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But still no sign of the resurrection of the Bill Evans 'Last Waltz'

Jan Johansson/Georg Riedel 'Jazz pa svenska' (Swedish Megaphon original stereo). Picked up today from Oxfam for £3.99. After clean-up on the VPI its near mint.

That session was a bit too way-out for me at the time, I've regretted it since. It was mint/mint as well !

Spinning Bobby Hutcherson 'Dialogue' (BN NYUSA mono, DG side 1)

It wouldn't be the copy that I (like an idiot) sold for £0.50 at Mole Jazz many years ago would it ?

I'm jealous ! Work is the thing that eats up all the Mosaic/Blue Note vinyl quality listening time.

Very happy birthday, Mike !

Looks like the Art Pepper and Bill Evans boxes are back in stock, for anyone interested (last-chance saloon I guess..)

These days I prefer to do most of my flying on Flight Sim 2004. No manic parking issues at the airport or terminal overcrowding and you can dive your plane into the Grand Canyon with ease !

Brave Sir Robin Eric Idle Eric the Half-A-Bee

Ramsey Lewis Trio 'The In Crowd' (Argo stereo deep groove original). The title track grooves..

Happy Birthday !

Have a great day !

Happy Birthday John !

Those King's are excellent. I have 'Matador' and 'Solid' in the King pressings. The Mosaic Green/Clark vinyl is a good sub for the others.

Well said, Michael. I have just been listening to this one for the first time in a while (it's long been a favourite) and the quality of the compositions is astonishing. Amazingly 'elliptical' stuff, full of inner logic. I suspect that this is an album that will further increase in stature as the years go by.

'Walt Dickerson Plays Unity' (Audio Fidelity stereo) 'Sounds of Synanon' (King World Pacific) John Lewis/Bill Perkins 'Grand Encounter' (King World Pacific)

Alan Jackson is still active on the London scene. Saw him last year as part of Matthew Herbert's Big Band. Love his early work in particular, with Westbrook and Surman.

All of the drummers you mentioned have great reputations, although they are in general very much under-valued in their homeland. I'm a particular fan of John Marshall, who has also been doing great live performances in the past year or so (saw him with John Surman about a year ago). Phil Seamen of course has the 'legendary great' status amongst jazzers, although the general public remain ignorant of him.

RIP. Saw him once with Kenny Burrell and it was indeed memorable.

Totally agree with you Ubu that these Rendell/Carr reissues are fantastic - good value, superb music and fine remastered sound quality. The one session that seems to get 'dissed' quite a bit (usually because Guy Warren of Ghana is on half of the tracks) is 'Change Is' and in many ways I think of this one as their finest hour, going out at a peak (although Ian Carr has expressed quite a bit of disappointment in print with this session in the 'Music Outside' book, well worth a read). The original Lansdowne LPs are hard to find but I have a couple of them - 'Change Is' and 'Live'. Although the CDs are excellent, there's still a certain magic about the original LP sound.

Damn !!! I was counting on this one being available from our Teutonic friends on the Continent.

My understanding (and I hope I'm correct) is that the cover on 'Shades of Blue' is of Ian Carr's late wife, who died very young and only a year or so after this session (there's details of this in the notes to the CD). What a shame..

After Hank Mobley 'Workout' (BN 47W63rd/NY USA mono) its Donald Byrd 'Fancy Free' (BN Liberty blue/white stereo) to kick off the day.