sidewinder

Great album and great album design. Crazy that it wasn’t released until the reissue era. FMR

Can’t say I’ve noticed any difference in my own workplace. Having said that, the EU is not a major customer - nor has it been for quite a few years. Diversify or die !

It will be interesting to see what the reviews are like when this one comes out, no doubt there will be plenty of comparisons with the 3CD set. The Hoffmann Board will probably go into meltdown.

Ridiculous ! i have the MM 2x45, more than happy with it and don’t recall any issues with it.

It was kept in the band room, apparently !

The Flamingo - the club with the pet rat (according to Jack Bruce) !

That would be 1987..

The reaction in Europe was incredulous though as Father Abraham and his smurfing chums were about the least hip thing out there. Totally naff !

Just about to upgrade my CD player - I will be tempted now with the CD version and my wallet will thank me. $75 would be about £55-60, not too bad.

Tens of thousands of sales of what was probably a good album lost because of that.

There was that great period in the early to mid 1980s when Chick was churning out lots of releases for ECM. ‘Trio Music’, ‘Voyage’ and the ‘Children’s Songs’. I bought many of them and though they often got a bit New Agey, I enjoyed them.

Those samples of the new Joe Chambers on Spotify sound nice !

Sounds to me like he picked up from ‘Perceptions’ and further developed it - without Dizzy of course. Great that the label was able to bank-roll such an ambitious project.

I would agree with that - it did cross my mind.

Great album by JJ ! Full Bandcamp digital version.

Looks like an archived version of the event will be ‘up shortly’, via the original UCLA-supplied link. Might get to see the whole thing !

I’ve played it quite a bit already via the Bandcamp app. A bit of a legendary band, this is from broadcasts I think and part of the Jon Hiseman archive. Without this LP there would be no recorded legacy that I know of. Sure to sell out pretty quick. Between us we have 1/250 of available stock !

Just ordered an LP of Group Sounds Four and Five ‘Black and White Raga’ (Jazz In Britain)

Woody Shaw ‘Lotus Flower’ (Enja) Neil Swainson ‘49th Parallel’ (Concord) Jackie McLean ‘Dynasty’ (Triloka) Hilton Ruiz ‘El Camino’ (RCA Novus) Tony Williams ‘Civilization’ (Blue Note) Andrew Hill ‘But Not Farewell’ (Blue Note) Dave Holland ‘Extensions’ (ECM) Pat Metheny ‘Rejoicing’ (ECM) Ralph Peterson ‘Introducing the Fo’Tet’ (Blue Note) All standouts, for me.

The Vortex and Solid State albums are the ones I always go to - plus The sessions with Blue Mitchell. The Blue Note twofer ‘Circulus’ is great too. Plus his fantastic work on ‘Sweet Rain’. Will be spinning some of his vinyl today in tribute.

My copy is signed by Al !

Not often you see film of Victor Feldman on congas either ! Wonder if anyone else outside the US was able to view this one without the frequent outages requiring reloads from the link - or maybe it was my rubbish internet?

Not often that the main BBC Radio News has a feature on a jazz fatality, which they did last night and this morning. They even played a snippet of a track from ‘Now He Sings...’.