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That’s a very welcome reissue of an album that was previously very hard to find - and expensive - on the MPS/BASF label.

Some utter BS on the Hoffman Board about how this is a lesser title to be avoided. Rubbish - it is excellent. Anyone in the US who got one at $5 from Acoustic Sounds has got a steal.

I’m also reminded that Dusko was a prominent member of Woody Herman’s mid 60s Herd and featured on albums such as ‘Jazz Hoot’. What a trumpet section that was ! With Tony Coe’s recent passing, there can’t be many members of the original band lineups left. The only one I can think of is trombonist Erik Van Lier.

I’ll probably pick up the CD version - it would be nice if they issued ‘Prescriptions Filled’ also on LP. With Gearbox doing the mastering the LP version is also tempting. Only ever seen the original LP once in shops but I passed on it at the time. Seeing this reminds me that our good and missed late friend JohnS was a big Billy Bang enthusiast - I wonder if he saw the band on this particular UK visit?

Sad news but he lived a good long life. Another stalwart of the Clarke/Boland Big Band has left us - I’ll dig out his ‘Swinging Macedonia’ album.

They have only done a few of them. There was an earlier ‘Journey Into Jazz’ but that is sold out. Looks like the BBC Transcription CDs they did might also be sold out. For the very early Fontanas, Japanese CD reissues (if they have done them) might be the best bet. Don’t forget ‘Windmill Tilter’ by the Dankworth Band featuring Kenny Wheeler as well. A masterpiece. The Dankworth Band version of ‘African Waltz’ actually preceded Cannonball’s (ripoff) version on Riverside and was a Top 10 hit here in about 1961 I think. The BBC have film of the band playing it at the Royal Variety Performance in front of Her Late Maj. - a great bit of film. Recently rebroadcast by BBC4 on their ‘Dankworth Night’, as was some actual film of the ‘What The Dickens’ recording sessions.

Their online store is here - https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/products.php?cat=377

Dutton Vocalion have reissued a number of his Fontana and Philips albums from the 1960s and early 70s on CD, including ‘Zodiac Variations’.

Need to dig that one out. Those Riverside/Fantasy big boxes by Evans, Pepper, Mingus, Montgomery etc. are fabulous and still hold up well.

Picked up a copy of the Konitz/Mulligan Tone Poet. Some good deals to be had (especially in the US).

No word received here yet.

Several weeks hence my set is now tracking and at the USPS distribution centre so who knows, I might even get it..🙄

Also in the Farmer/Golson Mosaic Box I believe.

Sounds good to me !

CDs 3 and 4, including the Count Basie West Coast lineup tribute session. Always regret not going up to Benny and saying hello and thanks when I had the chance. He was feet away.

Yeah, it took forever to sell out in the CD version, although the LP sets cleared much quicker (I guess they were quite few). This is one set that I definitely need to dig out again.

Agree with every word of that. Was that an actual Mosaic Singles? - Discogs doesn’t show it as such, was reissued after that series ended I think.

Well said !

Presumably BillF would have been in the audience?

I’ve been giving the ‘Night is Scott..’ album a few spins on CD and it is really good. Also some nice Tracey and Ranglin on there too. As mentioned, it is a mix of tracks with strings and small group tracks and mainly ballads. The Redial CD version sounds really good. I also have it on Fontana LP in a mono version. Producer Terry Brown mentioned above was the grandfather, I think, of trumpeter Yazz Ahmed.

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I think the (then new) Gerald Wilson and Jacquet/Phillips (just about to go out of print) on LP were the first ‘full’ ones I bought, also a partial Jackie McLean and Larry Young on CD that Scott kindly put together for me. That was about 20 years ago. Back in Mosaic’s infancy their sets were obscure rarities over here which I read about in magazines but never saw. In more recent years I have managed to fill the gaps, including those old LP sets. I used to get the Mosaic magazine mailed out and have kept them.

Seems like only yesterday that we all did the mad dash scramble over from the BNBB ! Congrats and thanks !

Reel to Real 2LP. Some good Land - and Carmell Jones - at Seattle Penthouse. Another Kevin Gray mastering. That artwork is worthy of 32 Jazz !

I caught one night of that particular Blakey double bill with McCorkle. Her band had Keith Ingham on piano I think. Yes, I remember that ‘membership’ thing. All to do with West End licensing laws back then I think. The other thing was that to buy (fairly extortionate) alcohol after midnight you had to also order food of some description. The popular option was some form of non-descript sandwich. On the other hand, I quite liked Ronnie’s spag bol offering. Back in 1981 the club was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy due to tax arrears and a severe recession. In the end the club was bailed out thanks to generosity of various friends such as Chris Blackwell of Island Records. It was a very different Soho then compared to now. Much cleaned up and obviously affluent now, although I feel that much of the likeable and unique edgy character of the area has now gone. A shame.