sidewinder

well I do, for one. Especially when they've got Ringwood Ales on cask in place of overpriced lattes.. "You were lucky. We had to make do wi' tea urn" (said in broad Yorkshire voice..)

Are you buying up the entire 2nd hand jazz stock in Manchester, Bill?

I was seriously pondering an expedition out to LA to attend this event - sadly have had to hit those plans on the head. The one time I did go along to one of these (back in the late 90s - 1999 I think) was great fun !

Devil on Tambourine Anton LaVey Anton du Beke

Master Jazz Piano, CD2

It's mythical, even over here. Seems to have come and gone in a whisker !

Dan Dare Digby The Mekon

Billy Higgins Alex Higgins Mrs Miggins

With a bit of luck one day it will come out on CD. This one is like 'Hum Dono' - lost in a black hole.

Mine's a green label of that one too. I wonder if it ever came out in blue label?

Jill Sander Dick Emery Eric Laithwaite

Little Richard Little John Chicken Little

Never seen that before. What style is it in? Free (ish) jazz or something more rock based? Yes, a rare early excursion by Ian Carr into free-ish jazz. A route he didn't subsequently follow with Nucleus. These are mid-60s recordings which sneaked out some years later on the Budget Polydor label, sold a handful and promptly sank without trace !

I'm abstaining on this one. I'll likely head down to Swanage and catch some of the performances up at Bath. Not a vintage year !

Ian Carr/Jeff Clyne 'Springboard' (UK Polodor) and Rendell/Carr 'Dusk Fire' (UK Columbia Lansdowne Series, mono) I don't think John Patton's sound has ever been caught better than on that album - particularly in that pressing.

Pipi Longstocking Long John Baldry Edward Longshanks

Blofeld Mini-Me Fat B*stard

Mythical California-ish weather down here yesterday. And more of the same today !

Jenny Handley Susan Stranks Itsy & Bitsy

Alan Partridge Bill Oddie Chris Rea

Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell 'Jam Session In Swingsville' (UK Prestige 2LP, stereo). Very nice !

Patrick McGoohan Danger Man Danger Mouse

Indeed it is ! Some of the prices are pretty ballistic though (e.g. £50 for a Freddie Hubbard Pablo 2LP and £150 for Bill LeSage's 'Directions in Jazz'). Last time I was in there that rack had Bill Oddie's old mono/NY USA copy of a Dexter Gordon Blue Note (I know as it was monogrammed by Mr. O himself on the back) but inspection of this £50 'find' showed that it was pretty well beat up.

That's it - last location was location facing the door. I remember seeing Tal Farlow Norgrans in there. Before that it was under the counter I think (end of my pedantic recollections for the day ).

Another interesting obit here from The Telegraph - and yet more about the 'Hen's Teeth' vinyl box. I recall it being a rack near the counter, not so much a box on the counter itself though. Telegraph Obit