JohnS

Happy Birthday and many more to come.

This one still excites me.

Gerry Mulligan then Herbie Nichols

My Murray set has just been despached from Amazon UK.

Sorry to hear this. Sadly I have no recollection of hearing him live.

Very sad news.

I could never bring myself to discard an obi.

On a good night Nasheet Waits is a very exciting drummer to see and hear live Must have been a good night Steve

Last night a terrific gig by the David Murray Infinity Quartet (Rod Williams, Jaribu Shahid and Nasheet Waits).. Highlights were the bass clarinet feature When the Monarchs Come To Town and Solitude, a tenor/bass duet. Waits got some exciting and musical solos.

Happy Birthday Leeway

Sad news. RIP.

Yesterday evening - Art Trip. A tribute to Art Pepper with Alan Barnes. Some very energetic playing by Barnes, in fact the best I've heard him, who seemed to be in his element. All the numbers were associated or composed with Pepper, good to hear some of these rarely played pieces.

Ted Gioia's book is terrific Tom. It's the best jazz book I've come across.

WCJ was pretty big when I got into jazz in the 50s. I new about, Brubeck, Mulligan and Baker but my main memory was the first Pacific Jazz anthology . West Coast Jazz. A nice collection of swinging and happy bright sounding music.

The distributor in the UK was a week or so later than France last time around.

The release of the new boxes has been put back to end Oct/early November according to an mail from Amazon UK

Me too I'm afraid.

Happy Birthday MG, it's a big one.

Yep, a great gig, maybe our very best. Nice routines, nothing casual about the gig. Good choice of material and some unusual tempos. Very nice guy too.. Gald you could get down Bill and had a good time.

Thanks Stephen, down loaded.

i've used Jazz Messengers a few times, but not lately. Good service. One package went astray but it was replaced very quickly without question. I've been to the shop, just off Las Ramblas, well worth a visit.

A couple of Blue Notes to end todays listening Late UA pressing.

I've been meaning to pull this outand give it a spin for some time. A nicely produced twofer from the golden age of twofers. Thanks for the prompt Jeff. Now