sidewinder

Interesting - must be a very good needle drop. I was surprised how good it was.

The recent CD is worth getting - sounds absolutely excellent and I’ll be amazed if the old vinyl version is any better. Fontana stereo UK Verve 2LP

On my list, for sure. Those ‘Jazz in Britain’ broadcasts were usually good and often by seldom recorded bands - wish I had recorded them. Alan Wakeman still very much active and playing great on both his own projects and with the Westbrooks.

Theresa 2LP. Again, sounding excellent after a clean.

We are having a welcome downpour and release of humidity after an uncomfortable hot week with sporadic lightning storms and flash deluges. Much more comfortable ! Definite hint of early Autumn in the air.

Remember seeing him up there at Cafe des Copains but he was solo. Maybe same visit? Updated - this one was apparently from 1985 so a few years earlier.

UK Verve 2LP. My old copy from 1979 but still near mint. First proper clean in all that time and sounding very good.

Remember buying those two ‘Lighthouse’ CDs as longboxes back in 1989. Among the first CDs I ever bought - from ‘Sam the Record Man’ in Toronto if I remember rightly. Some fine hours playing those two on repeat play.

Kitsch - but it does have the original version of ‘So Near, So Far’. Fantastic band lineup with Victor Feldman, Stan Tracey etc., huge waste of jazz resources. Obviously aimed at the ‘housewives choice’ radio market of that era.

Sad news - way too young. RIP. Another fan here of his work with Elvin and Miles.

Art Themen is currently doing daily solo lockdown recitals to the neighbours from his front door in Henley-on-Thames !

Blue Label mono. Originally sold by Princeton Record Exchange, by the looks of it. Sadly though not with that orange CBS label. These were either UK or US issues and the vinyl isn’t the thickest. Must dig them out to check !

CD reissue

I bought a number of those Candid/Barnabys at Mole as deletions but not the Ervin. Richard Williams, Mingus and Don Ellis I think.

More than once over the years I’ve come across that one in the racks and been near traumatised by it.

+ 1

The New Peneton

End of an era !

I was playing ‘Ife’ from that Sony box the other day on CD and marvelling at how well that version sounds. I was disappointed back in the day that Mosaic didn’t do an LP version of this set but these days I’m more chilled. Saves getting up off the sofa every 15 mins. I think they stopped doing LP versions of the Miles sets with the Cellar Door Box onwards.

Sad news, RIP. I have always enjoyed his work with Mr Martino on ‘Baiyina’. Never realised he was on ‘Twin Peaks’.

I think you are right Porcy - much of the ‘Big Fun’ material was in the On The Corner Box by Sony, which Mosaic didn’t cover.

Always used to look forward to the US Air Mail flyer from Mosaic HQ landing on the mat, with the latest Mosaic catalogue to drool over !