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Aha - Wroughton. I know the place. Swindon is a place that has changed enormously over the past 25 years and not for the better. Urban sprawl at its worst. I guess your recollections were before the rot began. I used to visit a lot around 15-20 years ago and I'm quite shocked at the changes that have taken place over that time. So much for progress..

In celebration of Kenny Wheeler's 75th birthday and UK tour this week, I'm spinning the Man: 'Music For Large and Small Ensembles' (ECM) 2LPs Followed by: 'Windmill Tilter' (Fontana) Will see if I can find the Braxton 'New York Fall 1974' (Arista) a little later.

Yes, West Kennet Longbarrow is a good one. Always fun to have a shufties inside ! You must have lived somewhere around RAF Lyneham/Wooton Basset.

Get the garlic out !

Can't waste valuable Blue Note/Mosaic listening time on clearing snow. It's worth the $15 !

Great place. I used to pass through there quite often. Strange vibe as you come by car through the village at night with those giant stones looming over you. Great memories indeed of walking the Ridgeway near there and also checking out Wayland's Smithy and Silbury Hill. Reminder to self to get back up there one Sunday.. Must have been heartbreaking to have lived there when they did the original excavations (1920s?) and half of the village was totally destroyed to uncover the stones. Awesome to think that the original extent was considerably larger than what is there now, that it preceded Stonehenge by millenia and also dwarfed it.

The Monk smoking jacket and high school books sound pretty cool

Wow, sounds like you guys are getting some serious weather over there. No snow here but some very strong winds over the past week of the 80mph+ variety, coming in West from the Atlantic. I lost an old elm tree on my property border last week in a storm and the tree surgeons have been in today with the chainsaws to sort it out. For sure we are now seeing the effects of 'global warming' very clearly.

Some discussion of this one here: Auction

Anyone noticed the stylistic similarities between 'Rated X' and Sun Ra's 'Disco 3000'?

'Maiysha' presumably. Sure - it hints towards a lighter, more MOR side and Al Foster was putting down the same groove as on the second part of this number when I heard Miles in 1982. A harder version of 'Maiysha' is on the 'Agharta' recording - this is the superior version to my ears and Sonny Fortune's flute playing is just wonderful on this.

Is that Avebury on your avatar Bev?

Interesting writeup in The Times about that QEH gig. The balance was apparently all to pot in the first half with the small group but they sorted it out for the second half. No such problems at the Southampton gig a few days later. Will be interesting to hear how that QEH concert comes out on the Radio 3 broadcast, looking forward to hearing that one.

Don't know if you have this one on your Ronnie Ross site Tooter but here you go - another Rossian sideman appearance. Aside - looks like the 'Palace Theatre' (Shaftesbury Avenue?) in the photo.

Just checking my 'Cape Verdean Blues'. Plastilite with the ear NY USA, no mention of Liberty. I don't have the 'Smokestack to hand but I think it is NY USA sleeve and labels, Liberty-era vinyl, no ear. Have also checked the 'Unit Structures' and it is a Liberty sleeve with NY USA labels, Liberty-era vinyl, no ear. Another one from this transitional period would be Andrew Hill's 'Compulsion'.

Miles Davis 'Get Up With It' UK CBS issue 2LP To be followed up with Horace Silver Quintet 'You Gotta Take A Little Love' Liberty original.

Must have bought my copy within weeks of its UK release - I'm pretty sure I picked up a copy of 'Big Fun' on the same day. These were two of the first jazz LPs I ever bought and they are still in near-mint nick ! 'Rated X' certainly stood out on first listening, up to that point I had never heard anything like it. I detect the possible influence of Paul Buckmaster in the use of repetition, plus obviously the dark afro influence that Miles was going through at the time. Well, there's only on thing to do with the weather crap outside. After the current Mingus masterpiece that's being spun here ('Let My Children Hear Music') that copy of 'Get Up With It' is goin on the turntable and the volume will be cranked up to max as Miles advises in the LP notes of this era..

Charles Mingus 'Let My Children Hear Music'. An original Dutch CBS pressing.

Aha - skimmed that one ! Must be the best candidate for the wildest Larry Young playing on record. Not sure if the CD is still in print but it's well worth a listen. Not one to spin when the Mother-In-Law is visiting for tea..

On Baritone.. no less I've always wondered how the Ventura connection on this session came about.

No mention as yet of the 'Love Cry Want' disk. Some pretty wild Larry Young on that one, recorded opposite Nixon's White House I believe..

I've got a vinyl 'Rated X' and the sound is very dark, quite sinister. Scared the living shit out of me when I first heard it ! Think Hammer movie backing tracks and this is it. The version on 'Panthalassa' is great also. Love this disk - came out also on a limited vinyl pressing which is my fave..

Hey, its Tony Blair !

Horace Silver 'The Jody Grind' BN Libery gatefold mono.

It may be, but I have a mono copy of Lee Morgan-Search For The New Land-4169 w/o Liberty on the cover and a NY label. I'm fairly sure that my copies of all of these have the NY sleeves and labels with no mention of Liberty. In some cases (e.g the Morgan and Patton) I think the vinyl is Liberty era and not the heavier Plastilite.