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Great - I'll look forward to this one and the Lee Morgan show. Just up my street.

'Fraid so ! I read the notes in the box set which put down this session as a 'filler' but I have to say that I find the music strangely catchy. Particularly Kirk's tenor solos. The 'Star Trecky' vocal chorus's are an acquired taste though. That bit of film with Stan Tracey and Rahsaan at Ronnie Scotts was - by strange coincidence - broadcast by the BBC last night in the 'Jazz Britannia' repeat. He was on 'full bore' - too bad it was only a very brief snippet.

Tal Farlow 'The Tal Farlow Album' - Norgran original. Lovely !

I've had the Mercury box for 10 or so years now and its been a big favourite that I've dipped into constantly. Being a vinyl fetishist of late I've tried to pick up the Mercury/Limelight LPs when I've seen them and have in the racks the main ones such as 'Rip Rig & Panic', 'Domino', 'With Benny Golson', 'I Talk With The Spirits', 'In Copenhagen' and 'Slightly Latin'. The last of these was probably the most elusive but is one of my faves. If your main preference is the CD medium you can't go wrong with the box, which has pretty good mastering. The quality of the sessions is so uniformly high that it pays to go the whole hog and get the box. There's also a bonus live cut CD with Andrew Hill of 'A Stritch In Time'.

I was hoping to recruit one as a librarian.

I'll bet it sounds excellent. I have a few of those UK Riversides which were also licensed from Interdisk. Including a couple of Cannonball's, in fact. They are usually quite cheap to buy and invariably deliver the goods, sound wise.

With todays events things are still very unstable there so I'm personally avoiding it. As soon as things stablise, I'm back. Certainly won't be 16 months, more like a few weeks hopefully.

Thanks for your thoughts. Indeed the World has gone mad at this time and the epicentre seems to be London. Haven't visited for weeks and will probably avoid doing so for some time to come. A real shame..

Thanks for that ! I was wondering if it was 'Space Oddity'. Very nice string arrangements on that album. Wonder if he also did the synth work? Yes, the vinyl is on Vortex, that is the label I was thinking of. Throughly recommend that Alan Skidmore 'Once Upon A Time'. It sort of reminds me of the two Kenny Cox Blue Notes in terms of style so if you like these at all you will be impressed I think.

Amen re: 'Inner Glow'. Very nice session. That one really took some getting hold of, didn't realise you'd sold a copy (although I seem to recall a thread from last year which reported one for sale in the UK so that must be it). I think Mosaic might be including it on a Hutcherson Select.

Like that Zawinul a lot. I have the vinyl released by that subsidiary of Atlantic (forget for the moment what it was called but the Jarretts were released on this one too). Still haven't seen a copy of 'Chitinous' in the shops but when I do I'll snap it up. Never realised Buckmaster did the Bowie string arrangements. Which albums in particular? 'Heart is a Lotus' is growing on me slowly. Of the recent batch of Duttons the real standout for me is the Skidmore (at least of those I haven't heard before). Lovely album.

well the auction still has a few days to run - no bids as yet but plenty of interest, I set the price at £60 as a minimum... KD ← That particular vinyl release is pretty rare. Only one issue in Japan I think. Suspect you may get some good bid activity..

Didn't even think of that !

Is that the Dutch Riverside version Brownie? This particular title eludes me for the moment but one day I will have one !

I hear that it was in the same reissue batch as this one..

Yikes - Amazon UK are listing this bodge-up: Obleek Sure to become a collectors item

I hope Herbie doesn't see this.. Why did they get rid of the old King LP cover art by K. Abe?

From what I gather these were more than just detonators but were rucksack and explosive jobs like the previous attack. Somehow the explosive failed to go off. Possibly the work of one bomb-maker. Same thing has happened in the past with the IRA. The good news (such as there is) is that the trail left should allow the police to track down the culprits and extract lots of info. If do they find them and when they have finished extracting from them, maybe they could then load them into the back of an RAF C-130 Hercules and drop them out somewhere over the English Channel in sacks before their swift entry to 'paradise'.

I think Mike Myers was born in Liverpool ( ) but it is true that half of Protestant Canada seems to be descended from either the Scots or the Northern Irish. They didn't call Toronto 'The Belfast of the North' for nothing..

On my recent Stateside trip I came across a mint Liberty of 'Street of Dreams' still with the film over it. Couldn't believe my luck - looks unplayed ! Lovely session, great cover..

Mono originals of this one in reasonable condition sound pretty damn nice !

Stan Tracey -'Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood"' (Columbia Lansdowne mono)

I came across one sunbathing in my front garden last year. Not exactly an every-day sighting in the UK.

RIP indeed. To read that he was 85 makes me feel really old, as he looked like a fairly young wippersnapper when those shows were originally broadcast.

I had the feeling it was a July/Aug release date but I may be wrong. Anyone interested in pre-ordering could probably try emailing Mosaic direct.