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Not your typical Don Pullen album..

Dame Cleo? Absolutely jazz royalty over here and a wonderful vocalist over multiple genres.

Damn, my Mosaic budget has been well and truly busted recently, with Mildred, Teddy W. and the Savory. Those 2000 had better last a while !

..... which would make him probably the one and only English -born guy to refuse a bought beer ! I presume this is Evan P. and not Dave H.?

Best Wishes !

Happy Birthday Dave/kinuta !

Great set, $75 well spent even without box and book. Must dig out..

First performance I ever saw at Scotts was Coleman with Ruiz and Higgins. They were monumental ! Herbie Lewis was on bass though, I think. Ronnie was obviously a big fan of Coleman, as he was a regular visitor through the years.

Another £3 special, cleaned up nicely UK Vogue mono. Superbly recorded by Roy DuNann.

Some prog for a change..

Yep, glad I sprung for them. I have seen Portal live and remember the comments on the Gonzales Silkhearts on this board. Other items I picked up were a Coltrane ‘Kulu Se Mama’ red/black Impulse (sadly, not £3) and a Dizzy Gillespie/Arturo Sandoval ‘Finland Station’ Pablo on what looks like a dubious Cuban version. That one was a punt..

Never seen a copy of that Esquire in the wild. If I ever did, I would probably faint.

Thanks, Soulpope. Updated to say that the sonics on the ‘Foot Patting’ are wonderful too, probably comparable to the German Vogue. Happy camper !

Yep, I have the session on that very nice Johnny Griffin Rearward 2LP. Couldn’t resist this Youngblood version hiding from me in the pile though. LP in very good condition, although some philistine has written ‘rubbish’ in light biro on the back. Still, at £3 not complaining ! The sonics on the Gil Evans are superlative. Best version of this one I have heard. Amazingly, for a near 60 year old LP the vinyl is near mint.

Among todays great finds for £3 each - Gil Evans ‘ Into The Hot’, Australian Impulse mono from 1962. RVG in the runout, non-gatefold lam sleeve with insert. Cool ! Johnny Griffin ‘Footpatting’. Clarke/Boland session UK issue on Youngblood from 1970. Plus - Dennis Gonzalez New Dallas Quartet ‘Stefan’ on Silkheart Michel Portal ‘Turbulence’ on Harmonia Mundi.. Barney Kessel on UK Vogue/Contemporary plus a whole batch of Joe Pass Pablos, one signed by Joe by the looks of it (badly).

Never a great favourite. There is a bit too much over-production and reverb on these recordings for my liking and they are about as 70s as avocado bathrooom suites. Having said that, I do like ‘Outback’, ‘Keep Your Soul Together’ and the Stanley Turrentine/Astrud Gilberto collaboration. The 4CD longbox provides a good overview. The George Bensons are OK too.

Would like to catch Menza again. From recollection, last time I saw him was with Louis Belson around 1980.

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Blue Label, mono. ‘Hey Herb, Where’s Alpert’

Understatement of the year !

The longboxes didn’t last that long either - by the early 1990s they were pretty well gone in N. America. I think the last one I bought was a Bobby Watson ‘The Inventor’. Probably find that European environmental laws would have outlawed them - and for imports they increased the transportation costs.

I don’t remember seeing the long boxes in the UK. That was very much a US and Canada thing. At the time it was $ for £ for CDs as well so in N. America around half the price ! ’Ritual’ was another one I got in the longbox too. ‘No Room For Squares’ too. Like a kid in a candy store when I saw these, still have them (sans longboxes). Yes, the smaller UK stores such as Mole used to keep CDs behind the counter. Tower Picadilly sealed them with anti theft gizmos I think (very sophisticated ).

Yazz Ahmed ‘La Saboteuse’ (Naim)