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I have a 70s 2LP version, which was put out here as a German pressing I think. Sound quality pretty good I recall, will have to dig it out. That first LP of the set in particular is an absolute stonker ! Some brilliant Woody Shaw on there.

Happy Birthday !

Not Preminger but Emeric Pressburger, Powell's alter ego! Great film, also shown last week on TV on this side of the Channel! Duh (it was too early in the morning) - Pressburger, off course. There must have been an 'Entente Cordiale' cross-channel Red Shoes season ! It got high profile on the BBC website too - I have to say that Michael Powell's cinematography is just stunning. Exactly !

Fats Domino Dot Cotton Speckled Red

Check out the Mercer bio. There's quite a bit in there about Shorter's liking for sci fi and the drawing of comics as a youngster. Also about his infatuation with the Powell/Preminger movie 'The Red Shoes' - which was shown on TV here a few days ago (first time I'd seen it - a masterpiece). Have always liked 'Phantom Navigator' since it first came out, although some of the electronics now sounds a bit dated.

Osborne, Cameroon & 25 Pints A Night, Millipede & Ballsup Cleggie & Ginger Nut

Glad it went well !

All the best ! 2006 feels like an economic lifetime ago..

I keep seeing lots of stuff on CD put out by Tony Russell/Spotlite (not sure about this one) so it wouldn't suprise me if this one is also now out on CD. Will keep my eyes peeled !

I read all of this with dismay and a sense of 'deja vu'. Brings back memories of the Jazz Centre Society funding problems in the late 70s/early 80s and the shelving of the 'National Jazz Centre'. Also Ronnie Scotts on the brink of bankruptcy. Strangely enough, some of the very best evenings of music I ever saw at Scotts were during those days. Was at UCL last week and the protesters were out for the fee hikes (the governing council voted for 9% that day - quelle surpris). I can remember the protesters out there that very same spot in 1980/81 the last time the country was a busted flush but it was reductions (or capping, I think) in local authority grants that time.

Mr Tiggly Wiggly Mr Men Mr Benn

Thad Jones Mel Lewis Solid State, CD1. Still one of the greatest Mosaic boxes and fabulous accompaniment to a nice Spring day !

Captain Haddock Herge Thompson Twins

Hi John, sorry not able to make this one. Will be interested to hear how it goes.

I have a couple of them. Grant Green's 'Am I Blue' being one of them (I think it cost me 50 cents $Cdn in West Edmonton Mall ). Cover art looks like a cheap monotone facsimile of the original with a layer of colour over the top (often dung brown). Sound of these is about up there with French Pathe Marconi DMM. Not great. The one I used to see very often on this label is Bobby Hutcherson's 'Natural Illusions'.

Supposedly 10.59 GB, more or less as these things go. Thanks ! You can be sure there would have been a couple of "f-bombs" in the answer... and a couple of mothers..

Great item to have, Brownie ! Now spinning Donald Byrd 'Byrd In Flight' (BN mono - Original cover, one of those heavy vinyl 'RVG/47W63rds' from the early Liberty era. Sounds great though - apart from a couple of pops).

I can only speak for the local scene, the quantity and quality of groups gigging around here seems to be on the up over the past year - although 2008-2010 was low key during the 'crisis'. Maybe it is a North/South thing? At the end of the day, the music will be sustained by the enthusiasm local jazz clubs and sterling festivals such as Swanage, for example.

Is that an original Debut issue Brownie? Or one of those numbered limited edition 70s/80s reissues? Don't think I've ever seen that one (although at least one of the tracks is on the Debut Story CD set).

I've heard a couple of tracks of the 'Drum Spectacular' vinyl and agree it is good. Also that Vocalion are doing a very good job with these re-mastering, so all of their British Jazz reissues are worth seeking out. Stan Tracey's arranging is generally so good that irrespective of preference regarding Acker Bilk it's probably well worth snagging that Bilk with Strings. 'Blue Acker' is a suprisingly solid album IMO. Just sorry that I didn't snag that Don Rendell 'Tenorama' before it went out of print.

It's on my wish list ! Jazzwise mentions a story in the book featuring Elvin & Philly Joe Jones, a search for drugs and all piling into his dad's Hillman Minx. Sounds intriguing. and then there's Michael Garrick's book with the story of him driving Jaco Pastorius around the countryside in his 3-wheel Reliant Robin ! Echoes of Postman Pat..

Fortuitous timing Roger as the Vocalion flyer has just arrived in my mailbox this morning ! Good to see the reissue of the 'Drum Spectacular' (I'll for sure take your advice and pick it up) and those Acker Bilks (one of which seems to have Stan Tracey string arrangements) but a shame indeed that there is no more contemporary British jazz in the new list. Time to put in an order methinks and get hold of that Harry Beckett whilst it is still around.

Roger The Dodger Roger Rabbit Roger Melly

How many GB was it, as a matter of interest? (I've still to load mine in too).

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