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Happy birthday Bill

Expecting another thumbs up from Bill....

I just won this in a small lot for £6.99 on Ebay. It's not in the best shape, but playing it now and it sounds good enough.

I love that tune, the ensemble voicings give me the shivers. Henderson rules

I did love the bit between Horace Silver and Benny Golson, where Benny dreamed a beautiful melody, got up in the night specially to write it down, only to find the next morning it was the verse to Stardust.

Just watched the film again, took me back (only to 1994 like, but you get what I mean).

The film of the photo was at the beginning of my jazz listening career Bill. I vaguely remember someone (Benny Golson?) saying something about Hank Jones always commenting on his contemporaries having put on weight in their later years. I saw it at the Cornerhouse; I suspect you did too.

Aaaah

Same here in the UK, they won't be available for sale after 2020. My grandmother was a very enthusuastic smoker of the the old menthol fags. What's the jazz connection btw?

I like this LP

I got into jazz in 1993, which coincidentally was when I got my first CD player. I loved CDs from the start - easier to store and so much more choice if listening to jazz. The only problem was that they were expensive in the UK. I ditched my turntable in 1996 (since replaced), and gave all my vinyl to my sister (she still has it)

A charity shop impulse buy, a quid well-spent I'm enjoying it a lot; no bull, but a very well-assembled collection of interviews with / recollections from various people who were obviously around at the time. Sports biographies are often really dull, but this one is up there with the Leo McKinstry book on Geoff Boycott and the John Hennesy bio of Alex Higgins. Two names possibly largely meaningless to the non-UK board memebrs!

I have this one (picture isn't my copy however - I guess this is a Spanish version, mine is French)

Probably my favourite Jackie album

None on my HMV "Love Supreme" either