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Yes - but it was in the 10% off sale and they ran out before the end of August. So I reckon everything was done in a hurry when they got a new supply. MG

FWIW, I think Ponder's playing on the extra "Grass Roots" session, and "That Certain Feeling" (which I only heard for the first time less than a year ago), are tops among my all-time favorite 60's recordings with guitar. Yes!!!! What a shame he didn't get the amount of session time his playing so obviously deserved during these years. I remember reading an older thread that mentioned the missed opportunity of Ponder not recording with Larry Young, and can only reiterate those sentiments. I too only got to hear 'That Certain Feeling' for the first time this year and still can't believe these tunes were written during the session. I think it makes a great companion piece to the extra Grass Roots session as well. Thanks for the thoughts everyone regarding Common Touch. It's going for a song and found where I least expected it. In fact they've got two copies. I think I missed something earlier in this thread. What is this "Grass roots" album that Jimmy Ponder played on? He wasn't on the Grassella Oliphant album of that name. MG MG, Andrew Hill's Disc "Grass Roots" has an extra, unissued session, which imho is far better than the original Grass Roots. Ponder is playing there, alongside Woody Shaw, Frank Mitchell, Reggie Workman, Idris Muhammad and of course, Andrew Hill. A very good session! Aha! Maybe I should get that. I am a bit of a Ponder completist, I think. Though I had "Lift every voice" by Hill once and didn't get along with it at all. Still, Frank Mitchell and Idris as well... MG

Never heard of this one! More, more please. I assume it's only available as a download. MG

Well, it DOES have a number--it's on the invoice that came with it. You just have to write it in the booklet yourself. No invoice, either. MG

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FWIW, I think Ponder's playing on the extra "Grass Roots" session, and "That Certain Feeling" (which I only heard for the first time less than a year ago), are tops among my all-time favorite 60's recordings with guitar. Yes!!!! What a shame he didn't get the amount of session time his playing so obviously deserved during these years. I remember reading an older thread that mentioned the missed opportunity of Ponder not recording with Larry Young, and can only reiterate those sentiments. I too only got to hear 'That Certain Feeling' for the first time this year and still can't believe these tunes were written during the session. I think it makes a great companion piece to the extra Grass Roots session as well. Thanks for the thoughts everyone regarding Common Touch. It's going for a song and found where I least expected it. In fact they've got two copies. I think I missed something earlier in this thread. What is this "Grass roots" album that Jimmy Ponder played on? He wasn't on the Grassella Oliphant album of that name. MG

My new Stitt has no number. They ran out during the sale and got them out as quickly as poss when they came back in stock to meet customers' orders. QRT; I wouldn't have wanted to wait another minute. MG

I haven't specifically checked, but I recall that Ponder gets in some decent solos on "Lonely Avenue" - particularly good - "Buster Brown" and "Boogaloo" - both well up to his usual standard. MG

Best one I've seen is in the toilet in the the offices of the UK Permanent Representative to the EU (the equivalent of an Embassy). There's a sign on the door facing you, more or less at eye level when you're seated, which says, "Please use the toilet brush", to which some wag has added, "when no paper available". MG

I'm on my fourth copy of this; mono, stereo, TOCJ, then Mosaic. I got the first one in 1967, at the same time as "Along came John". I've played "Along came John" just a trifle more than "Oh baby", a good bit more than any of the other Pattons. It's not because I LIKE them more, though. They just get out more MG

Yeah, that was one of the two I was going to mention with a completely different approach to the tune from the normal burn. Griffin's long medium paced latin intro, with Diz-style singing, is fabulous. And when they break to a slightly different groove, it feels like some of the more interesting contemporary Mandinke cuts I've got. The other different approach is by Rusty Bryant on the album "For the good times", which is on CD. He takes it slowly, grooving with a good bit of grease. I've got quite a few versions, including the Parker 1946 and the Blakey Birdland session (did anyone mention that amongst all the Blakeys?), both of which I like a lot. But the different approaches are the ones that really get me. MG

Will that TT work with any amp ? It was 2002 when I bought it and I can't remember what the salesman said about compatibility. I should think it'll play with almost anything, because I've only got a bog-standard cheapo amp. I've got a piece of writing about it somewhere and I could look something up, if you like. MG

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Or, to put this back on sort of a jazz footing (!), there is Paul Desmond's legendary story about the security guy at the fair where they were about to play. He stopped their car and asked them who they were. "The Dave Brubeck Quartet," they answered. He looked at his paperwork and asked, "How many in the Quartet?" Desmond always intended to use that as the title of his autobiography, but sadly, never got around to writing it. I love that line. Greg M. Security man was obviously a fan of Gospel quartets includinf the "Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama" MG

Are you having that shipped in to you? I'm jealous (even tho it's not all that far from here). You're not Father Ted in your spare time, Rod, are you? MG

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Well, I've been listening to this all day - now on the last handful of trax. Surprisingly, I don't feel I've overdosed on Sonny. I used to have two of the LPs that make up this box - sold them in 1970. Over the last 36 years, I've either got much more into Stitt, or I was wanting my music in 1970 to be a lot more funkified; probably both. Sonny's style always makes me think of the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, whose opponents described his style as "dangerously easy to read". I think Sonny is dangerously easy to listen to. I thought I was just buying this box for the Don Patterson tracks but I've found myself enjoying everything - and occasionally being knocked out by some tracks - even ones I had before like "Mother Tucker". What a good day! And I've not yet started on the Cousin Joe box! That'll have to wait until tomorrow. MG

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Not quite - sidetracked by two box sets that arrived today. Only listened to one! MG

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Phew - overload today! At 10 past 10, DHL brought me the Sonny Stitt Mosaic box I don't have any of this material, so it's a good buy for me. Then at 1 o'clock, the postman brought another box set: Cousin Joe, the complete recordings And I only have 1 78 of Cousin Joe, so it's a goodbye for him, too. Now, when am I going to get time to listen to all this? MG

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