sidewinder

Might be worth cancelling and pre-ordering with Amazon Italy! http://www.amazon.it/Movin-Complete-Verve-Studio-Recordings/dp/B005CAAUGM/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1317794847&sr=1-1 Asuming the Italian economy doesn't melt down..

Roy Schneider 'Jaws' Eddie Lockjaw Davis

No brainer. Unmissable ! (or you could take the Strata-East vinyl route)

The Onzy Matthews Select is definitely worth getting. Anyone who enjoyed the Gerald Wilson big box will probably give it the thumbs up. I haven't got the Jonah Jones single either and will possibly pass - unless someone adds a post raving about it.

My vote goes to the Farrell album with the eye floating in a bowl of peach segments. Yuck !

I'd have to be forcibly extracted with a wrench so I'll stay clear ! Japanese reissue wet-dream.

I'm having to open all doors at 6am just to cool the place down !

Damn ! Hope things are OK at Mosaic..

Been listening to the repeat of the Graham Collier interview on BBC Jazz Library. That one is essential listening - especially in view of Graham's recent passing.

Interesting - I assume that that is the 'Status'-era issue from the mid-60s. The UK Transatlantic LP has the same design.

You really know how to live the Jazz Life don't you, sidewinder! 3rd harvest this season ! - and there's still more to come. I always said that the blackberries within an arc of 20 miles around this neck of the woods were the best on the planet and I don't think I'm far wrong.

You don't have to go that far. Overcast here this morning - after a spooky red sunrise. Really? Absolutely superb down here. Painting all complete and enough time to harvest the blackberries along the lane at the front of my place. Bliss ! Hadrian's Wall was beyond their comfort zone, even then. Of course, not many 'real' Romans served there - more likely troops from the subject territories of Germania, Bosnia, Turkey, Romania etc. It always makes me laugh when I hear about our chief export to the Roman Empire back in those times. An oil-impregnated woollen cloak for keeping the weather out, worthy of Winter hobbit fashion. Sort of "proto-hoody".

$25 is a pretty good deal. As you say, the vinyl of this one sounds very good. I think mine cost about £20 and I thought I'd got a pretty good deal too. Certainly not a mint copy though.

Nice !

3rd day of hot conditions and cloudless skies coming up today - painbrushes at the ready. Weather seems to be crap North of Newcastle..

Fantastic weather the last few days. Perfect for painting the windows.

Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band, CDs 1 and 2

Blind Lemon Pie Jack Lemon Walter Mathau

'Jutta Hipp/With Zoot Sims' (Toshiba-EMI)

I think that one came out not too long after Evans passed away and was released under Gordon Beck's name. Nice one !

Yes, 'Jazzwise' has given it a rave review - it;s certainly on my (ever growing) list, having enjoyed the 'Later Octets' and seeing that one live. Stan still certainly has the chops !