A period of silence . . .
To all those who’ve read The Blue Moment over the past five and a half years, I’d like to say thank you for your interest and your comments. I started the blog out of a desire to recreate the pleasure I had in the days when I was fortunate enough to be able to choose the music I wrote about and the manner in which I did it. This time around I wasn’t really expecting much of an audience, so it’s been a pleasant surprise to discover how many people seem to enjoy these pieces.
It’s time, however, to take a break. A book project, not music-related, will be occupying me for the next few months. It’s something I’ve been carrying in my head for a long time, and I’m lucky enough to have a publisher who shares my enthusiasm. I want to give it priority, so I’m pressing “pause” on The Blue Moment until the book has been researched and written. And when normal service is resumed in this space, I’d be very pleased to find you still with me.
— Richard Williams
thebluemoment.com 
Good luck with the book, Mr. Williams! Whatever it is you will be writing about, I’m very much looking forward to it.
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It’s always been a pleasure reading your blog, so I’ll be patient. Best of luck for your book project and kind regards from Berlin
Good luck with the book mate. Put my Chuck Jackson on yesterday.
I came late to the blue moment but it has always been a pleasure to read. Good luck with the book (sport related?) and I shall look forward to you resuming the blog.
Whatever it is you have to do, I’ll be looking forward to the outcome. Thank you so much for all your varied words so far, and especially this blog. Have fun while you are away and do come back, please.
You’ve gone out on a real high with the Chuck Jackson piece. Like all your soul-related blogs it had me reaching for the vinyl, and I suspect I will feel compelled to buy the new compilation. Best wishes for the book project and thanks for the wonderful combination of erudition and enthusiasm that thebluemoment invariably delivers.
Dear Richard
It’s been a pleasure – have really benefited from your extensive knowledge and lovely, articulate writing style. Good luck with the book project – on what subject?
All best wishes Danielle
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Richard, It’s been a pleasure reading your articles, I will miss them. Good luck with the book and come back soon. Best wishes, Stuart
Thank you Richard for your wonderful and insightful posts,a real joy and privilege to read. Enjoy your next project…with much gratitude Bren
Many many thanks for the pieces you have written for The Blue Moment. You are a star. With especially fond memories of those RT days when you did the Radio 1 bread gig. We all look forward to TBM returning. Geoffrey
Feel a lunch coming on
Thanks for such intelligent,thoughtful blog. Will miss it! Good luck with the project.
And maybe you could think of a second “best of” your pieces. I read your first volume recently and the breadth,depth and deep love of the music shines through.
Thanks again.
We’ll miss you, Richard. Come back soon, and best of luck with the book.
Hi Richard,
Would just like to say I really appreciate and enjoy reading your regular newsletter. It’s hugely educational and so sincere. Thanks for all your efforts, good luck with the book, and I look forward to you resuming normal service.
Kindest Regards,
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I enjoy your blog, just as I enjoyed reading your Melody Maker pieces when I was a schoolboy in the late 1960s. (In those days I also read The Beezer and The Beano, but that is a story for another time.) Seriously, though, keep up the good work!
-Tweedle Dee
I’ll miss it Richard – you put us on to Binker and Moses and they played for our Random Acts vid
https://vimeo.com/177144465 – look forward to the book though
Thanks for all 495 of them; I’ll look forward to your return. Good luck with the new book too
We’ll miss you, Richard. But good to hear you’re working on a new book project. Hope to see you soon.
I’ll miss my weekly dose of Blue Moment. Best of luck with the book RW.
Thanks for sharing your wide ranging music knowledge and love. To sign off, I hope temporarily, with Anthony Braxton and then Chuck Jackson was a statement in itself!
Dear Richard, I will miss your informative pieces, and the passion you display for such a wide variety of musical styles. I have enjoyed reading your books, both sport and music related, and wish you all the best for your new project.
Gregor Alvey
Enjoyed the blog very much… good luck with the book…
+about 25! I’ll certain miss these small gifts of grace and insight while you’re on book-writing sabbatical.
