sidewinder

Picked that box up here in the UK from Fopp for about £10 ! Part of the big Fantasy CD offload.

There will be a 300 page thread on the Hoffmann Forum about this one..

Got that one some where.

It is a show called ‘Jazz Unlimited’ - there are a few 1953 shows on the site. In surprisingly OK sound for paper based tape. The one I was listening to featured new releases - one being Art Pepper’s ‘Mucho Calor’. John Kirby featured on one of the other shows. Like time travel. ‘Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra coming up in performance at the Toronto Islands’ !

That Toronto radio show from Nov 1953 on the site is pretty neat - and fascinating.

Ah yeah, you are right. I was thinking of the Turrentine.

Good one.

Probably the same guy that designed the Bill Evans shrapnel receptacle !

It was very much ‘the norm’ then.

I’ve never heard that one - but I can imagine that an Xmas album by Ms Dennerlein would be just great !

I think the Lou Mosaic was more of a dip into the sessions, including more obscure ones, than specifically a coverage by date x to y. All the better for it, IMO ! That one disappeared fast on the infamous ‘Black Friday’, when the production parts disappeared.

Just going on deck. Last Resonance vinyl of the year - it has been a good year for them. Sounds absolutely fantastic - the usual Resonance surface marks but plays like a dream. My new favourite Monty Alexander album !

Big Bear/Transatlantic

The Lou is a good one, in excellent sound. ‘No fusion confusion’, to quote the maestro. Rearward LP - in mono !

Plenty of copies around, I think. Ronnie was hugely under-rated as a saxophonist.

Both of the above are really good.

Tone Poet

Dusko Gojkovic and Eric Van Lier also still with us, that I can think of.

Ralph Peterson Jnr’s Blue Note releases are worth picking up, as are the Don Pullens and the ones by the Tony Williams Quintet (although late 80s I think). I have a soft spot for the early Don Byrons too. I saw that McLean ‘Rhythm of the Earth’ band in performance - and they played much of the material from that CD. An excellent evening, well received by the Canadian audience.

My ‘Free Flight’ has arrived - sound is better than expected from a bandstand cassette recording and the music on the two CDs is very good. The usual expert notes from Simon Spillett as well. Worth getting !

Totally agree, Daniel. No need for a separate mono rig in this set up here. Space - and racking - which can be better used on other stuff. Personally, I have always found both stereo and mono pressings sound just fine on a single, half way decent, setup. Lunacy !