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First question: Been reading Organissimo forum recently?

Wise words!

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So far, those three trio albums have been my first choice, but I don't own Green Leaves and haven't heard it for years, so can't pass judgment on it.

The Magnificent Charlie Parker (Columbia Clef EP) "Au Privave", "She Rote", "K C Blues" and "Star Eyes"

Mine's JAZZ FOR barack obama.

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Allen's words exactly describe my reaction to it when I first heard it - and got hold of a copy - in 1960. When I read, thirty to forty years later, about it being the best selling jazz album ever, I was astonished. Milestones never got a mention and that was, if anything, bigger back then.

I'd like to hear that! Will it be archived so I can listen to it at a comfortable hour in this time zone?

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I've never heard that one, Richard, but I was surprised to see it on sale last year as a new 12" LP at Fopp, just off Market Street, which I'm sure you know. I don't think you've missed anything Bill. From 1957, it's a nice line-up - rhythm section of Horace Silver, Curly Russell and Blakey, but it seems uninspired. I have to go into Manchester for work next week (not been for about 2 years) so I'll have a look in Fopp and Vinyl Exchange. Surprised to hear that you haven't been into Manchester for two years, Richard, as you name Manchester as your location. Which part of Greater Manchester do you live in? (I'm in Didsbury). Not so far from you Bill, in Stockport. I say Manchester because no-one outside the North West has heard of Stockport! Also, my family is from Wythenshawe, so we do have a Mancunian heritage. Having children put paid to trips into Manchester - like mobilising an army. I don't get time to go alone (and let's face it, who wants to browse jazz record shops in the company of stressed spouse/whining kids?). I used to go regularly as a single man, when Decoy was still open. Great! We're almost neighbours! I might have guessed you were from Stockport with that surname! And such jazz connections, not only with Bix! I think I've already posted how I heard Shorty Rogers in the eighties at the Davenport Theatre, Stockport, leading the National Youth Jazz Orchestra into a new composition, which he called "Davenport"!

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Where do Disconforme and Ocium fit in?

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J G Ballard, Super-Cannes. Half-way through this and it's going brilliantly! Looking like a masterpiece!

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