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'Bill Dixon 7-Tette/Archie Shepp NYC5' (Savoy orig, mono) Sounds like it was recorded in the Gents but great music, nevertheless..

Don't speak too soon..(echoes of Michael Fish)

'Jazzwise' reviewed a single DVD compilation of this stuff this month - precursor to the main event. Review was very favourable.

Miles Davis 'On The Corner' (UK CBS orig.)

I'm tempted.. Don't have the CD box.

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or 'From George Lewis to George Lewis'.. I assume that there were not really that many George Lewis LPs in the rack and this was just a placeholder. Converted dormitory bunk bed? Or GCSE A* !

kerosene? Happy Birthday !

Wayne Shorter - 'Night Dreamer', 'Speak No Evil' and 'The All Seeing Eye' (all BN NY USA, mono)

Article in the inside back page of Jazz Journal this month (Alan Luff) mentioning Imhofs and just about every other long-gone store in London. 'Jazzwise' also has a nice little article by Valerie Wilmer on 'Dave Carey's Swing Shop' in Streatham.

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Sorry to hear that - I suspected as much. As an Engineer I take an interest in the quality and type of training these kids are getting before they come into industry. Unfortunately a lot of them are going to end up leaving school with worthless pieces of paper, even with 'As' etc (A* being the new A and all that so the current 'A' is really a 'B' or less). One thing I find particularly depressing is the way that 'Media Studies' has been trumpetted as the thing to get a qualification in over the last decade. Totally useless - we will end up with a nation of Jonathon Wosses. 'B Ark crew' ready to board... telephone sanitisers, estate agents, investment bankers to the left.

Sadly, too many 'real' subjects have been sidelined as kids go for the easy options - 'PT' (or whatever they call it now), sociology and 'General Science'. The rot started to creep in around 1974 when in maths the old, rigourous Euclidian geometry was kicked out in favour of the likes of venn diangrams and topograghy ! (I put the last one down to too much listening to Yes albums at teacher training college ) Spinning Jennys... it's all coming back to me now. James Hargreaves, Abraham Darby, Turnip Townsend, The Luddites....

Yes, it seems to be a period that always has been given better school coverage in Northern schhols than the South. I ended up doing the move South right in the middle of the old 'O' level syllabus. Down here the Southern Universities curriculum was focused on 'modern social history' (Turnip Townsend, Jethro Tull and similar agricultural crap). I ended up doing the Northern syllabus European Political/Economic 1870-1945 paper (Bismarck, WW1 etc.) on my own by special arrangement (class of one, ended up sitting through a latin class effectively teaching myself in this stuff with occasional tutorials and got an 'A' ). Back to the photties..

Good to hear that the local food standards have passed it with flying colours..

Try telling that to the boss as an excuse as to why you were late getting to work.

That must have been pretty well the spot where Harold's army camped the night before the battle, boozing it up to recover from their Northern exertions. Spooky ! Good to hear that Hastings is still covered in some schools at least - although I suspect that a lot of schools skip over it now. I remember doing a whole term dominated by Anglo Saxon and Viking history with lots of coverage of York (Erik Bloodaxe etc.) - but that was in the an area that was once part of the 'Danelaw'. I suspect that these days it is hardly covered.

Lovely! At one time the CD held my record for overpayment - £21 at HMV! "Those were the days" isn't always the watchword where record buying is concerned. £21 for a CD !! No wonder the whole kaboosh fell apart. Come to think of it, I can remember the time when most CDs here were £16-17 or thereabouts and that was for non-imports too. If that is the first Blue Note 'Turnaround' CD reissue I think I paid about $12 Cdn plus tax for it at Sam The Record Man ie. about $15. £7-8 at the time, a veritable bargain !

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In the 1990s and early 2000s that was the best of the lot of the big chains. Huge range and excellent selection of (expensive) Japanese imports. Good deals on Miles Davis box sets too ! That transparent floor used to always freak me out though. That Oxford Street HMV (Bond St Branch, original road side) - come to think of it, I do remember when the jazz section was 'underground'. Picked up quite a few deletions there 'back in the day' - including Blue Note Reissue Series. Interesting to see also that the LP racks were using the old lettered 'price code' system. Remember that being used in some places.

'We Want Miles' has really grown on me over the years. Didn't like it that much when it came out - however there is some very incisive playing. Plus Al Foster in particular is very much on form and his power is captured very well in Teo's production. 'Decoy' is one that I have played over the years again and again. Some weak spots in places for sure (I don't much likme the live Montreal tracks) - but a very interesting listen.

About all I recognise is the University of London scarfe on one of the photos !

Happy Birthday to Mr Shorter !

I personally find it thoroughly excellent that we can currently buy a 66 CD 'big box' with the 'Complete' Miles Columbia - or alternatively for those 'dabbling' just the 20CD 'highlights' version. When I think of the sheer all-out hassle of soucing even 1/4 of these albums on vinyl on half-way decent pressings back in the day (usually from Holland, Italy, Germany) I realise that we are truly spoiled these days.