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Hey, we're not that old ! I recall that it was released around 1985/86. Here in Europe it came out as one of the infamous French Marconi Pathe Rouge DMM vinyls (which were about the only BN you could find around here at that time, on 'domestic' release). Hank Mobley 'Far Away Lands' came out around the same time. I've always enjoyed these two sessions. Neither of them masterpieces but hugely satisfying nevertheless.

I think my TOCJ cost the equivalent of £7 or so (bought it in Tel Aviv). I'll have to put it on ebay and live with the DMM vinyl..

Thumbs up also for the 'Live' album. Looking forward to seeing Pat again when he plays the UK this Summer.

Just picked up the Savoy 'Trumpets' 2LP set for £5 and vols 2, 3 and 4 of the 'Xanadu at Montreux' for £4 each.

Indeed ! and still 2 days and 3 hours to go on this one. Donald Trump, this one is for you...

Total, unmitigated lunacy. JohnS and Wolff are right. Go with the King or the Classic Records reissue.

Savoy Reissue Series ( ) 2LP set. 'The Trumpet Album' - arranged and conducted by Ernie Wilkins. With Shorty Baker, Donald Byrd, Ray Copeland, Art Farmer, Ernie Royal, Charlie Shavers, Idrees Sulieman and Joe Wilder. A snip at £5, mint copy ! To be followed by Vols 2, 3 and 4 of 'Xanadu at Monteux' and Anthony Braxton 'The Complete Braxton' on Alan Bates' Freedom label.

Mighty strange, but sort of neat ! Didn't they play that one at Bath last year? Another vote for Griffin's 'The Kerry Dancers'. Great album..

You'll probably find that you have to file tax returns both in the UK and the US. Lots of forms to fill in, I'm afraid. Company advice would defintely be a good idea. How much you get taxed probably depends on where you are legally domiciled.

Tal Farlow 'Complete Concert Band' disk 6

No real info for you. I bought 5-10 of these when they first came out and think they are a good product. I'm just guessing that they will not be the ones you get from vinyl.com. I think these must have been from the 'Rare Groove Series' vinyl tranche. I agree - they are excellent.

He used to live about 20 miles away from me at a place in Wiltshire called Broad Chalk along with his Mrs, Toyah Wilcox, in a magnificent house formerly owned by Cecil Beaton. I have the feeling that they've moved from there now though. You still see a lot of shops with the name 'Fripp' on the sign in the Dorset/West Wiltshire area, no doubt all part of his extended family clan...

I hope that you don't have large crates of Mosaics to ship over here. It was nerve-racking enough just getting my old LPs back here. I discovered Mosaic after the return ! With regard to shipping, my advice would be to spend the bucks and get everything professionally packed and crated. Should go fine. The only problem I had was transporting a couple of bottles of Grand Cru Classe French wine across the prairies in Winter. Not a good move...

Good luck with the move to the UK, Eric. Cambridge is a good town with lots of cultural amenities. With regard to health care, my understanding is that once you are resident here and the system recognises you, you are given a National Insurance (NI) number. One of the entitlements is for free (at point of delivery) health care anywhere in the UK (or EU if overseas). The payment for this comes out of taxes and National Insurance contributions. Some of this also goes into state pension contributions. The amount you get at 65 depends on number of years in the UK (it takes a cool 45 years working here to score the full 100% ). Most people supplement this with employer or private pension schemes. I made the move from UK to Canada and back to the UK. If you are familiar at all with the Canadian system of welfare and healthcare, it is not that dissimilar.

Acquired through Mosaic's latest licensing agreement: Looks like the voodoo doll 'backfired' though and is now depleting the stock of Mosaic boxes

Hopefully its just a glitch and will be corrected when Mosaic HQ begins its operations for the new day. No reason to panic as yet (I hope ).

I've given the first track of disk 6 yet another check and I don't hear any problems. No oscillations other than the brush work from the drummer. Sounds fine. I suspect that this one is also not copy protected, otherwise my CD player would have thrown out an immediate wobbly. Maybe there's some voodoo being applied to these sets from Mosaic HQ?....

My favourite of these is 'The Pentagon', with Clifford Jordan, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins. That one just cooks. I also have the East Winds of some of the Farmers, the Oliver Nelson and some of the Great Jazz Trio's. Like them all. Pressing quality infinitely superior to the Inner Cities. That 'LA 4/Pavanne' is also pretty nice too. As is Joe Sample 'The Three'.

One of the King 'GX' series I think. See it around occasionally but not too often. Included, of course, in the now OOP Mosaic box.

My disk 6 seems to be fine so far but I'll be playing disks 5 and 7 as well just to make sure that all of the set is OK. Just noticed that crazy title mentioning a 'Tal Farlow Concert Band' on the side of the box. I wonder who they were?

The Art Farmers are really nice, IMO ('To Duke With Love' in particular. With Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins how can you go wrong B-) ) and its good to see the Hills back. East Wind vinyls of these seem to be quite rare.

Haven't got as far as disk 6 yet so will give it a spin tonight just to make sure..

There's a rare chance to hear the two Bookers (Ervin and Little) in performance with the Teddy Charles New Direction Quartet (with Mal Waldron) on the LP 'Metronome Presents Jazz In The Garden at the Museum of Modern Art'. Just recently got a Japanese vinyl of this one. Nice version of Ervin's 'Scoochie' on this one.

Miles Davis 'Miles Smiles', non-Mosaic

Of course it is. I'm probably associating it with 'Miles Smiles' as a result of endless listening to the 'Complete 60s' Mosaic LPs, where the sessions blur somewhat. Must get back to the original LPs, this is dangerous..