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The booklet is well worth the wait. Well written.

These reissues are really good - well worth it. I too have never come across really good original copies of the key titles, not that I was particularly looking. Wish they would do the same treatment for the titles with Harold McNair and Danny Thompson on them. By the way, Ray Horricks personal copies looked to be in great nick and were auctioned off for nice $ by (alas, long gone) jazzinvinyl.com.

The UK saves the day !

I’ve got one of the Sun Ra RSD boxes in the mail, consider myself lucky to have found one after the 6pm cutoff. Failing that, I would have been happy with a copy of the forthcoming CD release. When I asked my local store today, they said they had been given just 2-3 copies and that they went very quickly on Saturday. That story must have played out everywhere. In the UK, Juno is showing it as a ‘forthcoming release’ so it might be worth keeping an eye on that.

Recorded with his then wife as vocalist - not as renowned as the Shirley Collins album but there’s plenty of fine playing. Both of the albums were produced by Ray Horricks of Decca. It’s sort of nice because I have some of Ray’s old records in my collection, sadly not any of the Davy Grahams.

At the cost of probably about a 20th of the cost of a decent original, I’m a happy camper. They have also reissued ‘The Holly Kaleidoscope’ as well for the RSD, on kaleidoscopic swirl vinyl. Again, this one sounds great though. I suspect these are being put out in tandem with a HD tracks streaming release, which seems to have been the case with the ‘Kawaida’ too. Same model that was used on the Rendell/Carr reissues.

Sonic standout - I’ll bet it far improves on the original. Gearbox/Optimal production - lovely stuff. As usual, Davy throws some jazz in too.

First copy I’ve had of this Herbie/Tootie/Heath Family/Cherry opus. A UK issue - hmm.

Another good’n.

Very nicely remastered by Dave Sikula, richer sound than the original CD. Love it ! Additional unreleased track ‘Labyrinth’ downloadable.

Did they have any 75p Mike Taylor or Rendell/Carr LPs?

Popped into my ‘local’ this morning and surprised to see that they still had a couple of copies of most of the jazz titles in stock. Thank goodness jazz is not a mass market or in mega demand like Bowie, Black Crowes etc. No Ron Carter (not sure if it made it across the pond) or Sun Ra (2-3 they had went very fast). I did change my mind and opt in for the Neil Swainson though. Still no sign of Hitchhiker’s Guide !

Obscene !

2LP version. Nice sound, very nice performance (although the drummer does have a tendency to speed up).

I see that the Gene Russell vinyl release for RSD is getting reports of ‘bright sound’ on the Hoffmann board. Needle drop ?

So - signed by Ron then..nice !

Didn’t even know that one was on the list !

Yes, the Parker on LP does seem superfluous (and expensive) considering that it is readily available on CD. I was tempted by the Neil Swanson but have always found the Concord CD very much acceptable.

Fond memories of seeing that one when it was toured in the UK.

I’m using one of these for my Spotify streaming. Haven’t yet hooked it up to a NAS but that might be a good project to look at. Preference though is for CDs on the main system, with LPs the priority option when I have it on vinyl.

Anyone else participate in this 1st Aug 29th ‘Drop’? I didn’t bother attending in person (not keen on 5hr queues in a pandemic) but I did manage to order online the Sun Ra Egypt ‘71 5LP set from Strut, which is pretty well the only thing I was interested in. No doubt it will be on discount and freely available in a couple of weeks time.

Indeed I did. I was using it for a school project at the time (Music ‘O’ Level) and that was my main resource. I think it was graded an ‘A’.

Yep - down a drainpipe (or was it a stairwell..). It’s in the notes. Gladys wasn’t amused !

Still got that great Vogue 3LP set from the seventies. Excellent !