Royal Oak

I fooking love that video, watched it many times.

Nothing much I can offer to the thread, but I've always loved Oliver Nelson. He sure could write and play the blues. "Jams and Jellies" from "Introducing.." and "Emancipation Blues" from "Afro-American Sketches" are two personal favourites.

Not all at once, I should point out. That would be pretty horrible.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Wes Montgomery - Movin' Along Art Pepper - Smack Up! Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra

Mine has.

Quite!

Tom Woolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Interesting, but I get the impression you had to be there.

Mine has "New York" labels.

Yes, the Green album is excellent

Everybody Loves Raymond will forever remind me of my eldest child being a baby - it used to be on TV at 7am here in the UK, when he and I hung out a lot together. I only noticed the other day that her co-star Peter Boyle had died 10 years ago.

Jimmy Forrest is ace. It took me a while to "discover" him.

I just had a look at the BOTW listings - there isn't much jazz is there? The Cookers look interesting I must say.

From 1963. I like this album, FWIW

I bought the Sheila Jordan album (on CD) about 20 years ago on the 4 star recommendation of Cook and Morton. Didn't really do it for me.

CDs personally delivered this morning! Very nice too.

"Swings like a bag of shit", as my old man used to say.

I think there is more Mariano in the collection I bought.

Another reissue, on Fresh Sound. Another player I've never knowingly heard, Charlie Mariano.

The 1980s eh?

You know, there is no sign of "Mayfair" anywhere but the front cover. It's a British record - the back cover states A&M, distributed by Pye Records. The labels have A&M, CTI and Creed Taylor's signature printed on them. The liner notes are fairly brief, with no band line-ups mentioned. I do like side 2, the tracks from "From the Hot Afternoon". Mine isn't this version, it's a British reissue from the 80s. Yet another player I've never previously heard, and probably wouldn't have bought.

Another from the recently bought collection.This appears to be tracks from two CTI albums (Summertime and From The Hot Afternoon). I've managed 20+ years of jazz listening without knowingly listening to any CTI albums. I like this....

Joe Maini plays alto on this. I read Lenny Bruce's biography many years ago - he and Joe Maini hung out together for a while IIRC. I'd not heard him until I played this record.,

From a collection of 450 LPs I bought from a man a few weeks ago. Lots of 1980s reissues of "big" albums - OJC, Fresh Sound etc. I'm listening to one a day!

Hymn To Freedom from Oscar Peterson's Night Train album. I'm a sucker for that kind of thing lately.