sidewinder

I was wondering how the Japanese Fontanas of the two live sessions at Scotts compare soundwise with the UK Redial re-issues. Anyone have any opinions on this?

I went for Ronnie Ross ('Ronaldo') under the 'Other' category, a personal great favourite. Having said that, Pepper Adams and Serge Chaloff are just marginally behind. Sentiment rules the day though !

I think I've always kept this one because there's always the chance that one day, I will actually 'get' the music and enjoy it. Sometimes it happens, for example the recent rediscovery of the Grant Green 'Am I Blue' Applause LP. The 'Ken Hyder's Talisker' LP by the way gets some pretty good writeups in some places and will probably be re-discovered by Gilles Peterson some day as rare Celto/Scottish modal jazz vinyl ( ) so I guess I should hang on to it...

Japanese pressing LP of this one is on its way to me - looking forward at long last to hearing it !

This thread resurrected for another recommendation for Tubbophiles. 'Blue Hayes - The Tempo Anthology' (Jasmine JASCD 632 2CDs) has a good compilation of the 50s Tempo sessions on disk 1 and half of disk 2. Of particular interest on the remainder of disk 2 though is an amateur live reccording at the Torrington, North Finchley of Tubby's Big Band. Not a great recording (understatement) and a bit ragged in parts but some really inspired solos from Tubby and Louis Stewart plus nice work from Alan Skidmore. The version here of '100% Proof' is a gem and the live atmosphere most infectious. Recommended ! Tragic though to think that within a year of this big band gig Tubby was in intensive care for open heart surgery.

A bit of live Tubby Hayes from the mid 1960s.

Just giving 'Swahili' a spin on the VEE disk. Very nice Quincy Jones arrangements and stellar band with Horace Silver, Jimmy Cleveland, Cecil Payne, Oscar Pettiford and Art Blakey in the lineup. With Horace and Art laying down the groove, how can you lose !

Still a fair number of these in the UK shops at about £5 each. I see the Grapelli disks all the time.

Just popping a couple of teabags in the pot for the morning cuppa.. Interesting to see that photo of Keane with the trumpet and flugel, Harriott in the background. Can't recall ever hearing any recorded examples of the 'two trumpets' or 'trumpet/flugel' work. For some good reminiscences about Shake Keane I recommend Coleridge Goode (stalwart bassist with the Harriott group) recent autobiography. I think it's called 'A Life In Jazz'; Coleridge was a close friend of Shake. There's also some good recollections in the 'Fire In His Soul' biography of Joe Harriott. Coleridge Goode is well into his 80s now and is still (to the best of my knowledge) running jam sessions at a pub in North London (Crouch End, I think). Wonderful bassist and a true stalwart of the UK scene.

Sidewinder - "Black Marigolds" sounds good, although I am not keen on poetry, philistine that I am. Shake leant heavily that way, I know - hence the name - and latterly went away from the music completely I seem to remember, in favour of poetry. But it is his music, particularly as you say on flugel, that interests me. I will keep an eye open for a bargain "October Woman" - some hopes! jazzscript has a list of Garrick LP's. It works on this one Tooter. The poetry is kept 'in check' by the jazz and used more as a 'mood' vehicle. Shake participated of course with Harriott in many of the 'Jazz & Poetry' events of the 1960s and, as you say, he had a very definite literary talent in his own right. Too bad that he left the UK back in the 60s. I believe that lack of work at the time was a key issue and the German radio bands offered considerably more stability. Also a marriage bust-up may well have been a factor.

Wonderfull. 'Dejeuner' by the NJO (very much an Ardley disk) is wonderful and has a standout version of 'Naima'. Also great to see the other Ardley disk listed too. All of these look like 'must buys.' That Peterson concert event to be filmed by BBC4 looks pretty well unmissable. With the Kenny Wheeler '75th Birthday' concerts coming up in January, this is going to be a great few months for fans of British Jazz. Still no sign of Wheeler's 'Windmill Tilter' on the CD format though..

I have a record in my collection by the Scottish band Talisker (called 'Humanity' I think) which was purchased after a very nice gig that they did. Great to see them live but the LP was another matter. It's very heavy on the moody celtic chants and manic electric bagpipes so has been relegated to the frisbee zone. Maybe I'll resurrect it one of these days as background music for a Robbie Burns supper..

Clarke/Boland Big Band 'Jazz Is Universal' (Atlantic) and John Surman 'Tales of the Algonquin' (Deram).

Hopefully there will be some form of heads up in 'Jazzwise' over the next few months.

Tooter - I don't have 'October Woman' by Garrick but I do have a vinyl of 'Black Marigolds'. That one is pretty damn nice and has Harriott in the lineup. Poetry on a couple of the tracks (which works pretty well). I've also got a (pretty commercial) LP by Shake Keane called 'Dig !'. Lots of covers of stuff like 'Bend Me Shake Me' from the 1960s. A real period piece, time capsule and sort of different (to say the least) from his earlier stuff with Harriott. A great flugel player !

One LP and 27 CDs is probably just about sustinable ( ) but its when the Mosaic orders pile in on top of this that the ship is well and trully holed under the waterline. That site should have a government health warning..

Don Wilkerson 'Elder Don' (BN NY USA)

There have been a few ski holidays where the effects of grappa taken the night before as I embarked on a new day on the slopes have been most regrettable !

The Tony Kinsey CD is at on the shelf at my local CD store and I'll probably pick it up in the next week or so. Looks nice - that 'Jazz at the Flamingo' EP was pretty rare on vinyl.

The version of this one I saw in the UK newspapers was not quite so graphic so I think there's been a bit of 'creative editing' going on here. Still damn hilarious though..

Just giving the 'Rare Groove' vinyl a spin. I really like Lew Tabakin's flute work throughout this LP. Also agree that Duke's paw prints are all over the session, very much in the idiom of his late 60s Liberty-era dates.

Stalwart of the Clarke/Boland Big Band and, I believe, in Glen Miller's last big band up to his death. Stayed in Europe after the war. Recently interviewed by BBC radio about his time with Miller.

Louis Sclavis 'Napoli's Fields' (ECM) Joe Harriott 'Abstract' (Redial) Gilles Peterson 'Impressed II' (Universal) The Rendell/Carr's on BGO ('Shades of Blue/Dusk Fire' and 'Phase III/Live') Andrew Hill 'Passing Ships' (Blue Note) As for vinyl its another story !

How about those great 1970s sessions recorded for East Wind with Cedar Walton's trio (Walton, Sam Jones & Billy Higgins). 'To Duke With Love' and 'The Summer Knows'. Both beautifully recorded and with some absolutely fabulous ballad performances from Art. Also put out on vinyl by Inner City in the US. There's also a nice album with strings on East Wind of this vintage called 'Maiden Voyage'.