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One of my Aunts (also in the North) has also already had jab no. 1.

I remember seeing Claude Williamson do a solo piano set in the late 1990s. Enjoyable, very low key.

We get free prescriptions from 60, with medical treatment already covered. A welcome bonus !

New mutant strain detected by the genome sequencers, approx. 70% more transmissible than the original. Running rampant in London and the SE, new Tier 4 lockdown controls in those areas from tonight. No travel in and out of Tier 4. Xmas festivities cancelled.. Big tightening of controls in Scotland and Wales from tonight too. Happy to still be in Tier 2, for how much longer - who knows.

That Blue Note Bulletin Board seems like another era. I think I was still using a Compuserve account on a dial up modem, running up phone bills..

One of the benefits of having Xmas Hols coming up is that one can dip into fine box sets such as these two. I don’t play the Johnny Smith anywhere near enough.

LP3 side 2 is good..

Yes, he emigrated to Australia some years back and sadly passed on over there. I always think of him, Max Harrison and Charles Fox as being the major jazz ‘gurus’ over here back in the day. I have a few review copy LPs initialled on the back by him for the ‘Gramophone’ magazine in the early 1960s.

Looks like ‘The Old Gits Club’ from the poll (including me). Can we all come along and claim our free carton?

This is a big shock. He was playing fantastically well at that Strata East London concert several years ago (2016?) and looked in good shape then. RIP, a great talent and a very nice guy by all accounts. His ‘Maybeck’ is one of my favourites in that series. Superb.

Mono NY USA

These old Vogue Jazz Doubles are great !

My ‘local’ is open. Masks required, maximum of 6 in store at any one time. Seems to be working OK.

Bah, humbug..

Don’t recall Ari Brown being flagged up as a particular board favourite - but I guess I missed the threads concerned. Interesting !

Bill Barron..George Adams...Tyrone Washington...Odean Pope... It has a ‘Muse’ sound to it, wouldn’t be Kenny Barron on electric piano would it?

Is it Billy Harper on tenor on that first track?

‘Cornbread’

Soul Brother 2LP of Eddie’s Capitol/Blue Notes.

According to the Hoff Board - Blue Note, Zev Feldman production, not a Tone Poet issue.

Back on deck with this superb 2LP set.. Never thought I’d hear a great jazz version of ‘Arthur’s Song’ by Christopher Cross !

With Acrobat, some of their releases are significant on any format and would otherwise be unavailable. I’m thinking here of their live Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott and Dick Morrisey/Lennie Best releases. Shame really.