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Glad to hear that, Alfred. This might just be a set that I pass on. In the interest of my wallet, absolutely no more reviews, please...

Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic LP set just being hauled out of its storage pen for 33rpm action. Inspired by watching that great Tristano Copenhagen Concert DVD.

A Mosaic Larry Young LP set.

Just pre-ordered a copy from Amazon UK - should be out here within the next few weeks.

A timely reminder of the riches which were available on Collector's Choice. Just looking in Mosaic Brochure 17, which had a True Blue flyer listing some of these. There was also Bill Potts 'The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess'. Fond recollections of when these items appeared - I'd struggled to find 'Oblique' in the shops until CC delivered the goods. Picked up a whole wadge of these also through that special offer from Tower a few years ago publicised on the BNBB. The Potts and the Randy Weston were acquired through that route. About $5 each I recall...

I've just had a few listens to track 1 on my LP copy - a 1977 blue label UK pressing of the Liberty/United Artists period. Although the recording level sounds a bit suppressed to my ears (which seems very common to RVG recordings in the Liberty era) there is no noticeable cymbal distortion or tweaking of levels, at least on this copy. If there has been some deterioration of master tape, sounds as though it could be a post-1977 issue.

George Braith 'Extensions'

Aha! At last we have found a use for the International Space Station. Vinyl Processing Module !

A wise decision !

The LP of 'Off Limits' has arrived from Italy, together with the Drevo and Baggs/Griff. 'Off Limits' sounds pretty excellent, typical late period CBBB. They seem to have forgotten to send the Sahib Shihab 2LP set though (or maybe it was lost on my order? ).

I tend to use one basic treatment for any LP that can benefit from a cleanup. 1 part ethyl alcohol to 4 parts distilled water, used in a 'Disco Antistat' manual brush-cleaning machine. Then leave the LP to dry for 20 minutes. Forget the Disco Antistat fluid - it leaves a nasty stylus gunge residue. This method is more benign. For the 47W63rd etc. I tend to leave them be..

Can't belive that that Andrew Hill set is still looking for a home. A mighty fine, stunning Mosaic if ever there was one.

Probably 'Another Workout'. It's always seemed to me a bit of an anti-climax after the great peaks of 'Soul Station', 'Roll Call' and 'Workout' and I've tended to put it sort of on one side. I really must have another in-depth listen to this session and - yes - suspect that it is long overdue for RVG treatment (as is 'A Caddy For Daddy'). Message to Classic Records - please may we have a 200g vinyl deepgroove of this one? First impressions of 'Another Workout' back when it was first issued in the 80s was of a hugely swinging, solid and very listenable Hank hard bop date but there was nothing that really caught the ear and said this was special. At the time, there were reissues of things like 'Search For The New Land' and 'Empyrean Isles' coming out of Pathe Marconi and this one sounded routine in comparisson. On that basis, this one is well overdue for my listening attentions. I've also just picked up a Prestige twofer of the 'Messages' sessions, which I wasn't familiar with before, so its nice to have a bit more new (at least to me) Mobley to savour.

A bit of Blue Note action this Saturday morning. Starting of with Wayne Shorter 'Night Dreamer' NYC mono then onto Horace 'The Tokyo Blues' NY USA DG mono

Sweet Love, Bitter !! One of the recent releases on Rhapsody Films, produced and directed by Herbert Danska in 1967 and starring Dick Gregory. Notable for a very fine soundtrack by Mal Waldron and with a story line loosely based on the last years of Charlie Parker. Charles McPherson 'ghosts' for Gregory in the soundtrack - the band is absolutely top notch with Dave Burns, George Coleman, Mal Waldron, George Duvivier/Richard Davis and Al Drears (?). The film superbly depicts the NYC of the period, the scuffle of the jazz life and the pit-falls in a sort of 'film noir' style. Very cool indeed ! B-) My understanding is that after initial release in the 60s the film was subsequently shelved and has been an 'underground' item ever since. I have the sneeking suspicion that I might have sen it at a rare jazz films festival put together by the National Film Theatre in the late 70s but I'm not sure. It looks sort-of familiar !

Just got hold of NY USA monos of Sam Rivers 'Contours', Lou Donaldson 'The Natural Soul' and a Liberty of Grant Green 'Visions'. A nice ol' haul for the day..

Just listening to 'Far Away Lands' and 'A Caddy For Daddy' earlier today. Why is it that these excellent sessions are routinely under-rated? (by the Penguin Guide as mentioned earlier but 'Far Away' in particular never seems to get any plaudits from the critics). Hank's playing on these sessions is well up to his usual standard in terms of fluency and invention, to my mind far superior to the playing on 'Reach Out' and 'The Flip'. Billy Higgins is also on fantastic form on both sessions - this was a really great period for him. OK, whilst neither of these sessions are quite up there with 'Soul Station' and 'Roll Call' etc. I suspect that 'Far Away Lands' in particular might be due for major re-appraisal. Any thoughts?

Great stuff, glad to hear it went well ! I've got a relative living in Bern so its about time I got out there and checked out this Jazz Room..

Grrrrrr !

Tried back in the 1600s. It didn't work, we ended up with a load of Germans

Heck, I remember programming some garbage in Fortran 77 on a mainframe that looked something like that ! Even had a hopper to pop all those punched cards in. Not sure about the ship's helm.... The teletype looks pretty familiar though ! (DEC/IBM?)

Cobwebs will be cleared out of the Atlantic vinyl box and 'Cosmic Music' tonight !

RIP.

Exactly !

Wow - didn't know that ! These days they have problems making one delivery in London, that's assuming the contract labour guys they tend to employ in inner London can find the right address. That TV documentary with the undercover filming of mail being dumped by the wayside so these bozos could complete deliveries in the alloted time was pretty shocking..