Meir Shalev
The Vinyl Detective, Written In Dead Wax - Andrew Cartmel
Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Man Who Wanted To Know - D.A. Mishani
I'll Sell You A Dog - Juan Pablo Villalobos
Jack The Lad Volume One - Frank English
To Catch A Rabbit - Helen Cadbury
A Strangeness In My Mind - Orhan Pamuk
Judas - Amos Oz
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem - Sarit Yishai-Levi
The Devil In Jerusalem - Naomi Ragen
The Mighty Waltzer - Howard Jacobson
For Two Thousand Years - Mihail Sebastian
King Tees - John Nicholson
Murder of a Messenger - Robin Grow
Smaller and Smaller Circles - F.H. Batacan
I Find That Offensive - Claire Fox
My Criminal World - Henry Sutton
The Liberation of the Camps - Dan Stone
Illustrado - Miguel Syjuco
This Is London - Ben Judah
Ermita - F. Sion Jose
In The Country - Mia Alvar
Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge - Ovidia Yu
My Mother-in-law's Son - Josephine Chia
Aunty Lee's Delights - Ovidia Yu
Early One Morning - Virginia Bailey
Party Animals - David Aaronovitch
I Sleep In Hitler's Room - Tuva Tennenbom
Lineup - Liad Shoham
Between Friends - Amos Oz
The Extra - A.B. Yehoshua
Teesside Steal - John Nicholson
The Lightning Tree - Emily Woof
Anti-semitism - Frederic Raphael
High Street - J.M. Richards and Eric Ravilious
The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes
Terror Tunnels - Alan Dershowitz
Shylock Is My Name - Howard Jacobson
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Khan
Tepper Isn't Going Out - Calvin Trillin
The Liberated Bride - A. B. Yehoshua
That's Not English - Erin Moore

Listening to these in 2016

Back to Your Heart - Lindsey Webster
Sings a Song With Mulligan - Annie Ross
The Hottest New Group In Jazz - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
Sneaking' In - Avichai Ornoy
Havana '58 - Bahama Soul Club
Squaring The Circle - Claudio Filippini Trio
See The Light - Mighty Mighty
On A Clear Day - Anthony Strong
It Happens Quietly - Jacqui Dankworth
Natural - Nicola Conte presents Stefania Dipierro
Jazz Pictures at an Exhibition/ Marriage in Modern Jazz - Rita Reys and the Pim Jacobs Trio
Sarabande - Fred Hersch
We've Got A World That Swings - Claire Martin and Ray Gelato
Bitter Sweet - Yvonne Walter
Abutbul Music - Omer Avital
Heatwave - Cal Tjader and Carmen McRae
Carol - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Evolution of Oneself - Orrin Evans
Blue Burton - Ann Burton

2015 reading list

Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Matriarch - G. B. Stern
Teesside Missed - John Nicholson
Telex From Cuba - Rachel Kushner
The House In Smyrna - Tatiana Salem Levy
The Gallery of Vanished Husbands - Natasha Solomons
Buenos Aires a cultural and literary history - Jason Wilson
The Tango Singer - Tomas Eloy Martinez
The Crime and the Silence - Anna Bikont
Innocence Or, Murder On Steep Street - Heda Margolius Kovaly
Ridley Road - Jo Bloom
Ally - Michael B. Oren
Wonderful Wonderful Times - Elfriede Jelinek
Heretic - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Cremator - Ladislav Fuks
Leon Blum - Pierre Birnbaum
Murder In Piccadilly - Charles Kingston
The Restoration of Otto Laird - Nigel Packer
The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota
The Hotel on Place Vendome - Tilar J. Mazzeo
In The Unlikely Event - Judy Blume
Mobile Library - David Whitehouse
The House of Hidden Mothers - Meera Syal
How Sweet It Is - Thane Rosenbaum
Family Life - Akhil Sharma
The Museum of Extraordinary Things- Alice Hoffman
The Reckoning - Patrick Bishop
Fairyland - Sumner Locke Elliott
Past Continuous - Yaakov Shabtai
Catch the Jew - Tuvia Tennenbaum
The Ruby Slippers - Keir Alexander
Em and the Big Hoom - Jerry Pinto
The Orphan Sky - Ella Leya
Murder Underground - Mavis Doriel Hay
1965 The Year Modern Britain Was Born - Christopher Bray
Friendly Fire - A.B. Yehoshua
Elizabeth Is Missing - Emma Healey
Gone To Ground - Marie Jalowicz Simon
One Night Markovitch - Ayelet Gundar Goshen
Don't Let The Riff-raff In - Anne Fothergill
Farewell Aleppo - Claudette E. Sutton
Oxygen - Andrew Miller
Helsinki Noir - Various writers
The Paris Architect - Charles Belfoure
Al Dura Long Range Ballistic Myth - Nidra Poller

