JohnS

I'm not in the US but I've purchased cds from the site. One package went astray but was replaced without question.

Nice to see London store Honest Jon's recognised. I've not been there for years but I was a regular. Always an interesting selection of jazz vinyl and cds, I never left empty handed. No idea what it's like now.

Art Blakey; Free For All. Blue Note UA pressing.

That's right. Mine has the finished cover. Many test pressings just came with an inner.

Just came across this UK RCA test pressing in my collection. It might be of interest.

Hampton Hawes Memorial Album; Xanadu Gold

I have the vinyl. Not played for a while but I very enjoyable.

Happy Birthday Garth.

Birthday Greeting Big Al, have a great day.

My credit card was cloned at a local gas station. Cash withdrawls to the tune of £750 were made in Denmark. My bank took care of it issuing a new card within the week.

Essential reading back in the 50s and 60s. Intersting to thumb through copies from that period now.

According to the March issue of Jazzwise the February issue of Jazz journal will be the last to be published. The magazine has been looking very sad and thin for years with no significant advertising so its demise is not unexpected. I've not been a reader for more than 10 years but it did have a loyal following. The sudden end though was due to the death of Janet Cook who had been running the magazine for several years.

More sad news. Saw him a lot in my younger days.

Loads of good stuff on this set plus a couple of interesting misses.

Good to see Reid's name again but I'm afraid this one isn't for me.

Happy Birthday Mike

Happy Birthday Hans

I like this one, especially for Frank Foster.

No chance of seeing the unissued date from October 1970 then?

It might have been this 1968 performance, listed in an online Ornette Coleman discography: Ornette Coleman (tp, vln) Charlie Haden, David Izenzon (b) Ed Blackwell (d) Yoko Ono (vo) "Royal Albert Hall", London, England, February 29, 1968 Emotion Modulation (A.O.S.) Apple SAPCOR 17 Sunrise unissued Forgotten Children - unissued Long Time No See - unissued Lonely Woman - unissued Hight Abhbury - unissued Buddha Blues - unissued I wasat this gig. The band were on a boxing ring size stand in the middle of the promenade rather than the stage. As far as I recall Ono's orgasmic squeals puzzled the audience who only wanted to hear Ornette.

I agree, the Cyrille discs are a great place to start. Saw the Cyrille group live once, Daniel and Ware made a fine team.

Happy Birthday Victor

Johnny Griffin with Joe Morris Orchestra; Fly Mister Fly. Saxophonograph.

Very sad news. I have nice memories of seeing Mangione's band wih Niewood at Ronnie Scott's.

Walter Bishop; Bish Bash. Xanadu Gold. Poor sound but great Frank Haynes on side 1.