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  1. Tubby Hayes - The Complete Fontana Albums (September 27, 2019)

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    23 hours ago, sidewinder said:

    Still waiting !

    Hopefully I’ll get the package on or ofter the 20th, when the CD set is issued via udiscover. As long as it arrives by Xmas !

    Just ordered mine via Udiscover too. Can't understand (*) why Amazon (UK) decided to up their original price by over 25% thus doing themselves out of several customers including me?

    (*)that was a rhetorical question as I think I can guess the answer

  2. Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages

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    Just picked up a new vinyl reissue of Sonny Sharrock's classic final album, Ask The Ages. It's very impressive although weirdly it has been released as a double vinyl because the playing speed is 45 RPM - presumably for audiophile purposes. However, Sharrock's guitar at times sound positively organ like. Anyone know what effect(s) he was using to produce such a very full chordal sound? The album has been uploaded onto YouTube by someone (not me!) in full here: Ask The Ages

  4. Ginger Baker (1939 - 2019)

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    Posted · Edited by RogerF
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    Apart from Cream, which was on another level (*), Ginger Baker's Air Force (Polydor, 1970) Going Back Home (Atlantic, 1994) with Charlie Haden and Bill Frisell and Coward of the County (Atlantic, 1999) with the DJQ2O with guest James Carter are, for me, three exceptional examples of Ginger's work in the jazz field. He will be greatly missed and was undoubtedly a true legend. RIP Ginger.

     

    (*) Jack Bruce claimed that Cream were a jazz group with Eric playing the Ornette Coleman role, they just didn't tell Eric. 

  5. Tubby Hayes - The Complete Fontana Albums (September 27, 2019)

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    On 31/07/2019 at 11:07 PM, Ted O'Reilly said:

    Simon, are these in mono or stereo?  I once had the CBS CD, and if I recall it was stereo.  But earlier in this thread it's indicated as a mono issue in the 12 CD set.

    Ted, Tubbs in N.Y. was originally released on Fontana but "illegally" reissued on CBS 466363 in stereo as Tubby Hayes with Clark Terry "The New York Sessions". I'm currently listening to said stereo version reissued on CD as CBS 466363 2. So why the stereo tapes are missing is a mystery. Shame because the album is superb. However and notwithstanding the mono NY session, I'm still greatly looking forward to the complete Fontana Tubbs box set, especially the much maligned "The Orchestra", never previously reissued. 

  6. Tubby Hayes Lost 1969 Sessions

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    The "Deluxe" two CD version is very good, but crucially it contains three takes featuring guitarist Louis Stewart on CD 1 and 40 pages of sleeve note by Simon Spillett. It also includes out takes and engineer / Hayes pre-take words (not much, there isn't any conversation per se).

  7. Any *early* Pink Floyd fans? (67-72 era)

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    I was a big fan of the Floyd up until and including Atom Heart Mother. I saw them live around 1970 (the set was similar to the live side of Ummagumma) and they were absolutely amazing. Much "jazzier" (ie improvising) than in their later stages. Not too surprising considering Nick Mason's proclivities to jazz (cf Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports with Carla Bley et al). I went off them after that. However, like Scott, after all the hype had died down a bit and I actually heard DSOTM (having resisted even hearing it) I was knocked out. This was most definitely their masterwork and will probably endure far longer than anything else they did.

  8. British jazz reissues

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    1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

    I definitely need a good Vertigo vinyl of ‘Solar Plexus’. :mellow:

    I can imagine that he would have been very fond of ‘Old Heartland’. It is obviously a very personal work, a tribute to Northumbria. It got a fine and very prominent showing at Ian’s memorial concert, which I’m sure you recall Roger.

    indeed I do!

  9. British jazz reissues

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    2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

    Somehow  ‘Solar Plexus’, Roots’ and ‘Under the Sun’ have always eluded me, have the rest on Vertigo vinyl though, together with many of the BGOs. A new CD remastering will be great and will also look forward to the Sid Smith essay booklet. I suspect that Ian Carr would have been amazed at the recent tsunami of releases put out under his name.

    IMO Solar Plexus was his masterwork although Ian actually rated Old Heartland as his best. What is tremendous about Solar Plexus is that two other leading trumpeters were also featured (Kenny Wheeler and Harry Beckett) with proper, memorable solos. But the compositions, all Ian's for the first time on one record, were fantastic. For me "Torso" is a killer track, but it's all brilliant.

