With a bit of luck the guard room will be empty, we'll grab some coats, press some buttons and just ship out of here.

While Mercer — the author of a biography of the saxophonist Wayne Shorter — is to be applauded for trying to break from the conventional “making of” sessionography, she never quite gets around to making clear such basic facts as exactly when and where “Blue” was recorded, or which songs appear on the album.

There are two volumes, The Open Door for Man's approach to God (London, 1650) and A Consideration of Infant Baptism (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's Lynn.

If the vessel be no fair-trading slaver, nor a common cruiser of his Majesty, it is as tangible as the best man's reasoning, that she may be neither more nor less than the ship of that nefarious pirate the Red Rover.