Dear Nathaniel,
Hello my angel. We went to see you tonight and we brought you a nice little elephant called Ollie, I hope you like him, he's super cute. We haven't gotten a proper place to him yet so he's in the little jar until we can put him in the big see through bag with the teddies from uncle Sean and great uncle Les. Hopefully we can get the gravestone sorted soon, but we want to make sure it's absolutely perfect for you.
I absolutely love Bud Powell's piano playing on this album, it really is amazing, shame there's less than 30 minutes of it. But I find jazz re-releases extremely tedious, especially how poorly they arrange the track list so I always go for the original article, it's very rarely I'll get excited about bonus tracks unless it's from one of my absolutely favourite artists such as Led Zeppelin where I'm already very familiar with all of their work.
Bud Powell was the main reason I started to enjoy jazz pianists, even before Thelonious Monk I already enjoyed Bud Powell, of course Monk was more influential, but I really like how Powell plays. It just has a great feel to it. There was a time where Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell were considered equally influential in the late 40's to early 50's but today more people have heard of Monk, partly due to his prolific compositions and longer lasting career.
I love you my angel. I hope you really like your elephant and that you really enjoyed the jazz, I think we will be moving on to some more progressive rock tomorrow before launching into full fusion for a couple of days. We'll return to proper jazz every now and then but after we're finished with the fusion I think I'll just play whatever I fancy for the day and stay away from themes until it's more appropriate. Goodnight my angel Nathaniel.
Love from Dad.
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