  11. Rendell Carr 5tet rides again

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    This should arguably be in the Vinyl Frontier section, but Jazzman Records are reissuing for the first time(*) a five record box set of all five EMI Columbia Lansdowne Series Rendell Carr Quintet albums on vinyl. This box will be released in mid-November and includes an accompanying booklet. More info here: Jazzman Records

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    (*) first time for a legit, licensed vinyl reissue of these albums, although BGO released them as CDs under license several years ago.

     

     

  12. Wayne Shorter - Emanon

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    On 13/09/2018 at 6:29 PM, mjazzg said:

    Price still high here, £70 on Amazon.UK. 

    Will have to wait for a price drop 

    yep this price is too rich for my blood at the moment - even with a comic book - pity cos I'd definitely like to hear it. But three CDs and a book £70? Really?

    On 13/09/2018 at 6:29 PM, mjazzg said:

    Price still high here, £70 on Amazon.UK. 

    Will have to wait for a price drop 

    On 13/09/2018 at 7:20 PM, sidewinder said:

    Nearly as pricey as an Erich Kleinschuster CD..:eye:

     

  13. Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band

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    23 hours ago, sidewinder said:

    I’m hesitant, as yet to hear the LP although have a hunch Trunk will have done a great job. For an intro, LPs such as ‘All Blues’, ‘Sax No End’ and ‘Fellini 712’ would be where I would start.

    All of above and All Smiles is a great one too. The Trunk one is probably mono, so do start with the MPS/Polydor ones first.

  18. Miles BB billionth reissue

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    I think I probably know the answer to this question already but does anyone have any idea why Columbia / Sony released a digipak edition of BB last year (for the millionth time)? I saw it in a store on Saturday and it looked tempting despite the fact I already own two copies of BB. I can see there are 6 bonus tracks not on the original but can find no information or discussion anywhere about this reissue (other than eBay), even on Sony's website. I might buy it, but purely as an attractive artifact and "spare", handy for the car CD player. There I've been mugged again!

    MILES DAVIS BITCHES BREW 2 CD DIGIPAK

    Disc 1
    1. Pharaoh's Dance
    2. Bitches Brew
    3. Spanish Key
    4. John McLaughlin

    Disc 2
    1. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
    2. Sanctuary
    3. Spanish Key [alternate take]
    4. John McLaughlin [alternate take]
    5. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down[45-rpm single edit]
    6. Spanish Key [single]
    7. Great Expectations [single]
    8. Little Blue Frog [single]
     

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  19. R.I.P. John Abercrombie

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    From the ECM website:-

    23.08.2017

    John Abercrombie (1944-2017)

    John Abercrombie, one of the great improvisers, died on August 22, after a long illness. He will be much missed, for his sensitive musicality, his good companionship, and his dry humour which enhanced many a session. He leaves behind an extensive discography which will be studied as long as people continue to play jazz guitar.
    John made his first recording for ECM, the appropriately-titled “Timeless”, in the summer of 1974, with his lifelong friend Jack DeJohnette on the drums, and Jan Hammer on organ. Over the next four decades, he was active as leader, co-leader and sideman on dozens of ECM projects. A creative writer of jazz tunes, John also loved to play freely as much as he loved to play standards. Many of his albums combine all of these resources, unified by his fluid, silvery tone and improvisational eloquence. In conversation he would speak of his enduring fondness for Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery, primary influences, and also of the liberating examples of Ornette Coleman and Jimi Hendrix; Bill Evans’s sense of lyricism was also of crucial importance to him.
    John Abercrombie led a number of very fine bands, and he was particularly proud of his last quartet with Marc Copland on piano, Drew Gress on double bass, and Joey Baron on drums. This quartet released two albums, “39 Steps” and “Up and Coming”, the latter released in January 2017.
    Highlights in his recording career were many and include the Gateway trio albums with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, the duo albums with Ralph Towner, the Special Editions albums (with DeJohnette, Lester Bowie and Eddie Gomez), Jan Garbarek’s “Eventyr”, Charles Lloyd’s “The Water Is Wide”, Collin Walcott’s “Grazing Dreams” (where John and Don Cherry play together), Enrico Rava’s “The Pilgrim and the Stars”, Kenny Wheeler’s “Deer Wan” … the list goes on.
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