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Strange - availability of good and varied bread has rarely been better here. Not cheap though and prices have gone up significantly thanks to that nonentity out East. Plenty of garbage bread out there as well. 🤮 I’ll pass !

Other fine releases by them include the Don Cherry ‘Cherry Jam’, Buddy Rich ‘Just In Time’ and Alan Wakeman Octet 2LP set. Never heard the Trible.

They did the fabulous Tubby Hayes Fontana LP box set. Superb job done. I’ll be looking out for this one on the day, that QR code as well.

The story above is very sad to read. Jerry Dodgion was a fine pro and really excellent musician. So many great bands he played with and recordings he was on. Saw him just the once but it left a lasting impression. I’ll spin the Duke Pearson Big Band in his memory today - RIP.

I’ll be tempted with the Miles ‘Turnaround’, those Miles issues have been fun so far, albeit material taken from the box sets. The two Left Bank sets will be of interest as well (although just the Shirley Scott seems to be on the UK list). Not sure about the Bill Evans 3LP Danish thing - could be expensive.. There’s also this one on Gearbox. Not forgetting also the ‘Mr Benn’ album, featuring Duncan Lamont and co ! In summary... empty your pockets.

His wife was English - lived in Brighton in latter days I think. I have the feeling that Clifford Jarvis lived there too (or was it Hastings).

Still no sign of mine yet. The tracking system Mosaic sent a link for doesn’t throw any light as to where it is either. The combination of the US plus the UK mail system is the pits. Now that I have posted this, no doubt it will arrive..

All the main Prestige albums - ‘Saxophone Colossus’, ‘Tenor Madness’, ‘Plus One’, ‘Worktime’ etc. Sound is very good. Get this one and the ‘Saxophone Colossus and More’ Prestige Twofer and you are pretty well sorted for Rollins on Prestige vinyl, unless very big bucks beckons.

Newbury Comics - that was the place. The Duane Tatro ‘Jazz For Moderns’ was one I picked up at their big sale too.

I remember a big ‘splurge’ on these OJC CDs back in the early days of this Board, or maybe it was with the BNBB? One of the US sellers was clearing out many of the more obscure titles for a few bucks a pop. I remember putting in a big order via a kind member of the board. Years later, YOPP Covent Garden, London branch over here also did a clearout of much of the catalogue at £3 per disk and they were also offering some of the box sets too. ‘Fill Your Boots’ time !

Awesome twofer.

I’ve always liked the cover art for the UK Esquire LP version of ‘Rites’. Never seen a copy though.

Yes, it’s very good - and beautifully recorded.

CDs 3 to 5 this afternoon. Bliss !

Ha - that’s where Mosaic comes in useful again. The sound on their ‘Complete MJQ Atlantic Studio’ set is pretty good as well. Those old MJQ albums on Atlantic and London can be a bit of a gamble. I find that both Dutch and UK Fontana’s from the early 60s can be a bit iffy. Surface noise can be a problem.

‘Mumbles’ would be from one of those albums with the Big Bad Band. I remember him doing that one with the Big Bad Band on a BBC TV broadcast circa 1975/76, filmed in London. I don’t think it has ever been repeated that I know of, just a half hour show. Remember being surprised at the time that the trumpets included Richard Williams, along with names such as Chris Woods in the saxes.

Miles was the expert at on-the-fly conversions of bum notes into pearls !

The Record Store Day lineup beckons, I guess..🙄 On ‘Affinity’? - If so, I saw a copy of that one the other day and nearly picked it up. Is it really that bad?

One of his very best - not that there are any weak ones that I’m aware of.

‘Portraits’ does sound much better on the Mosaic CD set. Those Denons were very expensive over here too. Up there with Blue Note King releases and more.

I was just disappointed that there was nothing on flights to Tierra Del Fuego.

I saw him in Summer 1980 at RFH, London in a lineup with Michael Brecker as part of a George Wein concert bill ‘Tribute to Charlie Parker’.

Had a skim through it and there is good coverage of his jazz involvement. There’s mention of the Mike Taylor Trio, ‘Escalator over the Hill’, Tony Williams Lifetime, Kip Hanrahan and Graham Bond Organisation. There’s even mention of his friendship with Don Pullen. Bruce provided much input to the book - looks a good one. I think I’ll also pick up Harry Shapiro’s earlier book on Graham Bond too, if I can find it. The book on Bruce takes the story up to about 2010, when he was still alive. So good that his later years were, by the sound of it, happy ones. Theres a good story in there of Bruce and Larry Young seeing a UFO on the way to a Manchester gig by Lifetime in 1970 and being blown away by it. That was a bumper UFO period over here !

Disk Union

Just picked up a copy of the Jack Bruce biography ‘Composing Himself’ for £1! Wading in..