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More Neil Ardley tonight..

Some years ago a local store (now no more) had an original Philips copy for £5. One mark on it, which would probably have been OK. Like an idiot, I passed. Needless to say next time I was in the store it was gone.

Still got my CD version, which I think is the Canadian Axiom issue. In other news.... not yet on my deck but this nugget from Sam Records is on its way from Paris...

Yes, it can be a pig to find at decent price. Bad enough on CD and even worse for the LP version. The LP was the one I started with, got offered a CD version and liked the extra convenience so well covered ! One of my very favourite Mosaics and like all of those Roulettes, in impeccable sound.

Congrats. That is a great set. $ for £ about the same that I paid for a NM CD copy a year or so ago, which was itself a good deal. You will enjoy delving into this set.

2CD

Bought a whole stack of them that day. Japanese Verve, Pablo, Argo etc. £5 each, all brand new !

It’s on one of the subscriber comments. It mentions that this was notified to and agreed with site admin. Neil Ardley ‘Kaleidoscope of Rainbows’ 2CD has just arrived in the mail.

There’s a comment on the site that the drummer is identified as Bryan Spring, not Moholo. One to download though, for sure. Just downloaded the whole of the Harriott, onto 2CDs and sounding more than OK. I wonder whether Garrick and Keane were both studying at UCL English faculty at the same time? I have the feeling that Keane curtailed his studies. I think he got the ‘Shake’ nickname before starting these studies. Bobby Orr took over on drums from Seamen at some stage in the Harriott lineup.

I picked up a Japanese copy of this for £5 !

By the way - a new biography of the life of Shake Keane has recently come out. Covers his musical, literary and governmental exploits. Medjuck - I guess the band you saw must have been the classic Harriott Quintet lineup with Harriott, Keane, Pat Smythe, Coleridge Goode and Phil Seamen.

I really need to do the same with those and put them on CD !

Ta !

I remember him playing and reviewing Stanley Clarke ‘Journey To Love’ on that programme - very un-R3 ! Also Quincy Jones ‘Body Heat’. The other thing they put out on that station around that time was ‘Jazz In Britain’, broadcast usually at some impossible time in the night.

Very 1980s, reeking of Lycra workout backing tracks. Sort of fun though !

The only time I ever saw that one was in deletion racks with the inevitable corner click. Never heard it !

From a file obtained from the Jewell estate some years ago. Includes an invite from Ardley to Jewell to the first performance of ‘Kaleidoscope’ at the Roundhouse in 1974 as part of the Camden Jazz Festival of that year as well as a marked up programme of the QEH programme with Jewell’s thoughts on the night (v. positive). One thing I do remember around this time is listening to Jewell’s Radio 3 review programme back in 1976 I think which covered all popular music and not just jazz. He did a review of ‘Kaleidoscope’ on that show.

From the box.

Some of the best of the music on the Garrick/Harriott release is only available in the longer digital option so not getting hold of the LP is not a disaster IMO. Wish they would do a second batch of that Ray Russell Vol 1 though !

I remember the BBC showing ‘Sven Klang’s Combo’ just the once, as part of one of their all-too-rare jazz seasons. Tubby Hayes, Jimmy Deuchar and Alan Ganley featured in Amicus Film’s horror compendium ‘Dr Terror’s House of Horrors’, which has been broadcast here again recently. Roy ‘Record Breakers’ Castle on trumpet.

Nice to see Ray mentioned - bought some photos from him at a visit to his house, located near Bel-Air as I recall. By then his record store and the auction lists were in the past and he was retired but still doing his photography. Nice guy, originally from Windypeg. I think I popped in to the Bloomsbury Bookshop on one occasion. The main Bookshop in that locality was Dillons University Bookshop, since rebranded as a branch of Foyles. Bloomsbury Bookshop used to advertise back then in Jazz Journal.

I think the LP version I have might be a 90s German pressing. Never heard any of the CD versions.

The Candid LP version of that one sounds pretty good.

Yes Roger, it is very good. In fact I prefer what I’ve heard of it to the LP release, the music is expanded and opened out considerably.