David Ayers

So now that’s settled, what about those Andorrans, eh?

I’m with Grumpy.

Harold Budd, The Pavilion of Dreams, featuring Marion Brown I know I probably won’t win with this one, but I thought I would share the idea anyway…

Noted! Thank you.

Anyone who knows Philip Pullman: would I be able to follow the new one without knowledge of previous books? No spoilers please!

I feel like we already did Lee Morgan and, even more so than with the new Mobley, there can be few revelations here even for the lesser spotted ‘new’ collector, who can in any case easily find most of these titles in hard copy and can stream all of it any time. I guess there’s some folks with settled tastes who wouldn’t mind a refresh, but, uh...

I hear you. KV has his moments, and on this set the slices of Joe McPhee, solo and with KV, are a real joy, but sound-in-space it ain’t. I appreciate a set like this because instead of listening to one gig 6 or 10 times I can hear six gigs once or twice. Here’s my local scene, if you can believe it: https://freerangecanterbury.weebly.com/# Re. AMM, I’d say don’t count on getting the chance to hear this lineup again.

In fact I’m seeing them in Canterbury. You should come! The mix needs to bring up the bass and drums a bit, I think.

All riffed out on the KV front, having just worked through 5/6 of The Fire Each Time. In a club context or with a better mix it would probably work better, but too much is too much. By coincidence, off to hear Prévost/Rowe/Tilbury tomorrow. Now that’s more like it. Re. Butcher - yeah.

Well that’s ... unexpected ...

That’s very nice!

FWIW, KV’s last boxed offering - with Joe McPhee - is showing as OOP on the NotTwo website.

https://www.nottwo.com/mw993 More diverse than some of his other box sets, this week at least.

It was as much Dizzy as anyone was going to get at that point, and it was a memorable show.

Here’s my day in 1991: https://www.northseajazz.com/en/program/1991/friday-12-july/list/ In those days the festival was in The Hague.

I checked the archive at the North Sea Jazz website... By the way, mine were all in ONE DAY!

2006?

Dizzy with a large band, Miriam Makeba, and backing vocalists; Ornette and Prime Time; Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music; David Murray quartet; Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy; and many big names I missed, or just strolled through the tent, because they overlapped: Oscar Peterson, Shorty Rogers, Gary Burton... Things have changed.

The penny continues to drop...

The fun of reeling stuff in from around the world disappeared some years ago. IIRC, the VAT is applied to the shipping charge as well as the goods, and there is also a service charge. There’s always streaming and thrift stores.

Well maybe but the CDs would probably cost less than the LPs they would need!

At least it's not an LP cover.

Paul Dunmall, Duns

To me its a question of fun. Some of this stuff is on Spotify and in many cases that might be enough. A lot of this material crops up in cast-off vinyl form for a fiver a go. The box is super-cheap, especially since many disks (except the Parker ones) contain two LPs. The new issues will give us covers and maybe notes, and there’s no need to buy them all. Equally, the odd dip into the vinyl mountain would give maybe more ambient pleasure and genuine period feel.

Eddie Prevost, Matchless Evan Parker, Psi