Listening to these in 2015

Abbey Is Blue - Abbey Lincoln
Can't Stop Running - Adam Ben Ezra
Jazz and Other Four Letter Words - Mark WInkler
For One To Love - Cecile McLorin Salvant
Offering - Charenee Wade
The Mosaic Project - Teri Lyne Carrington
Impromptu - Rodriguez Brothers
Nicola Conte Presents Blue Note Tribe
Lady Sings The Blues - Rebecca Ferguson
Independence - Nir Naaman
Because of Bille - Molly Johnson
Irresistible - Eden Holan
Peel - Anat Fort
Swop - Club des Belugas
Dee Dee's Feathers - Dee Dee Bridgewater
Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
New Song - Omer Avital
Afro Physicist - Theo Croker
Around Midnight - Julie London
Your Number Please - Julie London
Dedication - Justin Kauflin
From Darkness - Avishai Cohen Trio
Dinah Washington with Clifford Brown
Djangology - Django Reinhardt
Dizzy on the French Riviera - Dizzy Gillespie
Blue Serge - Serge Cheloff

2014 reading list

A Possibility of Violence - D.A. Mishani
A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz - Goran Rosenberg
1946 - Victor Sebestyen
Marriage Material - Sathnam Sanghera
Tel Aviv Noir - Various writers
Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow
The Betrayers - David Bezmozgis
Union Street - Pat Barker
I Married A Communist - Philip Roth
The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
At The Edge of the Abyss: a concentration camp diary 1943-44 - David Koker
J - Howard Jacobson
The Ambiguity of Virtue - Bernard Wasserstein
Jabotinsky - Hillel Halkin
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists - David Burke
Hanns and Rudolf - Thomas Harding
Every Home Needs a Balcony - Rina Frank
Upstairs at the Party - Linda Grant
Herzl - Shlomo Avineri
Strand of a Thousand Pearls - Dorit Rabinyan
I Pity The Poor Immigrant - Zachary Lazar
Late Divorce - A.B. Yehoshua
Motherland - Rita Goldberg
The French Intifada - Andrew Hussey
Violin Lessons- Arnold Zable
The Boy With the Topnot - Sathnam Sanghera
Remind Me Who I Am Again - Linda Grant
The Property - Rutu Modan
The Tin Ring - Zdenka Fantlova
Unexploded - Alison Macleod
I Am Istanbul - Buket Uzuner
King of the Road - Shaul P. Ladany
The Days of Anna Madrigal - Armistead Maupin
The Remains of Love - Zeruya Shalev
St. Petersburg Noir - Various writers
Hitler's Furies - German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields - Wendy Lower
Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
1941: The Year That Keeps Returning - Slavko Goldstein
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes

Listening to these in 2014

It's The Girls - Bette Midler
It's A good Day - Cyrille Aimee
The Now - Aaron Goldberg
Movement - Gerardo Frisina
Jarrod Lawson - Jarrod Lawson
Eldorado - Michiel Borstlap
Soul to Soul - Carmen Lundy
Take The "A" Train - Betty Roche
Fantasy - Aquarian Dream
Feets Don't Fail Me Now - Herbie Hancock
Late Night Journey - Daphna Levy
Walk In Spirit - Tamir Miler Trio
Tightrope- 3 Cohens
The Yossi Levy Acoustic Project
The Music Stays In A Dream - Tamuz Nissim
Sands - Mark Eiyahu
A Truth About Me - Shauli Einav
Free Souls - Nicola Conte
Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill
Original Album Series - Modern Jazz Quartet
Raw Jazz - Hanjian
Anthem For A New Day - Helen Sung
Quotes from the Green Room - Yvette Johansson
The Road to Ithaca - Shai Maestro Trio
Viagem 5 - Nicola Conte
Serie Platino 20 Exitos - Lucha Reyes
Voltaique Panoramique Volume 1
Almah - Avishai Cohen