Thankyou Richard. As a music dilletante, I have welcomed your brilliant insights and some recommendations. Look forward to remaining on your mailing list? Wishing you every success with your book project.
Dear Richard, I will miss your missives – they have been a great source of inspiration and have widened my musical horizons. I look forward to the return of the Blue Moment in due course and wish you well with your book project. Thanks and all the best.
Blimey, Richard – I’ve only just discovered you!! Come back soon!! ATB Ed
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Dear richard
Love the reading you provide
Your blog a suggestion 18 months ago from an acquaintance in ballarat Aust
A diversity of commentary on music
One can sense your engagement and knowledge .Best luck with your projects
Look forward to reading you when you are back on
Richard
I’ve only rarely commented, but thank you for the blog, all the best with the book, and I look forward to your return in due course. Anyone who signed Bryn Haworth is all right by me!
Thankyou for your very welcome musical insights and some recommendations too! I will miss them greatly as a dilletante music fan. Good luck with your book project and please keep me on your mailing list. very best K
Good luck with your project. It’s always a pleasure to dig into your blog, will be looking forward to hearing from you again.
Superb blog and a serious resource/archive; beautifully written, triggering multiple ideas and sending us all back to the music newly enthused and informed. And sometimes wearing hip green button down shirts just like Miles…
Very best wishes with the book. I would play Ray Charles’ “Come back Baby”, but …..(Atlantic 8006).
I’ll certainly miss the blog Richard but look forward to the book and your return at a later date. http://associatesuk.org/
So long Richard… no, surely it’s au revoir. Thanks for providing so many connections and great insights into music. It’s been good to read you.
we need you, richard… come back in a semihemidemisemiquaver moment, p l e a s e!
ciao!
It’s been great to share your musical tastes. Enjoy the rest. Come back eventually though, sooner rather than later ! Meanwhile Trane lives ! And Albert !
You do realise you’ve plunged us into Blue Moment cold turkey, don’t you?!
Thank god for the distracting summer.
All the best for your sabbatical and many thanks for the riveting writing and musical introductions.
“Everybody needs some more good shoes, everybody needs some more good news” (Or close!) Good luck with it, Richard. Looking forward to seeing what turns out – as I’m sure you are yourself.
I have really enjoyed The Blue Moment. You have opened up all sorts of music for me.
Good luck with the book; look forward to the resumption of Blue Moment posts.
D
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I will miss you! You have directed me to stuff I didn’t know and stuff I had forgotten (and added to my record collection immeasurably). Best of luck with the project and hope you’re not gone too long
Like so many others, Richard, I am already missing TBM and those wonderful informative pieces. Best of luck with book which I’m sure will be every bit as readable.
Thank you, Richard for the many moments of pleasure, of revisited memories, and of new musical experiences your blog has given me over the years. I shall miss it. Meanwhile, good luck with the book and do let us know when its written and becomes available.
Greetings from Spain, Richard (I’m a friend of your friend Santiago Segurola). All my best for you and your next book! See you soon here!
Thank you Richard and good luck with the new project. I have loved your blog and got a lot from it. Look forward to it’s eventual return.
I have enjoyed your posts and followed your recommendations. The lack of a vibrant press means that your contributions are valuable and esssential. Good luck with your project and I look forward to the return of yoyur postings.
Good luck with the book. But DO return. I love this blog with its varied content. Even choking with laughter at the ‘elevator music’ post last July. I still sneak back to that one!
You will be missed Richard but I look forward to your book. Will you still be writing in The Guardian?
I shall greatly miss your insightful pieces Richard. Good luck with the book. It’ll be like Christmas when TBM returns.
Richard
I’m guessing it won’t be based on a novel by a man named Lear! Good luck and thanks for all the voluntary work on Blue Moment. Like everyone else I hope to see you back when you’ve finished the book
best of luck and come back soon !!