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Just driven through one heck of a downpour. New car too - not the most auspicious time to test the brakes in the wet !

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Anyone interested in the last few years of Tubby's career (when he took an interesting turn towards collaborations with the avant-garde) is recommended to get hold of the Splinters 'Split The Difference' disk on Reel Recordings and the Ian Hamer 'Acropolis' 2CD on Jasmine.

I was just thinking the same thing.

The Japanese Fontana CDs of 'Down In The Village' and 'Late Spot..' are pretty well comparable to the Fontana LPs, sonically. Fabulous live recordings. 'Mexican Green' is to my mind his best overall recording. It all came together brilliantly on that one.

Newport's not too far off your beat, even though it is in Wales. Or you can order off the web... http://www.diversevinyl.com/search.options.php?cat=2&kw=&action=search&order=Artist&dir=ASC Oh, it's a Workers' co-operative. MG Yep, I know Diverse Vinyl and have occasionally popped over the Severn Bridge to call in in person ! Nice shop.

Nice new site Roger - bookmarked, found it dead easy to manoeuver around. Thanks also for the heads-up re: the new Gearbox LP with the pre 'Heart Is A Lotus' session.

Too bad that most of the independent vinyl outlets in this neck of the woods went bust when the banks imploded circa 2007-8,,

Head Man - Not sure but perhaps with it being a Lansdowne session the rights are owned by Universal Europe and maybe this one has complications with respect to ownership rights which are not applicable to 'Under Milk Wood Suite' etc and which allowed 'Re-Steamed' to reissue them. Personally, I would also love to see Tracey's 'The Latin American Caper' come out on CD - that one is pretty obscure.

Dankworth and Tracey's arranging are both very under-rated. Great craftsmanship in both cases. Check out the Dankworth albums originally on Fontana and reissued by Vocalion ('What The Dickens', 'The Zodiac Variations', '$1,000,000 Collection' etc.) and also the various Stan Tracey Big Brass albums (more difficult to get hold of on CD in most cases). Love the way in particular that Tracey writes for brass and its a shame that he didn't write much for bigger groups from the 1970s onwards. There was a great TV broadcast of the Stan Tracey Big Brass back plus featured star soloists in around 1968/9 doing a Duke Ellington Tribute called 'We Love You Madly..' (the BBC re-broadcast it a few years ago). UK Columbia/Denis Preston also released an LP by the same line-up (although it was recorded separately at Lansdowne Studios and not at the BBC). The original BBC broadcast was notable for being the only known film in existence of Joe Harriott 'in action'.

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The 'Live at the Hopbine' and 'Live at the Dancing Slipper' releases on Harkit are both worth well getting, if you can find them. Not bad sound quality, fine Hayes and good notes by Simon Spillett. Harkit also did a nice 1960s BBC Foreign Service Transcription session (briefly on LP too) but it was yanked from the market I think.

Clark Terry 'Night Life' (UK Transatlantic/Xtra mono issue of the Prestige) Arranged by Oliver Nelson

Isn't that place in Manitoba or Saskatchewan?

A good place to start would be that new 6CD set with the 'Complete Tempo Recordings' on Acrobat. Not expensive either. Check out those titles with the Jazz Couriers - fabulous. http://www.acrobatmusic.net/?cid=5&AlbumId=807

No more of those are required..

I guess they picked the 'Alexander' bit from the last Tsar and the 'Louis' must have come from Lord Mountbatten. Covering all bases...

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Exactly. That's why there's a royalfest here every few months. It's either that.... or Operation Yewtree..

Damn...fell asleep before the podcast came on

Wow, I've not seen that cover for more than 50 years.. Interesting, John. Certainly not one you see around too much on LP. The Trunk site has it on mp3 I think. Forgot to mention that there are also some Ray Premru Group tracks on there too. Interesting to hear Shake Keane outside the 'Harriott' context. I think this recording was done around the same time that the Harriott group were recording 'Abstract'.

Happy Birthday ! :party: