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The Buddy Rich is on back-order? Damn !

Mr Crapper Roy Cropper Mr Byrite

More of the white stuff - and it looks set to stay. A bit of a hair-raising drive back today. Went 'off piste' and began to regret it when I passed several 4x4s who couldn't deal with the ice and at the front of them - a police car stuck in a ditch with the policeman digging himself out. I made it back !

"Government Will Grow" They sure got that right. Even back in 1931 that was a given though !

Berry Gordy Gordo Gecko

Corin Redgrave Vanessa Regrave Lynne Redgrave

Particularly pleased to hear about the Sam Rivers big band stuff . Spiffing good news, what !

MFP's reverb, poor vinyl quality and the London Underground don't help on that one. I never got beyond 10 seconds into the first track of side 1. !

'Happy New Year/Its Xmas Time' Sun Ra singles issue. Included on that fabulous Evidence 2CD 'The Singles' set. Can't beat Miles 'Blue Xmas' bah humbug either.

Bunky Green Dodo Greene Hughie Green

Krusty The Clown The Joker Bozo

Welcome !

Donald Byrd Charlie Byrd William Byrd

This Tubby Hayes appearance comes to mind: And Joe Harriott with Chris Barber's band.

Hey, no problem Manfred. Glad to help ! The band didn't play any of the Blake material, although I have seen the Village Band play at least one track of this material. One thing they did do was a great version of Kurt Weil's 'Alabama Song', which Mike said had defeated him every other time he had tried it in the past. This version full of 'cabaret' atmosphere, with Kate Westbrook on vocals of course. They also did a pretty far-out arrangement of a track called 'Graffiti', which was totally new to me. Feature for Dave Holdsworth and Lou Gare - to add 'graffiti' to the sonic background, per Mike's spoken intro. I know that Mike and Kate do have a big following over in Germany, Switzerland etc. - and that there is a website in Germany hosted by a great enthusiast/friend of theirs over there. Here's the link:Westbrook German Site Looks like the Brass Band just did a gig in Vienna !

Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury - CD1. The 'Quintessence' session.

That's gem's going on shortly (Prestige blue label, mono). after 'Moody's Workshop Vol 1' (Prestige blue label, electronically rechanneled stereo) Nice one. King did their usual fine job with the reissue of this one.

Award for the worst signature handwriting - Andrew Hill ! (God bless him).

A good obituary writeup for Mr Moody in today's Daily Telegraph. Never realised he'd played in Liberace's band. Moody Obit

Nice !

I got a nice greeting and signature on a 'Bear At Barnwood' flyer courtesy of a friend from Tal, when Tal was doing a gig there. I just wish that I'd had the chance to see it (was out of the country at the time). Never did get to see Tal Farlow, sadly. Nice one John re: the Ornette box !

Really excellent concert last night. Even though it took 30 minutes waiting for fish & chips and 20 minutes to pull a pint (Teignmouth time warp? ). This was the first concert by the band and apparanetly they only had 4 rehearsals of the music beforehand - which considering the results was an incredible achievement. The music was very varied - lots of Ellington, lovingly re-created in fine arrangements and also 4 numbers from the 'Citadel/Room 315' album. The band had electric piano and congas, so these arrangements grooved really nicely. And then to finish it all off, Mike handed out bags of party poppers for audience participation 'a la Rahsaan Roland Kirk' on his arrangement of 'Jingle Bells'. Pretty well all of the band had feature spots during the two sets - some good features for Dave Holdsworth. Some new arrangements by Mike as well - one of which he apparently had burned the midnight oil this week to put together for the concert in a big band version. Let's hope that this band records soon. Unmissable !

Excellent ! A couple of my Mosaics are signed and personalised - Andrew Hill and Sam Rivers. Fond memories whenever I open those booklets. One of the used LPs I've got was a Gerorge Braith Blue Note original and he had signed it to 'Foxy'.

Thatcher Milk Snatcher Bill Deedes BillF

Saw this movie featuring her recently. A very credible performance - and it's certainly not your average movie material: Irina Palm