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Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS. Now playing: "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" from Sonny Clark Trio.

Now, that I would listen to! With you there!

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Groans from another disgruntled UK jazzer!

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Easy Wikipedia search says 1967. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Card Fascinating Wikipedia article, especially when it links Billy Higgins' availability for so many Blue Note recording sessions to the loss of his cabaret card!

In Leeds there's a Monk Bridge Road. No signs of you know who, though

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That was a hell of a set, maybe better than any Blue Note jam session with Smith -- one of the best examples I can recall of Chuck's sense of how to assemble just the right guys. I thought the drummer was Mickey Roker, but clearly I'm wrong there. Early Hardman had a certain stiffness (as in the title of that Jazz Messengers tune "Stanley's Stiff Chickens") and thinness of tone that was, if you dug him, inseparable from what made him so good. In effect, he really didn't have that many licks, if any, though it sounded as though he might; he was just trying to keep the line moving forward at all costs -- just a very serious honest player. Later on, as he became a better player of the instrument, he just got better and better overall. I am a fan of the Messengers that featured Hardman, McLean, Dockery and De Brest and have most of their recordings. Bill's work is exactly as Larry describes under "early Hardman", and there was a fierceness in his playing which was entirely in keeping with the character of this group as a whole.

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Do you expect me to follow that?

I have an audio tape of a live broadcast by a Jerry Bergonzi quartet on BBC Radio 3's Jazz Line-Up a few months ago. I hadn't heard him before and was very impressed. He - and the trio, too - seemed deeply influenced by Coltrane from the Crescent period. The trio all had Italian names, so I wonder if he was touring in Europe with an Italian group. Talking of present-day Coltrane-influenced tenors, has anyone heard the L.A.-resident Brit, Benn Clatworthy?

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