Royal Oak

"Jazz mags" - fnarr fnarr (UK members only reference)

A slightly rough original copy. The stuff you find at car boot sales

Watermelon is a fairly recent visitor to British shores, I think, unless we just never had it in the house when I was a kid. When I first tried it, I found it a little tasteless, compared to the Honeydew or Canary melon I was used to. I prefer Watermelon now, the other stuff is too sweet. I wouldn't dream of salting it, however. JSngry talks about adding sugar to berries - we used to do that with strawberries all the time in my choldhood. Seems a bit vulgar now

Hadn't seen this until just now, sad news. I discovered him completely by accident, when I picked up "Bonfire" from a charity shop, as it had a cool cover. It had quite the profound effect on me, though that may have had something to do with the way I was feeling at the time.

I can't say I disagree actually.

Interesting read, thanks

^ Cheers both. Yes, a few stories online about it closing down last year. The sticker doesn't even have the shop's STD code with the phone number, a real sign of the times.

Didn't Chewy find a load of money inside an LP once? Or have I made that up?

Archie Shepp at a car boot sale. If you lived in England, you'd know just what a strange find this would be. The sticker on the back is from "Rare & Racy - books, records, maps and prints" in Sheffield. Bill F / Sidewinder - ever heard of this?

I renounced indie rock for jazz in the mid-1990s. I sold all my vinyl for peanuts, to buy jazz CDs. One particularly bad trade I made was to swop "Screamadelica" and "Nevermind" on original vinyl, for Sonny Clark's "Cool Struttin'" on CD. In my defence, you couldn't buy Cool Struttin' in those days in England. That CD would probably cost you £3 new today, whereas those two albums would cost £100 between them. I don't even like Cool Struttin' that much either. There were so many more - all the Smiths albums and singles, flogged for pennies. I once inherited around 40 Zappa LPs. Because I'd ditched the turntable by then, I gave them to my sister.....

Cannon & Ball Little & Large The Grumbleweeds

Mine's a reissue.

Yes, happy birthday to the only board member I've actually met in real life!

Nice, all looked to be having fun

Watched it and enjoyed it last night, thanks for the heads up.

I watched "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" on Netflix t'other day, which was pretty interesting, almost all of it new to me. The film showed some pictures of the scene where Fred Hampton was killed in his apartment; in one of them, you could make out a copy of Dolphy's "Out To Lunch" on the floor of the apartment.

How so? In an other-worldly kind of way, you mean?

Another thought; concerning the scene where Wayne Shorter is looking at photos of himself looking at Morgan's bandaged head. It appeared to me that Shorter hadn't seen those pictures before, or at least for many years. When he looks closely at the photo and says something along the lines of "what were you doing man?", I had a sense that he'd almost traveled back in time for a moment or two.

I just watched this on Netflix today. As others have mentioned, the scene where Larry Ridley talked about meeting Helen after she was released from jail was very powerful. I'm a sucker for redemption / compassion stories.

A tune I've always liked since first hearing the Ray Bryant record above, This rendition is nice too:

This hoary old chestnut / seminal work (whichever you prefer): Earlier:

I too thought he had already died. Fats reminds me of my dad, who was a fan