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When Brian Priestley - who later went on to become a jazz writer, broadcaster and pianist - was at Leeds University in the sixties, he put together a student big band. Realizing that they were not quite up to Gil Evans standard, he entitled a number he wrote for them "Miles Behind".

Super Chief: Count Basie 1936-42 (CBS twofer)

Interessant! Merci de votre petite critique.

Thanks!

Tremendous clip! Very much recreates the sound of their classic recordings of 1960-62, including the rhythm section, though obviously much later. Anyone any idea of the date and personnel?

Best wishes, Niko!

Now playing this great album. Was pleased to find it in a used record store (even if without autograph) after the late Humphrey Lyttelton enthused on air about the Akiyoshi/Tabackin orchestra.

Much handier for me is the Wigan International Jazz Festival in July. The program is at www.wiganjazzclub.co.uk/WIJF.htm.

my copy of this disc does the same thing, returned it three times to shop before giving up, works ok on some cd players but not others, IIRC it's only some extra takes that are affected so I could live with it. Very interesting to hear that! Exactly my experience. Thanks for your response.

You're right about "adaptable". Have you heard Giuffre playing outrageous rock 'n roll tenor on "Block Buster" and "Dynamite" by a Shorty Rogers group that called itself "Boots Brown & his Blockbusters"? It's a hoot!

Thanks, aloc! Listening now. Sal Mosca is a great favorite of mine.

Not that I know of. Have you tried playing the CD on another player? Did you read the post you quoted? Whoops I guess not. Ha ha. Just to take this off at another tangent (and I hope this is OK on the vinyl thread): what's the longest playing time you've come across on a CD?

Jimmy played a lot of straight ahead tenor, as can be heard on many records under the leadership of Shorty Rogers.

Lyttelton had ceased to play trad fifty years ago, when I used to see him fronting his Kansas City style band with alto, tenor and baritone. I saw them play with Jimmy Rushing who, asked if he could sing with this band, is reputed to have said, "It's the real home cookin', y'know."

I have all three, plus Serendipity 18. Of the ones I've heard, I think those three are the best.

Is there a recommended maximum length for a CD? I have one which runs to 79:34, but slips in the last couple of minutes. This doesn't happen with any other of my CDs and this one was OK when I tried it in another player. (It's from a Stan Getz 3CD set on Verve: East of the Sun/The West Coast Sessions.)

Now listening to With All the Bells and Whistles by The Bob Florence Limited Edition, recorded for MAMA in 1995. Superbly produced, recorded and arranged and deserving of far wider attention.

Why do you say that? I noted that I listen to less and less 'avantgarde' and 'free jazz' in these days. It's getting more and more difficult for me to follow the lines of the musicians, at some point I loose the road and I find myself in a unpleasant and unknown sound mess. Maybe I am only distracted by my own thoughts and I follow them, instead of music. It could be a temporary lapse in concentration about music in general, it will pass, I hope. Surprised you find Complete Communion particularly difficult. I've been listening to jazz for over fifty years and am frankly most at home in the era of Pres and Bird, but the swing and emotional intensity of CC just carries me along. Now, if you said you found Cecil Taylor or Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz hard to listen to, I'd be less surprised!

In July Fopp went out of business, closing 81 stores. A few weeks later HMV re-opened a few still-profitable ones, trading under the name of Fopp. They are in Bristol, London (Earlsham St), Edinburgh, Glasgow (Union St and Byres Rd), Nottingham and - fortunately - Manchester.

"Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine?" by Harry the Hipster Gibson.

Saw Ted at a much earlier date in Paris - at the Chat Qui Peche in rue de la Huchette in April 1968, just before the "evenements" of May '68!

Jazz Library: Wes Montgomery online from BBC Radio 3. Jazz writer Alyn Shipton discusses Wes Montgomery's records with British guitarist, John Etheridge.

The grand old man of jazz in Britain. No one who liked jazz in this country in the last half century was untouched by his influence. My first jazz record was his "Bad Penny Blues" which I bought in 1957 on 78 r.p.m. shellac!

Charles Mingus, "Gunslingin' Bird (or, if Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lotta dead mf copycats)" (Broad intepretation of "song")

Never saw Yusef Lateef play. Just saw him crossing Leicester Square in London in the sixties wearing a beret and carrying a saxophone case. He was appearing at Ronnie Scott's at the time.