Frank Adeyemi

Forty years a cabbie, a lifetime of jazz records, and a granddad's full diary

📍 Mapperley, Nottingham, GB

🤝 Where you might know me from

Organisations

Nottingham Jazz Society · Nottingham · Member since 1989

💭 To understand me a little better

Good to know about me

I know every shortcut in this city and I will use all of them.

How I find communication easier

Call me. I find typing suspicious.

What gives me energy

A new record, a clean engine, and the grandkids visiting.

💛 Things I love, can't get enough of, or have been dreaming about

Vinyl, properly looked after

Blue Note pressings if you're offering.

A good flask of coffee

For the night shifts.

🙅 Things that aren't really for me

Sat-navs telling me where to go

Forty years, madam.

⭐ A few of my favourite things

Favourite quotes

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. — Miles Davis

Favourite music & bands

John Coltrane — A Love Supreme.

🧰 Tips & life hacks I can share

Always carry cash and a phone charger

You'll be the hero of someone's bad night.

🧩 Problems I'm trying to solve — ideas welcome

Digitising 300 records without losing the warmth

My son says 'just stream it'.

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