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Lateef's 'Live at Peps' is one of the greatest from this vintage (or maybe it's slightly earlier). Probably my favourite live jazz recording, along with Morgan's 'Live at the Lighthouse'. So much great stuff over this vintage both on BN and other labels. Off the top of my head: Chick Corea 'Inner Space' (Vortex/Atlantic) All of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis UA albums Everything Gerald Wilson ever did for Pacific Jazz/World Pacific... lots of great British jazz of this vintage such as the John Surmans on Deram, Mike Westbrook 'Celebration' and 'Release' also on deram, recordings by Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra, Harry Beckett's 'Flare Up', Rendell-Carr 'Dusk Fire', 'Phase III' and 'Live', Stan Tracey 'Under Milk Wood' and John McLaughlin 'Extrapolation' Lots of great post-1966 Jazz Crusaders LPs on Pacific Jazz/World Pacific Some great Denny Zeitlins on CBS including 'Live at the Trident' and 'Zeitgeist' Great MPS albums including 'Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band' and Freddie Hubbard 'The Hub of Hubbard' and all of the Clarke/Boland and Sahib Shihab material recorded for MPS/SABA/Rearward (already mentioned). Truly a vintage period for jazz...

This is a situation that persisted well into the 1970s. The restrictive laws were very understandable in the context of the time, when even the top names of British jazz were scuffling around in the early 1970s to make a living. Joe Harriott for example, died pretty well destitute, exacerbated by the gigs drying up. The situation started to improve around the late-70s. Artists such as Clifford Jarvis (a MAJOR catalyst on the UK scene) had started to base themselves here and in the 1980s we started to see people such as Jean Toussaint base themselves here (in Toussaints case, after a season with Blakey at 'Ronnies'). There were some US musicians of course who used the UK as a 'way station'. Chet Baker back in the early 1960s (must have liked our National Health Service ) and - intriguingly - Hank Mobley back in the late 1960s. By all accounts Hank was pretty well near-destitute when Ronnie Scott collected him and he was accomodated courtesy of the club to get him started over here. Maybe it didn't work out with the labour laws with ragard to club engagements (notoriously in short supply then outside of London). Too bad, I've often wondered whether Hank would have stayed on here and made a permanent base. One of the great 'what iffs' of UK jazz ... As it was, he headed over to Paris and promptly swapped our rain for theirs ....

Don't have that one I'm afraid - only 'The Widow In The Window' and 'Gnu High' on ECM. Its had very good writeups and, again, John Taylor is on piano. Maybe someone else on the board can advise?

PM just sent - a bit on the late side I'm afraid

Sounds like it's tailor-made for the occasion..

He was one of the very first jazz artists I heard too. My introduction was on that great French CBS 3LP set 'The Essential Miles Davis'. A couple of minutes of 'Bye Bye Blackbird', then the disk of Miles/Gil Material then the stuff with Wayne Shorter and Sam Rivers and I was hooked for life. A genius of jazz, for sure...

Yes - many thanks. Great BFT, I've thoroughly enjoyed participating and big for that nice bonus disk, a good one for those 'party' occasions. Cheers !

Morgan/Shorter Veejay Disk 1

He was definitely the first but I got the distinct impression that it was also the latter..

The Bath Festival jazz weekend starts this Friday - with E.S.T headlining. Lots of Euro groups on during the weekend - including Gianluigi Trovesi, who is always worth checking out, in a double bill with Louis Sclavis. Courtney Pine headlines on the Monday.

'Bantu Village' and 'Collision in Black'. Sounds like a good supplement to the Mosaic

Commodore Vol 1 LP 21 side 2

Both of my sets arrived yesterday - both in the high 1700s. The Morgan/Shorter was a winner from the first minute of listening, the usual amazing compositional quality from Wayne and front line playing unique to these two artists. Superb Have also listened to the first two disks of the Kelly/Chambers and again its a big . No issues at all for me with the alternative takes, its nice to hear the fresh insights the musicians add to the alternates. The usual great booklets and packaging, all in all a winning couple of boxes. Can't understand why I didn't grab the Morgan/Shorter much earlier...

Basra is wonderful - one of Joe Henderson's finest BN 'feature performances' and some very atmospheric tunes. Gotta like that great cover too !

I've had this problem in the distant past and after polite and ignored requests I found that the only solution was to turn hi-fi speakers to the wall, put one of the more far-out disks on 'Escalator Over The Hill' on autoplay (the one with that ultrasonic hum track is particularly good) and then go out for the evening. That got some action.. Sadly though, you can't beat detatched homes in order to avoid this problem. Even then, there's always spotty baseball-capped adolescent dolts who persist in revving down lanes in their souped-up crapmobiles at 4am, even when you live in the countryside..

'Doin The Thang' is first rate. I've got the recent Fantasy LP reissue and the performances are excellent. Ronnie Mathews is always good value..

Can't believe I passed on an original Liberty 'On Broadway' that time in Mole Jazz for about £10-£15 Good suggestion though. Maybe also Lonnie Smith's 'Think' is due for a re-mastering. That beaut has some nice Lee Morgan and Fathead Newman on it.

Somewhat strange incident which I'd like to share concerning Woody. Several years ago I was over in NYC and checking out a music store on Broadway just above Times Square. They had a book of Woody trumpet transcriptions in stock (with things like 'Moontrane') at a good price so I took it to the checkout. The guy behind the counter took one hard look at the cover, snarled unpleasantly, took my cash with disgusted look on his face, no thanks offered. I've always wondered just what Woody must have done to piss this store guy off so much. Very odd.

Yes, RDK, it was the track 15 I had in mind but I wasn't sure of the exact title. The last time I listened to this one was years ago so the old grey matter must have registered something. I'm just too damn lazy to pick out the Impulse twofer from the LP rack..

The last time I was in the store the guy at the counter confirmed that they 'would be moving to alternative space in the Kings Cross area', with target date of end of May. The rent increases on Grays Inn Road seem to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Certainly the CDs and vinyl stock looked to be heavily depleted on that visit (and that was at least 2 months ago). I hope they are able to relocate OK but the omens didn't seem to be good.

I have the Nistico and the Curtis Fuller 'Fire and Filligree'. Really must give these an airing this week. Don't remember seeing the flyer insert though - would have been nice to get one of these Ts..

"Zoltan" off Larry Young 'Unity'. "Great Expectations" (45 rpm version) by Miles..

Mike Westbrook 'Marching Song Vol 2' on Deram. Topical subject-matter back in 1969 and equally topical now.

Johnny Coles 'Little Johnny C' is another overlooked classic from the early 60s - really a Duke Pearson session in disguise.. With regard to the Kenny Cox's, I was listening to 'Introducing Kenny Cox' just the other day and wondering why this one was so obscure - it's actually a very good late 60s date from the Liberty period. Some good originals from pianist Cox on this one.

How about Bobby Hutcherson 'Oblique'? That one has been AWOL for too long...