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I thought it was on the BNBB. Seems like an eternity ago. Big excitement on the board when the bid actually won ! I think with the numbers involved, the opposition was blown out of the water. I’ll second that. All the very best !

Well, they are what they are - FM radio broadcasts. I find the intros on the Alan Wakeman to be no problem. I’m more concerned about broadcast quality - which by the 1970s on radios 2 and 3 was very good indeed.

Webster Hall !

Nice. I’ve got an Esquire of this one.

Not forgetting either the ‘group purchase’ of that eBay auction of the Japanese Blue Note ‘One Night at Blue Note’ set with the Hank Mobley speech on it. Dan was Chief Instigator and purchase agent I think. Not sure if that was a BNBB or Organissimo activity.

The recent Alan Wakeman release on Gearbox should give some idea of the spoken content. Personally, I am glad when they leave them in. Barbara’s bands in the 70s and 80s were quite frequently on ‘Sounds of Jazz’ and ‘Jazz In Britain’ and I remember several of these.

The broadcasts will be mainly performances, with short spoken introductions.

I reckon it’s already all over Europe - and probably has been for a while. A bit of an aside. I was down on the South Coast yesterday, watching out on a pier in what is normally a large and empty bay. Three mega cruise ships were anchored out there together in the murk, looking like beached whales. An unprecedented sight for that stretch of the English Channel.

Also mastered at the late Jon Hiseman’s Temple Studios, so you can guarantee that the sound will be the best. I wonder if Jon himself did the work on mastering the recordings as part of the archiving?

There are some fascinating looking things in the box. New Jazz Orchestra with Neil Ardley. A Mike Taylor tribute shortly after Taylor’s passing. Some early string compositions. Plus plenty of broadcasts by the likes of Jubiaba and Paraphanelia. I remember broadcasts by some of these groups back in the day - nice that they are now re-available. I feel an Xmas present coming on !

Hi David - Thank you for your confirmation of the Both/And and the sonics for the forthcoming set. Very much looking forward to it ! The 3CD set came out in 1996 I think, I bought mine at the time of release (and was overjoyed when it came out). I remember seeing it for sale well into the early 2000s so it had a decent run.

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That box looks full of good stuff and will be tempting. Will pick up the book, for sure.

An exceptional month for Barbara Thompson fans. Not only does she have her autobiography published but there’s also a box set 14CD issue of her BBC recordings. https://barbara-thompson.co.uk/product/barbara-thompson-live-at-the-bbc/

Yeah, I didn’t know of this one before either. It’s very enjoyable - last time I saw Kirk he did a nice trio version of his ‘Habiba’ too. Great composition.

A classic. As if by magic - on page 3 of this..Lou’s Sammich

Good as the sound of the 3CD Blue Note Box was/is, things have moved on since then. This set will be a great temptation when it sails into view - and I suspect not just to me. The Fresh Sound material sounds to me, sonically, like a total different location to the ‘Lighhouse’ - presumably the ‘Both/And’. With regard to the vinyl version - I hope/wish they would use London-based Gearbox in the same manner as for that Universal Tubby Hayes set. I guess it would likely be RTI or Optimal though.

‘The Indo-British Ensemble’

Wasn’t it S. Wales? Hardly Outer Mongolia - although I guess they have been locked down of late.

I remember the Norah Jones blowup. Generated a lengthy thread before the eventual implosion, as I recall.

This year’s festive disk from Trunk Records. Great !

I remember the transfer over to this board being quite sudden, with a ‘roll call muster’ once things had stabilised. Someone (mjazzg?) mentioned conversing with Bev S. within the last couple of weeks.

That’s my recollection as well. Probably long since retired from the submarine service by now.

I also bought that ‘Blue Spirits’ with the long box, in 1989 - but didn’t keep the box. One of my very first BN CDs, still have it.