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Totally agree BBS ! Of course, life was not a bed of roses then. Those scarce King Blue Notes were around (briefly) yes - at Mole and the likes. But £8-9 was a small fortune back then. Its nice to remember when you could at least fondle them in the racks.

It didn't last long - I first remember it around '77 but by '80/81 and the big recession of that time it had gone I think.

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Can't recall anything much about Dobell's but I must have been in quite a few times if only to check it out after perusing student books over the road in Foyles. Doug Dobell's face looks familiar. I'm sure I picked up a good number of deletions from there in the late 70s. Strangely enough I have a number of Dobell '77' Label test pressings that I picked up from Mole Jazz many years later for £1 each in the upstairs Alladin's Cave ! Maybe I should offer them up for the exhibition? I had better luck with LPs at that cheap outlet on the Foyles side of Charing Cross Road, which usually had stacks of Blue Note twofer deletions and Impulses. Not sure if it was an early 'Our Price'. The location now has a Chinese 'all you can eat buffet' in it, I think. Astonishing just how many excellent jazz outlets there were in the London area in the 70s/80s. At the time it was taken for granted.

Meanwhile, according to the Telegraph Dobell's is getting an exhibition. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9805473/Exhibition-planned-to-honour-historic-record-shop-Dobells.html Next up - 'Mole Jazz - The Musical'?

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Incredible that they lasted so long. Beyond last century in fact..

I was wondering if the drummer might be Bobby Rosengarden but not sure of that. Definitely Cliff Heather on trombone. CBS orchestra? Romeo Penque flute?

And record racks sized to take 78s ! Their annual January sale is missed in this house. Always a good selection of jazz DVDs too and sheet music. In the last few years though I kept seeing buckets around the place to stop the rain from coming in, never a good sign.

Didn't they buy up all of the 'Our Price' high street stores and re-badge them? Those were far more ubiquitous in the 1980s especially. That Swindon store you mention must have been 'Duck, Son & Pinker' (RIP). I bought a Lee Morgan 'Live at the Lighthouse' from that very 'boutique'. Last thing I bought from HMV Oxford St was the Mosaic Select 'Pacific Jazz Trios' so at least I went out on a high.. Must get hold of that one too ! Same thing with the Bath store - pretty good selection up to about 2007/8 then .. garbage.

A real blast from the 1970s to see that cover again !

This will affect FOPP too, who have been a good alternative to the Amazonians in recent years. The way this is going, there'll be just a couple of second-hand vinyl stores left out there. And a bunch of robots sponsored by 'X-Factor' dispensing MP3s.. A lot of these demised companies (and I am thinking of the likes of Jessops, Comet etc. here) will be regretting the day they took the bankers advice and cursed loans in the idiotic 2000s and borrowed/expanded like crazy in the UK, with the management throwing money at themselves in the process. More moronic economic management.

Most likely explanation I believe was flammable fuel vapours in one of the tanks, exacerbated by hot conditions on the tarmac and ignition by a short-circuit fault (fuel probe?).

Boy Blunder Caped Crusader Sun Ra

I agree !

How about 'Ding Dong' from 'Understanding'..

Thanks MG ! That one's on my list then.. Miles Davis Quintet Complete Columbia '65-68 box set, CD5 'I Have A Dream' session..

What's the sound like on that one Brownie? Worth having?

Couldn't be worse. Sorry to hear this. RIP Mr Gruntz.

Really? I though Wayne was looking pretty damn good, considering that he's coming up to his 80s.

Yusef Lateef with Richard Williams, Mike Nock, Ernie Farrow and James Black at Pep's, June 29th 1964.

Very sad news.

I've got a couple of those Everests. 'Back in the day' they were just about the cheapest jazz vinyl on sale.

Always had very good experiences with Mosaic helping out with damaged boxes and booklets - very helpful indeed. You should have no problem.

Happy Birthday AB ! :party: