BillF

Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra, Live at Sweet Basil, Vol 2 (Electric Bird)

Beautiful indeed! I have that 10" LP on the British Esquire label and it's a prized possession, though at the age of 13 I couldn't be expected to buy it the week it was released!

Cow Cow Davenport Montana Taylor Pinetop Smith

Theo Van Gogh Van Basten II Camper Van Beethoven

Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra, Live at Sweet Basil (Electric Bird)

Cat Stevens Cat Anderson Gato Barbieri

Don Sebesky and the Contemporary Arranger's Workshop, Moving Lines (Doctor Jazz)

Vera Lynn Basil Olivera Oliver Nelson

Lorraine Gillespie Chan Parker Nellie Monk

Meade Lux Lewis Pete Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson

Miles Davis & his Tuba Band, Pre-Birth of the Cool (Cicala) The Royal Roost sessions.

Harold Wilson Clement Attlee Gordon Broon

The Broons Oor Wullie D C Thompson

Memphis Slim Slim Shady Bill Hood

Oliver Nelson: Shirley Scott, Ray Brown/Milt Jackson and Sound Pieces sessions.

Again to the Wigan Jazz Festival, this time for the Jim Mullen Organ Trio: Mullen (guitar), Mike Gorman (organ) and Matt Skelton (drums). Very pleased as a member of this forum to be able to report on an impressive British group with this instrumental format. Anyone heard them?

I think the first time I saw George at Ronnie Scotts was either just before or just after that 'Amsterdam After Dark' LP was cut - the quartet played most of those tunes. Pretty memorable it was too - George's circular breathing was astonishing. Either the next time or time-but-one he was at Scotts it was with the Octet (Frank Strozier, Danny Moore, Mario Riviera etc). They cut a disk that week on Ronnie's own label - not sure if it was the 'Big George'. Big George is an American record. Although I have it on the British Affinity label, it says it's a Catalyst Recording, recorded in NYC and mastered in Hollywood.

Earl Fatha Hines Daddy O Daley Pops Foster

Skinnay Ennis Gil Evans Gil Fuller

I have three Coleman leader discs in my collection - all of them excellent: Eastern Rebellion (mentioned by Free For All), Amsterdam After Dark with Hilton Ruiz, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins and Big George by the wonderful George Coleman Octet (most of the writing by the leader).

Benny Goodman Buddy de Franco Tony Scott

Taylor's Tenors Adolphe Sax Eric Dolphy

Not till it becomes the 51st state.

Pony Poindexter Little Pony Jim Reider

As for me, it's back to Franklin D Well, at least that's a pretty wide window. Not when you add in Neville Chamberlain -_-