JohnS

Happy Birthday Jeff.

Happy Birthday belatedly GA. Hope it was a good one.

is this good? What's it like? It's a great one. One of my favourites from Big John. I have the cd, definitely recommened.

Happy Birthday John

This is probably my most often played Evans recording.

This gets a mention in the notes to the cd issue of the Bill Evans album. Keepnews writes that Columbia failed to take up the option of the concert tape and it was subsequently snapped up by Fantasy. Presumably Columbia had lost interest in Evans by then.

Happy Birthday MG.

Very sad news. I've been playing his 50s stuff quite a lot recently.

That more or less sums me up but I have been collecting for an awfully long time.

Discs one and two so far. Now disc 3.

Very sad news. Never knew he played bass.

Prompted by a mention elsewhere on the board

Happy Birthday Ronald.

Disc 1

Cecil Taylor tops my list. Many others, Sonny Clark, Hampton Hawes, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Ahmed Jamal, George Wallington etc etc.

I bought a number of Xanadu albums when they first came out. There wasn't much straight ahead stuff being relased and they looked very attractive at the time. I always felt that there was something missing from them and soon tired of them and I didn't keep any of them. I'm sure I'd feel much the same way now. The Gold series was another matter - some terrific stuff there.

I have the Avid set. I don't have the records to compare but the sound on the "Four Brothers" tracks is awful and a rather odd elsewhere. Treat with caution.

Happy Birthday Dan.

"The Locket". 1946 movie with Robert Mitchum and Larraine Day.

Nice one. I was there, my first jazz concert. The Couriers were supporting Dave Brubeck.

UK Affinity

UK Pye.

Despite having more less everything elsewhere I don't think I could part with "The Other Side Of Blue Note Box". It was a real treasure when it was released.