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I’ve been after it for a while and Ray’s Jazz this afternoon had 2 copies. Picked it up, together with the Mingus Strata Box. I recommend this Nucleus box. Pretty good deal to have 9 LPs on 6 CDs, the booklet is quite nice too with a good essay by Sid Smith, original cover art and some interesting photos and cuttings. Fellow board member RogerF gets a credit too.

Gotta say, it was a really nice set that I saw, some stunning playing in each of the sections, was particularly impressed by pianist David Kikowski, who was on fire. Very impressive, considering that these guys were very jetlagged. Pleased to note that Ronnie’s retains quite a bit of the old character as well. A welcome suprise !

Funnily enough, my NY mono copy has pretty well the same description. Picked up for about £5 as well !

Even though I have much of this on CD and vinyl it is good to have it all together in a nice new remaster and good booklet notes.

Monday night - Mingus Big Band at Ronnie Scotts. It will be the first time I have seen them for some years and my first time at Ronnie’s for many years. Should be interesting, especially as this is the Scott Club 60th Anniversary season. The lineup looks good - including Robin Eubanks, Earl McIntyre, Steve Slagle, Philip Harper and a host of other stellar players. A dilemma as the Arkestra are playing in town the same night. Most of my visits in recent years have been really bad timing jazz wise but for once the timings have worked out right. Spoilt for choice ! (Ed Motta also on at Pizza Express).

I’ve got that one somewhere on a Fresh Sound LP - must dig out.

Is it Halloween yet?

PVC outer sleeving on most of mine, usually store the LPs/inners out of the cover at the back. Second the comment about old US LPs being prone to splits if you store the LP in the sleeve. After that I sprinkle them with Holy Water and bless them.

I go for the cheapest Casio possible. They are very ‘1975’ and back in fashion. When the strap breaks, I buy a new one. Less £ on watches = more CDs and LPs !

I though JazzMessengers had performed a miracle for a minute ! Hopefully shipments to the ‘mainland’ won’t be impacted 6th Dec..

Those Vocalion/Argo Garricks are great. For the ‘adventurous’, include in there the jazz oratorio ‘Mr Smith’s Apocolypse’.

My local HMV at last check was stocked with the latest Tone Poet LPs such as ‘Mr Shing a Ling’ and ‘Chant’. Quite a respectable stock for what is a low key location - the first time for years in fact. At £40+ each I passed though !

That ‘Water’ CD reissue of this one was pretty good.

That Birmingham location should do OK. My last trip up there, other than The Diskery, it was pretty barren with regard to music outlets. Plus - Birmingham seems to be on the up again. Wonder when Oxford Street will be back in business, if at all ?

RIP - an idiosyncratic style for sure. He is interviewed on that Don Ellis DVD ‘Electric Heart’ about the Ellis years.

NY USA mono. Tommy Turrentine clipping the levels !

French Phonogram/East Wind Columbia 2-eye Stereo

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Still not picked up that one on Rearward but the sonics on the Vogue are great and I really like the tracks with strings + Herb Geller. A very enjoyable 2LP set, all in all !

German Vogue

I agree - cover photo credited to noted photographer Chargesheimer. Fantastic pressing too - can’t go wrong with SABA.

SABA stereo version

They did ! Don’t recall this ever being on CD, even in Japan.