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  3. Gardening

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Where did yours go, Jazzjet? Taken it off the market?

    It's come back now. How did that post vanish and reappear in the same spot?

    I noticed that yesterday as well. No idea how that happened. It's the first photo I've posted so may have done something wrong. Anyone know how to make the image larger, like all the other photos?

  6. Hancock Mwandishi Band

    in Discography

    Posted

    as for recordings in circulation - the ones's I've come across in the meantime:

    1969-07-24 - Juan-les-Pins / Antibes (FR), La Pinède (line-up unknown, poss. w/Johnny Coles)

    1971-07-21 - Nice (FR)

    1971-08-04 - Hamburg (DE), Jazzhouse

    1971 (poss. 1971-07) - Aarhus (DK)

    1973-03-22 - Boston, MA (USA), Jazz Workshop

    1972-03-18 - Baden (CH), Kantonsschule

    1972-10-08 (prob.) - Detroit, MI (USA), Baker's Keyboard Lounge

    1973-02-20 - Detroit, MI (USA), Strata Concert Gallery

    1973-11-13 - Boston, MA (USA), Berklee School of Music

    There's another one from the Tivoli, Copenhagen in 1971.

  7. Exile on Main Street remaster

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I'm curious about this release -- I've heard mixed reviews of the two cd set. Has anyone bought it? Opinions?

    I've just bought the basic version ( not the deluxe version with bonus cuts ). Sounds pretty good to me. Some of the grungy layers have been removed so it's as clear as it can be, given the limitations of the original recording. The bottom end has also been improved.

  10. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooool

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Meawhile quite an upset in the other game. No Premier League representative in the Semis.

    Thank goodness ! It was worth it just to see 'Sir Alec' Ferguson totally p*ssed off. :)

    Made me laugh how he was complaining that Bayern were clustering around the referee to get Da Silva sent off. Particularly when you consider how his teams have often done exactly the same thing.

  11. Bob Downes reissues

    in Re-issues

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    There was another album - 'Deep Down Heavy' - which featured Chris Spedding and lyrics by poet Robert Cockburn. I don't think that has turned up on CD yet.

    And you could pick that up back in the early 70s in Woolworths as it was on the budget MFP 'Music For Pleasure' label. Have only heard a bit of it - sounds very much 'of its time'.

    !

    Indeed, very much of its time. Also a very raw live sound quality achieved in the studio.

  12. Bob Downes reissues

    in Re-issues

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    Two reissues by Bob Downes are now out on Esoteric Records in the UK. The first Open Music has never been available on CD before and Electric City was only reissues on CD in Germany by Repertoire but has been OOP for years. Very good news as these are both excellent albums IMO:

    http://www.cherryred.co.uk/esoteric/artists/bobdownes.php

    There was another album - 'Deep Down Heavy' - which featured Chris Spedding and lyrics by poet Robert Cockburn. I don't think that has turned up on CD yet.

  13. Sir John Dankworth R.I.P.

    in Artists

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    The BBC have so far failed to come up with a decent tribute to John Dankworth - pretty shameful when you consider the amount of material they have in their vaults - but the More4 UK channel is airing a programme titled 'The Show Went On' this Saturday ( 10th April ). This, apparently, will recall the life and career of John Dankworth as well as include footage of the concert when Cleo Laine broke news of John's death.

  14. First Concert

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Mine was the Modern jazz Quartet at either the New Victoria Theatre or Odeon, London probably 1964 or 1965. I remember getting special dispensation from school ( I was a boarder ) to attend. I felt really grown up, in a way I haven't since.

  16. The Late Great Phil Seamen

    in Artists

    Posted

    Just got this myself a couple of months ago. A great compilation. That song with Jimmy Witherspoon is a real winner.

    Absolutely. The whole album 'Spoon Sings N' Swings' with the Dick Morrissey Quartet is a blast from start to finish.

  18. The Late Great Phil Seamen

    in Artists

    Posted

    I've just been enjoying a wonderful new(ish) CD on Sharp Wood records titled 'The Late Great Phil Seamen'. Phil was probably the greatest jazz drummer Europe has produced and, tragically, died at the early age of 46 through constant drug use. The fine booklet in the CD mentions a mere three pieces of film in which Phil appears so I thought it would be fitting to link to them here.

