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Sonny Rollins' "Pent Up House", after hearing it done by Claudio Roditi and Paquito D'Rivera.

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There's a wealth of WDR Big Band material on YouTube.

Agreed! Always liked that one!

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Claudio Roditi, Milestones featuring Paquito D'Rivera (Candid) Saw this pair at Wigan a few years ago. Such fire! It was like listening to the Adderleys - which I'd done 30 years earlier - with a Latin rhythm section. On this album they're with Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond and Ben Riley and the liner note by Ira Gitler is very much in his usual mode: "I'll Remember April was getting played to death by the end of the 50's. So many years later it smells fresh again like the air after one of the month's proverbial showers. Roditi is a hip zephyr, staccato bursts setting up bop gusts, while D'Rivera's dry, hot Sirocco, a high cyclonic as it were, augurs and augers an early spring. Barron eddies through the tall trees and the underbrush simultaneously. The horns then raise some sand with Riley before Ben blows up a breeze on his own." Wow!

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That's a good one! me: Teddy Edwards, Teddy's Ready (OJC) They make a great pair of albums!

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Speckled Red Red Holloway Stanley Holloway

Always thought the title track went like mad on that one and was in a different class from the other tracks. Someone - Higgins, I think - is making a lot of "gone" noises on that one. Notice it had a different recording date from the others. Thanks for reminding me aboout this one Bill and Bob. Disposed of the vinyl years ago but it's a fine session with Fathead being something of a BN wild card. The cds second session withe the three horn front line has some nice sounds too. Higgins is certainly 'gone' on Sonic Boom. Looks like you've got the RVG edition, Bob. Mine's a Japanese import with only six tracks, all by the quintet, recorded 28 April 1967, except for "Sonic Boom" recorded April 14. It's the King Japanese vinyl, Bill. I also have a 'Sonic Boom' Conn CD and a 'Rainbow series' LP so I'm well covered on this title. I forgot to say mine's on CD. Apart from a 10-page booklet in Japanese, it includes what looks like a slightly scaled down copy of the back cover of the Liberty-reissued LP, with only a single line of Japanese and a number added.

Saw Albany playing an upright piano in an upstairs room in a pub in Manchester in the 1970s during a tour organized by Tony Williams of Spotlite records. Albany looked in bad shape physically, which wasn't surprising in view of his misfortunes. Have some lovely Albany with Lester in my collection. Lots of good stuff on Tony William's Spotlite label from around that time. Yes, all my Parker Dials are still in that form.

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Always thought the title track went like mad on that one and was in a different class from the other tracks. Someone - Higgins, I think - is making a lot of "gone" noises on that one. Notice it had a different recording date from the others. Thanks for reminding me aboout this one Bill and Bob. Disposed of the vinyl years ago but it's a fine session with Fathead being something of a BN wild card. The cds second session withe the three horn front line has some nice sounds too. Higgins is certainly 'gone' on Sonic Boom. Looks like you've got the RVG edition, Bob. Mine's a Japanese import with only six tracks, all by the quintet, recorded 28 April 1967, except for "Sonic Boom" recorded April 14.