I have some Amazon vouchers to spend, and am not sure what I’ll do with them.  I’m currently leaning towards this, and not just because the plate in my skull is attracted to all the metal in it:

I only have one of this seemingly never ending series of clunky Miles Davis box sets.  It is of course the Jack Johnson one (none of which appears to be on my iPod, maybe I should be putting my vouchers towards a new 80GB one of those fellas) , which was worth the extravagance to get to hear the full Sonny Sharrock, exploding from his uncredited corner of the Miles discography and spraying shards of guitar all over the shop (try this: “Willie Nelson (Insert 2))”. 

One thing that has always confused me about Jack Johnson is this - with all this glorious noise on tape, why did Teo Macero feel the need to splice in that section of In A Silent Way exactly half way through ”Yesternow”?  The change in ambience jars for me every time I hear it.  Once me and Neil joked about making an album - we were probably rather drunk, to be honest.  It would have consisted solely of us banging on things and shouting, but we figured we could make the whole thing hang together by inserting 10 seconds of In A Silent Way midway through.  Hey, we could have been right.

The Cellar Door Sessions (along with the arse end of the Jack Johnson set) formed the basis of the Live Evil double album, which is one of my favourites, only partly because of that wonderful cover art and only partly because palindromes make something in my brain go ping.  I listened back to Live Evil the other day - probably the first time in about a year - and was made dizzy by its rush of colours.  And not just those on the sleeve.    Jack DeJohnette and Keith Jarrett in particular burn the place up - how did Jarrett go from this sick funk (as in “What I Say”) to the Koln sessions to his standards trio?  Are these located on the same continent? 

Anyway, if anyone has any better suggestions for how to spend 45 of your GBP, stick them in the comments below, and I’ll consider it.  And no, you don’t win anything.