sidewinder

Check out also Sam Rivers 'Contours' for some wonderful solo work from Herbie, real 'on the edge of your seat' stuff. Ditto also Bobby Hutcherson's 'Oblique'. He always sounds at his best on those BN sessions where Joe Chambers is the drummer.

From herein the artist previously known as 'sidewinder' if the 'Reverend Doctor Sidewinder Slim'..

Complete Keynote Box, LP 1 followed by: Bobby Hutcherson 'Now', Liberty/UA pressing. This Hutcherson LP is sort of 'of its time' but a very superior session from this vintage. Harold Land fits superbly into this idiom.

Now yet talkin' ! B-)

Well worth checking out. It features mainly the 'Jazz Warriors' in their collaboration with Blakey around 1986. Good snippets of ex-Messengers like Bobby Watson, Curtis Fuller, Shorter, Golson etc. Also some interesting 'drum clinic' footage of Blakey.

Or maybe they can get Mosaic to put out a set of the recordings in this fine series, sort of a la 'Master Jazz Piano'?

Funilly enough I was just watching a Blakey documentary on the TV (true) and Wynton was playing with Stanley Crouch in the audience, cheering.. :rsly:

Don't let these guys bring their long-boats on tour over here. Some things haven't changed for 1000 years

Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabakin Big Band 'From Toshiko With Love' (Baystate)

Also from around this vintage 'A Day In Copenhagen' (originally put out in Europe by MPS/Saba on vinyl) is a great one. Superb line up with Dexter, Dizzy Reece and Slide Hampton in the front line. Kenny Drew, NHOP and Art Taylor in the rhythm section. I'm always suprised it doesn't get more plaudits.

I won't rest until I hear this one. BN have gotta get this one on the racks !

Any of the Francis Wolff photos of Hank Mobley really but the one on the front cover of the 'Straight No Filter' LP and the one inside the 'Turnaround' RVG CD are probably my particular favourites. The one of Wayne Shorter on the cover of 'The All Seeing Eye' is also pretty damn great.

'Jazz Britannia' show at the Barbica, London tomorrow. Hosted by Gilles Peterson who will host a show featuring music from the 'Impressed' compilations. Lots of great UK names there - Surman, Westbrook, Garrick, Norma Winstone, Soweto Kinch. Televised by BBC4.

Splendid ! I have 3 DVDs also confirmed as on their way from them, including super-cheap Sun Ra 'Joyful Noise', the 'Jazz Scene' Adderley/Teddy Edwards and the Mingus documentary.

Welcome back John. At long last the BBC site has caught up with the news.. Smith Obit Noteworthy for what will probably be the first and last occasion of a Tina Brooks mention on BBC news

Second 'The Panther'

Never saw it in either Toronto or Edmonton (my places of residence those years) or in other places such as Calgary and Montreal. Never saw a copy in Vancouver either. Admittedly though I wasn't looking specifically for it - only really became aware of Coda when I saw that nice pile of magazines for sale at the Bath Fest at 50p a copy. I then made up for lost time !

and introducing Val Doonican as himself.......... 'hello there !'

I never once saw a copy of Coda during my time actually living in Canada. The only time I have seen them for sale (other than in Mole Jazz) is at the Bath Festival. I stocked up on a whole pile of old copies from the 1990s and there was great stuff in there such as an article by Mike F. on Gigi Gryce and reviews of new-release (at the time) Mosaic sets such as the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh, Giuffre, McLean and others. Great range as has been pointed out - from early jazz right through to the most esoteric avant-garde. Too bad that 'Can-Con' strikes again..

A couple of years ago it was about £1 = $1.4. Now it is about £1 = $1.9. The Mosaic buck goes a heck of a lot further this year..

Still absolutely sweet FA mention of this on sites such as the BBC but I see that Robbie Williams and the Doobie drummer are getting headlines under 'entertainment'. Words fail me...

Well, adding a 'little wear' makes it so valuable..

Mine's 'pending' with caiman

Great choice. I'll be putting on the vinyl of 'The Sermon' a bit later on. I'll also give the RVG CD of 'House Party' a spin too. Absolute classics. Love the way that Jimmy pulls the stops out (I guess that's what it is? - not being an organ player) during his solo on 'The Sermon'. When that happens with the hifi cranked up it sets up a resonance in my front room !

Currently spinning the vinyl of 'Midnight Special'. What a classic this one is, two masters at their prime.