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Stan Tracey Big Brass ‘The Latin American Caper’ (UK Columbia)

Buddy Rich Small Groups Mosaic, CD3

Aha - that makes sense !

Shame it’s only MP3 but I guess beggars can’t be choosers ! I wonder what the situation is on that rumoured (via Dusty) reissue by Rearward of ‘Out of the Folk Bag’? It could do with a sonic clean-up reissue. The KPM tracks are also library ‘cues’ so again - untypical.

They also used to have a good stock of Wolfgang Dauner’s ‘Mood’ label. Too bad I didn’t stock up with them on those. I remember the Munich store being quite an Alladin’s Cave !

I have a ‘Bitches Brew’ quadrophonic pressing. Never tried it in quad but in stereo it can get quite annoying as some of the reverb effects and Teo’s panning gets lost (presumably to speakers 3 and 4). I’ve heard that even the engineers have stated that this one never worked on quad LP and only the reel to reel version was effective. CBS did quite a few quad releases. The Don Ellis ‘Tears of Joy’ was another one of them.

Zweitausendeins? That place used to be awesome, too bad that it has become so-so on the music front. They were good for Euro-Mosaics too, for a while.

Bulls-eye with the first dart !!

CD2

I think mine was about 20 Euro ! Those were the days...

Yes, thanks GA. Sterling work !

Thanks guys - I’ll check it out.

Hope you did that one boogie-woogie style..

Any good? I have a cinema ticket to use up and remember the 24/7 news coverage of this story in North America back in the day..

Superb work from Ms Horn with a telling contribution from Davis, M.

Many thanks !

Shame Starkey hasn’t been back recently to do a new series. By far the best of these Beeb history pundits IMO.

Sadly, it is no longer available either at the Euro area fall back option that is jazzmessengers.com.

Always had very good, prompt service from them. Packaging usually excellent too, e.g. for Mosaics. In fact, their packaging is as good as the ‘old’ Mosaic. They are first port of call for me, as there is nothing to match here in the UK these days (Honest Jons excepted).

Binker (Golding) and Moses (Boyd) at Turner Sims with special guests including Evan Parker and Byron Wallen. Featuring the material and the band as per ‘Journey to the Mountain of Forever’. Brilliant stuff, highly recommended.

‘The Bop Session’

I think the only time I caught Art Farmer was as part of a Dizzy Gillespie Legacy/Reunion Big Band. Always been a fan since the early Wardell Gray recordings. Thanks for this link.

Yes, heard about his sad passing. Always had a very cheerful disposition on the bandstand and was a very fine player indeed. Saw him quite a few times with the Scott Quintet and I think the last time I saw him was at Swanage in a band that also included the late Martin Drew. Sadly, never saw any of his recent Scott Legacy Tour dates. RIP. If I remember correctly he was a native of Dorset (Weymouth?)