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How’s the sound of that CD? I have a vinyl copy, which I must give another spin.

Tomorrow night - The Mike Gibbs with Big Band 80th Birthday Celebration concert at Turner-Sims, Southampton. Omens are good..

I quite like it. Have to add Cedar Walton ‘Mobius’ to this thread. A rare lapse for an otherwise exceptionally consistently good artist.

I remember seeing him a couple of times with the Herman band. Very heavily featured, not surprisingly. His work on the sessions in the Beehive box is first rate.

Was listening to one of Kenyatta’s Atlantics the other night - not so great. Betty Davis appears on one of the tracks, which was a surprise to me.

I thought the prices were still quite reasonable Frank ! Incidentally, that Norma Winstone curry visit was apparently in the middle of a 7 hour Copan/Backing Track multimedia performance. So no John Fox/Original Peter that time !

Strange, didn’t sound that deficient to me at the high frequencies. In fact, much better all round than I was expecting. I have the Music Matters 2x45 and will have to check how that lines up. No doubt, even better still.

There’s a nice article in this month’s Record Collector mag on Mike Westbrook’s early recordings by Colin ‘Bathed in Lightning’ Harper. Mentions one gig where Norma Winstone had time to go off and have a restaurant curry in the middle of one show - maybe ‘Original Peter’ was on a roll?

West Coast Classics sampler disk.

Jutta Hipp ‘At The Hickory House, Vol 2’ (Toshiba). Another great sounding reissue.

Turns out I had mixed up my numbers on tracks 8 and 9 so I will have another go on track 8. Track 2 - Is that Eddie South? I’ve definitely heard this one before. Track 6 - Eugene Chadbourne on slide guitar? Track 8 - Hearing this again the trombone soloist sounds to me a bit like Dave Bargeron so I will go for 1970s Clark Terry Big Bad Band. If so, possibly an Ernie Wilkins arrangement and Virgil Jones or Lew Soloff on trumpet. Track 9 - The clean line playing of this guitarist remind me of Louis Stewart and oddly enough, very early Joe Pass.

A bit of a wild ass guess. I had seen him a while ago on TV and also heard some of his stuff on the radio so knew his style. The only other option I considered was Rico Rodriguez but Shorty’s style is more manic. Sort of like a Millenial Tommy Turk !

The issue with that one of course is that the price is likely to track what are now some very high priced Blue Note originals on vinyl. I remember deliberating between CD and vinyl on this one when it was originally on sale and glad to have made the vinyl choice.

Yes, took your advice and filled both boots, expecially with the Limited Edition series. Thanks for that !

Cecil McBeem on bass?

Really? I think I picked this one up for about 5 pounds, near mint. Shocked at how good it sounds as these Carrere reissues sometimes get bad press. Very good and hard swinging session indeed. Followed by 'John Jenkins/Kenny Burrell' (Toshiba). Another humanly-affordable reissue.

Teds Grocer Heath Jimmy Heath

Mr Cuscuna's treasure trove rocks !

French Carrerre reissue but sounds pretty damn good to me !

The Live set is pretty nice. I opted for a copy of the Decca Sessions (#243) in my latest shipment.

In retrospect - A golden era.

Damn ! Disk 3 - Brazillian/Bossa

Is track 5 Lennie Breau with bassist Dave Young from 'Live at Bourbon Street'? Track 9 - Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra (with Reg Schwager)? Track 11 - Abide With Me/Blue Monk. Woody Allen? Track 12 - Sonny Greenwich? With Ed Bickert, Don Thompson and Terry Clarke. Track 13 - Trombone Shorty?