sidewinder

CDs are back in vogue chez moi. After updating the CD player recently the gap in playback standard is not too big at all, in fact both mediums have their pluses. Best of both worlds but twice the house clutter. I need a storage shed !

I’ve just pre-ordered the CD - keen to hear it in full. I’ll be opting also for the vinyl in due course. I have the sneaking feeling that both formats will sell out pretty fast. I don’t think the Luca Ferrari bio of Taylor even mentions this live recording.

Yikes !

Just about to order the Neil Ardley ‘Kaleidoscope of Rainbows’ QEH Live 2CD from them as it ships out from Monday onwards, ahead of schedule. Particularly interesting as I have some original correspondence between Ardley and critic Derek Jewell relating to this music and gig !

Not a reissue but a new live recording by Mike Taylor just up for pre-order from Jazz In Britain. From the Jon Hiseman archive. Vinyl to follow later in the year.

Remember seeing him with Ronnie Scott. It must have been just before Dick Pearce joined that lineup because I think it was just the once.

AstraZeneca shot no. 1 today has gone fine, with nil effects so far. The vaccination centre was extremely well organised.

Dangerous. Before you know it your house will be full of cubes loaded with 12” platters. Slippery slope..

Yes, that’s right. Didn’t Danny Ray Thompson run the shop too? Echoes of ‘Stella Street’.

I wonder if that corner grocery store is still there selling intergalactic confectionery and (most likely long since discontinued) selections of Saturn and Thoth LPs?

The ‘3 Bs’ - Barber, Ball and Bilk.

RIP. An important, influential early figure on the UK scene and also very open to influences (he recorded with Harriott). Due to tour as late as 2019 until that was cancelled by a fall, with his ‘Big Chris Barber Band’. Duo gig with Tony Crombie?

Very good concert and 2CD set !

Did they throw in some baby powder with that?

Just booked both of mine. The first one in a couple of days time.

Very sad - I chatted to him briefly once as a young guy. At the time it was looking as if he might be coming up to Canada to take up a college teaching job which didn’t happen in the end. Caught him a few times with Don Byron - RIP.

Time to retire !

Interesting. I recall the Scott bio mentioning that Majorca stint in the 60s with Graves.

Pretty good. I have the Rendell/Carr on preorder too, the Russell is on the cards.

Incredible that the music survived - the BBC sessions were ‘assumed lost’ until they turned up in the Hiseman archive. And in such good fidelity too.

A real find from the Hiseman archive and another excellent release from this label.

I had one of those sweeper things on my old deck in the 1970s - can’t say it was much use.

There does seem to be a lot of irrational group think misinformation festering there, which is having a very adverse impact on their vaccination programme. Quite a percentage of idiots are also going for a complete opt out - totally ludicrous and sadly, at a cost of lost lives.