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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.

It was on his own turf in the LA area that I saw him. It was part of a larger group, a recreation of one of those vintage West Coast sessions.

I remember seeing him once - must have been right at the end of his career.

LP of this likely to more than keep its value as the master tape is no more, presumed lost.

That's what I was thinking too. My place is too full of books anyway without yet another tome..(trying hard to forget this exists).

I'm spent up so I'll probably pass. I had a look at the example pages. Some nice pictures of LPs but the text didn't seem to tell me anything that I didn't already know. Also seems to cover territory already addressed in 'Galactic Ramble', which I already have. The first 100 copies come with a reproduced Michael Garrick poster. I assume these are already sold.

Even backstage Woody still had a broad smile on his face - which I think was genuine. Can picture it now over 45 years hence !

I remember reading in Time magazine in the mid 80s an article which interviewed Woody about his tax disaster. A sad story.

Remember buying that LP around 1982. There was a real feel that modern jazz was on the up again around that time, after a while in the doldrums, with that LP something of a marker for the upsurge.

That wouldn't be Joanne Brackeen on track 4 would it? The technique is so good that I thought it might be her. The alto player has quite a dry style and the guitarist sounds a bit like Ryo Kawasaki. Anthony Braxton in subdued mood perhaps?

Track 9 is Sly Stone's 'You Caught Me Smilin' Again'. This one not by Sly and the Family Stone but by obscure 70s group 'The Nineteenth Whole' from the 'Smilin'' album. A few ringers such as Cornell Dupree and Emmanuel Riggins in the lineup. The alto on track 3 sure sounds like a younger Oliver Lake to me !

Ah - from the album 'Five' on Criss Cross Jazz. John Swana on trumpet, his name did cross my mind.

Wouldn't be Ralph Bowen would it? I'm getting my Ralphs mixed up and it certainly sounds like him.

Track 6 composition is Bobby Watson's 'Time Will Tell' - one of his best.

Oh silly me - it's 'Rahsaan's Run'. I thought the tenor player sounded a bit like Ralph Moore but I'm probably way off the mark.

Track 2 I think is Woody Shaw's 'To Kill A Brick'. Not by Shaw though. Is that Larry Goldings on organ? The trumpeter sounds a bit like David Weiss. Is it his NY repertory group/octet? Ah, I'll have to dig it out then. Good album - Blakey's late 70s comeback.

Track 6 is Art Blakey Jazz Messengers, the 'Gypsy Folk Tales' album on Roulette. Don't have the album at hand but I think the track is 'Ronnie's A Dynamite Lady". Valerie Pononarev, Dave Schnitter, Bobby Watson, James Williams, Dennis Irwin, Blakey. I saw that band ! Definitely, and from the very underrated 'Mingus Moves' album.