Steve Gray

Paris Review

It works on the same principal as zip files, it looks for repeated patterns to reduce space. My configuration is Hard drives (2 terabytes) --> iMac --> Squeezebox --> Benchmark DAC1 --> pre-amp and I am very happy with it.

All I can say is that I do not agree at all with this opinion. His early autobiographical volumes, 'I play as I please' and 'Second Chorus' are well worth searching out. They are OOP at the moment I think but perhaps they will now be reprinted.

I may be wrong but isn't this a reference to L S Lowry. At least I have always assumed it was. Lowry on Wikipedia I gave her the ring, she gave me the finger

A very sad day Humph has been very important to me since the late 50s when I first heard my father's Parlophone EPs and 10 inch LPs by Humph. I still have them and treasure them greatly. The last time I saw him was a couple of years ago at the Bulls Head. Playing 'Blues for Waterloo' right now. RIP Humph

Does anyone know why the Evans material is not in the Verve box set? (apart from the fact that it is not very good) I don't know if this was explained in the notes in the box. I don't want to open the box because I don't want to get rust on my hands :-)

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Taking it for a Happy Birthday spin right now.

Thanks Chris. I didn't think they could have been issued. I am particularly fond of that line up, with Fawkes and Turner, and without a trombone player. They were both wonderful soloists and I really wish I could have heard that band myself. Steve

Chris With regard to the recording you made of the Lyttelton band, where was that issued? Is it available? Thanks

I remember my father had the Louis Armstrong album with the Dukes of Dixieland that was on Audio Fidelity (I now have it on a Spanish label CD). He also had a Peter Appleyard album that featured lots of percussive effects. (listen to the shaker gourd on the left channel) The earliest stereo Jazz recording that I am aware of is the Lennie Tristano quartet with Lee Konitz recorded at the Confucious Restaurant in June 1955

Yes, I noticed it. I just don't believe it.

Have you noticed the picture of the cover states 'Volume 1' I guess that is what you are going to get.

Well, actually it is 81. No reason not to spin that disk though

Sidewinder, For some reason I think you listened to 'Jazz Record Requests' this afternoon!

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What I find amusing about this is that this 'review' is just the kind of thing for which they closed down the old bulletin board. I wonder how long it will be before they stop allowing anyone to post a review there.

Humphrey Lyttelton , who is an obvious candidate, was offered a knighthood but refused it, presumably because of his leftist attitude.

According to the notes in the Mercury box, the tenor player only plays on 'Beer Drinking Baby' Billy Valentine I believe was a West Coaster, he replaced Charles Brown in Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers which I guess lends credence to it being a West Coast session.

Sorry, I don't have any deep knowledge here. All I meant was that the only reference to this that I am aware of is the personnel listing in the box stating that it is JC. I have never seen any other reference to this session elsewhere.

This was recorded for Mercury. It was included on the 8 CD Mercury 'Blues & Rhythym Story' set. The notes state that it is JC. It certainly sounds as if it could be but there does not seem to be any actual proof.

I saw John Coltrane play in London at the Walthamstow Granada. The date was November 17th 1961. This, of course, was just a few days after 'Live at the Village Vanguard' was recorded and it was essentially the same group : JC, Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones. They did the first half of the show before the Dizzy Gillespie group with Lalo Shifrin and Leo Wright performed. This was the first Modern Jazz group I saw live, before that I had been a fan of British Trad bands. I was 14 years old at the time. I remember they played 'My Favourite Things' and I suspect they also played 'Impressions' but this was of course before 'Impressions' was issued on LP and there were no announcements. I enjoyed it all enormously but my memories are a bit hazy now. The one thing I remember vividly was the large bulge on Eric's forehead when he was soloing.

I am not familiar with Duke's Mixture. What's on it?