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The solo Tapscott on Interplay looks tasty. In fact all the Interplay releases look good. Does anyone have information about them? ie are they good/bad/indifferent?

Pete King was a British jazz tenor saxophonist and the manager of London's famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott's Well then it is apparently the same guy I'm talking about if we can believe this: http://peterkingjazz.com/bio.html No, that bio is for Peter King the ALTO player..a completely different person and, BTW, an excellent musician. Very sad news about the death of Pete King..the end of an era. I'm starting to feel old again!

Too much information!!!!!!!!!

Love the new look - well done! BTW I'm having no problems using Google Chrome.

Don't agree with that. Beyond the Wall isn't bad, but I'd take Songbook, Pursuance, Triology, Stars & Stripes Live, Black Hope, or African Exchange Student over it. There we are, each to his/her own!

His two earlier Nessa albums arrived in the post this morning (thanks, Chuck!) and I've been playing them all day. Absolutely top class music and it makes me ask myself...'how have I overlooked him for the last 30+ years'? Anyway, better late than never

By far his best album but 'record of the decade'.......I think not!

What a bummer! A beautiful bass player and a very nice person. Like others I still remember him as being 'youngish' - a sign of old age, I guess!

What a great review! Having received the CD this morning, I've been playing it all day and its a knockout. Please add my name to his list of admirers and thank you again, Chuck, for releasing it.

The one's I was thinking about that haven't had a release (I think!) are: I just wondered why some of the catalogue has come out, such as the the wonderful 'Billy Hart - Enchance' mentioned earlier, and others haven't. Does anyone know?

Does anyone know if there are any plans to re-issue the albums that came out on A&M's Horizon label in the 1970s? I know a few of them by Charlie Haden and Don Cherry have already been released but there are still releases like 'The People's Republic, by The Revolutionary Ensemble' and a couple by David Liebman and Richie Beirach that I don't think have ever seen the light of day. It would be nice to have them available again.

I have the same set and, yes, the booklet's in English. Contacting Mosaic is probably your best bet but obviously their booklet would be bigger.

I use 'Burrrn' to burn all my CD-Rs. Never had a problem! It's available as freeware here: Burrrn

Just sent my order for this one, Chuck.

I have a number of them: Mike Osborne - Force of nature Ray Russell - Secret Asylum Splinters Bob Downes - Crossing Borders Harry Miller's Isispingo These were the people I watched play live in London every week during the 60's and they remind me of a very happy period in my life. They are all very well produced and the sound is excellent

Thanks for the swift reply. Another one to add to my 'to get' list!

Can anyone recommend (or not) his 1975 album 'Afrisong' which has been reissued recently on Candid/Whynot?

I've just returned from vacation and found the Mosaic e-mail waiting for me. This is great news and the music is well overdue for re-issuing. Whilst I have everything by him that has been already been issued on Novus & Columbia, there is probably something new included in the boxset and it will be great to hear it remastered. Not forgetting the usual excellent Mosaic booklet, of course! Well done Mosaic and this news makes me much more optimistic about their future.

Yes, it's paired on Collectables with the Allen Ganley-Ronnie Ross Atlantic, a good date. "Groove, Funk, Soul" IIRC is a bit better than "Teddy's Ready" -- not that there's anything wrong with "TR," but "GFS" was just a darn good day in the studio. Unfortunately the Joe Castro date on this CD only contains six of the eight tracks from the album, something that Collectables has done on a number of their '2 on 1' releases. Since he made two albums for Atlantic - 'Groove, Funk, Soul' & 'Mood Jazz' it would seem more logical to have paired these on the CD. Still, what's ever logical about CD reissues? However it's an excellent session and well worth getting. BTW Joe Castro provides great accompanyment for Zoot Sims on another release - 'Live at Falcon Lair', that came out on Pablo a few years ago.

......but not as fine as their album 'The Peoples' Republic' on A&M! Now when is that ever going to get a CD re-issue?

It would be great to see his wonderful RCA Novus releases from the 70s & 80s get properly re-issued. What a great series of albums they were. I'm not so keen on his later music on Pi.

I've checked it with Hiroshi: New release. I received it today: I love her two 'Live at The Village Vanguard' albums but I'm not too keen on 'Fragile'. What does this new one sound like?

What's happened to the Captain? The last I read was that he was living in the desert, suffering from some unspecified illness. Or did I dream that?

It was!

If you want an excellent introduction to West Coast jazz then I can recommend a couple of books that are well worth getting: Ted Gioia - West Coast Jazz, & Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast (Catchy titles, eh!) They whetted my appetite, but a word of warning - following the album recommendations will seriously damage your finances