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Hen Gates Mother Hen Jane Getz

Jack Black Admiral Jeremy Black Big Black

I think I'll order a copy of this - it sounds right up my street. Maybe it will be the first one South of Watford Gap (apart from Germany that is ).

Classic Columbia and Okeh Venuti and Lang set. A beautiful evening out here to enjoy this set.

Happy Birthday Evan !

Tubby Hayes 'Mexican Green' (Fontana, stereo) and Ronnie Ross 'Cleopatra's Needle' (Fontana, stereo)

Dis Pater Alan Plater Bix Beidebecke

I've still not got round to mailing in my 6 Conn tickets for the watch..

Hmm - I always enjoy listening to it ! Agree that it is not the best Hubbard or Morgan of the period and sloppy in execution but it's an atmospheric recording, nevertheless.

I certainly knew about him - but not that he'd recorded with Dick Morrissey. An unlikely combination !

Hope it's a good and jazzy one !

John Stubblefield 'Bushman Song' (Enja) and Benny Golson 'Turning Point' (Japanese Mercury)

John Handy 'Hard Work' (UK Impluse 45rpm single) and Players Association 'Can You Feel The Force' (Pye 45rpm)

Chewy Aric Eric Olthwaite

I have this fine album by her on Fontana vinyl recorded around the time of the Ronnie Scotts album. Stellar orchestra including Harold McNair and Ian Carr. I passed up that Ronnie Scotts album for £10 on one occasion - what an idiot !

I've seen it around here on occasion - but in an LP version. Never seen the CD variant.

Big Miller Big Daddy Biggus

Tubby Hayes '100% Proof' (Fontana, mono)

I like it. Good '70s British jazz-rock with some nice bonus live tracks. Mike and Kate Westbrook were interviewed on BBC Radio 3 last week in recognition of Mike's '75th and the forthcoming 'The Serpent Hit' (they played a couple of tracks from it). Can't remember the name of the show but it was one of the review programmes. Only caught it by chance ! Thanks for posting that. Peter Russell - of 'Peter Russell's Hot Record Store' fame, a shop now long, long gone alas (half the shop was jazz LPs, the other half was hi-fi kit). I've still got LPs from that place, a veritable jazz Alladin's cave in Plymouth 'back in the day'. Never realised the influence that it had on Mike Westbrook's starting out !

I hear you. I get all sorts of people claiming to be a 'friend' on that site. Lots of posers on there who think the more 'connections' they have the more 'important' they are.

Colonel Sanders Colonel Bogey The Colonel

John Coltrane 'Giant Steps' (UK London DG, mono)

Shocking news just in from Bath - 'Duck, Son & Pinker' have abruptly closed the business after over 160 years of operations. This place withstood The Corn Law riots, 2 World Wars, the Boer War, the Great Depression etc. Bath won't be the same again without the chance to amble in here and peruse. I feel very sorry for the staff caught up in this. Duck, Son & Pinker Closes

Ian Carr & Nucleus 'Alleycat' (Vertigo spaceship label, stereo) I think that LP/CD was mastered from a tape left in Neil Ardley's archive. A copy from the master I would guess - maybe the master still reside with Universal UK? I find the sound a bit compromised - especially with the roll-off at the top end, even on the LP. Great to have it though - shouldn't complain. Neil used to sell the CD from this tape on his website prior to his untimely death. I think one or two on this site (Bev?) have such copies.

Ken McIntyre 'Year Of The Iron Sheep' (United Artists Jazz, mono)