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The whole 'Free America' series and a copy of every in-print Mosaic set (except the Frosch) !

Thanks for the encouraging comments, clandy44 ! Its been a very good Mosaic week - I asked them to ship a Turrentine set with the Amos and I've got a 'line' on a mint Basie Roulette Live to go with the 'Studio' LP set ( ). Doesn't get better !

Is that the one recorded by CBC Radio? Never heard it though...

Bobby Hutcherson 'Inner Glow' King Blue Note Japan-only release. Session from 1975 with Harold Land, Oscar Brashear and Thurman Green. Very much in the style of 'Cirrus'

When I contacted Mosaic earlier today they had just 16 copies of the Milburn LP set left. 15 after I placed my order..

10,000 copies, eh? So I guess there is the possibility of a Euro 'Basie Concert Band' set of this and follow-on discount release from caiman..

I've got most of the studio LPs on vinyl but I think I'll still get the Mosaic. Should hang together really nicely as a set. I guess they might be holding back on this new 'Lighthouse' material for a future 'Select', perhaps? If this is the case, Mosaic will have got it just right..

I saw the Bradford-on-Avon concert by this group and enjoyed it immensely. Very Azimuth, in ways !

Here's a link to a very good recent Wheeler article, put out just before his 70th Birthday tour: Link to Wheeler Article..

It has never been issued on CD and there are rumours that the master tapes might have been lost. In a recent interview, I think Kenny Wheeler himself mentioned that he didn't have a copy and that he wasn't sure that the masters would ever be found. A shame - its a very fine recording which needs to be heard. Basically Wheeler fronting the John Dankworth Orchestra of the late 60s with a young John McLaughlin (pre-Miles). Very much a legendary session in the annals of British Jazz..

Thanks !

I'll give the 'One For One' vinyl a spin a bit later. Getting impatient - my Andrew Hill 'Select' is still in the mail.. B-) Currently playing McCoy Tyner 'Tender Moments'. BN Liberty original. To be followed by Dizzy Reece 'Star Bright' (Classic Records Reissue) and 'Progress Report' (Jasmine Reissue of some old Tempo sessions).

Where exactly are the UK OP concerts, che?

The UK Columbia LPs were pressed at EMI's facility in Hayes, Middlesex. Different beast entirely from the US Columbia.

I was listening to Carisi's 'Angkor Wat' from the Evans 'Into The Hot' LP the other day and was reminded of just how great an arranger Carisi was. 'Israel' is probably the standout arrangement for me on 'Birth of the Cool' but I also very much like the Mulligan contributions. I'd agree with Chuck re: the solo contributions by Konitz. Some of those fast runs he puts in (on 'Israel' in particular) are just downright incredible.. Listening to Konitz the other week in performance with Kenny Wheeler, you realise just how much he's changed over all of these years as a player.

... Hence the Rust !

Check out also my AOTW thread on the 'Music For Large and Small Ensembles' Wheeler AOTW Thread...

I would strongly recommend 'Song For Someone' (psi). A large group recording from the mid-1970s with stellar British big band lineup (all the usual suspects - Taylor, Winstone, Alan Branscombe etc) plus Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Derek Bailey. Originally recorded for Incus Records and an incredible amalgam of traditional big band and Euro free-jazz forms. Hugely under-rated and near-unknown album, rare on vinyl and buried for circa 30 years before the CD came out. My favourite Wheeler is probably the infamous and rare 'Windmill Tilter' (Fontana). Almost a prototype run for 'Music For Large and Small..'. I hope that it comes out on CD format in the not too distant future..

Looks like a flugelhorn..

The Roach is indeed very good - a great performance by Joe Henderson in a setting that was somewhat unusual for him. Water seem to be taking on the mantle of the 'Rare Grooves' series by the look of it.. 4MWBeards issue of this on vinyl presumably?

Yes, its the coiling arrangement that makes the US instrument appear slightly longer. The front tubing arrangement on the English cornet does indeed resemble a 'shepherd's crook'.

A particular favourite by the way is his extremely pungent work on the two Woody Shaw/Freddie Hubbard Blue Notes. A very good foil for these guys.

Saw him live at the Pizza Express in London some years ago (I think it was the 'Simply Said' album tour). I was most impressed when he came right to the back of the room near the table I was seated at and asked how I found the sound back there. Extremely courteous ! He also started conversing in very good Japanese with a couple of tourists who were seated at the table next to me. Respect !

Some great stuff there, Alfred. Is it not painful to part with them?

18th Jan 1983 eh? That's the same tour that I caught Shaw and co. at Ronnie Scotts for two consecutive nights. Around the same time as that Enja album I think. Most definitely this was the same band. They were Smokin' The first set opened with an amazing 'All The Things You Are'. PS - I'll distribute disks, shine your shoes and wash the dishes for a copy please...