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Are they also bringing back Sanyo 'music centres' tinny quad speakers and four-track players to get that authentic 1974 vibe? Wouldn't surprise me, based on some of the crap peddled at the moment. Next up - kipper ties, loud checquered jackets and flares, multicoloured platform pimp shoes..

Too damn right ! Off the shelf for some Xmas season spinning today.

A candidate for a Tone Poet reissue on LP, for sure. I have a CD reissue which I think was put out by Water in the US, sounds pretty good.

Apparently my set is here in the UK and Fedex tried delivering it today.... but I was out ! It is at the local depot so I can either pick it up or get the delivery on the 22nd. Either way - just in time for Xmas !

About 1976/77. If I remember correctly, he was advertising his second hand jazz LP list at the back of 'Jazz Journal'. Sent in SAE to get the list. That list has stuff like Tubbs 'Mexican Green' on Fontana for about £2 !

Mine's left Memphis.... (and hopefully not to 'New York, Split'). I even now have an AM delivery time window on the 18th. Good stuff.

Aha - got you. I remember those Mole paper auctions but never took part. Funnily enough, my very first second hand LP, a Miles twofer, was purchased from Ed at his home address from a typed list, possibly his first and before the Mole shop. No longer have the LPs but still have the list !

Ed Dipple collection?

Mine's apparently in Memphis with a scheduled delivery for the 18th. I admire their confidence. 🙂

There's an interesting recording circulating with Cliff doing a gig with Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz in the late 70s. Whitley Bay, Northumberland, of all places. I think Ind is on that one too (audience recording).

This BBC radio documentary on Scott is an interesting listen: Rewiring Raymond Scott I was thinking - surely he must have influenced Sun Ra? Some of that Electronium music could have fitted in on 'Disco 3000'.

Whoopee - Just been notified that my order is at 'Label Created' stage so with a bit of luck I'll get the Byas Mosaic before Xmas. Shipping will be via Fedex International Connect Plus. 😀

I've known that cover since the DMM Pathe Marconi LP in the mid 80s and never had an issue with it. The overriding feeling was 'mana from heaven' and just how good the music was.

If I remember rightly, that was a Blue Note UK compilation put together by Dean Rudland. I have the double vinyl of it somewhere.

Yes, the intro read a bit like a sociology MSc dissertation. I'm working through the Garrick section now and it is much more 'on the ball'.

Thinking about it, the shop did give me a copy of 'Shapes' with the book but it was the FMR release. I hadn't comprehended that it came as a standard freebie with the book !

Good point - I've got a copy of the Wickes book. Photos are in black and white but there's lots of text and it is quite informative. The text could have used a bit more editing though. Don't remember it including an Osborne CD but I ended up getting it outside the UK. The other one I have which covers this turf is called 'Simply Not Cricket', written by a French chap (!) and is a large format paperback. That one is mainly photos of album covers but it is pretty comprehensive. Dread to think what the book would cost, including shipping, to Australia. £60 plus £10 shipping is pretty steep for here.

Norma Winstone/Mark Lockheart/Nicky Illes Trio (Swanage, July) Ron Carter Quartet (London, Nov) The Cookers (London, Nov)

Yikes. Other than Blue Note, I can't say I am a fan of US pressings. Especially from the 70s. The Dutton-Vocalion CDs are an excellent distortion-free alternative.

An interesting variation on the UK Deram cover (which was available as single LPs and 2 LP set I think).

I'm hearing that the sonics on the CD set are a significant improvement on the LPs.

OK - It was listed under 'new arrivals' so my assumption was that they had copies. Sounds like they balls-ed up TYQ's order with a delay like the rest of us.

The Bill Dixon 'Complete Black Saint and Soul Note' 9CD box. Getting elusive, I procrastinated far too long but miraculously found a new box.

The place in Belgium, TYQ Music (I think it is called) seem to have it in stock. Message to self - order from them or JM in future to save a load of hassle and delay.