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Jazz Messengers package just arrived. The sound quality of these 'Spiegel' CDs is stunning !

Listening to the Zeitlin Mosaic box once again (predictably good), I wonder what came of those Mosaic plans in 2008 to put out 'Shining Hour: Live at the Trident' with the additional takes, presumably intended as a 'Singles' release? A shame that one never saw the light of day.

Roulette LP

Once again, clear feed over here. That first set last night was particularly good - same set list as per Friday, culminating in 'ESP'. By the time the second set started I was half asleep so the memory of what was played is a bit hazy !

No - Not particularly interested in that one. I have the Tapscott and Carter/Bradford though.

Even later to the party, which has long since left town and spontaneously combusted but after reading London Jazz Collector's blog entry on this one (a rare CD excursion for him) and hearing the (phenomenal) samples, I have put in an immediate order for the CD. No doubt it will become rare as gold dust in the not too distant future. How did I let this one pass me by?

Yeah, they do well all things considered as the club can't be very large and, as you say, there are 3 top flight musicians to pay for. I think they give people the option of standing in the bar area for the second set, so that is pretty good. Next time I am in NYC I will be sure to visit this place and Smalls.

German reissue CD

Original vinyl copy, signed by Pat..

No Louis Newport LP set then?

CD4 'The Skunk'

The couple of releases by the fine multi-instrumentalist Alan Branscombe look interesting.

No problem over here - caught the first set and uninterupted feed. It was predictably excellent - the group's cohesion noticeably improved towards the end of the set (not that it was bad to begin with). Fine selection of standards and originals - will try to catch it again tonight. Wish I could have picked up one of those CDs Denny was selling and signing in the club. Unlike being in the audience, you also don't get turfed out at the end of the first set with the streaming option.

To put it all in perspective, the first programme I ever wrote (in Fortran) was on a deck of punched cards. Had to punch them myself ! Back then, you could still trace the legacy to the likes of ENIAC, EDSAC, ACE etc.

Mr Fame is doing a gig just down the road from me in a few weeks' time. Sadly, no Harry South Big Band though..

Interesting, I didn't realise that he had worked with Turing on ACE, which was built at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, I think, That thing had a mercury delay line as its main storage medium.

Tessie May Tessie O'Shea Two Ton Tessie

Indeed - I think Acrobat did a recent CD issue of the Whittle Esquire recordings, as well as at least one issue of Ronnie Scott mateial. Those are usually well worth getti hold of for Simon Spillet's sleeve notes alone.

Hope to prop up the eyelids with matchsticks tonight and catch this one !

Those releases/reissues came out on vinyl over here back in the 1980s - there's some great stuff on there, particularly the Kenny Grahams and Ronnie Scotts. I think they came out after Carlo Krahmer had passed on so Peter Newbrook must have put them out.

CD1 - Billy Eckstine AFRS material

Pretty sure it was the Bermuda Onion. Around 1989/90 (maybe I'm wrong but hadn't Bourbon Street closed by then?) Glitzy yes but I have a fondness for the place based on some of the incredible artists hosted in that period. Barney played solo - recall the seat we had was literally a sofa plonked right in front of him, best in the house. Amazing ! One thing I do recall is that there seemed to be little if anything in the way of artist back stage facilities, so you used to get sights there like Lee Konitz having his evening meal sat amongst the punters.

Yep, same here. Even still have a CJRT sticker on my old Grundig radio !

I'd never even heard of Breau until a work colleague raved about him, in fact we went to see Barney Kessel at the late, lamented Bermuda Onion in Toronto and it was suggested I should hear those RCA records. I think many Canadians of that vintage will have been brought up aware of Breau from the TV but I, of course, was oblivious at the time.

Best Wishes Erik !