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I've got the possiblity of getting a used but excellent condition Linn LP12 with Ittok arm and Lingo power supply, I currently have a Rega P3 and RB300. Anyone have experience of LP12s, I've read mixed things on goggling it. I will be auditioning it so ultimately my ears will decide. Any thoughts.?

Both are great sets. I feel the Monk Columbia material is perhaps a little undervalued on the whole. In reality if you have one of these sets then the others hold few additional revelations. But if you love Monk as I do ........

Whilst I love the in depth analysis and challenge to my thinking that Larry and Allen offer , however, I do find Scott and AMG's potted bios and album crits of some help when pulling the trigger on impulse buys I know little about. Each type of review has it's place. The UK has two serious jazz mags. Jazz Review (offering longer reviews, no star system) and Jazzwise ( shorter reviews and star system)..I prefer the former by a mile. Can we all get along please....

Yet but mine has three legs !!

Curtis Fuller- New Trombone-Prestige- Sonny Red does well here, nice blowing date ,nothing mega but decent Wilbur De Paris- 4 LPs of his New Orleans Band, sounding to my ears slighlty more modern tahn I might have expected. Best of the bunch is probably On the Riviera. Think this was on the Mosaic NO set ? Sidney Bechet- Vol 3/4 RCA- lovely stuff indeed

Misery and the blues- Got this LP recently, slow paced stuff on the whole, not exactly exuberant, growing on me slowly. Singing is fine I guess. Prefer his Bethelhem date.

You shouls see these guys live, it's pretty visceral stuff. All there Jazzland releases are excellent, although I don't have this one yet.

Diz/Bird Townhall 1945- or Interlude as they seemed to prefer calling it that night or the multiple alternates of Interlude recorded by Lennie Tristano on Keynote

I've ordered the paperback version but haven't received it yet. I thought it lacked the CD found in the hardback but had an index.

I've got that same edition and it sounds incredible, even though my copy probably would only rate as VG+, really round full sound. Elvin set is however in the post... This weekend went to my favourite place and got for £10 the following, all very nice indeed. Wilbur De Paris- On the Riviera- Atlantic (purple/yellow)- mint looking but pressing clearly not great with fairly contant low crackle but lucky this is obliterated by a very full and loud sound, so you only notice it between tracks and as quiet moments ( of which there are very few !)- Great set and hey... no banjo......!!! Ben Webster- IAJRC- Assorted airchecks with various leaders. Lionel Hampton- RCA- Vol 6 - 1937/38 sessions- again great transfers. Woody Herman Sextet- self-titled- unusual Woody date with world beater Eddie Costa,Nat Adderly, Charlie Byrd- pretty good , only Costa doesn't get much space- pity

Well, he'd better change his mind, or else... or else I'll end up buying Natural Essence without those bonus tracks! That'll teach him! I got Natural Essence recently and can't see what the fuss is about, not bad but not great ....

Ruby (my dear) and Moten (Swing) or Frankie and Johnny

That's great news! What would be in there, except the Tricotism sessions (terrific ones!)? Would that also include the two Oscar Pettiford ABC albums? Oh, how about compiling some OP and do a nice little box set? I'd buy that, for sure! And how about the Bags/Lucky dates? I am aware they're on various labels (Savoy, Atlantic, UA), but that would be a terrific set of music that's much too difficult to find (I have "Plenty Plenty Soul", burns of the UA and of "Jazz Skyline", plus a tape of a european [London?] reissue of some other Savoy cuts taken from at least two different albums). I guess this one is impossible to do, but I'd love it! And then a third Lucky one, compiling the complete Paris sessions... I'm with all the way on this one Flurin. I don't have Mike's disco handy but AFAIK LT had a short Decca session in 1952 ( 4 sides only?) , so i'd guess the bulk of the material would be the Tricotism session and the OP dates, plus isn't LT on one of the Quincy Jones ABC sessions. who knows !

A reply from Mosaic re Lucky Thompson indicates that they are working on a Select containing Decca and ABC-Paramount material. No details as to what that might contain

Thanks for the link. I knew these guys had feelings for Dewey and went to their site yesterday to find nothing. Gotta get in touch with Ethan. I'm not sure if the time I saw Dewey play with Ethan and then Dave King/Reid Anderson was a first but they were highly respectful for playing with him. Like he was a favourite uncle. The duo with Ethan ( which wasn't recorded) was perhaps the better of the two gigs that week. Ethan is not the busy technocrat that some seem to take him for but a highly skilled player who has great musical sense of humour. Worked very nicely with Dewey. The trio concert at an overly full Henry's ( I could barely move) was really tense. Dewey was late the guys were really pumped up about playing with him, the place sweaty before they started. Dewey and bottle of Chardonnay lumbered in and took 30-40 mins to get up to speed. Some long rather rambling standards which lacked much energy from Dewey. Then suddenly bam.. he was off , like a rocket and just like the Dewey I knew and loved from records. Second set starts off high too but slowed down as dramatically as the first set had sped up. Recorded for posterity ( with permission from Dewey,Dave and Reid) on my MD. Gave copies to the musicians the next night and no one else. ( bizarrely Dewey had me sign a torn scrap of paper- which I kept- indicating the recording was personal use only). Despite all this one of most atmospheric concerts I've ever attended.

Happy Birthday, have deep-groove-kind-of-day

Pardon my ignorance but what exactly did the Butler do wrong ?

MCGann came to Edinburgh with his quartet a year or so ago. Very good player, picked upa couple of nice discs whose names I forget - both excellent on Rufus

There's a Luis Russell set (2CD) , very good sound and great music- Pops Foster and Red Allen a.o

Saw Dewey twice a few years ago, in a duo with Ethan Iverson and a trio with Dave King and Reid Anderson in a packed Henry's in Edinburgh. Dewey took some time to warm up at the latter. Eventually he hit his mark but he was clearly tired. Will spin it again tonight.

over the summer I took away Vol 2 to my in-laws and listened to it repeatedly over a two week period. Absolutely fascinating. highly recommended, excellent transfers and challenging book.

I've few of these too. Johhny Hodges sessions, nice pressings, heavy vinyl. ....luvely ...

Dave Clark Five- Catch me if you can - UK Columbia Mono and next up Freddie Hubbard- Backlash- Atlantic reissue- not a bad date for Freddie -perhaps past his prime period though

I'm still waiting on my Stitt ( backordered) ...along with the Venuti/Lang box

Got this around the same time as I got Accent on the blues and Memphis.. Cds, Boogaloo stands head and shoulders above these two IMO