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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

Jacqui Smith Jess Yates Oona King

Today I will be cracking open the Chu Berry box. It has sat unopened for nearly a year..

That Gil Evans is very enjoyable ! Now spinning - MJQ 'Looking Back at the Modern Jazz Quartet' (Esquire, mono RVG). Early Prestige sides. Followed by Herbie Mann 'Let Me Tell You' (Milestone, 2LP) 70s twofer.

A bit risque ! Do they do an 'Inner Urge'? Bl**dy hell ! Can't believe some of the titles they have on there. 'Its Time' and Tony Williams 'Spring' tee shirts for the Summer would be nice. Not the sort of thing I thought I would ever see on a t-shirt. Agree that they look on the small size. Why is it that UK t-shirts are always sized for teenage stick insects and not for the likes of most of us? It would be nice if some company did the same thing but with really good quality cotton sweat shirts that last longer than a week. I have the suspicion that these t-shirts will get baggy pretty fast and not last more than a few washs.

Torygraph Article One or two interesting items listed here. Early Hank and Coltrane 'Cosmic Music' make the cut. A pretty dubious list, I think. Someone should tell them all to invest in Blue Note 'Applause' pressings..

Yes. The guys in Mole clearly never went on the 'Have a Nice Day' Customer Relations Course! No 'Stakeholder Management' there..