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Yeah - always liked it and them since my student days, great songs with the usual very high level of musicianship. It bombed in the UK when punk was at its height. Overseas they knew better.. Great Hipgnosis cover too..plus you get a couple of nice vocals by Clare Torey and Lesley Duncan.

and definitely not dated with rinky dink piano/fuzzy bass on the original East Wind direct cut LP so a CD should sound great. My LP of this one gets played often.

A bit late but - Happy Birthday !

He’s coming up soon at the London Jazz Festival for a couple of performances with his trio, for anyone interested and in the London area.

8 track cartridge players were reasonably common in cars and stereo music centres over here up to the mid 1970s (e.g in Ford Cortinas with dice and furry dashboards). The likes of Sanyo were fairly ubiquitous.

Happy Birthday !

‘Trip on the Strip’ wasn’t his greatest but good that Dusty put it out, glad to have it That Strata-East of his ‘Long Before Our Mothers Cried’ is a personal fave too.

RIP Sonny Fortune

Both A&M Horizons are brilliant.

This is real sad news to hear - his work on ‘Agharta’ impressed me first time I heard it, full of fire. Have followed his career with interest ever since. Saw him a couple of times live - both occasions with Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. RIP and thanks.

2LP set, green label? That’s the version I have (somewhere !)

Looks like it’s just a couple of tracks from the box on there, sadly - but enough to audition at least.

Happy to listen to it on Spotify, there seem to be mixed views out there on the merits of it. If it grows on me, I’ll pick up the CDs. Edited to say that what I have heard so far sounds good stuff !

Noted - will probably pick up a copy of this one over the next few days.

Reel Recordings

I’m not usually a massive fan but this is a really excellent CD and at about £3 from HMV - a bargain. Love that German Impulse 2-in-1 series !

Thanks Don - yes that’s the one, A & A Records (A & M Sound stores more of a Western Canadian thing I think, a bit more of a chain). The jazz section in A & A was down steps to a sort of basement level I recall, As you say, intense competition and impossible to pass that stretch of Yonge without emptying the pockets rapidly. I remember reading an interview with Wayne Shorter in one of those free Toronto music papers which had a photo of him peering into the window of one of those stores.

The racks over here were full of that series too in the mid to late 70s. Along with DJM releases, they were about the cheapest jazz out there !

Gurney Slade? - I drive through there quite often.

That was the very store I bought my first CDs - a bunch of Blue Notes (including one of the Elvin Jones ‘Lighthouse’ CDs, when they were released in two volumes - plus a Hilton Ruiz RCA Novus). Hedging my bets, I also bought an Ollie Nelson vinyl that day too - the store still had a vinyl section, sort of like a Custers last stand baracade of racks. Those CDs, even with PST, were at the time around half the price they were fetching in Europe. Those days now long gone but during the 1990s it was ‘fill your boots’ time. That ‘Sam’ store on Yonge was great. When you had finished you could pop next door too to binge at that other store (A&M Sound?).

I remember being surprised to see some of those A&M Horizons such as Don Cherry ‘Brown Rice’ fairly early on in the transition. RCA Novus were in the early too.

To answer the question of The King - Dutton Vocalion have not put out any new jazz releases for some years so I guess they lost interest. They cranked the prices up too ! The two Derams are around 1969/70.

Congrats !