sidewinder

This set is a veritable cornucopia - recommended !

Unusual oversight by Oxfam - they usually mark stuff up to top price. Nice one !

Those pebbles look suspiciously as if they might have been acquired from Chesil Beach, Dorset..Jurassic Coast.

That must be the first mention of 'jazz' in The Gramophone for at least 3 decades..

Worth it just for the wording of the title (intentional?) and the cover art. I think a past edition of Jazzwise featured it in its 'non-PC' feature vintage LP - I wonder why? Tony Lee Trio at the Bulls Head, Barnes is what it says on the tin and that is exactly what you get. It is indeed a rare album. Needless to say my copy cost a wee bit more than £4. Where are you and Mark getting your LPs from - Ali Baba's cave?

Happy Birthday !

Happy Birthday !

Don Cheadle interviewed on UK prime time BBC1 tonight on that inane 'One Show' programme. Should do no harm for the public exposure of the whole thing over here !

My favourite playing by both is on 'Mingus Moves' on Atlantic. A very under-rated album IMO. In my Toronto days there was a club over there that had a very interesting oil portrait of Pullen at the piano for sale. Would have loved to have got it but at several grand $ it was pretty well out of range.

I'm looking forward to it . With 'Frelon Brun' on the soundtrack there are grounds for optimism !

Those Savoy/Arista 2LP sets sound very good and can usually be picked up for not much money. 'Gong' and 'Morning' are both recommended.

Saw them leave as well, count myself very fortunate to have done so. It was around the time that 'Don't Lose Control' on Timeless came out and they play material from that one I recall. Wim Wigt used to bring them over to Europe.

Are those the Dead Sea Scrolls in the box?

Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton ! Bastion of the arts in the epicentre of cider-swigging yokels..

Sad news and my condolences. Reading through that tribute it sounds as though he had a very happy second marriage over the past 20 years. Will be spinning the album recorded with Alan Shorter later today - RIP.

Wayne Shorter 'The Soothsayer' (King) Lou Donaldson ' Sweet Slumber' (King) - arranged by Wayne

I've got a US Atlantic mono original - don't recall it being that bad but will dig it out today and check. Those '3000 Yen' CDs are the dog's boll*x..

Yep, picked up a spare set of the CDs last night, they were on sale for £10 which was a good deal. PIcture of the band thrown in as well ! Criminal that it wasn't better attended - hope they get a great reception in London.

Caught the gig at Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton last night which was re-scheduled from last year. One lineup change from the Barnfield CDs - Pete Wyman in place of Gary Bayley on tenor sax for this performance. As with the CDs, the second half of the show really shone out, in particular 'Juxtapositions' and 'Gas, Blood, Stone'. The way this show mixes theatre and jazz reminds me somewhat of Sun Ra in this eclectic mix, although where both bands are coming from and their styles/modus operandii is very differerent. In fact it is very English in its way, with the fairground banter interludes, libretto from Kate W. and almost meditative feel of some passages, leading into more uproarious sections. I think the 'Uncommon Orchestra' play Kings Place in London next month plus some more Devon gigs this Summer. Hope to catch at least one of them. Audience numbers last night were dissappointingly low but then again it is Taunton on a Friday night I guess..

Tomorrow night - Mike Westbrook Big Band 'A Bigger Show'.

Sad news - RIP. Very much an institution over here and a good one at that.

Having spun this a couple more times this afternoon - totally agree. In fact I would say that the performance here of old warhorses such as 'Lomelin' even surpasses the originals - and that is saying something. Renee Rosnes on piano is outstanding - doesn't put a foot wrong. Fabulous !

Rolly Beamont Dan Dare Digsby

Need a copy of that Lee/Blake. Good to see it back in circulation.

My old Frank Lowe 'The Flam' LP on Black Saint. Sold to Mole Jazz for £2 . Did the same thing too with my Phil Seamen LP on Decibel.