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Thanks - that's got me tempted !

What's this album like, Rooster? I've recently seen a good vinyl copy and have it in my sights ...

The Columbia double-LP by these two (with Harry Edison and Clark Terry) is also a very under-rated gem. 30th St Studio acoustics also add to the attraction of this one ! B)

Drove past there just last Saturday John ! Check out the 'Smiths Arms' pub just down the road in Godmanstone. One of my faves

Hey that's it !!! If you got to Stonehenge you'll see that the stone circles are surrounded (out to a radius of a mile or so) by bronze-age round and disk barrows, huge mounds of earth which were supposedly the burial grounds of the ancient Briton warrior/leader class. So Maybe when a Mosaic set goes out of its licence period, Scott and co. do a ceremonial procession in druid kit along the ceremonial highway and out to the barrow mounds, where they bury the sets alongside the bones of the elders. It's 20 miles down the road from me so I'm on my way with the excavator ...

Make sure too that you check out those nice blue-label Blue Note Reissue Series sets expertly compiled by Mr Cuscuna. Many hours of pleasure over the years from those and still the only way (to the best of my knowledge) to hear Andrew Hill plus strings directed by Kermit Moore on 'One For One'.

Most of the vinyl OJCs that I've bought sound great. Farmer's 'PhD', 'Cedar Walton Plays Cedar Walton', the Pat Martinos and the Frank Morgan Contemporarys are all well up to scratch. Be sure to pick up the Gil Melle 'Primitive Modern' and 'Quadrama' pressings too if you see them. Both of these on OJC are highly recommended !

Gary Numan's just back in the UK charts too ....... after a gap of about 20 years since his last chart single

Evered

..... but don't mention that the Larry Young, Basie Roulettes, Shorty Rogers, Grant Green, Blakey, Buddy de Franco, Desmond/Hall, Andrew Hill, Lee Morgan, etc etc Mosaics have been and gone ... Still time to pounce on the Four Freshmen set though ....

Not sure if you are re-ferring to the CD of 'Re-Entry'.... If so, then Joel Dorn's notes to the 1994 Ram Records release confirm that the tracks were recorded by Alan Grant from live broadcasts that he hosted in 1965/66. Horace agreed to have these re-released on Ram after they were initially put out on his Silveto Records label..

Not to forget the Hep vinyl either. The Howard McGhee 'Cookin' Time' is really excellent. Stellar big band recording from the mid-60s, from a time when McGhee was just coming back into prominence and somehow managing to rehearse a big band which included some of the best NYC musicians of this era. Fine solo work included not only from Howard (whio is really on form) but also from Clifford Jordan, in particular featured on his own arrangement of 'Highest Mountain'. Recommended ! :rsmile:

Not a good CD to pull out of the racks early in the morning after a heavy night on the pop .......

That's an excellent album - ECM 1039ST. Has Liebman, Richie Beirach on piano, Frank Tusa on bass and Jeff Williams on drums plus assorted guests including John Abercrombie, Badal Roy and Don Alias. Probably my favourite album by Liebman (not counting the Elvin 'Lighthouse' date for Blue Note). Came across a copy in the second-hand vinyl bins a short while back ....

Now, if this had said 'hidden in a skip out the back' I might just have given it a pico-smidgen of credibility....

An emphatic 'YES'. The Herbie vamp on this number sounds suprisingly good on acoustic piano. Hutcherson fitted in brilliantly here too.... I actually got my CD of 'Flood' out after hearing this concert and this one kicks ass. Both 'Actual Proof' and 'Butterfly' are real standouts - one of my favourite albums by the Headhunters.

$10 for 'Love, Love' is a bargain, shrugs. I'm amazed that no-one snapped it up ...

A fine performance by the UK/USA Big Band - recorded at the Bath International Festival some weeks ago. Several posters on this board (myself and Bev Stapleton for starters) were there in the audience .... B)

Anyone catch the Herbie Hancock/Bobby Hutcherson concert at Barbican Hall, London on Tuesday night? Line up included Scott Colley on bass and Terri Lyne Carrington on drums. Nice, varied repertoire of numbers - an acoustic version of 'Actual Proof' from 'Thrust', a very abstract 'Dolphin Dance', Hutcherson's 'November', Wayne's 'Footprints' and a superb 'Little B's Poem' to finish off with. Bobby H. in particular was on stunning form, getting some amazing sounds out of the vibes. It's the first time I've seen him live and he didn't disappoint. Much of the music had the same vibe/feel as 'Happenings' and 'Oblique', so I was happy as a pig in a poke .... :rsmile:

Thanks for this - will hang fire and wait for the vinyl, assuming that these releases will come to pass ... Have been listening to a vinyl of 'Kaleidoscope of Rainbows' of late. Superb concept album, really whetted my appetite for the other 2 albums in this Ardley trilogy. Good to see the Michael Garricks in the list too. I see that he is doing a duet concert at Rays Jazz Shop in London this month. Free as well, I believe

You're right - for some reason I've confused these two twofer sets. Similar in style and vintage I guess. Ah well, an excuse to play them both ! :rsly:

I've always been quite partial to 'Merry Go Round' - one of his later Blue Notes. A bit overproduced, perhaps, but lots of good stuff on this one by the band with Gene Perla and co. It's available as part of the Mosaic or (occasionally) in 2nd hand vinyl racks. IMO any of the Blue Notes are worth picking up. :rsmile:

I'll second that. My set of the CDs has been gathering heaps of dust since I bought the Mosaic ...

Very sorry to hear this. Not a great fan of the later Atlantics but I did like his Village Gate recording and the earlier work on Riverside with Charlie Byrd. The news got quite high profile for a jazz obit here in the UK - mentioned on BBC Ceefax (text headlines) and also in the international news-in-brief in today's 'Daily Telegraph'. I'll have to dig out the Charlie Byrd Milestone twofer later on in recognition of his work. R.I.P.