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Zoe Ball Terry Major-Ball Norma

No new news yet about it being digitalised and put on-line. In the meantime I believe that the National Jazz Archive in Essex has back-copies that can be checked in person. OK I guess if you live in or near Essex ! Just wish I had kept all of those great articles and reviews from the 1970s, when people like Steve Lake were on staff.

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Reading this will spur me to dig out the Woody Shaw Mosaic set today ! Great music, for sure. I even like the couple of vocal tracks.

This is shocking news to start the year - RIP, way way too young. A fine and very solid bassist, I think the first time I saw him was with Blakey (as a real youngster) and then in later years with his own groups. This hasn't been a very good run of jazz-related news of late..

Best Wishes and Good Health to all for 2011 !

Check out 1:30 in on this fascinating documentary - one of Sickert's main haunts for inspiration. I used to walk past that place daily after it had been flattened but before they rebuilt on the site. Many of his paintings were set in dingy rooming houses in Camden. Full of atmosphere ! Camden Music Hall - Sickert

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Isabella Blow Alexander McQueen Brenda

I need DIN output instead of RCA. Can you supply?

Happy Birthday tonym !

Hughie Green Paula Yates Jess 'The Bishop' Yates

Nice to see the photo in this month's 'Jazzwise' of a UK take of that 'Great Day In Harlem' photo, taken in Trafalgar Square about 50 years ago. Tubby Hayes, Graham Bond and Dudley Moore all in the front row !

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For sure, Osborne is absolutely smokin' on this clip. Looks like a 'must buy'. The only other video of him I've seen is that BBC TV clip from 'Omnibus' (I think) of Surman/Osborne/Skidmore. (Edited to say that I suspect it was not 'Omnibus' but the 'South Bank Show' on ITV for SOS. Nasal tones of Melvin Bragg doing the intros, I think).

Kenny Wheeler 80th Birthday Big Band at Southampton was the best concert I saw this year. Followed by David Murray and the Go Kwa Masters at the Bath Fest. Both brilliant gigs. Honourable mention also for Mike Westbrook's Big Band !

Cee Lo Greene Graham Greene I P Green

I remember some good stuff on that post-midnight 'Sounds Of Jazz' live slot with Peter Clayton (courtesy of my cheapo Made In Hong Kong transistor radio with a very iffy earpiece - Araldited repair !). Certainly remember the occasional Kenny Wheeler Big Band and stuff like Paz and the Bebop Preservation Society. And John Taylor and Michael Garrick's groups of the era (I'm sure the 'Troppo' band was on one of them). The main cause of more than a few rushed breakfasts on Monday morning due to oversleeping.. The 'trailer' from the DVD of this John Surman NDR Project on YouTube looks excellent. And what a lineup !

'Lennox Avenue Breakdown' is great. One of the very best releases of the early 1980s. I agree that the Blythe Columbias would make a mighty fine Mosaic Select. Will dig out that CD for an overdue re-spin !

It's actually the CD I was referring to - both LP's on 1 CD released by MPS Germany in the late 90's I'm lucky enough to own that CD. Same here. I picked up a copy in Canada many years ago. Time to dig it out ! Nice little booklet that came with that one too, I recall.

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Weird, as I was just watching his interview on the Jackie Paris 'Tis Autumn' DVD only half an hour ago. So sorry to hear this - RIP.

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