Steve Gray

I only saw Mingus once, on a European tour in 1974 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London. Cannonball Adderley was also on the bill. The only member of the band that I am absolutely certain was there is Hamiet Bluiett, but I guess Richmond, Pullen and Adams were there as well. I would love to know the exact lineup on that tour. If anyone knows please let me know. Sorry to say but my recollections are that the band sounded very tired and I was very disappointed. I was about 10 years too late I guess.

It was Humphrey Lyttelton and Chris Barber who first got me interested in Jazz (and Acker to an extent but not Kenny Ball) I quickly moved on to the real thing but I still enjoy all the records I used to enjoy, including my Chris Barber disks. I only saw him once, on a tour with Louis Armstrong. RIP

There is no other reasonable answer. You have to find a copy of the Mosaic box

I have heard that the Mosaic set has excellent sound for this session but I am afraid I have not heard it. This one sounds good to me but I cannot compare it to the Mosaic, which I am sure you own. Perhaps when you receive your copy you could let us know how it compares.

My copy of 'Mingus Presents Mingus' turned up this morning. The bad news is that the two extra tracks are simply the edited versions that were issued on a Candid single. So nothing really new. The good news for me is that the sound is better than anything else I remember hearing. (I haven't heard my Barnaby LP for over 30 years and I don't own the Mosaic set)

I saw Ella on this tour, in London. I wonder if they also recorded the Roy Eldridge/Coleman Hawkins group with Tommy Flanagan that also performed that night. Would love to hear that!

That's Alfred Lion on the left, isn't it?

RIP. Very sad I was lucky enough to have seen him with Coltrane and Dolphy in 1961, and also in the 70s with a quintet. Will be playing some McCoy later on ...

Brian Rust, he of the discographies, used to write Traditional Jazz reviews using the pseudonym "Oliver King"

I did use Tidal but have switched to Amazon HD. I think the user interface of Tidal is slightly better but as a Prime user, amazon is cheaper and I fell the sound quality is very good. The only real problem I have with these services (and especially Amazon) is the number of public domain issues. Search for any jazz album recorded before 1962 and you will find dozens of PD versions and it can be difficult to pick out a genuine release.

Elvin Jones as well https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ginger-baker-elvin-jones/

The sonata performances are on the decca box linked above. I have the Brilliant issue and think it is wonderful. Another good set is Annie Fischer on Hungaraton. Don't particularly like Kovacevich in this repertoire. Kempff mono set is wonderful too.

Here is a relevant thread from 2005 on the previous CD issues. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/22777-tubby-hayes-reissues-on-fontana/

Mastered for MQA! Ugh! However it appears they have now found the master tapes which is good news. I believe some previous issues were needle drops. (not sure which ones off hand, perhaps Mexican Green)

No, they are just 10 or 20 years younger than the ones voting for the 70s

Are they WAV files by any chance?

Album artwork can be stored in various places. Personally I attach it to the music files but it can also be stored in the 'Album Artwork' directory. I think it goes there if you buy from iTunes or ask iTunes to find artwork. I don't use this feature so I am not completely sure. If your iTunes directory was empty then so would have been the Album Artwork directory so if you only copied over the .itl or .xml file you would indeed lose artwork. For what it's worth I upgraded to Mojave with zero problems, in iTunes or anything else.

That's interesting about the artwork. I would have thought you might have GAINED about 5%. They recently introduced a bug where if your artwork was not perfectly square it would not display. That bug is fixed in the iTunes in Mojave though. Are you sure you don't have an iTunes update waiting for you somewhere?

I have a copy of that Dolphy jam on CD somewhere, I will have to try to find it. IIRC it is recorded abysmally I saw that Coltrane/Gillespie tour in Walthamstow, London.

I have only just seen this thread. I was at the LSE gig. I was at UCL at the time and George Foster was running the Jazz Club there. My feelings pretty much match George's. A friend of mine, also at the LSE gig, found himself in a lift with some of the band including Beaver Harris. When the lift went up, Beaver made a comment something like "Rocket to the Moon..."

RIP. I feel Just A Little Overcome

Ignoring British Trad group LPs .... Lester Young - Pres and Teddy. The English version, which was different from the US version and had one track from Jazz Giants 56 for some reason. Bought in November 1961, I was 14.

I am only referring to the ones linked to in the first post of this thread and the Doug Watkins.

Maybe something to do with RVG losing his hearing as he got older.

They are "Leader" discographies I believe.