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It must have been 1968'ish Leeway, there seem to be both CS and CL designations available up to 'Miles In The Sky' (at least according to Goldmine). Now listening to Johnny Griffin Quartet 'The Kerry Dancers' on Riverside (also in mono, this one is a real ringer) and Jimmy Owens 'No Escaping It !!!' on UK Polydor. The Shelly Manne 'Son of Gunn !!' mono deepgroove is on deck.. :rsmile:

Wasn't 'Status' a Prestige budget line put out in the mid to late 60s, usually on thinner vinyl? Looks like what is on the picture is a Status sleeve with New Jazz vinyl, sort of like a Prestige version of a 'Liberty/NY USA' combo.

'Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco Featuring Nat Adderley' (Riverside) - wonderful !

Just been checking the Schema sisite over in Italy and they have some mighty fine reissues on Rearward, both CD and LP, including some good CBBB material. 'Off Limits' looks a corker (I've only ever heard 'Astro Rama' and it smokes), the McRae 'November Girl' was also recorded with the band in London (at Lansdowne studios I think). The 2LP 'Strauss' and Sahib Shihab compilations are also hugely recommended and sound brilliant. Get yer Kenny Clarke Francy Boland mega-cool vinyl and CDs 'ere.......

Yes, that's one of the ones I've just ordered. Looking forward to checking it out.

Looks like a different track listing to 'Open Door'. This is one of the few CBBB LPs that I don't have. 'The Turk' is also on 'Sax No End', which is from about the same vintage with Fats Sadi in the lineup also. Don't have the LP in front of me I'm afraid to check the dates. I have a feeling I came across a cheap copy of that Supraphon LP in a London shop some years ago for not a lot of £. I think I must have passed on it having seen 'The Turk' and thinking it was a compilation.

Victor Feldman Link

Number 1. would be Victor Feldman.

That 'Mingus 1968' is worth getting hold of just for the sight of Mingus' eviction and the shotgun incident. I usually end up retreating behind the sofa when that is played..

The Ben Webster is really excellent - a fine bio and lots of insight into his time in Holland and Denmark and the expat life. I have a video taken from a 1980s TV showing (I think it is called 'Ben Webster - The Beauty and the Brute') which has lots of excerpts from this documentary feature (interviews with the Dutch landlady etc). 'Beauty and the Brute' runs about 80-90 minutes I think (my tape runs out before the end ). Recommended ! I've actually got two of these Rhapsody DVDs on order from Amazon UK. The 'Sonny Criss LA All Stars' (which has had rave mention on a previous thread) and the film based on Bird's last few months with the Mal Waldron soundtrack. I'll likely order more, starting with Jaki Byard/Elvin Jones. Should get the first 2 over the next few days. The new releases look highly interesting - look forward to seeing them in PAL format shortly (hopefully).

Having stumbled across Vol 2 (which I didn't even realise I had ) I'm going to give these two a spin right now on the video player. Both Cannonball and Nat play just great on Vol 1, Lloyd is no slouch and the crack rythmn section is as tight as a duck' s (pardon my expression) rear orifice.. B-)

Just pulled the videos off the rack, I'd totally forgotten that I had both of them.. :rsmile: Recorded for BBC 12 May 1964. Introduced by Humphrey Lyttleton: Cannonball, Nat, Charles LLoyd, Joe Z, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes. Episode 1: 'Work Song' 'Song My Lady Sings' 'Poor Butterfly' 'Jive Samba' 'Unit Seven' Episode 2: 'The Weaver' 'Bohemia After Dark' 'Come Sunday' 'Sweet Georgia Bright' 'Unit Seven'

There's some great Cannonball on two 'Jazz 625' programs recorded for the BBC and released on video some years ago. I've got one of them. The band has the lineup with Nat, Charles Lloyd and Joe Zawinul. Recorded around 1964 - that show absolutely kicks ass ! Hope this one comes out on DVD at some time, together with the rest of the 'Jazz 625' catalogue.

I remember being served up baby cuttlefish on a Japan Air Lines flight some years ago. Can still picture them there, floating in the soy sauce with their puppy-dog eyes looking up at me. Must admit though, they tasted pretty good ! I'm also a sucker for sea cucumber whenever offered up at Chinese New Year do's. Any scuba divers amongst us will know that when picked up under-water they tend to instantly defecate up their guts. Nice, eh ! Which reminds me, food is almost ready..

Wow - check out that counter reading. There was a lot of interest in this one. $1k will buy a heck of a lot of Classic Record mono facimiles..

Jimmy Smith 'The Sermon' 47W63rd mono.

I believe that the story was that the master tapes to 'Sweet Honey Bee' had somehow gone AWOL. Another session that was taken from LP for the CD issue is the Bill Pots 'Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess', the subject of a recent thread. Again, the United Artists master tape could not be located and the CD was compiled with assistance of Bill Potts using best available LP sources.

I'll have to pull that one out of the racks porcy62, I agree - got to see that band around the time the ECMs came out, what a show that was. Great memories ! Now playing John Cameron Quartet 'Off Centre' (Deram) and 'Poetry and Jazz 250' Michael Garrick Sextet et al (Argo 2LPs). On a bit of a British jazz kick tonight.

Well, I'll add those 6 Classics Blue Note monos to my 'wants' list. I'm particularly thrilled at the prospect of the Tina Brooks, even though I have a King pressing of this one and the Mosaic. Sometimes you can't get too much of a good thing..

I've just secured a McLean LP set on ebay from a UK seller at what looks to be a reasonable price . I tried to grab the Jimmy Smith as well in the last couple of minutes but the computer crashed just at the crucial moment. At least I have the McLean..

Just listening to 'Autumn Leaves' on disk 6 of the Kelly/Chambers right now. This is one box where the swing quotient doesn't let up from beginning to end. An absolute joy. The alternative takes aren't a negative either.

The more recent Q-LP sets were in fairly limited quantities, Dmitry. I recall that when I picked up the Horace Parlan at 'running low' someone on the BNBB (can't recall who) mentioned that there were around 500 of them.

More Prestige blue label vinyl: Booker Ervin 'Heavy !!!' Dexter Gordon 'The Panther' To be followed by Andrew Hill 'Compulsion' Blue Note NY USA mono

Once again, Bobby Watson delivers the goods