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Sadly, the same thing has happened here too.

I hear you re: the sound on the mono original. Hard to improve on that. Great that Stan answered the phone with that order ! I really miss seeing Stan, Clark and co. at events like the Swanage Festival, especially with his great Octet. One of the last times I caught them, he was featuring those two suites which are included in the release ‘The Later Suites’ (‘Hong Kong Suite’ etc.). Also at the fishy site which shall be nameless.

Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh Quintet - ‘Live at Whitley Bay, 1975’.

So sorry to hear of this, my sympathies.

Brings back memories. I saw that Cork St, London exhibit of the Miles art shown on the Jo Gelbart video clip.

The first person I thought of was Ray. Should have stuck with it !

CD4

Have had a listen to the first 7 tracks. Some really nice stuff.. 1. ‘Amazing Grace’ soprano duet/overdub plus arch bass. Paul Dunmall on soprano? 2. David ‘Fathead’ Newman plus piano (Junior Mance?) ‘Making Whoopee’? 3, Bob Brookmeyer with strings? Maybe from one of those 80s albums recorded with Scandinavian musicians? 4. ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’. Iffy tuned piano, sounds Monkish in places. Sir Roland Hannah? 5. Mambo bluesy piece. Cal Tjader Trio plus congas from the 50s/60s perhaps? 6. 80s/90s sound to this one with gloopy bass. The piano sound reminds me of Geri Allen. One of her early Blue Note releases? 7. Julius Watkins Sextet Vol 1 on Blue Note with Frank Foster on tenor. I think this is the first track on the 10” LP - ‘Linda Delia’.

Clarinetist Wally Fawkes and trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton - cartoonists.

Next up - Reel to Real 2LP Good stuff !

Ian Dury also trained in fine art (and did the cover art on my A B Spellman Book).

Elemental 3LP - thankfully with booklet and not a damned PDF. This music is most definitely a find !

Kate Westbrook - and Mike as well I think.

Splendid - that will be me ordering the LP then. I assume you mean the original studio version?

No probs - and glad to hear that folks are enjoying the stereo version on the BGO. It got some positive words in the Heining biography, which I thought was a very good read. It will be interesting to see if the ‘British Jazz Explosion’ eventually get round to reissuing this one, assuming that they are able to find a source. We may be surprised yet !

Yes, it’s a very good Deram stereo copy, no scratches. The transfer was done using a top-flight LP12 deck with Dynavector cartridge into a Soundblaster card of that era and then on to disk on the PC. I spent a lot of time getting the recording level right to optimise signal to noise and minimising any local sources of RF noise. That version was then expertly cleaned up and processed by the audio engineer, Tom Leader in London, on behalf of BGO. Graham wanted me to send in my LP in the mail but I was a bit nervous about that ! The stereo copies are out there - as confirmed by looking at Discogs. The mono is definitely much more prevalent though. The music has plenty of quiet sections though so for the LP transfer to work you need a pretty good/noise free LP copy.

Not sure where I heard/read the stereo bit, maybe I’m thinking of something else but there’s an article on this recording in the May Jazzwise. It does mention a remastering and sound ‘as good as if not better than the original’. That Steam cover design with Dylan T. is based on the one they used in the 1970s in the version recorded with Donald Houston narration, I recall. Looks like I need to get both of these.

I’ve just done a check of the Collier bio by Duncan Heining and there’s no mention in there of the source used for the Disconforme CD. What the text does mention is some opinions on ‘lack of warmth’ on the mono Deram issue, which was corrected in the first stereo CD issue included in the BGO twofer. Somewhat gratifying as the source was my LP and I did the LP transfer ! I don’t think Graham and BGO could trace the stereo master in the archive and I guess there must be doubt that they were able to track down any mono master. What I do recall at the time is that Graham was delighted that at least one stereo source for the release had been located and could be used in the CD reissue.

Much as I very much like the original Lansdowne mono release, this one will apparently be in stereo, for the first time, from the master tapes. On that basis, I will likely pick up a copy. Limited release of 1000 I think.

That ‘Rare Groove’ issue is really good.

CD1 - The audio isn’t great but much of the music is wonderful.

The BGO CDs of this sold out quickly and have been out of print for a fair while. I’ve been after a second (safety) copy and never found one at a sensible price. It’s unique in that the version of ‘Deep Dark..’ was the first stereo CD issue. At the time that the set was put together, even Graham was unaware that a stereo LP had been issued by Deram back in the 60s, as most copies out there are mono.

Thanks for that - sounds good.

What’s the sound like on this set?

French edition.