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Wes Montgomery’s first 2 A&M sessions on BGO CD. Needed to replace my cassette version of the ‘California Nights’ early 70s bachelor pad issue. My local outlet now goes into lockdown again..

That brings back memories. Used to buy 6 packs of that stuff, imported North of the border. Better than the usual dishwater of that era..

The Berendt ‘Jazzbook’ in the English paperback was one of the first books on jazz I ever read. Still have it. Unlike Rex Harris’s abomination, it actually covered modern jazz very well.

CD1 - sonically excellent.

Damn good !

Huge kudos to Resonance - they are shipping out a replacement disk 1 to me. Excellent customer support.

Not the greatest sound on that Tubby reissue though. The original Fontana and recent Universal reissue are better.

Talking of Halloween, this is an interesting one, which I enjoyed hearing again. Audio recreation of an imaginary 60s TV play which was wiped. Fortunately, they were able to find and use the BBC Radiophonic sound effects. Scared the bejeezus of half the population back in the day ! The Road

That Surman/Warren is brilliant !

Another one month lockdown announced here, with the exception of education establishments. Time to get a haircut.. Local rates very low still - thankfully. Apparently the demographic in the UK seeing the most increases in hospitalisation is not the oldies but females in age range 20-40 !

Mole Jazz at their peak and on a roll when that one was reissued by them.

CDs 1 and 2 -first spins for a fair while.

Last time I saw her was in a ‘sideman’ role. On trumpet... and harmonium !

CDs 3 to 6. Superlative !

Never saw any of those NY cutouts. The best I could find was $0.5 Cdn Applause LPs..

Forgot to mention the Brecker Brothers as well. Playing bebop ! I think James Moody was also on the bill. Possibly also Milt Jackson but not sure. There was also a UK rhythm section. Updated - Just found the JJI review. No Milt and Moody but Clark Terry and Kai Winding were included (Kai duetting with Curtis). The UK rhythm section was John Critchinson, Ron Mathewson and Martin Drew i.e. the Ronnie’s house team of that time. The RFH venue was last minute. It was originally scheduled for Ally Pally, which burnt down a few days before !

Interesting ! I only got to hear his solo rendition of ‘Over The Rainbow’ at that George Wein ‘Year of the Bird’ concert but it was memorable. The rest of the lineup - Gillespie, John Lewis, Freddie Hubbard, John Lewis, Lee Konitz, Slam Stewart, Roy Haynes, Curtis Fuller - and those are just the ones I remember !

Thanks to djcavanagh

RIP - an incredibly long life.

I remember that ‘Lulu’ show on TV. Might well have sat through the Hendrix appearance without registering its significance !

Dig the ‘window boxes’.. I will always regret the fact that I missed that gig, although I did see his appearance afterwards at RFH, which was memorable. Can’t recall why I missed it !

Awesome !

Doesn’t seem so long ago that used jazz LPs were £5 or £6 a pop. The good old days..

Ditto ! Hopefully not wall mounted in that orientation !