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I think it means that he is a very strong icon for many of what Blue Note Records was during a very productive time. I don't think anyone here thinks that Hank Mobley alone, or as part of a small list of musicians, DEFINES the Blue Note legacy, just that he is as definitive a Blue Note recording artist as there ever was. Penultimate, according to my dictionary means 'next to last', obviously he wasn't next to last chronologically so what did it mean? I agree that he could be regarded as a definitive Blue Note artist, and there are a lot of Blue Note fans about, me included. I have tons of Hank's albums both as a leader and as a sideman in my collection and he never lets us down. I was just puzzled by use of the word 'penultimate'.

Penultimate Blue Note recording artist? Can someone please explain what this means.

Thanks MG, Reading these boards has just cost me another 8 quid.

You have posted a number of World Record Club releases MG, were you ever a member? No, I got a few in beautiful nick on Tuesday in Cardiff's main 2nd hand shop. So, I'm playing them... MG Just wondered. I joined up in about 1964 and remained a member until it finished. They had some fine releases always repackaged from the originals and sometimes renamed. I've replaced them all on CD since then except one of the first I bought 'The Ronnie Ross/Bill le Sage Quartet' which as far as I can see is the only release of this particular album. There was also an Earl Hines album of solo piano pieces that got a five star review from Jazz Journal at the time. My copy got lost in a move a long time ago and I've never been able to trace the original.

You have posted a number of World Record Club releases MG, were you ever a member?

I was an expert on where to find my CDs, but my wife rearranged everything and now I'm a novice again!

I've got the 10CD JATP set on Membran very similar but not exactly what's on the Verve set and of course no personnel details or notes, but a little searching on the internet gets you all the necessary info. Thoroughly enjoyable. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazz-at-Philharmonic-Norman-Granz/dp/B002PDB9LE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1364729760&sr=1-1 Thanks for the link, Ray - just ordered it. See you reviewed it there MG Glad to have been of service. It's given me many hours of pleasure.

I've got the 10CD JATP set on Membran very similar but not exactly what's on the Verve set and of course no personnel details or notes, but a little searching on the internet gets you all the necessary info. Thoroughly enjoyable. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jazz-at-Philharmonic-Norman-Granz/dp/B002PDB9LE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1364729760&sr=1-1

One place I often go to listen to jazz is 'The Spice of Life', a pub at Cambridge Circus just a hundred yards or so along Charing Cross Road from Foyles. There's music every night in the basement music room with jazz on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and again on Friday lunchtime. It's a nice atmosphere and serves decent pub grub at resonable prices and a nice range of drinks ( and no I'm not on any kind of commission).

Thanks for the heads up on that Bev, but on my computer the link goes nowhere! Looked it up and it's on BBC4 at 10.25pm on Friday 22nd March with a repeat advertised as 12.40am Monday 25th March. RT has been a bit of a hero of mine ever since I first bought 'Full House' back when it was first released, still my favourite Fairport album.

Those are the same timings I have when I transferred the LP to digital files so I guess that there's no editing involved.

This album has been like an old friend. I bought it in the first week after it's release and have loved it ever since. I have bought it four times in all in it's various formats and I think I may go and play it again now.

I've only been appreciating "Lee Morgan" for about the last 18 months. I put the name in quotes because I always loved the blazing work with the Jazz Messengers, but it's only recently that Morgan has really entered my consiousness. Bit like Joe Henderson, another great who I suppose I took for granted but who's albums I am now buying with increasing regularity.

A live track but not a jam is Tommy Smith with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra's reading of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' which clocks in at 53'58". Excellent stuff it is as well!

All but one of the tracks from Ibrahim's 'Ekaya' together with a few from 'Water from an Ancient Well' are available on a cd 'Mountain'. Admittedly this is now difficult to track down, but it is out there.

I tried to reply earlier in the week but for some reason it didn't post. If this one doesn't I'm the only one that will know. I didn't vote because I was only familiar with the John Handy & Elvin Jones albums, both great and worth owning by anyone interested in Jazz. But the query drove me to look at the other two which as they were only just over £2 each on Amazon UK I downloaded them both. The Woody Shaw is really very good but the Billy Harper was something else. I thank you so much for bringing these two brilliant albums to my attention and I have also downloaded another couple of Billy Harper's albums (The Awakening and the Quintet in Europe). These boards are so very useful for discovering new things and emptying your wallet!

He/she is awaiting the 4.33-bit remastering. Lower-fi but more authentic. Do you have the live version where Cage sits at an electric piano and a guy whispers 'Judas' at about 0'30"?

I was at Scott's on that evening (Sunday 2nd November 1969), and believe it or not there was also a set from Cecil Taylor all recorded as part of a series of gigs for BBC's Jazz 625. It was very disappointing that the subsequent broadcasts did not feature the sets as recorded but were split up to single numbers. The BBC did everyone a disservice by wiping the tapes to save what amounts to pocket money. It's not their only crime, the majority of the 'Q' series of comedies by Spike Milligan were wiped and also his wonderful series of 'World of Beachcomer'. All this stuff gone forever. It's evil.

I've got this on vinyl, I bought it just after it was released in the UK after hearing one of the tracks played on the radio. I played it to death and now the only copy I have is the worn out LP. Favourite tracks were Walter L which is very much like the Metheny/Burton effort and Lines which is a Burton/Coryell duo. I'm very much looking forward to getting a copy without the plops and clicks of a thousand plays.

I recently bought the Jutta Hipp album with Zoot Sims from Amazon UK as a download and a part of the download was a pdf file containing all the sleeve art and notes. Why can't everyone do it.

Yes, and an amazing Tenor player, pity he has no plans for any further albums. Why? Does anyone know?

I recently bought them on a single CD, it must have been issued this year as there's a sleeve (booklet) note by Victor Ores dated 2012. I love this music and the quality is only just short of the Blackhawk set and I would rate both as 'must haves'.

I have to say that I'm really looking forward to the Tony Kinsey release on Acrobat. I've ordered a copy from Amazon but no indication of when it's to be released. BTW anyone really interested in this era of British modern jazz is well served by David Taylor's website, for any who don't already know it I post a link - http://vzone.virgin.net/davidh.taylor/bebop.htm I am also looking forward to Simon's Tubby book, again no indication of who will be publishing it or when it's likely to be. I chatted to Simon at a club a while ago and told him that I'd seen Tubby play back in the early sixties, he was very interested but unfortunately I could only recall that it was at the 100 club in the summer of 1962 or '63 and that Tubby blew me away!!

I guess the only reason that snippet survived was that it was used on some compilation program. The rest of the show (and the master tapes) were 'apparently' wiped by the Beeb. I keep hoping that by some miracle, the BBC will unearth a previously unknown full copy. Too bad that Bob Monkhouse wasn't recording jazz on his VCRs . I was there the night Miles played Scott's, we were also treated to a set by Cecil Taylor. They were recorded for a Jazz 625 series, but when the series was aired instead of complete sets they were broken up into individual numbers with a lot of tricky photography, most disappointing. Incidentally, Spike Milligan was sitting just in front of us for the Miles set but left before the Taylor set started.

Some of the British jazz albums I've been enjoying very recently include the issues on young trumpeter Matthew Halsall's own label the Manchester based Gondwana Records. Three albums by Halsall 'On the go', 'Colour yes' & 'Sending my love' are excellent. The same 'repertory' of musicians on those also appear on three albums by Nat Birchall 'Akhenaten', 'Guiding Spirit' & 'Sacred Dimension', these too get a lot of play in my house. Also more than worthy of a listen is the first album by 22 year old saxophonist Andrew Linham 'Abandoned Silence'.