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Enjoying CDs 7 and 8 with a ration of scotch..

Commercial yes - but Tubby’s playing is full of lyricism in this set. Definitely worth inclusion IMO. I suspect Jack Baverstock at Fontana was trying to get Tubby some air play on the then-new BBC Radio 2. Probably the morning Jimmy Young programme and its like. The music has that sort of ‘air’ about it.

From the Herbie Columbia box

Yep - Spadina and Dundas, that’s the one I remember.

Presumably still concentrated on Spadina? Very lively area !

Mainly what I witnessed of the two of them before/after sets but you can get a taste of it on the Mosaic Single ‘Live at Ronnie Scotts’, also RCA 2LP. No responses from Ronnie on that recording but there are some amusing Rich comments directed at him, all meant in affection of course.

A real gem of a set.

Ronnie Scott In repartee with Buddy Rich was the best.

Braved the grocery shop with 2m separation this morning. Extremely well organised, even got a pack of T. roll. Haven’t been so thrilled with eagerness and anticipation in a shop queue since Mole Jazz’s in-store New Year sales of yore !

Avoiding all these places and doing self-catering.

Thanks ! It’s a box which is really full of vitality, which I don’t play anywhere near enough.

Great set - especially in vinyl.

Saw him as part of George Russell’s Orchestra during Russell’s London 80th Birthday Concert. Featured on ‘Listen to the Silence’.

The Nice Festival seemed to have a pretty high profile over here at that time - Jazz Journal used to always do Festival writeups. Particularly strong on mainstream.

I’m thinking of evenings with no light other than candles, no electricity and no coal. Worst I’ve seen, for sure.

Didn’t ‘do’ WW2 but the 1972/73 energy crises/power cuts/3 day weeks have some similarity to what is going on. Albeit they were of limited duration.

RIP - I like his playing on ‘The Pentagon’.

Boris is full of cr*p. What is the point of telling everyone who needs it to order home delivery when everywhere in the country is booked up for the next 1-2 months. Hopeless !

It was only a matter of time. Plenty of morons still hadn’t got the message.

RIP - so sorry to hear this.

I had something similar right over the Xmas period - most of the listed symptoms. Was bed-ridden for the best part of a week. Will never know if it was or wasn’t but it struck with a fever very quickly indeed and felt like nothing I’ve ever had before. Night sweats and waking up coughing. As the whole thing was combined with a nasty and very painful dental condition, this tended to take precedence in my attention and treatment. The chest thing took corticosteroids to shift. All of this before Coronavirus was even in the news.

Gheorghe - My recollection of that one at the time was that the reviews over here were poor to lukewarm so I avoided it. My loss ! I did buy the vinyl of ‘Supertrios’ when it came out though.

Great collection of 4 Muse LPs

Never even heard of that one !

Mentioned in ‘the Book’. The phrase ‘Jazz is Dead’ reminds me of Ian Carr’s bit on Jazz Britannia Episode 2, where the owner of the Flamingo shouted that out to him across the road as the R&B guys took over. Ian, bless him, repeated the story to me a couple of days after broadcast when I was fortunate enough to chat with him at The Barbican bar. Amazing clear skies here too. First chance this year to cut the grass !