2013 reading list

The Sisters Weiss - Naomi Ragen
The Devil That Never Dies - Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Entre RiosTrilogy - Perla Suez
Silent House- Orhan Pamuk
1913 The Year Before the Storm - Florian Illies
Survivors in Mexico - Rebecca West
The Levant Trilogy - Olivia Manning
The Fall of the Pagoda - Eileen Chang
Gotz and Meyer - David Albahari
The Zelmenyaners - Moyshe Kulback
Manila Noir - various writers
Shanghai Style Art and Design Between the Wars - Lynn Pan
Mr.Mani - A.B. Yehoshua
Prague Capital of the Twentieth Century - a Surrealist History - Derek Sayer
The White Guard - Mikhail Bulgakov
Nights Out Life in Cosmopolitan London - Judith R. Walkowitz
K - Bernardo Kucinski
Oh Sweden! Oh Israel! - Stephan Mendel-Enk
Helga's Diary - Helga Weiss
No Fireworks - Rodge Glass
The Third Man - Graham Greene
Lord Mord - Milos Urban
The Summer My Father Died - Yudit Kiss
Scattered Tribe - Ben G. Frank
Berlin Cantata - Jeffrey Lewis
A Woman In Jerusalem - A.B. Yehoshua
Eden - Yael Hedaya
The Missing File - D.A. Mishani
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
We Are On Our Own - Miriam Katin
Out of Palestine - Hadera Lazar
The Boxer's Story - Nathan Shapow
Jews and Words - Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzburger
Giants: the Dwarfs of Auschwitz - Yehdua Koren and Eilat Negev
The Exiles Return - Elisabeth de Waal
Moshe Dayan - Mordechai Bar-On
The Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
Mumbai Noir - various writers
Mexico City Noir - various writers
Behind the humanitarian mask - Manfred Gerstenfeld
Mexico City (cities of the imagination series) - Nick Caistor
Journey into a fog - Margareta Berger-Hamerschlag
Anton Joseph - Salman Rushdie

Listening to these in 2013

The Cuban Tapes - Bahama Soul Club
The Essential Ballads - Carmen McCrae
Just a Matter of Time - Marlena Shaw
Memories of Sarajevo - Flory Jagoda
The Chic Organisation Box Set Vol 1/ Savoir Faire - Chic
The Alaev Family and Tamir Muskat
Intuition - Angela Bofill
Sun - Mario Biondi
Freedom Jazz France - Various Artists
Triveni ll - Avishai Cohen
More to Come - Jonathon Voltzok
R*time - Reut Regev
Sunrise - Amit Friedman Sextet
Songs for Distingue Lovers - Billie Holiday
Brazilian Romance - Sarah Vaughan
Besides Songs from the Sixties - Gaetano Partipilo
Love and Revolution - Nicola Conte

2012 reading list

Story of a Secret State - Jan Karski
The Road to Fez - Ruth Knafo Setton
The Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk
Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
Moscow Noir - various writers
Yasmin - Eli Amir
Life of an unknown man - Andrei Makine
Scent of Rain in the Balkans - Gordana Kuic
Attack in the Library - George Arion
Tales of Old Sarajevo - Isak Samokovlija
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
To Know A Woman - Amos Oz
Belgrade - David A. Norris
The Appointment - Hertha Muller
Sarajevo Rose - Stephen Schwartz
The Bridge Over The Drina - Ivo Andric
I Am Forbidden - Anouk Markovits
The Patagonian Hare - Claude Lanzmann
Israel and the European Left - Colin Shindler
A Bintel Brief - Isaac Metzker
Yekl and the imported bridegroom and other stories of Yiddish New York - Abraham Cahan
Honour - Elif Shafak
The English German Girl - Jake Wallis Simons
Sotah - Naomi Ragen
Jerusalem Maiden - Talia Carner
You Can't Read This Book - Nick Cohen
Under a cruel star: a life in Prague 1941-1968 - Heda Margolius Kovaly
Lisbon - Neil Lochery
The Eichmann trial - Deborah Lipstadt
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul, a cultural history - Peter Clark
Black snow - MIkhail Bulgakov
The Third day - Chochana Boukhobza
The Foundling - Agnes Desarthe
Trieste - Dasa Drndic
The Origin of violence - Fabrice Humbert
My Russian grandmother and her American vacuum cleaner - Meir Shalev

Listening to these...

The Modern Sound of Nicola Conte - Nicola Conte
Claroscuro - Anat Cohen
Balada Lautareasca - Johnny Raducanu
Suite of the East - Omer Avital
Echoes - Eddie Henderson
El Gusto - El Gusto
A Ghost in Every Bar - Ian Shaw
Moving With The Shakers - Joey Negro and the Sunburst Band
Funky Sensation 3 - Various artists
Libertad - Yasmin Levy
Volume 2 Jazz Istanbul - Julide Ozcelik
I'm In Live Once Again - Marilyn Scott
Romanian Jazz - Various artists compilation
Way In Jazz - Big Bang
All About Jazz - Kojato
Jessica Lauren Four - Jessica Lauren Four
Shai Maestro - Shai Maestro
The Music of Amit Golan - Eddie Henderson
On the Road - Yaala Ballin
A Handful of Changes - Ari Erev
Opus One - Shauli Enav
Handful of soul - Mario Biondi and the High Five Quintet
Wild - Ilan Salem
Bienestan - Aaron Goldberg
Clementine sun - Khari Cabral Simmons
Ranu - Aaron Choulai Trio
The Main ingredients - Down to the Bone
Black Radio - Robert Glasper Experiment
Viagem 3 - Nicola Conte
Now is the time - Jeff Lorber Fusion
Philadelphia International: The Re-edits
ad lib - Gerardo Frisina

Adrian Yekkes

Wednesday 30 May 2012

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Fine and mellow live!

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