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RIP - A long life and a great legacy for this legendary figure.

Mine has apparently now shipped.

NY mono

Metronome DG mono

And there’s me thinking it stood for Bernie Grundman !

I remember watching a BBC show by Clark and the Big Bad Band on TV in the mid 1970s. To this day, I’ve never seen it repeated nor has it copped up on the internet. Presume it must have been wiped. I have that Wichita Jazz Festival LP somewhere too. I bought that one when it came out and still have a copy.

Haven’t played this for over 30 years and what a corker ! Amazing band lineup and great performance. Cost me all of 99p back in the day.. UK Pye pressing. Fine band underpinned by Ronnie Mathews, Victor Sproles and Ed Soph. Grammavision - the label confirms I paid £7.49 at Our Price for this one.

Thanks for the update - I was wondering how things were.

Amazing and good to hear - very best wishes to Jimmy Hastings. That Humph gig was in Taunton Brewhouse Theatre around 2006/7, a really good show and very late in Humph’s career. I bought one of his books from him, got him to sign it and even put in an informal request for him to play some Horace Silver on his BBC radio show. Not surprisingly, he was quite knowledgeable about Horace. I seem to remember that they did some tune about a black butterfly floating around the stage but that may just be my ageing memory !

Great recording but curiously MOR-ish.

I am waiting for ‘Time For A Change’ to be reissued on vinyl. There’s only one copy available on discogs and some clown wants £155 for it !

Fresh Sounds reissue

Excellent !

‘More Lasting Than Bronze’ 2LP

Not into Dorothy Ashby so will be skipping that one but yes, New Land did a good job on this one. I might be tempted with their Howard McGhee reissue.

I compared the new one with an original 1957 Bethlehem mono vinyl and it was a very significant improvement, surprisingly so. The LPs have been issued by a UK company and I think they have used original masters, adding alternates and a very good extra track (‘Billie’s Bounce’) to the second LP. That ‘Scenes in the City’ alternate is sort of interesting too, put together for US juke box play I believe.

The Tone Poet mono version.

The one significant Impulse cover/label mismatch I can recall are the UK Impulse reissues put out by Anchor Records (I think) here in the mid-70s. These had non-laminated US covers but with UK vinyl and labels. I bought a number of them.

Definitely very under-rated and by one of his best lineups. Was listening to the recent 2LP set the other day. With extra material to the original Bethlehem LP and it sounds way better too, in stereo and with the reverb taken off.

First impressions - outstanding.

I remember when that came out there were reviewers/critics that slated this release due to side 4 ! Mono box version - great !

Japanese Verve - signed on the back by Tal.

Liberty/NY, mono