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Excellent interview. Who would have ever guessed that Mingus did a tune named after sleepy Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire !

RIP and my condolences. I am still shocked at hearing of this very sad loss of a great artist who still had much more to give. At least I can console myself at having seen Mr Lacy live on one occasion - a superb club gig in Long Beach. My over-riding impression is of a guy, well into his 60s, still pushing at the edges and with the purpose, drive and shear inquisitiveness/enthusiasm of a much younger man. I'm really saddened at the thought of not being able to check Mr Lacy out live again.

That was an excellent concert by 'Celtic Feet' at Bath. The fiddle player and accordionist in combination were hot ! Louis Sclavis and 'Napoli's Walls' was my personal favourite - although it got a pretty mixed reaction from the punters. Did you see the performance in the Guildhall by 'Stimmhorn'? Music will never be the same again after seeing that amazing show. First time for the Alpenhorn in jazz. Also first time I've ever seen an accordionist repair his kit with screwdriver mid-show looking totally cool about it and making it into theatre. Amazing !

Sounds pretty good. Don't these usually go for at least $100? I've got one of the Baker/Mulligan 10" disks. It has the quartet on one side plus the band with Lee Konitz on the other. One of the very ealy PJ releases, if I remember rightly.

Against all odds, it still seems to be hanging in there on 'Last Chance'. What stamina !

A cup of tea !

I remember seeing these guys on their Canadian tour back in either 1995 or 1996. Pretty way out stuff. Gianluigi Trovessi was in the lineup (he's mellowed of late) and possibly also Enrico Rava - can't be sure as I saw his 'Carmen' band around the same time and I may have them confused. Trovessi has just completed a gig here in the UK at the Bath Festival and, as usual, he was in excellent form and provided a really superb show.

Spam? LUXURY. You were reet lucky/We 'ad it tough ! Some of us have to make do with a single lettuce leaf and piece of cold toast for the next month.... At least the Atlantic New Orleans set is suitably funereal backing music for when the next bank statement somes rolling in.

This one must be (with the exception of the Stuff Smith set I guess ) the fastest Mosaic OOP disappearing act in history. I'm sure glad I picked up on Rooster Ties' post (grateful thanks to him for that).

Why do I get this image of Bush and lapdog Blair searching high and low through the desert for a mint copy of Thad & Mel !

1. Delivering all those black boxes gives my postie some well-needed exercise. 2. The decor on my lounge far wall speaks 'black box with a hint of silver lettering'. 3. The US trade defecit needs all of the help it can get. 4. Just one look at the OOP list and thinking of what you should have got for $60 or so focuses the mind immediately and puts the finger on the button...

Make that 11 - I've just pulled the Stamford Trigger and also narrowly avoided ordering a Randy Weston Select too (leave that one till later). I guess my New Orleans Jazz instruction/indoctrination starts here....

That 'Mainstem' is a gem - I think my 'Bergenfield' was about $7, a bargain. Nice find !

Actually, I like Jackie McLean a lot more than Coltrane. Of ANY period. But maybe that has something to do with my not thinking of Coltrane as a demi-God. (Or even a hemi-semi-demi-god.) I may well be in a minority on this, but in that case, I humbly submit that the majority is wrong. Funilly enough - and much as I truly love Coltrane's music - I would probably agree. There's something about McLean's playing that goes straight for the jugular.. Count me in as a massive fan by the way of 'One Step Beyond', 'Evolution', 'Hipnosis' and 'Destination Out'. One of my favourite 'cluster' of 60s Blue Notes. Desert Island material for me.

Mosaic's customer service is truly first rate. I had a defect to the box of the Morgan/Shorter Veejay which arrived last week. A replacement was dispatched upon day of notification. Big

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.