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Thad & Mel Solid State Mosaic, CD5 - 'Consummation'. Sounds pretty damn great !

CDs are the new vinyl !

I've got one ordered/pending shipment (hopefully).

My latest order is awaiting that one coming back in.

Nope - Turner Sims (all being well).

That film has had very mixed reviews over here. Shame, otherwise I would have checked it out. The title makes me chuckle as it conjours an image of Gollum living in Limehouse..

'Whoa' indeed !

I don't think I have this material so - I'm in.

Yazz Ahmed 'La Saboteuse' (Naim)

The reason I compared them was the play-like use of single stage sets with the drama interspersed with musical interludes. Nothing related to any cultural similarities.

I have bound annual volumes of most of the 1960s Jazz Monthly mags. They are an invaluable resource - and still a good read.

Jazz Bakery - now that brings back memories. Helms Avenue, Culver City - operated by vocalist Ruth Price in its original location/version. Saw some good stuff there - Cedar Walton, Jackie McLean, Cecil Taylor !

Humphrey Lyttleton's band with Kathy Stobart, Bruce Turner and Mike Pyne was up there in this early cluster too. The Herman gig (Colston Hall, Bristol) was interesting. I got to go backstage and saw Woody very close up. Amazed just how small he was in person !

Mingus is under-used, to say the least - only really features in that early scene with Attenborough and Brubeck, the latter getting a bit more of a feature. Incidentally, isn't that 'Brazilian' at the party who was asked to do the congas a boot-blacked Barry Morgan? Reminded me a bit of the movie of 'The Connection' with its ongoing mix of drama and jazz.

'All Night Long' showing on UK TV tonight. First time I've seen it. Not exactly a classic movie-wise but well worth it for shots of Mingus and Brubeck with John Dankworth, Tubby Hayes, Johnny Scott, Alan Ganley et al. Nice period feel to the film too.

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Earl May on bass perhaps? Remember seeing John Lee with McCoy in the early 1980s too. The band with John Blake and Joe Ford.

I have quite a few LPs with Charles Fox's CF initials in the back in biro. Early 1960s review copies for Gramophone Magazine. Always interesting to check out the corresponding reviews in their archive ( alas - access to it is now paywalled).

Hoping to see Mr Bennink in a month or so at a forthcoming ICP UK gig.

Thanks Dave. Grrrrr..... I don't want to see that wall display.

Thanks chaps !

Thanks Bill, Dan, Marcel and Guy. Milt Jackson plus flutes on deck, to be followed by some Thad & Mel.

Thanks John and all. I have the day off to get some serious listening in so it should be good.

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