It reached 32 Degrees celsius in the afternoon and immediately the day started flooding back memories of the ice cream truck and Eddie Murphy’s classic stand up comedy video ‘Delirious’, god knows I’ve worn that tape out during the 80’s.

Undoubtedly one of the most influential line up’s in Jazz history gathered together to record the seminal album ‘Kind of Blue’ in 1959 at Columbia’s 30th Street studio in New York.

Miles Davis (Trumpet) – John Coltrane (Saxophone) – Julian Adderley (Saxophone) – Bill Evans (Piano) – Wynton Kelly (Piano) – Jimmy Cobb (Drums) – Paul Chambers (Bass)

Here’s some film footage of Miles Davis and John Coltrane performing ‘So What!’ in 1959.

Here’s the new video to the first single from Charlotte Gainsbourg’s forthcoming album ‘IRM’. Beck has collaborated on this track and has also produced most of the album too.

Another one to file under interesting collaborations, this time New York skate brand ‘Supreme‘ have teamed up with British artist Damien Hirst to come up with their latest line of decks. Hirst’s trademark colourful spots and jar poison labels clearly dominates each design in the brand’s new line. Supreme’s new collection is available from the 19th November.

I spent a good period of my Sunday listening to Stevie Wonder, in particular his two greatest albums ‘Innervisions’ and ‘Songs in the Key of Life’. This video of Stevie performing ‘Living for the City’ is straight from 1974. Oh the joy of Youtube!

I first came across the ‘Inside The Actors Studio’ series while I was sick in bed in Delhi back in June. While the presenter can seem a bit dry at times, I don’t think I’ve ever come across a more in depth interview of an actor before, the show has a real knack of covering every angle of an actors career. I’m a huge fan of the HBO show ‘Sopranos’ so I thought I might share this video I found of James Gandolfini inside the actors studio.

Swedish company ‘brothers’ have released the ‘Wall of Sound‘ and it looks like it could be the biggest ipod speakers ever to be produced. The 125 Watt, tube amplified, 28-element speaker measures in at about 3 ft x 4 ft. The speaker peaks at about 95db, enough to send any neighbour into hysterics. Oh and it weighs in at just under 100kgs. Cost? $4495 USD.

After digitally remastering and re-releasing all of The Beatles back catalog in September, EMI and Apple have announced that they will be creating limited edition Beatles USB apples, these will hold 14 beatles albums in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats. Limited to 30′000 with a release date of December 7th.

Albums included on the USB apple:

Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, The White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be, Past Masters

LaCie have teamed up with french designer Philippe Starck on their latest line of external hard drives. The 2mm of aluminum casing prevents the LaCie Starck from overheating while being tough enough to take knocks on the go. A 1TB desktop version has also been released in the Starck collection.

HBO have a history of churning out quality tv shows like there’s no tomorrow. ‘Sopranos’, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, ‘Deadwood’, ‘The Wire’, ‘Six Feet Under’, ‘Sex’ and the City’, ‘Flight of the Conchords’, and ‘Hung’ to name a few. They even have a knack of sucking you into their 20min shows where you know you clearly have no business being addicted to the show but watch it religiously, case in point ‘entourage’. Piloted in late September writer Jonathan Ames created the series ‘Bored to Death’ which is based around a struggling writer who decides to work as a private detective part time. Jason Schwartzman plays the lead in this comic-noir along with Zach Galifianakis as his best friend, Ted Danson and Olivia Thirlby also star in the show. After watching the first episode I think I’m hooked. It’s HBO, that’s all you need to know!