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I absolutely agree! It's like hearing a new piece of work entirely.

Yes, he did the RCQ film which includes Dave Green's wedding. Sadly this film isn't in the Mike Dibb season. Still, the BT ones are fantastic.

A major retrospective of the work of documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb - A Listening Eye: The Films Of Mike Dibb - is currently available free to view online via the Whitechapel Gallery website - three films are viewable now including Jazz, Rock & Marriage; Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time and Paraphernalia - all three featuring Barbara Thompson and Jon Hiseman. Mike Dibb has made several films about jazz including documentaries on Miles Davis, Keith Jarret, The Rendell Carr Quintet and Barbara Thompson and Jon Hiseman. https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/a-listening-eye/

I see that the Canadian company Return To Analog has reissued on vinyl the very rare Lansdowne recording Afro-Jazz by Guy Warren which features the Rendell Carr Quintet plus Amancio D'Silva on guitar. Return To Analog

Yes he certainly was. RIP Griff

Not sure if the readers of this thread are aware but Barbara Thompson and Ian Carr also feature on the upcoming archival release of Neil Ardley's Kaleidoscope of Rainbows Live '75 recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. This is a double CD release by Jazz In Britain (pre-order via Bandcamp) and from listening to the promo tracks on their Bandcamp site this is an absolutely superb album in high quality stereo.

I like the intros mainly because of the late, great Peter Clayton’s insightful and humorous contributions. On a couple of the Thompson discs there are rare intros by Ian Carr, a genuine treat.

Not sure. According to John Kelman’s mammoth and highly informative review of this box on AAJ, most of the stuff has been released before, much as downloads. I have The Brondesbury Tapes (GG&F) so it may be from that but am not sure. Judging by my listening to the Red box today any of the Blu Ray and DVD in the 1969 box are going to be gargantuan - there seems to be multiple hours worth of music on these non CD discs. Incidentally there seems to be a prototype of Pictures of a City included which started out and is titled here as A man, A city.

Anyone contemplating buying this box set? As a Crimson fan it’s very tempting but expensive (£145) but you get around 24 discs (*) and a CD of Giles,Giles and Fripp.TBH I haven’t yet played all the discs on my Red box (mind you, I don’t have Blue Ray or 5.1 capability). ITCOTCK is a prog masterpiece though. Hmmmm. (*) Update: 26 discs actually.

Part of the reason for inclusion of the intro was that in the '69 recording due to time limitations Brian Priestley had to make an announcement at the beginning of one track over John Taylor's piano cadenza which Wakeman in his sleeve notes admits was unfortunate but seemingly unavoidable. So to remove the intro to that track would have also removed JT's playing too. Not ideal, I agree. (and yes, Lytton playing "straight" traps is indeed a rareity).

What I particularly like about this release, apart from the music (obviously), is that Gearbox has attributed these recordings to their source (ie, The BBC). Some labels don't seem to bother too much with this "trivia" which makes me rather irritated. Update: But this is also why this double album's title is actually The Octet Broadcasts.

Strictly speaking this should come under the heading of "archival release" because it isn't a reissue as such. The album comprises two BBC radio broadcasts roughly a decade apart. It's released on Friday 21 August 2020 and from the teaser track pre-released it sounds excellent. Also sports some of the cream of British jazzers. More details here: Gearbox Records

Agreed Dave - The Supernatural from John Mayall's A Hard Road still sends shivers down my spine - PG was a simply superb guitarist and composer (Black Magic Woman!). R.I.P. Greenie.

I loved her album with the Tony Kinsey Quintet: Loguerhythms: Songs from the Establishment with Tony Kinsey (Transatlantic, 1963 and reissued by Esoteric on CD). Her memorably sardonic delivery was equal to Christopher Logue's witty lyrics. RIP Annie.

You Are Here... and Dedicated To You were absolutely pivotal in my conversion to jazz. Alongside Ian Carr, I owe Keith Tippett a huge debt of gratitude for opening my ears. A virtuoso pianist, he never ceased to astound me with the fluency and imagination of his live perfomances. He was taken far, far too early. Rest in peace Keith and thank you.

Nice review CJ! I caught BOTC last night when it was screened in the UK on BBC 2 (apparently the BBC was a co-producer [funder]). Personally I found the interviews the most interesting as a lot of the history / timeline had been covered in so many other biographies and with the flashbacks in Miles Ahead. Great hearing from the likes of Jimmy Cobb, Wayne and Herbie, Archie Shepp, Marcus Miller, James Mtume and the late Jimmy Heath. On the down side, if as had been mentioned, the doc had been extended by 30 mins or even an hour there would have been time for more anecdotes from significant players such as Jack De Johnette, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Dave Holland. I got the impression that in order to appeal to a wider public (and I'm not referring to the original Miles Ahead cover) the director wanted to concentrate more on the flawed genius and his human side, rather than the music, (the women, the drugs, the Ferraris). For example, the handbrake turn that dealt with the transition from the acoustic quintet to the electric Miles BB era was far too abrupt and didn't even mention the more subtle, organic even, changes via Filles De Kilimanjaro and In A Silent Way. Nor did it adequately explain why the album of the title was so important and groundbreaking. But overall it was certainly a good 7/10 (imvho).

well, yes there are other ways to here it, but purchasing the box allows you to lovingly paw the cardboard and plastic and read the sleeve notes which in this LP sized format are thankfully legible to those of a certain age who are fed up trying to read the small print on CD liners. A live HR box is interesting news.

I agree this was an expensive box and the board game was an irritating and superfluous extra. However, I still think the previously unreleased stuff is probably worth the cost given there isn't any other way to hear it, (David Ayers comment above notwithstanding) eg, the extended version of "Directly From..." and lots of other examples. Also, I'm pleased it brings together the other FZ recordings that were related to HR. But $100 / £100 + is steep and I have enough plectrums already. One other point I didn't mention was that purchasing it on Amazon also included an invaluable "Auto Rip" which meant it was on my iPhone in seconds after I bought the CD box. Really useful.

Just taken delivery of this and am slowly ploughing through the 6 CDs. It's replete with unearthed archival material that was used toward several FZ albums in addition to Hot Rats which is presented in full but in the 1987 FZ remix. Sessions that contributed to other albums such as Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Chunga's Revenge are populated amongst the 67 tracks, most of which are previously unreleased. Very well represented are sessions which feature "Sugarcane" Harris. Zappa certainly seems to have got the best out of the violinist. The booklet of sleeve notes is well presented with details of studio takes and personnel in addition to recollections and plaudits from the likes of Ian Underwood and Matt Groenig. Despite what I consider to be an unnecessary Zappa board game which includes plectra as markers, this is an excellent box set which I highly recommend to all Zappa and non-Zappa fans alike.

Agreed. The Orchestra is receiving its very first CD reissue and that's long overdue. Song For A Sad Lady, the only TH original, is fantastic. The other long overdue bonus is the first stereo CD reissue of 100% Proof, again very welcome indeed as it transforms the set into something else. My only comment on the presentation of the box set, which is unequivocally superb, is that I've replaced the chunky white cardboard inner sleeves with antistatic CD sleeves, mainly for aesthetic reasons. This definitely gets my vote for CD reissue of 2019 (albeit with Nucleus a close second).

CD box arrived this morning and as sidewinder has already favourably remarked, this looks like a winner.

Finally!!! It’s been despatched; hallelujah!

Well that's better than for me - I have heard precisely zilch about my order placed on 11 December. I've emailed them but heard nothing. All the so-called phone numbers on the UMG website are dead (fake?) numbers. So am currently pretty pissed off.

Me neither :-(