BillF

The Best of Supersax and the L A Voices

The last three tracks of CD 3, recorded live with the Basie band in the early 50s, were sensational!

Wigan International Jazz Festival is scheduled for 11-18 July, but further details aren't yet available. Nice to see Cheltenham is going ahead: makes me more confident for Wigan's survival!

Must sample those forty Kenton albums to see if any equal the four I already own!

Fred Quimby Warrington Minge Fanny Hill

Happy Birthday!

Stan Getz, Complete Roost Recordings

Tubby Hayes Quartet in Scandinavia Great stuff!

Barbarella Ella Speed Fast Eddy

Jazz Couriers Featuring Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes, Some of My Best Friends

I downloaded Spotify this morning and, as far as I can tell so far, OOP or hard-to-find music doesn't seem to be their thing. There are a lot of compilation albums, which I normally never touch, but there's such a volume of stuff that I'm finding lots to listen to so far. Today I've heard Horace Silver, In Pursuit of the 27th Man, Clarke/Boland Big Band, More Smiles and Stan Getz, Complete Jazz Series 1946-1949, all new to me. Mind you, at the moment I think it's only available to us Yurpeans.

Clarke/Boland Big Band, More Smiles (MPS)

You still need an umbrella here!

Great photo!

Beau Brummie Cockney Rebel Scouse the Mouse

Time to revive this thread?

I'll celebrate the change of thread title by letting you know I'm listening to Horace Silver's In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note), one I've never managed to hear before.

Francois Truffaut Francy Boland James Bolam

Verne Friley Jules Verne Jules and Sandy

Sid Vicious Vickers Armstrong Satchmo

Long John Baldry Hairy McLary from Donaldson's Dairy Charlie Barnet

Three winners!

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Lionel Hampton Presents Gerry Mulligan

Zooey Glass Cynthia Payne Roger Casement

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3: Dexter Gordon.