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Wow. I got mine for $25 used not long after moving to Austin a few years ago. Seemed like a reasonable price at the time! Market's not getting any better on this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTHONY-BRAXTON-WILLISAU-QUARTET-1991-hat-4CD-/320726968202?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D1%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1430918513608068819#ht_735wt_948 This one is up there with Vancouver condos in the Ponzi scheme league table.

Great disc! I have it on HMV vinyl with a label of this sort: I saw that Gillespie band on tour in 1959 with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and the Buck Clayton All Stars. The good old 'Nipper' label.

Reverend Timothy Farthing The Mayor The Verger

I'm pretty sure I saw him with Walton too - although the last performance I saw of him was with JJ Johnson I think. I have the feeling I saw him guesting with Hank Jones in LA back in 1999 too - he was very active around then. Hopefully his profile will return to more prominence.

Thanks for that !

Archie Shepp 'The Way Ahead' (Impulse red/black, stereo)

Shorts McConnell Nica Sir Herbert Gussett Herbert Sutcliffe Matthew Herbert Herbie

Happy Birthday !

Archie Shepp 'On This Night' (Impulse red/black, stereo)

I've got this one from 'back in the day'.

Miles Davis 'Filles De Killimanjaro' (Dutch CBS orig., stereo)

Alan Ball Johnny Ball Zoe Ball

Both times I have seen/heard him he was wonderful. First time was with Jeanne Lee plus Jane Bunnett and her group, the second time with Henry Grimes. This is a musician who is truly master of both 'time' and 'free'.

Sweets Candy Dulfer Duffy Jackson Duffy Maureen Duffy 'Tin Tin' Duffy

Happy Birthday !

This book is a classic. I quote (page 103): "You must not imagine these clubs as 'night-clubs' or 'dives' designed to fleece the members. They were, as are most of the Jazz Clubs of today, places where people with similar interests could exchange views and listen to records or small bands playing their kind of music. They were normally 'dry' (which also applies to most of the Jazz Clubs now), where sometimes soft drinks or tea could be had."

Al Gaffa The Gaffer Tea Mr Shifter

Just checked out my copy from the bookshelf Bill and it is indeed 'Enjoying Jazz' published by Phoenix House at 11/6d with Chris Barber, trumpeter E T Mensah and the man with the Goatee on the front. There is a chapter on 'Bop, Progressive, Cool and Mainstream' so maybe I was being a bit mean.. Lots of recommendations about where to hear trad in Manchester in the back of the book. Hey, where did that post go?

Harris's book must have been really ancient history by the time you got to it! I read it in 1957 at the age of 17 and spent a few months as a "jazz purist". His extraordinary message seemed to be that if a band hadn't got a banjo in it, it was no longer jazz and that Ellington ceased to play jazz when he added saxophones in the late 20s!!! Fortunately, Bird, Diz, Monk and Miles blasted me out of that way of thinking when I was 18. I think Charlie Parker got about half a paragraph in that book. Fortunately, I cottoned onto the omission pretty quickly. I read Philip Larkin's tome not long afterwards and amazingly came out of it all pretty undamaged ! There was a big difference between the standard of academic teaching between the Catholic and non-Catholic places. Basically, the feeling was that you didn't have much chance of ever progressing to University and beyond with the former.

Sounds very similar to the first book on the subject I ever read - a book by mouldy-fig goateed old codger Rex Harris in the school library circa 1975. I was hooked from that point on. I still have that book somewhere.. I can remember that influence extending into Northern England, the priests (or their sidekicks) calling round on houses to check that the registered catholic kids were going to the "right" school. I wonder if that blinkered stuff still goes on?

Ian Carr 'Belladonna' (Vertigo, swirl)

According to my spreadsheet it is your birthday so - Happy Birthday !

Nick Kent Clark Kent Emmanuel Kant

Chollie Mingus Sue Mingus Fred Cohen

Sounds like me..