IT MAY BE THE COLDEST DAY OF WINTER. WHAT DOES HE THINK OF THAT? I MEAN, WHAT DO I? AND IF I DO, PERHAPS I AM MYSELF AGAIN.

I grew up listening to jazz; my mother would play Billie Holiday on lazy Sunday afternoons as she cleaned the house, and there was always an Ella Fitzgerald tape somewhere. I studied vocal jazz for a couple of years, and even got to travel around performing with an ensemble. I felt like, if this was my music, an indigenous American music, then I should know about it. I still think jazz guitar is some of the most beautiful music in the world and for me, glamour is epitomised by the clean, sharp way people dressed in the height of the Jazz Era - Billie Holiday with red lips and a gardenia in her hair.





[Title comes from a quote from the book Meditations in an Emergency, which was read in the series Mad Men which also knows a thing or two about glamour.]

[Music is jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery (who influenced Jimi Hendrix) playing "Round Midnight" live. It was written by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk]