sidewinder

Hey, I thought we led the pack on that one...

Mike - UK jazz critic and author Dave Gelly has written a pretty nice bio of Getz's life and music. Details can be found here: Getz Book PS - I don't know whether or not Gelly still plays tenor but he played some pretty nice stuff on Neil Ardley/New Jazz Orchestra's 'Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe' LP

'Bud Shank and Bob Brookmeyer With Strings'. 10" LP put out on UK Vogue. Followed up with another Vogue 10" LP. 'Elmo Hope Quintet' (UK issue of the BN 10").

I like this one too. I'm slowly making my way through the vinyl and I'm impressed. Probably the most 'civilised' of all the Mosaics, in my opinion.

Patricia - interesting to see 'Highgate Village' as a title in this context. Many years ago as a student I lived in this very area of London - indeed on the same street as Yehudi Menuhin, who I would on occasions walk past (he was at the far end of the road from my own abode). No doubt Yehudi's home was the inspiration for this number.

I have a yellow vinyl Les McCann. Can't recall the title for the moment...sounds pretty good !

Kenny Burrell 'Ellington Is Forever' Vol 2 on Fantasy.

John Young is also on that Atlantic Von Freeman session - 'Doin' It Right Now'. I like his piano playing on this one very much.

Good to hear that !

Hope you've taken out insurance on that one, John How's the sound quality, by the way?

Horace Silver 'Cape Verdean Blues', the stereo NY USA edition. Great work in particular from Woody Shaw on side 1 in particular and equally fine JJ on side 2. Just love that classic BN cover design too !

Kevin - thanks for the thoughts on the Japanese Fontanas. Ah well, I've ordered them now. I gave a spin earlier today to my Mole Jazz reissue LP of 'Mexican Green' (originally released in the early 1980s). Its in stereo but I can't say I was wildly enthusiastic with the sound, which is a bit on the 'thin' side. My Fontana mono original of '100% Proof' on the other hand sounded just dandy - typical 1960s Fontana brilliance. Clearly, the Fontana LPs are the way to go if you can get hold of them. It will be nice to hear 'Tubbs' and 'Tubbs Tours' when they arrive. I've heard very good things about these two, just hope the mastering does them justice. I wonder if these Japanese Fontanas were mastered off of LPs or were taken from the original master tapes? '200% Proof' is another one that I would like to check out. I suspect that the live big band material on 'Blue Hayes' would have similarity to this one.

That's a pretty good price for the Jap Fontanas. Amazon UK is listing these at £25 and up . With the £/$ as it is at the moment, I think I'll place a Tubby Fontana order with The Bastards. Will pass on the Constanzo and the Cleo Laine though. Incidentally, I've just seen an original vinyl of 'Down In The Village' sell for £500..

The Milt Jackson/Lucky Thompson sessions cut for Savoy have some particularly fine work from Clarke. Also worth checking out the Rearward issue of the Karl Drevo 'Clap Hands Here Comes..' and the Blue Note 'Golden Eight' session. This last one is way overdue for CD reissue.

Blakey 'Complete 1960 Messengers' Mosaic set, LP3

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.