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There are a couple of copies on discogs - not cheap though. On the other hand, I’ve never ever seen a ‘cheap’ copy and never come across it in physical shops. Stonehenge site looking great this week and current conditions this year are the best time to see it, as mentioned by a staff member I spoke with. Admittedly though these days you can’t play cricket using one of the stones as a wicket, as I did as a lad..🤔

Got my ‘processing’ message some days ago but yet to hear anything about ‘shipping’. Should I contact them?

UK Columbia, mono. Was up there this afternoon - fantastic conditions.

Thinking about it again, it would be pretty hard to top ‘Un Poco Loco’ for lead track impact, on ‘The Amazing Bud Powell Vol 1’.

French East Wind. With Cedar Walton’s trio.

I’ve got quite a few Coltrane Impulses on that imprint. They must have had the European rights in the late 70s and 80s. They came right after those UK Anchor Records reissues from the mid 1970s, again have quite a few of those too. The Jasmine sleeves are flimsy and vinyl lightweight but can sound OK. Anchor Records actually came with US Impulse gatefolds of that era. Jasmine also reissued a fair bit of British Jazz recorded by Tempo, both on LP and CD. Again, they can sound good.

‘Hobo Joe’ on ‘Little Johnny C’.

Great to hear this report - looking forward to receiving the set !

2x45 Exercise Edition.

Starting with CD1, ‘Brilliant Corners’ plus ‘Way Out West’. Craft, eat your heart out..

The best source for this period, I’ve found, is the BBC documentary ‘The Street’, told by the main people then still alive that were there. That and the British Library Oral History Sound Archive, which were no doubt key sources for this dissertation/book. At £100 I’ll pass - and hear it from the ‘horse’s mouth’ ! Surely the Club 11 crowd had to go on those Queen Mary trips, see Bird etc. and bring the records back and disseminate, which would have taken it well past 1945. Admittedly Art Pepper was a military policeman in London during the tail end of WW2 in London but I guess he doesn’t factor strongly at this stage.

I’d forgotten that I had that box. Time to dig out ! And Craft can go take a hike !

Second batch of Mole T-shirts now available via Trunk as of this morning (not sure for how long) plus very limited numbers/sizes sweatshirts.

2CD

That one is in my pile - bought a few years ago and still waiting to read it ! If you search old threads I think there is also mention of an optional PDF of supplementary material, which can be separately purchased from the authors.

Elmo Hope Ensemble ‘Sounds From Rikers Island’ (Fresh Sound)

‘Jazz In Search of Itself’ (Yale University Press)

Waiting for that one to come out into the provinces so I can use up free Odeon tickets ! Not half as long though as a Ken Dodd performance - or one by Sun Ra !

Bertha Hope still very much with us, glad to say. I was fortunate to see her play on one occasion and she had her late 2nd husband Walter Booker on bass plus Leroy Williams on drums. The original LP issue, with different cover art, was ‘Sounds From Rikers Island’. I think it was on Audio Fidelty. The CD version I have is the Fresh Sounds issue. The only time I’ve seen and heard the Audio Fidelity LP issue was at a shop in Australia and not cheap. Sonics are so so-so that I’ve never bothered with LPs of it.

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Long live Dame Cleo !