Head Man

The film's good too.....with Nick Nolte.

Me too.....I walked into a record shop (remember them?) in Manchester many years ago and found these.... Boy, was I excited.....

http://sidsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/remembering-mike-king.html

Yes, that one is indeed very good....

It comes in a jewel case, the sound is excellent as is the artwork. IMO it's a "must-have".

... or perhaps, Steve Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V405Vm5UbGY

When you're retired.... every day's Sunday.

Just finished this one myself last week. Very easy to read, as was the previous volume about the war in North Africa. I'm now awaiting delivery of the third and final volume about the invasion and liberation of Europe. He's an excellent writer....

Unfortunately death got in the way for me. I've a funeral to attend otherwise I'd be there.

Don't forget that this is due to be released on Monday (23/2/15) by Ace Records

... did it come with photos?

I believe it came out on CD in the 1990s - have definitely listened to a CD copy of it before. Really good one. I've never seen a cd copy of that. . . I'd buy it in a heartbeat, a great ECM record. I've a cdr of my lp somewhere. . . . saw CD release in Japan in the early 90`s........ Well, if that's the case perhaps it will get reissued again........

I wonder why this one has never been reissued on CD? ..... I really like it.

To answer your question: no more Bethlehems since March 2014. Do you know if there any still awaiting a CD re-issue, Lon?

I know how he feels. I tried so hard to like "Shades of Blue" and "Dusk Fire" as much as their reputations suggested. Nice enough but I couldn't hear anything desperately original (cloth ears?) Dare I say the same about "Hum Dono" (ducks for cover) which again didn't really live up to its build up. Whereas I thought both Harriot's "Free Form" and "Abstract" surpassed their reputations on reissue I rather like 'Hum Dono'. Agree on the two Harriotts - they did live up to the promise. It wasn't JJI...can't recall the name of that rather studious Jazz mag Richard Cook used to edit. Was it Wire?

Many thanks for that, Mori. I've ordered a used copy for not very much!

I've started buying quite a bit of Japanese jazz recently and I wondered whether anyone knows of an authoritative book on the subject...in English, of course!

Am I the only person who's never heard of Bruce Jenner......?

Due for release in Japan in early March: Carter Jefferson/The Rise Of Atlantis Deborah Brown/Jazz 4 Jazz Pharoah Sanders/Africa Cedar Walton/Eastern Rebellion 2 Gary Bartz/Shadows Dave Liebman/Doin' It Again Kirk Lightsey / Chet Baker/Everything Happens To Me Joe Gilman/Treasure Chest Cedar Walton/Eastern Rebellion Steve Grossman/Live At Cafe Praga Teddy Edwards/Good Gravy Enrico Pieranunzi Trio/New Lands Art Blakey's Big Band/Live At Montreux And Northsea George Adams/Paradaise Space Shuttle Bobby Hutcherson/Four Seasons Arnett Cobb/Live Archie Shepp/I Didn't Know About You Ronnie Mathews/Selena's Dance Chet Baker/Mr.B Joe Farrell/Vim'n'Vigor Hank Jones / Red Mitchell/Duo Al Cohn/Rifftide Tommy Flanagan/Jazz Poet Johnny Griffin/The Jamfe Coming! Any "must-haves"?

Lucky you...looks like a good evening. I've got my tickets for the Gateshead Jazz Festival.......Joshua Redman is nearly sold out but plenty of tickets left for The Cookers. I'll be in touch a bit nearer the date to arrange a meet....

Didn't think a lot of this track when I listened to it... perhaps the rest of the album is better.

There's a few from the list that look interesting to me,, Terumasa Hino - Live in Nemuro Vols, 1 & 2 Sadao Watanabe - Pamoja & Recital Masabumi Kikuchi - East Wind Tsuyoshi Yamamoto - Daahoud & Life Isao Suzuki - Hip Dancin' Sam Jones - Seven Minds Dollar Brand - African Breeze Al Haig - Chelsea Bridge Ronnie Mathews - Trip to the Orient Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments Cedar Walton - Pit Inn Can anyone comment on the ones by Japanese artists...are there any clunkers?

... I agree

The Blind Willie Johnson recordings are in a class of their own as far as I'm concerned..they really hit the spot for me. I bought them originally as a Folkways LP way back when and have since bought both the Blues 'n' Roots double CD mentioned above and also the collection that came out on JSP a few years ago. It's magnificent music and should be in any serious blues collection. BTW the 'Blues 'n' Roots' doubler is going used for less than £10 + shipping at Amazon... pretty good value I'd say. The JSP collection "BWJ & The Guitar Evangelists" seems to be OOP and going for a silly price. Oh, and I don't have any problem with the sound on any of the above sets.

Sorry, yes, I meant it includes composer and publisher credits, but neither dates of recording, nor personnel. F I suppose that's something. Still pretty sloppy though. Strange, since all that information was on the original releases.....