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One good thing about Naim is that there are plenty of upgrade routes. Their stuff also holds its value on the 2nd hand market pretty well too and is supportable by them over the very long term with component change outs and transport replacements etc.

I bought my first Naim amp in North America ! They have dealerships worldwide and a very loyal fan base. The company credo set by late founder Julian Vereker is still in place (somewhat minimalist, with emphasis on the sonics). One of these days I'm going to have to do one of their HQ facility tours..

Happy Birthday !

Hope it was good !

Good buy ! I've had a full Naim system (apart from LP12) for many years now and have been delighted with it. They are an excellent Salisbury based company - although their kit isn't cheap, alas. Currently pondering an upgrade route on the CD front - should I go for their NDX streamer or upgrade to a second hand CDS3 'flagship player'. Probably the latter, I think. Lot more life in CD yet ! Dutton Vocalion did a great job on their 'Troppo' reissue. It runs the original vinyl pretty close.

Agreed !

Great article. Listening to 'Cosmos' on the 2CD set right now - you can sense how stunned the audience must have been. One one occasion in Seattle I think I passed pretty close to where the club must have been. A zoot suited hep cat wearing a porkpie hat was walking down the road, I kid you not !

First time I heard him was on the first David Essex LP (and no, it wasn't mine).

I'm going to be tempted with the Threadgill...

Frank Ricotti's 'Our Point of View' on CBS is as good as any IMO. The early Nucleus LPs and Westbrook's 'Love Songs' have great playing by him too.

Nice to hear that Pepi Lemer is appearing live again - last time I saw mention of her it was with regard to vocal coaching the Spice Girls ! She features prominently on Ardley's 'Will Power' I recall.

Stunned to hear this - but thankful for all the music. He leaves a great recorded legacy - RIP. This is turning out to be a brutal year for jazz passings.

I've got a couple of those Playboy 2LP sets somewhere - with Med Flory's band featured among others.

Remember one night when he played a track by the Miles Davis Quintet with Trane. One of the Prestige sides.

Yet more sad news - damn. Here's thanking him for the enjoyment I've got over the years from his Jazz Crusaders work. RIP. He's on electric bass on that Grant Green 'Live at the Lighthouse', I recall.

The box has just arrived and the first reaction is that 'Pause & Think Again' sounds fantastic. Sonically, they have done a great job.

Recorded 60 years ago on Tuesday !

Looking forward to my Turtle Records box set arriving in the mail and reading the Colin Harper booklet that comes with it. Noticed the following on Harper's website: "A forthcoming Record Collector piece on British Jazz: The Peter Eden Productions 1968-72. I was delighted to be given the chance to distill the above work around Peter Eden’s jazz productions, but with much additional material, into a 3000 word RC feature. Chris Spedding, Howard Riley and Norma Winstone are the key interviewees, along with Peter, in the piece, with several of his rarest productions highlighted. One single, by the Mike Westbrook Concert Band, is valued at £400, which prompted Mike to point out that it ‘seems like a lot of money to pay for a riff!’ Norma’s splendid LP Edge Of Time (Argo, 1972) has recently been reissued by the similarly splendid Peter Muir at Market Square/Dusk Fire. And yes, it was produced by Peter Eden. Hopefully the piece will run in the next couple of months." Wonder which Wesbrook single he is talking about. Presumably the 45rpm 'Original Peter'? I agree with Mike

Dexter Gordon 'Our Man In Paris' (BN NY USA, stereo)

Nice Ray Warleigh obit in the Telegraph here.. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11888530/Ray-Warleigh-saxophonist-obituary.html Remember seeing him in 'Paz' at Ronnies at least once.

Looks like Scott is on a roll. Good stuff !

It was either that or a Womble suit I guess !

I'd be pissed off either way. When the Japanese BNs hit J&R around 1979-1980 it was off to the races to snatch them up before they disappeared. Around $15 a piece IIRC back then! Quite a few were never issued stateside on LP including those Grant Greens, the Sonny Clarks, Hutch's Oblique. Mole Jazz in London had them all during that 1979-80 period as well - I remember seeing the likes of 'Pisces', the Grant Greens, 'Inner Glow', 'Oblique', 'The Collector' etc. in the racks for about £8 or £9 back then, a small fortune at the time. It is only in the last decade that I've picked up 'The Collector' on the King issue but it cost me a bit more than £8... Wish I could get on a time machine and program it for Kings Cross, 1980 !