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Reminds me of seeing them at Fairfield Halls, Croydon circa 1980. Monkman was in the lineup I think. The only time I have seen John Williams live. In terms of the quality of music contained, this is one of the most revelatory of Mosaic sets I think. Phenomenal. Once you can get round the use of Bauer’s wire recorder on some of the tracks. Lennie T. Has been sorely under-rated. Imagine my surprise to walk into Tower Records, Santa Monica to find Scott and co. doing a free live appearance to promote their latest CD. Scott was friendly, bought the CD. Good times !

I picked up a nice MPS reissue of this in Germany back in the early 2000s (in fact I was in the store, Vinyl West Stuttgart, with fellow board member Aggie). Also have that MPS CD twofer with ‘Happy Girl’. So will pass - but good that it is back out again. How about a reissue of ‘Happy Girl’? Nice one. Maybe I should buy it again !

47W63rd DG stereo

That Hodges Mosaic is good ! Liberty

I have to say, based on the lineup announced, only The Cookers and Ron Carter stirred my interest.

Sad news, RIP. I have always enjoyed his Blue Notes.

Just noticed that this was recorded at El Camino College. Saw Chick Corea there back in the day.

This one -

Wish we could put the clock back and have them appearing live at Ronnie’s next week !

It’s a fair way off yet but just booked for The Cookers in Cadogan Hall, London in November at the LJF. Sure to sell out I think and would hate to miss it. Last time I saw this group was with our late friend JohnS about 10 years ago. This will be the first time I have caught George Cables live, all being well. Third row centre seat - should be good !

Looks like a pair of pimply knees to me !

How about a nice piano box combining the Blue Note recordings of Geri Allen and Renee Rosnes?

Nice ! Really good album by Renee.

I remember seeing LaBarbera a few times in Toronto - with Dave McMurdo’s Orchestra and with Joanne Brackeen (the latter at Cafe Des Copains, now sadly long gone). I remember jazz at The Rex as well. Back 30 years ago the house band was led by B-3 organist John T. Davis (I think I got the name right) playing very much in a Big John Patton groove. That was one of my ‘go to’ places to catch some live jazz. The Toronto scene back then was amazing with all those US headliners passing through and playing places like the Bermuda Onion and Top O’ The Senator. Spoilt for choice - but sadly it didn’t last. As for LaBarbera - I also saw him in the UK in the early 80s when he was in Elvin Jones’ group. Double tenor front line with Alan Skidmore.

Need to dig this out. One of the old Newbury ‘haul’. Good Sunday morning listening. I recall a time in the mid 1970s that these Everest LPs were all over the place. They were about £1 each and affordable to the likes of me, unlike the good stuff in the racks.

Spot on. These are beautifully produced reissues which used master tape supplied directly from the original broadcaster, ORF and are credited as such on the sleeves. Speculation that they are bootlegs is BS and these are as legit as earlier issued CDs from other sources. They did indeed also do initial work on the ‘Passing Ships’ 2LP, working with Malcolm Addey, which eventually became the 3 sided 2LP. Their concept would have been to fill all four sides. The Duke Pearson 2LP set is also exemplary.

Good to hear that Pat LaBarbera is still musically active over there.

Jack Parnell - now there’s a blast from the past. He and his orchestra used to appear on pretty well all ITV (independent TV) shows in the 70s in particular. His band had people from the Ted Heath organisation and was also the backing band on The Muppets !

Good to know that. That series is getting somewhat overhyped in various quarters. I have the ‘Chronicle’ LPs and I’ll bet it doesn’t offer any significant difference on these too. The price for this is going at about £40 in the UK - extortionate. I guess some folks over here must have money to burn.

The only time I saw her was without drums as well. It was with Don Thompson on bass and Pat LaBarbera on tenor. An excellent performance, as I recall.

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It would have passed muster over here no problem - images of jelly, fruit and cream desert !

At 16 I was listening to Bird, Miles, Shorty Rogers, Gil, Blakey etc. Been downhill ever since. 😂

Gloucester - say no more..!