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Alas - the big man in the tent forgot to include jazz...

Just found a Colletts advert in JJI from July 1977. Hand-drawn cartoon by Ray I think. In addition to the ‘Harry Barris’ there is ‘From Son House to Sun Ra’ ! The Cartoon has one of the staff wearing T-shirt ‘Varty Haretounian is a Groove’.

A lot seems to be available online this year. About the only things to tempt me out of my abode this time are the Bill Evans and perhaps the Sun Ra. My local place is doing limited entries at any one time with about 10mins limit once you are into the Inner Inner Sanctum ✟.

I’ll be pitching my tent with mask and hand gel.

I hope they delay so that it gives a chance to catch up with other stuff. ‘Palo Alto’ aberrations excepted, the chances of the UK getting release approval for this over the rest of Europe are zero or less !

The other one I recall is ‘From Harry Barris to Barry Harris’.

Or as Ray’s/Colletts used to say about their stock - ‘From George Lewis to George Lewis’.

Curse of the Palo Altos?

The original vinyl of ‘Homecoming’ is flat as well. Exemplary.

There are other releases out there with the announcements cut out - can be equally annoying.

Lovely 47W63rd DG mono copy.

I think the BBC provided archival recordings to the British Library so presumably that is the source used. Thankfully quite a bit survives, although many of the BBC sessions seem to be lost. The listing in the Harry Beckett book has a whole load of gems listed which don’t seem to have been recovered.

Could be - sounds too good to have been taken from the vinyl. That earlier series was put out by the late Richard Cook if I remember correctly. They are worth grabbing. I have the ‘Dragon Hill’ from the Cook CD issues and it sounds fine. Deram stereo

RCA Neon

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.