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  1. RIP Used to dance to this one when clubbing 60 years ago
  2. What is the nature of the problem you are hearing? I didn't listen to it all but there were a lot of tinkling bells on one track I found irritating. Other than that it sounds ok on amazon music IMO
  3. RIP Saw him in 1961 with Dizzy and Leo Wright. On the same bill as the Coltrane group with Dolphy
  4. 82 is the new 27
  5. Ted heath has certainly recorded a lot, probably all, of those tunes including "Poppa ..." I presume they are all on the album pictured and the rest of it is all incorrect.
  6. Near (?) miss - Barry Harris and Harry Barris
  7. romualdo mentions that in his discographical info earlier in the thread. Love For Sale was originally on a Columbia LP compilation called Black Giants. Just want to say that the handover from Miles to Coltrane on Stella By Starlight is one of the most magical moments in recorded jazz for me 🙂
  8. "Night Of The Cookers" wasn't very good sound-wise either.
  9. RIP. Was Playing New York Scene yesterday... Only Sonny left now from the Art Kane photo
  10. It's on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuctdfkQ_50
  11. Kenny Burrell says here that he played with Parker
  12. Have you actually emptied the trash? Putting something in the trash doesn't actually delete it in case you want to bring it back
  13. It was on this tour that Louis recorded an episode of 'Desert Island Discs' for the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009y1rb
  14. This BBC film about Hifi in the UK in the 50s is hilarious all the way through and is well worth watching but it also contains a scene in HMV in Oxford Street of a row of booths with different music coming from each booth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9o_eZGaaMk The Hitchcock film was "Strangers On A Train"
  15. Volume 8 is available. now, on Amazon music at least and I assume another platforms I am so glad that the series hasn't been abandoned
  16. Unfortunately definitely the latter!
  17. Nope
  18. I well remember the review of Ole in Jazz Journal in, I guess, 1962 The reviewer unfavourably compared the playing of "George Lane" to Boyce Brown. Of course in those days we didn't know definitively who "George Lane" was and I am not sure that the reviewer had heard any of Eric's records.
  19. Basie next please
  20. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/02/a-man-cannot-learn-without-discipline-jazz-guru-marshall-allen-on-life-with-sun-ra-and-turning-100
  21. We should have had 7 AND 8 by now! I do hope this series hasn't died a death
  22. Looking on streaming sites, it is claimed that 6/8 is on the 1953-1954 "Dizzy Gillespie in Chronology" CD. Manteca Theme / Contraste / Jungla / Rhumba-Finale / 6/8 (05-24-54) is shown as lasting 16:29 which implies 6/8 is not really there given the discogs timings. I can't listen to it to confirm
  23. If you look at the "other images" on that discogs link you will see that there is a shot of side 2 which does indeed include Contraste/Jungla/Rhumba Finale https://www.discogs.com/release/12735433-Dizzy-Gillespie-And-His-Orchestra-Afro/image/SW1hZ2U6MzY4ODg4MDc= It appears you can get 12 minutes on an EP. Surprises me. There are also shots of the liners which for me are illegible unfortunately
  24. Also the timing given for "6/8" (4:47) is very close to the timing of "Rumba-Finale", the third part of the suite. Sure looks as if you are right
  25. I don't think that's right either, it was recorded in mono so any stereo issues are fake. "Pres and Teddy" was, as it happens, the first jazz LP I bought, in 1961
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