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First spin this sunday morning Frederick Roach ----All that's good-------(Blue Note) NYC stereo deep groove about 6 six years ago picked this and Mo Greens please in mint condition. Both were immaculate NYC stereo copies with ear, etc. Covers really looked split new. The voices on this album work pretty well , giving a real gospel edge to the playing. Roach seems at his most adventurous. I'm no musician but I quite like Roach's ambition in his playing on his own BN dates. He's less impressive and sounds more 'rinky dink' on Ike Quebec's late BNs. Next a NYC stereo which is in more obviously used condition but still sounds very nice Horace Silver-----The Tokyo Blues-----(BN NYC stereo ear)

Just received my copy of the Roscoe set from Brazil from this seller. Arrived quickly via recorded/tracked delivery !! They can't be making too much money with this approach. So if you have an interest in Roscoe or indeed Braxton the risks of ordering from this seller in Sao Paulo would seem to be very low.

Lucky Thompson's October 1954 sessions for Urania which resulted in his Accent on tenor LP would be some of my favourite Jimmy Hamilton along with Duke's Newport set from 1956.

upped this thread as I stuck by Dunlop's playing on "Monk in Tokyo" May '63 ( Sony/Columbia). He sounds unorthodox with an off kilter swing and odd accents. Not sure why his uniqueness hasn't struck me until now.

Lucky Thompson morning...... 12 inch - with Gerard Pochonet featuring Martial Solal (Vogue UK) 10 inch- The Lucky Thompson Quintet- (Ducretet Thomson UK) 7 inch - with the Jean Pierre Sasson trio - (Columbia UK) I can't wait for Sonorama's forth coming LT release. .....

Tony Williams morning ... Spring -----(BN NYC mono) Lifetime -----(BN NYC mono) I'd forgotten just how good these two are. Both a right at the top of Blue Note's more avantgard offerings. In his later years I always find TW to be a bit heavy handed with the finesse shown here fading from his playing .

Lucky Thompson -----Body & Soul----(nessa n-13)

I have the Lee/Blake. Four bonus tracks , mastered 24bit by Jean-Pierre Chalbos . Has 2000 and 2016 dates on it. Sounds good but I've nothing to compare it to.

Bud Shank------plays music from today's movies--------( World Pacific/Liberty) Enjoyable lounge music with some attempt at soloing by Bud on most tracks. Easy listening alright but quite nice in own way. Sounds very dated in good way. Bud produced some decent music in the 60s on various albums such as this Wind mills of your mind, Michelle etc. I doubt I'd need them all but worth keeping.

May be it was just bad luck but I've had this session on an Atlantic original and original UK LP issue , both were dire sounding. The recent 'Japanese ' Euro version on CD sounded just so much better.

Sad day. The Two Ronnies were always a favourite when I was a child.

Great set. NP Rey Scott-----Timbre Tambre -----(Planetary Lights) Sometime inmate of the best jail in the world leads this modal cum fusion cum Afro sounding date. Mid 70s : nice .

Bob Brookmeyer--------Gloomy Sunday and other bright moments------(Verve US) Two of my favourite players Eddie Costa and Gene Quill are present here.

Donald Byrd ------Mustang------(BN Liberty stereo) One of those BN sessions which hardly any kind of masterpiece but just sounds so together, so good. Great session even if it includes the ultra lame 'On the trail'.

Kenny Clarke Francy Boland and company------The Golden 8------(BN music matters 33) not sure why this should be so obscure a Blue Note release. Admittedly doesn't sound like anything else from blue note. The recording is top-notch but certainly not like anything done by Rudy Van Elder.

You'll need to remedy that ASAP. He has a decent sized discography his quartet album on Candid is a good one. There's a much more recent album with Vic Juris I particularly like - Savannah Samurai and An American in Italy. right now spinning Duke Pearson -- Sweet honey bee (BN Liberty mono)

Gene Ammon All Stars--------Jammin' with GENE--------(Esquire) pretty standard Prestige jam session record. Some excellent Jackie McLean . Nice session but hardly vital.

Wynton Kelly/----Kelly blue------( Riverside) stereo ,dg, Better than average original Riverside pressing of really great session. Extreme dual mono with the instruments coming from one chanel only . Even so , not an unpleasant effect.

Such a great set

Marion Brown----la Placita ------(Timeless Jpn) comments on another thread prompted getting this one out again. On the whole I'm pretty positive about the session although I can see why the guitarist is singled out for criticism. Ross' solos are pretty dull and don't quite seem to fit. As a fan of Brown I wouldn't be without it.

Joe Henderson ---------Inner Urge--------(Blue Note) NYC mono I think I've mentioned before but this album was a slow grower on me. Perhaps surprising given that I have viewed La Roca's Basra as one of my top 5 BN sessions. Inner Urge gives you a generally modal sound where as Basra is full of eastern mystery ,which is at once different and attractive in equal measure.

Martial Solal bonanza this afternoon Suite for trio -(MPS) Four Keys (MPS) Vive la France (Capitol) mono

that's a good/great one,

Eddie Bert ---The Human Factor----(Fresh sound records Sp.) a thoughtful date with principally original material

Howard McGhee---Nobody knows you when you're down and out----(United Artists) mono Quartet setting with either piano or organ. Some of the latter sound excessively cheesy ( to me at least) but the overall album is good if not quite McGhee's best. All the tracks are short and somewhat uneven in quality. The title might suggest he was in desperate times (perhaps he was) but Howard's playing has a fractured sounding delicacy. Our friends in Spain have reissued this.