    The first is a short piece from a long forgotten pop film titled 'Golden Disc ( 1958 ). The group is Don Rendell's Jazz Six :

    Phil Seamen - Golden Disc

    The second is a BBC studio recording of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims with Stan Tracey, Dave Green and Phil, from a 1968 programme titled 'The Cool Of The Evening' :

    The Cool of The Evening

    The last one is from a UK film ( 1967 ) titled 'Sound' and features Roland Kirk and John Cage. The clip features Kirk at Ronnie Scott's backed by Johnny Burch (p), Dave Green (b) and Phil ( drs ) :

    Sound ( 1967 )

  20. UK Jazz Still in need of CD reissue

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    To the list, I would add :

    Tony Oxley - 'The Baptised Traveller'

    I have an apparently legit CD of this - on British CBS, if I remember correctly (I'm at work right now and can't check). That doesn't mean it's print now, but it has been reissued.

    That certainly was legit - reissued on CD by Sony a few years back with other great CBS Realm series albums - a few copies still knocking around

    Thanks. It must be out of print now. I was looking for it recently and couldn't find it anywhere, except a £55 item on Amazon ( although there was a cheap mp3 download). Luckily a friend came up with a copy. Its one of the 5 star albums in the Penguin Guide so you would have thought it would be more widely available. Still, its only jazz.

  21. UK Jazz Still in need of CD reissue

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    To the list, I would add :

    Mike Westbrook - 'Live' ( Cadillac )

    John Dankworth - 'The $1,000,000 Collection' ( has that really never been on CD? )

    Tony Oxley - 'The Baptised Traveller'

    Ricotti & Albuquerque - 'First Wind'

    plus Jimmy Witherspoon - 'Spoon Sings n' Swings' ( for the great band featuring Dick Morrissey, Phil Seamen etc ). I've got this on scratchy vinyl only.

    Most of the albums listed so far can be obtained online. I'm not condoning this, of course, but in the past I have obtained an online version and ditched it when a CD version has been reissued - for both reasons of audio quality and 'morality'. However, the chances of most of these albums being reissued is minimal at best.

    Exceptions to what's available online ( to the best of my knowledge ) include :

    Harold McNair - 'Affectionate Fink'

    Phil Seamen - 'Live' ( is that the same as 'The Phil Seamen Story'?)

    Colin Bates - 'Brew'

    Maybe the 'online' issue will cause some debate but do we wait forever in vain for a CD reissue or grab a reasonable interim copy in the meantime? If anyone wants more information on some of these long-lost items maybe they should send me a PM.

  22. Flanders & Swann

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I go back to Much Binding in the Marsh, which I recall my mother listening to in Iceland (via BFN, British Forces Network). Much of the humor probably escaped me, but a couple of decades later, when I actually found myself working with Kenneth Horne, my brain had tuned into the right frequency and I was actually writing lines for Kenneth. Well, writing lines is a bit of an exaggeration, the lines were written by Marty Feldman and Barry Took, I just had the job of Americanizing some of them for U.S. broadcasts. Makes sense, doesn't it, they get a half Icelander/half Dane to perform Americanization. :)

    That said, I also remember and laughed with Flanders and Swan.

    If you worked on the Round The Horne or Beyond Our Ken series, how on earth did you Americanize the Julian and Sandy sketches? They got away with murder - and on the BBC - by using the Palare slang language adopted by the gay community.

  23. New Miles?

    in Discography

    Posted

    Thanks Jeff and Rooser. Both seem well out-of-print.

    I'd be interested to hear reactions to these 'new' releases.

    There was an excellent Rotterdam concert ( November 9, 1969 ) rebroadcast by the BBC in 2006, the 80th anniversary of Miles's birth. Like most Miles fans I recorded this. Not sure whether this counts as a bootleg or whatever.

  24. Reuben Wilson

    in Artists & Recordings

    Posted

    Earl Turbinton played on Zawinul, and was Willie Tee's brother. Hardly a household name, but not exactly an unknown, either. Close, though!

    http://www.nola.com/lagniappe/t-p/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/1186641279113410.xml&coll=1

    http://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/2007/08/earl-turbinton-remembered.html

    Now, Harold White, there's an unknown!

    Or so I thought!

    http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:dzftxqygldae

    Earl Turbinton played on Buster Williams's fine 'Pinnacle' album. Didn't know he was Willie Tee's brother though.

  25. Sir John Dankworth R.I.P.

    in Artists

    Posted

    Here is a short video tribute I put together for Sir John Dankworth.

    http://www.jazzonthetube.com/videos/sir-john-dankworth/sir-john-dankworth.html

    There is a repeat showing of a programme in the Legends series on John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, to be broadcast this coming Sunday ( 21 February ) on BBC 4 at 2200 hrs.

    John Dankworth - Legends

    You would hope that the BBC could dig out some of their Jazz 625 material as an additional tribute ( looked like some of it was used in the news clip ).

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