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Garrick/Keane - 'Rising Stars' (Trunk Records). First listen - interesting stuff, particularly the 'A Case Of Jazz' Airborne EP material. Glad I don't now have to track down one of 99 copies printed of that EP !

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I've got the CD and an LP on order from the Man himself. Looking forward to it.

Some of these A-holes even take the copper cabling used for signaling trains, from the side of railway tracks. No sense of values whatsoever.

The only credible explanation is that the dollar isn't what it was, I guess. Oh wait - neither is everything else..

You can't believe it, can you? An unlikely but very good combination (I guess Dennis Preston facilitated it). Stan's arranging of this vintage was hugely under-rated (as any of the Big Brass albums demonstrates). Funilly enough, Acker was on that BBC4 Top Of The Pops repeat the other night from 1976. Top 20 no less (along with the Bee Gees and Elton/Kiki Dee )

That one has got to be just about the coolest cover design ever !

I think they played 3 numbers from that album at the Teignmouth gig I saw. Enjoy the Lakes ! (and hope that the rain eases up )

Acker Bilk/Stan Tracey Strings 'Horn Of Plenty' (UK Columbia, stereo)

Sounds like the transport may be in the early stages of being on the way out.

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Of note to any followers of Mesrs Keane and Garrick - an issue of some 'Airborne' material and also stuff from the Garrick archives. Details here: Rising Stars Hastings Girls Choir?

I've felt that way about this 'rag' for many a year. A waste of good toilet paper IMO.

Didn't Gil Evans arrange that bit? - not inconceivable that Gil would have drawn upon this bit of Debussy.

The Guardian has now made available its obituary of Graham Collier here Clifford - maybe it is worth trying to contact John Gill and ask if it is OK to make the transcript available? It would be great if that was the case.

Even several days later the news still leaves me totally shocked. Especially so as he was still very much active on the music front and very active on his blog and publishing endevours. It has certainly left a palpable gap on the 'scene' over here, in the same way that Harry Beckett's passing did.

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Elvin Jones 'Dear John C' (HMV, mono)

I think both the stereo and mono versions were around in 1967, John. I've 'A Love Supreme' in mono - from slightly earlier though. Just checked Archie Shepp 'On This Night' and that is definitely mono.

I have the UK mono too - sounds good, nice full sound. I've always viewed those HMVs as 'comparable' sonically with the original Impulses.

There's another BGO twofer compilation coming up - 'Symphony of Scorpions' plus the Malcolm Lowry tribute I think. Sadly, this happens just as Graham's music was getting some deservedly greater exposure and with much of his earlier catalogue now being reissued. A composer/arranger in the Mingus tradition from the start - and for sure one of the very best that Europe has produced. First became aware of his music via an obscure educational LP borrowed from school back in the 70s ! - also a good overview of his work in Ian Carr's 'Music Outside'. Took some effort to find a copy of the LP, decades later.

Hi Bob, didn't see you in Totnes . It was a really splendid gig, well played by everybody - with all the the summer's previous performances under their belt. Hi there Frank ! Glad it went well, circumstances totally conspired against me. It would have required an impossibly long & fast drive after work in poor weather to make the 7.30 start and I heard that night that the Totnes by-pass had been closed off due to an accident so maybe it's just as well I didn't actually set off. Will definitely plan on seeing another Westbrook show this year though. Did they reprise the numbers from 'Citadel/Room 315'? That was a highlight of the gig that I saw.

Very shocked by this news. Thanks for posting, Christiern.