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Coltrane Complete Prestige Box, CD1. 'Tenor Madness' session.

Donald Byrd 'Early Byrd' (UK Blue Note 2LP compilation)

Eric Kloss 'Love and All That Jazz' (Prestige blue label stereo, 'preview' copy)

Bull Durham John Bull Churchill

That clip of Bruce Turner's Jump Band is great ! Colin Bates on piano, by the look of it.

That's interesting. I have a 77 Records test pressing of that Pete Brown session. Picked up at Mole Jazz for £1 !

Happy Birtthday Erik - hope it's a great one ! :party: It's ALWAYS Erik's birthday!

It will be interesting to see what the causes for this one were. Complacency, ineffective safety management culture, lack of enforcement/cutting of corners and failure to think outside the box when considering 'worst case scenarios' in the safing systems (and maintaining/checking them properly) no doubt are pretty high on the potential causal list.

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.