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The Mosaic booklet for this set remains one of my favourites.

Beaker?

Thanks John. Your post about it in 2004 is on page 1 of the 'Live Gigs' thread so is a regular reminder of a great gig ! Looks like The Cookers are coming up at Turner/Sims in the Autumn so I will be back down again ..

The Godbolt Vol 1 book has been quite recently reprinted (Northway Publications?) in hardback. Must get hold of it while it is still around. His biography is well worth a read - very amusing book and quite a character.

Our next leader..

Farmer/Byrd 'Two Trumpets' (Prestige Bergenfield DG mono) Sounds superb and if I remember correctly, it cost me £4 back in the days before the vinyl fetish madness started..

Another spin for this one. Awesome album !

Racking my brain about that possible Stamm gig. Might have been with Canadian vocalist Judi Singh but still not sure. Wish I'd kept notes !

Great price - I paid about £30 and I thought I was doing well. Great set !

Great that he's still playing and playing so well. Ubiquitous on Quincy Jones, Oliver Nelson and Blue Note big band lineups of the 60s and 70s of course. Have been spinning his 'Machinations' a few times recently. The fact that he is playing so well at that age is a sign of tremendous technique I guess. I might have seen him about 20 years ago in a local quartet gig in North America but I'm not sure..

Webster Young 'For Lady' (Esquire) Yusef Lateef 'Eastern Sounds' (UK Fontana, stereo)

Cameron Gamble Huff

Joe Harriott 'Movement' (UK Columbia, mono) Tubby Hayes 'Down In The Village' (Fontana, stereo)

Elmo Hope/Mobley/Coltrane 'Informal Jazz' (Esquire, RVG)

Have both of those pressings somewhere in the racks !

C4 - Good nostalgia value.

Remember picking up the Toshiba CD of this one at Tower Sunset Boulevard back in the day, at a very reasonable price. A very good session ! Both Joe Chambers and Woody Shaw play great - as does Kenny Barron. Anyone who likes Tyrone W. on 'The Jody Grind' will like this one.

Did somebody put something in the water yesterday?

Must add Horace Tapscott to the list. Missed a low key and rare solo performance in a public library he gave in Alberta circa 1995 (I could have gone but it didn't click at that time exactly who he was or his significance). In 1999 I did catch what was scheduled to be an LA benefit gig but that one turned out in the end to be a memorial gig with the Arkestra and various guests.

Caught him a couple of times on his last UK tour (JohnS was there as well on one of the nights I think) and got to chat with him after one of the gigs. Priceless ! AMM - never seen them as a band but have caught Lou Gare a number of times with Mike Westbrook. Too bad I never caught a tour by Max Roach. Same thing applies for Mingus and Monk - although they were largely inactive when I started getting into jazz. Caught Blakey a few times though.

Thad & Mel, Clarke/Boland, Horace Silver and Basie. Quite a few such as Lee Morgan, Coltrane, Ellington and Armstrong had passed away before I even got into jazz. Just thankful though for those I got to see (and sometimes meet) - Elvin, DIz, Art Pepper, Andrew Hill, Miles, Woody Shaw, Gil Evans, George Russell, Sun Ra.. Wasn't that the trip that they were left stranded?

Sample/Brown/Manne 'The Three' (East Wind direct cut)

CD6 - 'Glass Bead Games'. Outstanding !

'Trad Dads' covers quite a bit of the period in question but as mentioned there is really too much of a political slant to recommend it - a real shame as there is potentially a really good book out of that one. The Dave Gelly is nice in that it is both very well written, readable and covers both the trad and modern styles over the period in question - could have been a bit longer and in depth though. The 'Bathed In Lightning' book is good for the mid/late 60s and the interface between modern jazz, blues and popular music. And Duffy Power.. It is the attention to detail in Simon's book that makes it really outstanding.