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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.

‘Order processed’ message just received.

Long live Dame Cleo !

Digging into the hardback edition of this one by Larry Kart. A stimulating read.

An afternoon of Mosaics, whilst reading Larry Kart’s book. CD5, ‘Merry Go Round’. Splendid stuff. By way of contrast, CD1

Yes, that one and ‘Slow Drag’ will be on my list. Possibles for some of the rest, including the Hill. My shelves are full ! ’Demon’s Dance’ Liberty in good condition without cutout always seems to be elusive.

Yes, I got the email too, sale extended by a few days. Good move by Mosaic.

Sad and pretty shocking news, as the newspapers had only recently been showing him gigging on stage with Johnny Depp and looking fine. RIP. Never saw him in person but did hear him in person, years ago on the tannoy of the Long Beach Grand Prix doing ‘Star Spangled Banner’ before the start, which I still recall vividly. Someone on a BBC Radio News tribute just mentioned this - Brian May in fact.

Good grief ! Got an email saying that a set had been put on hold for me pending card payment completing, which I thought was a bit unusual, so you could be right. From past experience, I don’t recall them ever stopping preorder prices before the end of the day at US time zones.

Dusting this one off (literally), CD6 and whetting appetite for the new Mosaic. Better sound than I remembered.

Last day of the preorder discount - just put my order in. Looking forward to this ! It’s got me to dig out my 40s box and get reacquainted. Long overdue.

Good move - this is a fine set and one of my most regular Mosaic spins.

Just the job with a storm blowing outside..