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Ha - just checked it out, you are right. French CBS 2LP in a Dutch pressing which I probably picked up from Mole..

St Theresa Donald Tusk The Donald

I read that Stan Tracey and he didn't get on at all during a mid 60s Ronnie Scott stint. Lots of nasty messages passing from the horn to the rhythmn section apparently. Same thing seems to have happened with Don Byas. Stan was a very supportive and supremely adaptable musician who backed all of the US visitors to the club so odd that this was the case. With regard to that European sojourn, there was that attempt to put together a Lucky Thompson conference here in the UK back in the 1960s, which Lucky mentions on that message at the start of the Candid CD. Never happened in the end..

Picked a copy up from Disk Union in Japan when I was over there. Mint stereo NY labels for about the equivalent of 30 bucks ! (thank you kinuta and John ).

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Very 1972 that cover. No expense spared on colour !

Yes, I'll add that great series too. I think I have all of them. BBS - yes, the 'Brown Bag' series is the UA twofer LP sets. When they came out over here it was like Mana From Heaven as Blue Notes of any type other than Donald Byrd/Blackbyrds etc. were very elusive.

BillF's old copy !

Blue Note 'brown bag' twofers, Rainbow series and the Prestige 24000 series twofers. Plus the Arista Savoys of course. Verve Elite for sure - lots of gems in that series.

Yes, I'm aware of and have a copy of that book.

I'm bursting to see this movie - hopefully it will end up on Amazon Prime and get a decent regional UK run. Remember buying the 'Memorial Album' as a cutout back in the day, hearing the story of the Slugs' murder and hoping that one day that the full story would come out. Looks like it finally has - nearly 40 years after I thought that..

Very sorry to hear this - RIP.

I gave up on Jazz FM pretty well from the mid-90s onwards. Very thin offerings on the serious jazz front but plenty of soul/MOR and jazzy muzak for bankers and bankers molls. My favourite station was actually Radio London back in the early 80s when on Sat you used to get a couple of hours of Brian Priestley followed by another hour or two of a young Gilles Peterson. Radio 3 with Charles Fox and co. had some good stuff on around that time as well, not least the sessions they recorded of UK groups at Maida Vale for broadcast. These days most of the jazz radio action as far as I'm concerned is on the streaming services and non-UK stations. No great loss !

I can recommend the Hines Mosaic. The music was largely new to me but it swings like crazy and Hines' solos are off the scale - very advanced for the time. Great booklet and sound as per usual. Now back to vinyl...

And for me too - his 'movie' is currently on Amazon Prime streaming.

Last night - Walt Dickerson 'Relativity' (New Jazz) Yusef Lateef 'Into Something' (New Jazz) Charles Earland 'Black Drops' (Prestige, purple label)

Thought I'd give this a listen on Spotify and I must say, I like it. I'm partial to Sue's voice too.

CD 1 - Love it !

Neither have I - Typical Disk-Union though, those guys have every base covered. Would like a copy of that Sanders !

I remember seeing reruns of this in Canada - the Bigfoot episode for sure. It might have been on back in the 1970s in the UK as well.

First time I've ever seen that one - US issue only perhaps?

Happy Birthday !

Well, they used to be about £15 - which is what they are worth.