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'Deep In A Dream' by James Gavin is sat on my shelf and this thread is just the incentive to pick it up again. Very good book. Also have the 'autobiography' which I have yet to read through. Incredible 'ear' player - truly great natural melodic sense but not a great technician. Shared Miles' gift of making the most of the technical limitations and working round them. Enjoy the Mosaic studio and live boxes very much but also like the Prestige material recorded for Richard Carpenter where Chet is mainly on the flugelhorn. The story behind those sessions is pretty harrowing, to say the least !

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I'm a big fan of Bobby ! Try to get hold of his couple of Blue Note releases - long OOP. 'The Inventor' and 'Post-Motown Bop', both dating from the late 80s/early 90s. There's also a third who's title eludes me for the moment ('No Question About It', I think). All 3 are excellent. Potential Mosaic Select material IMO. The past times I have seen Bobby and his band Horizon in clubs (with the equally fine Victor Lewis as co-lead) he has always given a superb and very tight performance. A great technician and showman with a very engaging and friendly manner with the audience. Blakey chose well yet again..

... and responding to this thread on a Summer Saturday evening I need my head examining ! Just a quick look in the Mosaic booklet shows that there are good photos of the duo on pages 1 and 3 that would have done the job nicely.

Can't be right, surely.. On the other hand, this was around the time that the Byrd/Adams 'last chance' rumpus started.

The Elvin is set number 195 so it's older than the Max, Gerald Wilson and the Hodges. I have the Mosaic Fall 2000 brochure number 33 in front of me, which introduced the Max on the front cover as the latest new item.

I'm confident that Mosaic do not manipulate anything, they are not that type of operation. A couple of times recently they have put sets straight to 'Last Chance'. I suspect that it was just plain oversight in each case, either a set timing out or a print run being exhausted and not enough time left to merit another batch.

Another underhand Franco-German collaboration in advance of the forthcoming EC Summit...

Got it ! Don't have Hodges V2 or the Max though..

Gil Hodges Lon Warneke Hank Aaron ← Aaron Neville Neville Chamberlain Adolf Hitler

Great !! These guys are wizards at getting us to send money in their direction.

My guesses for forthcoming OOPs this year and into early 2006: Hank Mobley (can't believe it's still in print ) JJ Johnson (ditto) Gerald Wilson Max Roach Hodges 56-61 Elvin Jones Could be an expensive few months..

Clarke-Boland Big Band 'Open Door' (Muse) Tubby Hayes 'Mexican Green' (Fontana Stereo)

I think I'll hold off with this very tempting set for time being, hopefully Dusty will be persuaded to get it in. My German skills at the moment are almost up to the level of Basic Fawlty ( ).

No - the same thing happens to me ( ). Some of those nice black boxes gather dust in competition with the Brit Jazz and Blue Notes. I will be giving the Herbie Nichols and Thelonious Monk Complete Blue Note LP sets a spin today.

Don't be put off the 'Black Marigolds'. It does have poetry in it and a sprinkling of harpsichord but there's some very nice music in there. The track 'Ursula' is a standout. The Lowther is also excellent. Obviously influenced by 'In A Silent Way' but with some very English folk influences in there too. If we do get to see a Wheeler 'Windmill Tilter' it will probably be dubbed from LP. The original master tapes are missing in action, possibly destroyed, I believe. Yes, I believe saxophonist George Khan was in that 'People' band. Haven't a clue what the music is like on that one. He's also on my £3 'Solid Gold Cadillac/Brain Damage'. This is a Westbrook 'take' on the rock music of the time and is both entertaining and quite funny. 'Citadel/Room 315' was out on an RCA Novus CD some (quite a few) years ago and I'm not aware of any plans for further reissue - obviously now due for a CD re-mastering. I've a vinyl copy of this one, very good session indeed and with some of Surman's best playing ever on it IMO. Hope to see Westbrook on the 17th June doing his current 'Art Wolff' touring show. Not sure about the Nucleus album - maybe someone else can help?

Thanks Clifford - this is quite fascinating. There is a recording of one of Yusef's Ronnie Scott shows from this period out on the Harkitt label at the moment. There was some incidental solo flute music used on one of the 'serious' shows on BBC2 TV back in the late 60s that I always thought sounded just like Lasha but dismissed as possibly being from him. I wonder if it is Lasha though? Quite possible, it would seem...

Big John Patton's 'Understanding' (or anything on the Mosaic Select) tend to get cranked up pretty loud.

I was just listening to this and it didn't seem very dynamic (the sound, not the music which is very dynamic.) I have what I think is the first cd version of it. Has it been remixed for later releases? Is it in stereo? ← Not sure on the CD version. I tend to play either the UK Vogue LP twofer 'Atomic Mr Chairman' or the Mosaic Roulette Studio LP set.

And I thought I was doing well picking this one up for £3..

That is a great, great record. Man! Just thinking about it gets me fired up. Too bad it's on the shelf and I'm at work, otherwise I'd spin it right now... Lasha's got some great stories about that session, too. ← Yep - just getting into it. Looks like Stan Tracey's trio must have accompanied him at Ronnie Scotts, hence the lineup of this LP based around Tracey's trio. Can you enlighten us as to what stories Lasha has regarding this session? Just about to crank up Bill Russo Orchestra 'Stonehenge' (UK Columbia Lansdowne)

Funilly enough I caught McCoy and his trio on what was probably my last trip to LA. It was in Royce Hall at the UCLA Campus. I didn't realise at the time the huge jazz significance of that place (Mingus 1965 performance etc.). Also caught David Sanchez there.

Cahuenga Bvd - thats the place. Last gig I caught there was Hank Jones and his trio. Shelly's was a few doors away. There's a plaque on the sidewalk in recognition, just outside the door, worth checking out.

Joe Harriott 'Personal Portrait' (UK Columbia)