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Two excellent guitarists I remember from my years in Toronto - Ed Bickert and Reg Schwager. Glad I was able to catch both of them !

Donald Byrd 'Byrd In Flight' (BN 47W63rd DG mono)

That Savoy 1970s reissue 'Long Green' was one of the first sessions I heard from him and it remains a favourite too.

Zoot Fozzy Bear Beaker

Commodore Vol 1 and Nat King Cole Capitol need cracking open once again.

Really sorry to hear that this news has been confirmed. RIP and thanks for some wonderful recordings.

Spot on ! I thought he looked familiar - I'm sure I've come across him at Mole and yes, he was manic !

Yes, I've got both volumes of 'Simply Not Cricket'. Bought them at the Bath Festival many years ago. They are French publications with very little written content but a very useful listing of 'Brit jazz' albums and the accompanying cover art (in black and white).

I've a hunch it might not.. Will tread carefully on this one as a result of Bev's comments. Shame - was looking forward to it ! Maybe we should write 'The Book' ourselves. Post-retirement project perhaps?

Last time I played the 2LP set those low frequency resonances almost lifted the ceiling ! This is one LP set that contravenes nuclear arms non-proliferation treaties.

I remember 'Time' magazine doing a whole article on Woody back in the 1980s and the article mentioning this. As to gamblers - Joe Harriott was keen on the bookies, I believe.

He lived very modestly, in a bog-standard semi in Andover and spent the last decade or two searching for UFOs on Salisbury Plain, apparently. RIP.

DeAnne Julius Gideon Fred Goodwin

Agree with what Roger said about the 'Innovations In British Jazz'. Contains quite a bit of good information but the content is all over the place and really needed strict editing. The Ian Carr 'Music Outside' book remains the 'gold standard' for me too.

I think I had 'horse' during a meat banquet in Switzerland some years ago - hare, vennison, bison and other select cuts were on the menu. It tasted fine.

Guess I should have bought the copy in Foyles and used the 10% student discount..

Have been a very big fan since buying deletion copy Liberty cassettes of 'Sixth Sense' and 'Caramba' many moons ago (very cheap too - 50p each by mail order courtesy of 'Melody Maker'). Great poise and attack in his trumpet playing and always superb inner logic in his solos. The admiration for his playing remains undimished. So many great sideman sessions come to mind but Lonnie Smith's 'Think', Larry Young's 'Mother Ship' and that session with Charles Earland ('Intensity') are particular favourites. Plus that great Grachan Moncur album of course.

Happy Birthday ! :party:

Now we're talking ! I'm going to have to pick up this one I guess - and pretend that I'm this guy when reading it.

I seem to remember a bit of that in the 'newer' shop over in Shaftesbury Avenue. Bop sides being drowned out by delta blues at full wack.

Yes, know exactly where you mean. Red brick emporium of Chinese and Itialian-ish tourist eateries and small stores. That's the one ! And your comment would also tie up with my recollections of CCR of that period. It must indeed have been Collets, after the move. Not sure if this has been posted but there's an absolute cornucopia on the late Ray Smith and 'Ray's Jazz' on here:- http://cargocollecti...Ray-s-Jazz-Shop Love that picture of the Ray's store front with the copy of Pete laRoca's 'Basra' on display !

Walking down Charing Cross Road yesterday and the site of the old Dobells I'm pretty sure now that I never ever saw the place at its original site and that it had already moved (Tower St?) by the time that I started checking these places out. This is neat. Footage of Charlie Watts delving the racks in Rays, including 'Rare as Hen's Teeth'. From ITN News

Ah - Sandy Brown meets John McLaughlin and Kenny Wheeler. The Fontana LP cover picture of Sandy freezing his butt off with the sporan was taken in the cold, dank environs of Dobells' I believe. No wonder he's looking so peeved off on it !

I remember coming across a copy of that in the upstairs section of Mole Jazz. The whole thing almost fell apart in my hands !

Whoahh !