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Happy Birthday John !

Enjoyed the show but shame that Courtney P. didn't interview Don Rendell for reminiscences. I've heard that Don had a long chat with Coltrane after that Gaumont Kilburn 1961 gig. Can't believe that that cinema is now a church ! Used to pass it regularly on the bus up and down the Edgware Road.

Eric Dolphy 'Outward Bound' (Esquire, mono)

Gordon Beck 'Gyroscope' (Morgan) Mike Taylor 'Trio' (UK Columbia, mono)

Mike Taylor 'Pendulum' (UK Columbia, stereo)

Dicky Bird Donald Byrd William Byrd

John Surman - and Lol Coxhill..

Harriett 'Pink Bus' Harman Woody Herman Pee Wee Herman

Followed by an old favourite on UK CBS from 1975..

I think he was in an LA big band lineup I saw of Dizzy Gillespie alumni back in the late 1990s.

Swivell Eyed Loon Sir Christopher Wren Norman Fowler

Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer 'Tonight' (UK Fontana, mono) UK issue of the Mainstream LP - and good to be reminded of just what a fine band this was.

Moana Lot Sinclair Lott Lottie Lenya

How was it? - I thought George had retired from doing gigs.

Jack Bruce was also on double bass on Mike Taylor's 'Trio' recording for Dennis Preston/Lansdowne and also part of the lineup for NJO 'Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe', both landmark recordings. Incredible that this was around the time that Cream were at their zenith. That's the one.. I have back copies of that publication and remember reading that furour - will dig them out.

Desmond Dekker Israel Crosby Lynton Crosby

Pardon?

Finally - at long last - got my set. Great mastering by Mark Wilder, very nice. First out of the box and it's 'Perfect Machine' from 1988 with Bill Laswell and.... It's great ! maybe I should be shot?

Have a good one !

Jackie McLean 'It's Time' (BN NYC mono) 'The Fabulous Fats Navarro Vol 2' (BN Lexington)

'Jazz Monthly' I guess? The Rendell/Carrs only get 3 stars in the Penguin Guide - very miserly I always thought. Davy Graham of course used to record for Decca - and that label and its Deram offshoot also featured albums with artists who covered both jazz and folk fields e.g. Danny Thompson (who appears on the John Cameron 'Off Centre'). Maybe producer Ray Horricks helped to ferment this mix?

Best Wishes !

Yes, good session. Stealth Duke Pearson title ! Alan Skidmore Quintet 'Once Upon A Time' (Deram Nova, stereo)

Hope this group gets recorded - it will be a winner ! That version of 'Where Fortune Smiles' was amazing. I'm familiar with the performance on the Dawn LP with Karl Berger that sound almost like a nursery rhyme and also the version on Harry Beckett's 'Flare Up' but can't recall hearing a Surman baritone version before.

John Surman summed up the late 60s to 71 period tonight on stage when setting the scene for 'Tales of the Algonquin'. Lots was happening in British Jazz and things changing very fast over a very short period of time. A quantum shift in the music as a result of its freeing up by Coltrane, Ornette, Cecil and Mingus etc and lots of musicians feeling their way through the new freedoms. Not mentioned but another factor for sure must have been the incredible talent back then just reaching its full maturity. Magical time indeed !