Royal Oak

Monk - Monk's Dream (CBS reissue)

Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge (Affinity reissue)

Thelonious Monk Nonet - Live in Paris 1967

I didn't see the thread, will have a look now, thanks. Edit to add - that didn't take long!

Yes, that's the version of the band I was thinking of. An excellent album, I imagine that band would have been exciting to hear.

Was Bennie Maupin not in that band Bill?

Billy Hawks - More Heavy Soul (Prestige) He's a new one on me - this was in a collection of LPs I bought last year, never got round to listening to it until now.

Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come. It sticks at the end of one track - haven't heard a record stick in 20+ years!

I grew up on 1990s OJC and Blue Note CDs. The Connoisseurs were particularly exotic, to me at least.

Nice, when was this?

Thanks for the replies. The Burton book does sound interesting, though I'm unsure I can handle having my Joe Henderson bubble burst. I find the older I get, the less I need to know, if you see what I mean?

I'm intrigued now. I had NO idea Joe Henderson had a "difficult" reputation. I'm also interested in sgcim's comments about the Golson autobiography. Could anyone expand?

My discovery of jazz coincided with the launch of "Jazz FM" here in the UK, around 1993/94. The daytime programming was distinctly lacking in jazz, but the evenings were pretty good, especially "Dinner Jazz" (you can imagine what it was like!). After a year or two it rebranded to "JFM", which meant less jazz, then I think it was taken over and rebranded "Smooth FM", which was as bad as it sounded. Still, for a year or two, you could actually hear jazz on the radio. Jazz FM's slightly older cousin "Classic FM" is still going, playing Classical music's greatest hits and adverts for very middle-class folks on rotation. As far as I know, BBC radio still plays "Jazz Record Requests" for an hour a week, the other 167 hours being strictly classical music.

You made me go and dig the LP out!

I used his product for some time in the early 1990s.....

This piqued my interest enough to listen to a couple of tunes on Youtube (Round Midnight and Ask Me Now). I actually quite liked it, you can still tell they're Monk tunes. I'll listen to some more.

There was a racing greyhound at our local track many moons ago, named "Lux Interior", owner was a Cramps fan, unsurprisingly.

I bought a charity shop LP yesterday, which helpfully had the original receipt inside - £7.99 (new) in April 1992. According to an online inflation calc tool, that would be £15.48 today, which is cheaper than actual cost (LP's are generally £16 and up here, these days) CDs on the other hand - I have plenty of jazz CDs with £14 stickers on (1995-2000 prices), which equates to around £27 now!

Such a great album

Nice

And another thumbs up from me..