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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.

CDs 1 and 2

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..!

I like it. Colpix vinyl can be very iffy and in the past I have passed on copies which were suspect, with surface noise an issue. This one is fine. Tubby Hayes is only on half of the LP.

CD2 - The singles disk.

Today’s find - UK Colpix mono of a larger sized group put together by pianist Dave Lee in 1965. Notable for appearances by Ronnie Ross and Tubby Hayes as well as Kenny Wheeler. Finally glad to have this one ! Amazing that my local had not one but 3 copies of this 3LP set. Must have been a late delivery for RSD.

Strut reissue. There have been quite a few bootlegs of this one out there but this Strut issue is apparently authorised. Sounds as good as can be expected too, no doubt better than what was originally put out on Saturn. The Saturn original was apparently in quadraphonic ! Another fine issue by Strut.

2LPs - This one grooves along very nicely, live atmosphere well captured and a very compatible group. I hope to be seeing Norma ‘live’ In about a month’s time, with her group.

I think it was. As this film was made in 1981, that would make the date for the Jazz Film Season around 1981/82. As I recall it, they had some weird mixing on the bill so the Dixon was likely paired with something like ‘Jivin’ In Bebop’. In those pre-YouTube times, seeing any sort of jazz film was a rarity. There was very little on BBC. Being a student at the time, I was totally up for these sort of film shows. Made a change from the e.g. Fellini and Fassbender seasons that I remember at places like the Scala (a bit of a fleapit, I recall). More’s the pity that we can’t have more of these now. There were also some great all-night film shows which I remember from university. No jazz though. People used to bring sleeping bags in for those !

That’s interesting. I remember attending a season of jazz films put on by one of the London independent cinemas around 1980. Might have been at the Scala. I have the feeling he was involved in putting it together. Films included were ‘Jivin in Bebop’ and that one Bill Dixon was involved with, from my distant memory. Those were the days.

CD1 - Nice !

I have a copy of the British version hardback of that Chilton Hawkins book ( on Quartet I think) and really need to dig it out again for another read. One for the ever-increasing pending pile..

RIP. I always remember him for his work on half of ‘Glass Bead Games’.

By my reckoning I have about 30 of them so they must be doing something right ! The quality of the sleeves is superb and the pressings are up there with the old Music Matters series. In the main I have gone for titles which I don’t have on originals or which I only have on inferior pressings e.g. French Pathe Marconi series. I have a few overlaps with originals from the NY and Liberty era and in the main, I would say that the sonics on the originals has more punch, particularly with earlier Van Gelder mono issues. On the whole though, you can’t go wrong with these Tone Poets. I particularly like their coverage of Pacific Jazz titles, where the quality of originals can sometime have issues. I just wish that they would make available again some of their earlier titles, which seemed to disappear fast, at least over here. A bargain, for sure. A few of them can be had for sub-£30 over here. Poor old Harold Vick never seems to get above £25.