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It will be interesting to see if it improves on the BGO CD sound, which I found pretty damn good in itself. Needless to say, I’m ‘in’ for yet another version of this stuff ! Could be the reissue of the year.. Jazzman need to put out a black/blue logo T shirt of that logo. I’ll buy 100.. Shame Ian isn’t around to see this reissue. I think he would have been chuffed.

UK Impulse black/silver stereo

Heck, you can buy 4 or 5 original press Hank Mobley Blue Note ‘stick insect’ LPs for that !

Same here - probably the same tour. Melton Mustapha on trumpet, Essiet Essiet on bass. Brilliant live group and most professional. It was about -30 outside as I recall.

Definitely worth checking out the 2CD recorded with the Belmondos !

I’ve got a rolling programme of these things. Diversity, security, health & safety, fire awareness, pre-retirement.. I remember one of those things where you had to pass and if you didn’t the word went back up the line for ‘corrective action’. Of note, quite a few senior managers failed..

Still available via the alternative Mosaic universe in Barcelona !

Sounds familiar. Never got the warnings though !

That looks like Kathy Stobart on the cover.

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Picked this 3 CD set from Germany up for a relative pittance several years ago - some good stuff on there.

Bite the bullet and get hold of the Mosaic set?

For a Sun Ra compilation, this one can’t be beaten. Great sound too.

I agree. Maybe because it appeared right before MCA took things over. I don’t think it got much visibility over here when it came out. Interestingly, it appeared around the same time as John Handy’s ‘Hard Work’ - which was of course a mega-hit. People probably started listening to it, hearing Ted Dunbar’s guitar, thinking it was disco and getting very quickly dissuaded.

Great record label !

Also on the mighty fine Clifford Jordan Mosaic Strata-East set.

UK Impulse, black label

I need to pick up those Don Ellis disks on BGO. I have them on vinyl and also a couple on ‘Wounded Bird’ but undoubtedly the BGOs will be better. Ditto the Ian Carr ‘Nucleus’ that I don’t have. They did a wonderful job with the Rendell/Carr, Graham Collier and Mike Westbrook releases.

Wow - ‘Jazz at the Maltings’. I thought that the BBC had wiped over the tapes for the whole of that series.