Steve Gray

I would love to see :-- Blue Mitchell Bring It On Home To Me Sam Rivers New Conception both never issued on CD as far as I am aware. Plus there are others that have no been available for a long time. e.g. The Empty Foxhole

Sorry, my post wasn't very clear either. I knew you were talking about the November concert. I was just pointing out that there were more than 13 tracks available of the February date. Looking forward to this. Many thanks for all your work.

20 tracks available on Volume 12 of the fremeaux series. Disk 2/17 to Disk3/13 14 with Edmund Hall and 6 with the big band http://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=64&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=1442&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=0

Some discussion here ...

More info here on John Kendall from the same site http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/john-kendall-records.html

Yes, I saw Roland there once as well.

Johnny Winterbourne perhaps. More information here including a list of staff members. http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org George Foster was the leading light in the Jazz Society at UCL when I was there from 65 to 68. I didn't realise he worked at Dobell's

Actually, I thought my post #2 said it all, but it seems some people couldn't be bothered to find out what Hanlon's Razor is. Hanlon's Razor states "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Paraphrasing it for this example - Don't attribute some kind of super intelligence to EMI for their notations on these CDs, it is much more likely to just be a cockup on their part.

Yes, otherwise known as the 'cockup theory'

I think the answer is something to do with Hanlon's Razor

Volume 12 is here http://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=1442&Itemid=13

It is definitely a different take. There is NO whistling on the take on the ACE CD. Unfortunately though it is still the same tune. EDIT: Just found the CD case. It states that 'Each Time' features Eddie Barefield without mentioning the tenor player. It also states that the tenor on 'Yeah Yeah Yeah' is Ray Abrams, It implies that the take of 'Each Time' on the CD was the one actually issued on Regal 3312, seems they definitely got that one wrong.

RIP Donald. Sorry, but it is Freddie Hubbard on Bluesnik

Could be. Collets was originally in New Oxford Street down towards the British Museum, then it moved to Charing Cross Road on the same side as Foyles, between Foyles and Tottenham Court Road station. Used to visit Collets a lot when it was in NOS, hardly ever when it was in CCR. Where Dobells was is now a horrible red brick building with a walkway underneath it. That side of the road, when Dobells was there, used to look exactly the same as the other side still does. Having said that, CCR is nothing like it used to be, hardly any of the book shops are there now either.

I had an email on the 20th saying that the Gerry Mulligan and Bobby Hutcherson selects were back in stock

I doubt that John Kendall was a rich man in the 1960s but he would be now (if he was still alive that is) if he had just kept hold of the best examples of Blue Notes and other items that passed through his hands.

There were definitely booths in Dobells, my experience is similar to MG's, listening to expensive imports (mostly Blue Notes) which I couldn't afford on my student grant. On the left there were some racks, then the tiny steps downstairs to John Kendall's second hand kingdom, then more racks. On the right at the front there were more racks in front of the counter and at the back on the right were about three booths. Right at the back was the door to Doug Dobell's office. I must admit I spent most time downstairs, it's amazing to think now how many second hand Blue Notes, Prestiges and Riversides I bought for £1 to £1 10sh.

I have this CD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gershwin-Orchestral-Works-George/dp/B000025M4X/ref=pd_sim_sbs_m_h__1 which features Gershwin playing Rhapsody In Blue with orchestral accompaniment Apparently Gershwin recorded a reduction of RIB for solo piano on a piano roll For this recording, someone had to fill in the holes on the roll that represented the 'accompaniment' leaving only the solo part. I'm glad I didn't have that job.

I have never seen that wonderful picture of Dobells in colour before, but I have seen it in b&w. The picture I was thinking of was actually a different one ...

I have never seen that wonderful picture of Dobells in colour before, but I have seen it in b&w. The picture of Erroll Garner is interesting. The guys at far left and right only look vaguely familiar but the guy at second left I remember very well. He was always behind the counter. It's Doug Dobell to the right of Erroll of course. I saw Erroll on that tour in 1962, at Lewisham I think.

Maybe I am misreading what you are saying here, but just to confirm, Dobells was on the same side of the Charing Cross Road as Foyles, but they were separated by Cambridge Circus.

RIP Loved his Hammerklavier and the rest of his late Beethoven sonatas

I can't see how to name my playlists when ripping a commercial CD that already has metadata. iTunes names the playlist for me. I prefer to do this myself. Haven't yet transferred music from a CD-R, but I suppose iTunes asks you to name the playlist yourself in this case. Is that correct? When you rip a CD you are not creating a playlist at all. You are creating an entry in the iTunes media directory based on the artist name and album name. If you rip a CDR, iTunes is unlikely to recognise it and you will have to enter artist , album and title data yourself. The only time iTunes is likely to recognise it is if it is a direct copy of a regular CD. Playlists are created manually by yourself. You can create a playlist that corresponds to an album you have ripped but there isn't a lot of point. A playlist is usually formed from selections by multiple artists and multiple albums.

Do you mean the French VSOP series from the early 60s? As you are in Switzerland you might well mean those. Very Special Old Phonography