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Yes, I would agree. They were pretty obscure even over here. The only one which got any kind of exposure at the time was 'Extrapolation'.

Many thanks !

I think mine cost £8 (not including 10% discount) for the same pressing.. Is it really that rare on the blue/white Liberty?

Many thanks, Brownie !

Art Farmer/Benny Golson disk 1 Basie Verve to follow..

You mean the 'Cote Europeennedu Jazz' book that came out in 2002? Written by PJC headman Arnaud Boubet. I find that one pretty accurate and obviously the people dealing with vinyls use the book as reference from what I see in secondhand shops and record conventions. ← Any idea as to how to get a copy of that one?

I thought Tony Williams played a recording of them playing together for Miles. ← Yep, just editted in a bit about T. Williams.

Two things concerning John McLaughlin in the late 1960s spring immediately to mind. First of all his very solid grounding in R&B (with Alexis Korner, Georgie Fame etc.) and commercial studio work - which must of itself have been of great appeal to Miles. Secondly his incredible stylistic versatility and ability (almost chameleon-like) to fit into numerous 1960s UK jazz contexts. Really everything from straight ahead mainstream (e.g. Sandy Brown's 'Hair at Its Hairiest') through to Kenny Wheeler 'Windmill Tilter' (also on Fontana) and Gordon Beck's 'Experiments In Pops'. On each of these, 'Johnny' McLaughlin plays a very key role in the success of the sessions. I suspect also that his willingness to be 'moulded' by Miles and his music (along with all of the plaudits from Tony Williams) played no small part in his eventual selection. Spedding also had a superb rock/commercial grounding prior to great work on such sessions as Mike Westbrook's 'Love Songs' (his work on this particular album is outstanding) and Neil Ardley's 'Greek Variations', for example. Less of a 'mouldable chameleon' though, I suspect, in the jazz context. It would have been fascinating to hear though !

Hope it was a great vinyl-filled day !

I'll keep a look-out for these when they hit the shops and report back. The Garrick and the William will be top of my list. Having said that, I've still to spot a copy of 'Chitinous'

Great news ! I got my Basie, Farmer/Golson and Eldridge sets from JPC today. Extremely well packaged and in tip-top condition. Farmer/Golson CD1 playing as I type. Big to Alfred !

and maybe a link to David Essex and 'Gonna Make You a Starrrrr'

Fontana was issued in Holland, the UK and (I think) also in France. Some of the very best UK jazz of the 1960s (including gems from Tubby Hayes, Kenny Wheeler, Ronnie Ross and Graham Collier) appeared on this imprint. In the early 1970s both Vertigo and the 'Philips' label itself covered the jazz issues.

Horace Silver 'Finger Poppin' (BN 47W63rd DG version). Just given it a clean-up.

What a missed opportunity ! Time for Universal to relinquish jazz reissues to Dutton Vocalion methinks.

.. and hello to Big Al !

Just checking my Blakey collection: Blue Notes: 'Moanin' 'At The Jazz Corner of the World' Vol 1 and 2 'The Big Beat' 'Night In Tunisia' 'Mosaic' 'Free For All' 'The Witch Doctor' 'Orgy In Rhythm' Vols 1 and 2 'The African Beat' 'Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers' 'Vol 2 - With Sabu' 'Like Someone In Love' 'Indistructible' 'Buhaina's Delight' 'The Freedom Rider' Mosaic Blakey LP set Others & Reissues: 'Childs Dance Vol 1' 'Roots and Herbs' 'Three Blind Mice Vol 1' 'Ugetsu' 'Caravan' Milestone Twofer 'Blues Bag' 'Kyoto' 'Buttercorn Lady' 'Gypsy Folk Tales' 'In My Prime Vol 1' 'With Thelonious Monk' 'St Germain' 3LP set 'Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World' Verve Elite CD Paris Olimpia CD 'Hard Bop' 'Originally' 'The Jazz Messengers' 'Ritual' 'With John Coltrane' (Bethlehem big band session) 'Africaine' Can't get enough of 'the man'. A tremendous presence, when seen live.

No problem. That is a good thread which has very informative posts from 'Tubbs' expert Simon Spillett and also lots of good info from Roger Farbey.

First time I tried that I cut my hand open on the doorknob (nothing too serious). About as difficult to find and get into as an outstation of MI6..

..gasp !......

WHAAAT !!!! I hope there were no Blue Note originals amongst them..

Never even realised they did them ! The last days of the Kings Cross era were pretty sad I'm afraid. The upstairs 2nd hand racks got steadily depleted, the record demo turntable went U/S and the 'Collectors' racks were no longer the place where rarish pressings appeared by magic. I enjoyed the earlier days at Kings Cross when they were located across the road in the Ed Dipple era and the racks were just bursting with those King Japanese imports. Funnily enough, last time I was up there the original site still had the Mole banner above the door but was semi-derelict. I'm suprised it hasn't yet been redeveloped by the property money-grabbers.

Herbie Hancock 'My Point of View' (BN NY USA mono) Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland & co 'The Golden Eight' (BN NY USA mono)

The beauty of those green-label twofers are that they are analog, no DMM bullshit. In addition the early ones had reasonably chunky vinyl and were well re-mastered. I prefer the early US pressings on that first batch with 'Davis', 'Coltrane', 'Lateef' etc. in big bold letters on the front. Some of the later ones I have seem to have been pressed in France by the 'America' operation and they are not quite so good (sorry Brownie - no offence ). Similar story with the Savoy reissues put out by Arista. Some fantastic stuff on those !

So, what's the verdict? ← I like it. Nothing spectacular but good, solid playing by Harold Land (I'll take anything with Harold on it). Added bonus of Martin Banks on trumpet too ! I suspect that the somewhat boxed-in sound on the original 'Rainbow series' LP did this session no favours so the Mighty Quinn issue (if they improve the sound) should be beneficial.