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VSOP 'Tempest In The Colosseum' (CBS Sony, 2LP) Joe Newman 'Similar Souls' (Vogue Jazz Doubles, 2LP)

Picked up several fairly recently. The Herbie Mann on Riverside/Milestone. Lucky Thompson 'Dancing Sunbeam' on ABC/Impulse. Plus a few Prestige twofers including Buck Clayton 'Jam session In Swingville'. Also, how about that series of mid-price 'Vogue Jazz Doubles' that came out in the UK (and maybe also in France)? There's a Joe Newman 'Similar Souls' that I'll be putting on later. Favourites from that series include the Clifford Brown 3LP 'Complete Paris Collection', the Basie set 'Atomic Mr Chairman' and those two (or was it three?) 'West Coast Scene' twofers. All really good stuff.

No probs - I'll pass. Correct, sidewinder! Offhand, I can't recall a post-1960 US album with a photo of his face on the front or back, so I thought he might be a mystery to the group. It was the thinng pate on top that gave it away. I have a Jazz 625 film of him from about 1966 in which he looks very similar. Plus the sideburns !

Péter Esterházy Count Nicholas Esterházy Count Basie Kid From Red Bank Billy The Kid Kid Charlemagne

Matthew and Son Masters and Johnson Kinsey Millhone Tony Kinsey Cyril Fletcher Esther Rantzen

Joe Zawinul? I do - and have still got it (purchased at Mole Jazz from the deletions rack complete with trendy cut out corner in situ ). The first LP has some splendid live Bill Evans, then there's some tasty live Cecil Taylor and Steve Lacy on one of the other sides (Newport I think).

Victor Feldman?

Norma Lamont Duncan Lamont Duncan Doughnuts

Best wishes Lon !

Very best wishes, Shawn !

Art Van Damme Jerry Dammers Specials

Big credit to Henri Renaud ! I recall Renaud instigating a particularly strong jazz reissue programme for CBS France back in the 1970s. That Miles Davis flock-wallpaper box set comes to mind..

That Savoy series was flamin' excellent - totally agree, John. The first series or two was issued in the UK as well as the US and I remember picking up the Yusef Lateef and the Coltrane 'Countdown', the Fats navarro 'Fat Girl' plus that Donald Byrd 'Long Green' at the time. Also that fantastic Milt Jackson/Lucky Thompson set - still have all of them. The later series with some real obscurities was US issue only but I've picked up many of them at bargain price over the years. Where else would you get stuff like Duke Jordan's Signal-label material and twofers of that rare 'Black California' stuff (two volumes even !)? The first twofer I got I think was the Sonny Rollins on the Prestige 24000 series (the one with the 'mud' coloured cover and Rollins with a Mohican). Talk about starting out on an all time high ! The pressing quality of that series (as with the Savoys) was pretty good and still stands up well today. When that 24000 series came out it was like mana from heaven. I think I have all of the Blue Note 'brown bag' twofers apart from the Sam Rivers (for some inexplicable reason). I remember nearly playing the Elvin Jones into wear-out territory.. Great thread - which will have me revisting some of these over the weekend.

Yes, that one was good. About time the BBC repeated it !

Theres a 'BBC Radiographics Workshop' CD (reissue of the original BBC LP) that's a very good place to start - it may be OOP though. Check out also Youtube for film showing demo of the radiographic working techniques and tape manipulation. Apparently her personal tape archive of radiographic recordings (found in her attic I believe, after she died some years ago) is being restored at one of the universities (Manchester?). Some of the material from about 1970 sounded way ahead of its time - sort of prototype 'house' music, almost. What I found particularly intriguing was that one of these tracks was clearly influenced by WW2 bombing and air raid sirens - as a small child in Coventry she was witness to the blitz attack that wrecked the place. Menacing stuff ! An intriguing musical mind and gifted mathematician. Indeed, she approach music largely from a mathematical viewpoint of Fourier analysis etc. Also recommended are the Trunk CDs by one of her BBC Radiographics colleagues, John Baker - who was much more jazz oriented.

Very sad news, RIP. That is the one I'm familiar with, too.

The 'Mad Thad' was issued in the UK on NIXA (as with the Kenny Bakers) so that is probably why it has got a reissue through Vocalion. Pathe News have a colour film of the Kirchin Band rehearsing 'Carribean Fire Dance' off of the EMI compilation which is worth checking out. I think Sir George Martin produced those sessions on the compilation. 'Worlds Within Worlds' (both volumes) would be a great title for reissue. I don't think the first volume of that one ever properly made it into the shops as most copies I've heard of (a handfull) have been review copies. Comes up on ebay about once a decade !

I wonder which day and a half this will be?

William Makepeace Thackeray Shakey Jake Shakin' Stevens Mud Showaddywaddy

Son of Ice Bag Hugh Masekela Miriam Makeba

Bob Brookmeyer 4 '7 Times Wilder' (Verve, mono)

What's his name? London's loss is New York's gain.

Lord Forte Ronald McD Mr Wimpy

Stand by for a tsunami of Woody Mosaic CD sets on ebay ! Any new Woody release is to be celebrated !