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I've picked up a few of the more onscure CBBB items on LP of late. The Supraphon disk (with half of the 'Folk Songs' session on it) and also the Italian Movie Themes release on Campi. Both of those are absolutely top notch. Also well worth reissuing are the 3 Francy Boland titles under the heading 'The Orchestra', put out by MPS after the CBBB had disbanded. Similarly, the Benny Bailey 'Mirrors' is another top-notch Boland orchestra session.

Quite ! I usually go for King myself but the Dizzy Reece Toshiba currently being spun sounds as good as any issue I have heard. I'll bet it sounds way better than the Mosaic Select too..

There's also some obscure stuff he recorded for Japanese labels such as Atlas during the 1970s which are well worth checking out.

That's very sad. Hope he is in peace..

Don't ya just love it when that happens.. Usually happens I think when Mosaic have a string of sets about to go OOP tomorrow..

Great set. I'll be diggin' out and savouring the LPs today !

The Shihab double LP set is the only one of this series that I am still missing. All of these releases ('CBBB Kinda Strauss', 'Bags & Jaws', 'Clarke-Boland Sextet' are hugely enjoyable and sound wonderful (up to SABA standards). I'll have to get hold of that Shihab ASAP.

Very cool...

So do I. Toronto closed one of its premiere clubs for international jazz talent a couple of months ago. The Top of the Senator. ← That's very sad to hear. I was in there a few times during the year it opened, to see Joe Henderson and Red Rodney. A nice club ! I'm also very sad to read that so few people turned up to the Barry Harris gig. He's an artist who has always eluded me - never had chance to see his occasional London gigs and if I'm in a place like NYC you can bet he'll be gigging the night I depart. He's a consummate professional - too bad he doesn't get the profile of Kenny Barron, great though Kenny is. Maybe there's still time..

Ditto !

I'm gonna hold out for a vinyl 45 sessions Mosaic..

Various - 'Jazz at the Fabulous Flamingo - 10th Anniversary' (Ember) Don Rendell/Ian Carr 'Live' (UK Columbia Lansdowne) 'The Tony Kinsey Quintet' (with Joe Harriott, Decca 45rpm)

Tommy Flanagan 'The Cats' (New Jazz)

In a fit of madness I sold my vinyl of that one !

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The chick looks quite cute tho..

How about something like a Rega Planar 3? $300 might just get a good second-hand model, perhaps. By the way, you won't regret splashing out for the turntable. The only downside is the resulting outlay on vinyl..

Splendid ! This little series and its fine archive is turning into a University of Jazz.

A very happy birthday to Mr Marion Brown. 'Three For Shepp' going on a bit later in recognition. I'll second the comment about the great warmth in his playing. Way to go !

I have to admit I'm on the fence over this myself. It's a big splash, I'd enjoy it, but would I enjoy all of it... ← That just about sums up my dilema too !

Madness !

It's still very much Fathead but in a harder vein than usual. The work here is somewhat analogous to more adventurous tracks like 'The Clincher' on his Atlantic dates of this period.