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All The Best !

South Coast morphed into Hermosa Beach today John?

King pressing presumably? - that's a good one.

Denny Zeitlin Select, CD3

Roger Moore as 'lively' brings to mind this classic.. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=spitting+image+roger+moore&rlz=1C9BKJA_enAU612AU612&oq=spitting+image+roger+moore&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.9084j0j7&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Tessie O'Shea Mrs Mills Queenie Watts (showing my age..)

Saw him as James Bond on the TV just this weekend. He was a damn good Bond and a good guy from what I gather. 'Just keeping the British end up'. RIP One of my earliest TV memories.

So sorry to hear this - one of my favourites, stalwart of many 'Liberty' era Blue Note sessions and that fine band with Dizzy Gillespie. Not sure I ever got to see him - although actually saw his name outside Ronnie Scotts no longer than 4 or 5 years ago, not sure who he was touring with. Sadly, I couldn't check out that gig. Extremely versatile, tasteful and foot tappingly good drummer. RIP. "Damn good". Yes - exactly.

On vinyl

Happy Birthday !

Yep, followed by -

Azimuth adjustment checks - sounding sublime !

I find that a bit of inward pressure applied by finger nails on the tabs first of all, followed by a bit of rotating the disk side by side, helps with removing the Disk 2s. Just had the same issue with the Savoy set. Ludicrous !

Cool ! His signatures are a real work of art too. Not to be missed !

He was sat literally right behind me at the Horace Tapscott tribute concert about 20 years go - with what looked to be his family. Fortunate enough to see him at the London Jazz Fest some years later (around 2007 in fact) conducting a mainly UK big band. Incredible energy and enthusiasm ! Also saw him at the Playboy Fest with his LA orchestra and that was phenomenal, one of the greatest big bands I have ever seen/heard.

Aha - I know where you mean. On one of my last visits there that rack had a Thad and Mel vinyl set on display, for about £130 I think. Already had it so I passed. You are right that that long rack had the entire Kenton 'Creative Word' catalogue in it and loads of Duke and Basie, I recall. As well as ancient dust by the barrow-load !

I have the Benedetti set on vinyl - will try to give it a spin during the weekend, in between Savoy and Dial set sampling. Was that set hiding upstairs in the dust pile over by the books? Probably around where I spotted that 'Jazz Scene' asthmatics' nightmare..

Well said !

That CD is now fetching silly prices. Glad you share my view of this reissue - my second copy arrived too. Now I can wear the first one out and rest easy !