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Reminds me I must give this great one a listen:

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No, but I know the Gonsalves-influenced tenor of Tony Coe, and very nice too! This, also available on Spotify, is one I like:

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Yes, Peter, very interesting thread. I remember reading Alun Morgan's book on Basie but after this passage of time recall little other than his alleged tightness with money. I twice saw the Basie band with Sonny Payne. Certainly the showman drummer. He threw the sticks in the air several times and once missed them on the way down.

Re your comment "their music is not exactly jazz", Dankworth and Laine had a big following in this country in the 60s. A colleague who heard me playing this remarked, "I don't like this neurotic jazz. I prefer Cleo Laine and John Dankworth".

I had been buying jazz records for five years before Blue Note records became available in this country - in 1962 IIRC. They were first issued, with some publicity, in a small bunch which included these: I don't recall what was my first BN purchase, but very soon I was buying early sixties key Jazz Messengers albums. A friend ran up a huge debt with a store that let him have Jimmy Smith BNs on credit.

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Yes, I recall that there was a Polish folk element in what the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet were playing, but this fitted well with their Coltrane Quartet-based style. After all, Coltrane was happy with "Greensleeves".

VOA, of course, was also heard on this side of the Curtain. I was an avid listener to Conover's shows. I often think this early training in lo-fi jazz listening is why I'm less concerned about audio quality than some board members. Thank you, Chuck! Now playing:

I saw Zbigniew N. and the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet in a Leeds pub/club in the late 60s. Leeds University Marxists turned out in force for these visitors from the other side of the Iron Curtain and actually booed when a number was announced "by the American pianist, Bill Evans". My late pianist friend Paul Woodrow had a great "conversation" at the keyboard with the Polish pianist. Neither knew the other's language, but the names McCoy Tyner and Wynton Kelly flowed freely between them. Jazz knows no boundaries! Now playing: