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My re-issue of the RRK 'Rahsaan, Rahsaan' LP turned out to be Lee Morgan's 'Candy' ! Never had a similar problem with Black Lion CDs or LPs though.

Best Wishes 'Highness ! :party: One year nearer to 'old-git'-dom like the rest of us

"Wayne Shorter: Quartet and BBC Concert Orchestra - Barbican" About time I paid a return trip to the Barbican to see Wayne & co.

Stuff, CDs 2 and 3

Stuff Smith, CD1

The Irish folk music in the pubs is likely to be way better ! The listing show that there's a festival in Sligo mid-July and the ones in Cork and Dublin later in the year. Link here to Limerick Jazz site: http://www.limerickjazz.com/gigs/

I've got several of those Freddie Gambrell Pacific Jazz Lps on Toshiba pressings. Will have to dig them out again.

I've got the King. Excellent sonics and dead quiet noise as per usual, worth picking up if you come across a copy.

Same here - that is a strong album. There rest of the Fo'tet never quite lived up to the promise IMO. I saw Byron's group on a Canada tour of that 'Music For Six Musicians' group when it came out. Another very good one, along with 'Tuskeegee'.

CD2 repeated spins. Brilliant !

And I hear that the price of first class domestic mail is earmarked for £1 soon. Absolute daylight robbery.. About the only thing of late where the mail has worked brilliantly from the US for me was that Miles Davis trumpet case box from PopMarket and that arrived within 4 days from somewhere in the deep South via Philly !

I never tire of that one. Yep - First stereo pressing I think. All of these Contemporaries sound great !

Belated Happy Birthday Evan ! :party:

Sonny Rollins 'Way Out West' (Contemporary DG stereo)

Cohn/Newman/Green Mosaic Select, CD1

Hampton Hawes 'For Real' (Contemorary green label DG stereo)

Another vote for Woody Shaw here. Add to 'Unity' the classic 'The Jody Grind' with Horace and sessions like 'Tex Book Tenor' with Booker Ervin. Shaw's presence on a BN date was invariably a sign of quality. Kenny Dorham - for sure with his own classics and the sessions with Joe Henderson and Andrew Hill. Get's my vote for the most 'thoughtful' of these BN trumpet stylists.

Gordon The Moron Jilted John John Shuttleworth

Yeah ! Really diggin this one - and at £15 it was a great find. As was the Contemporary stereo green label DG of Hampton Hawes 'For Real' at £12 !

Today's nice find - Howard McGhee 'Maggie's Back In Town' (Vogue/Contemporary DG stereo). Near mint !

Kate Rock-n-Roll Richard Branson Ginger Baker

Ingrid Pitt Christopher Lee Doris Karloff

Don Randi Randy Crawford Randi Hultin

Herbie Blue Note box, CD 6. 'The Prisoner' session.

Was that the Queen Elizabeth hall gig? I was there at that one too. Hill's solo set was particularly good that night. 2000/2001? I was there too, I don't recall it being very memorable. The performance by the duo certainly wasn't that memorable (yet another 'Mama Rose') and came across as under-rehearsed but the Hill solo recitation was a good one IMO. I believe that excerpts from this performance were placed on his website. Was that the Queen Elizabeth hall gig? I was there at that one too. Hill's solo set was particularly good that night. 2000/2001? Yes, that's the one. I'd gone more for Hill than Shepp and agree about the solo set. Just checked and it looks like it was 2000. Guardian review here http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2000/apr/17/jazz Thanks for this - first time I've seen that review.