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Polly Peachum Peaches Geldof Blair Peach Vicar of St Albions Rev Paisley Pope Benedict

Polly Filler Polly Toynbee Arnold Toynbee

Me too ! It's great, of course.

Really been diggin' this disk today. There are some real obscurities on there. 'Quincicasm' with fine Dick Pearce on trumpet - released by Saydisc and apparently less than 200 copies on LP. Never even heard of that one - and fine it is too. And acording to Tony H's notes one of the main protagonists subsequently had a 1970s pop hit with The Flying Lizards and 'Money'. Who would-have known it? . Ringer of the collection for me (in addition to the A-1 grade Wheeler and Dick Morrissey) must be that Johnny Hawksworth/Hampton Hawes from 'Anglo American Jazz Phase 1' on Music deWolfe and featuring the superb Peter King. Awesome ! (now where on Earth do I find a copy of that one? )

I don't think you're allowed to provide links here but if you visit the aforementioned Orgy in Rhythm site you will find that the full Impressed 3 set has been contributed by Tony Higgins. A fantastic contribution and one that shows that blogland can sometimes make up for the deficiencies of the labels. Wow - thanks for the tip. I've not heard any material from Colin Bates 'Brew' before and quite a few of the tracks are new to me. A great compilation - and I notice that Tony H. has put together 16 pages of his customary infomative and 100% value-added sleeve notes. I'm going to bind them in covers . Fabulous and stupendous !

Macavitty Tweedledum Tweedledee

John DeLorean Marty McFly McFly

Catastrophic yes but you won't regret picking this one up. I still have to give some of those sets a serious listen too. Too bad that the Art Pepper still eludes me. Blue Mitchell Blue Note, CD3

Wayne Shorter 'Speak No Evil' comes into this category. Certainly seems to have been influenced by the paranormal/spiritual. Musically, to my mind the most successful jazz album in this genre.

The Bill Evans factor probably swings it for me. Didn't Mingus personally rate this as his best album? Found the 2CD RCA 'Tijuana Moods' for £5 last year. A good find !

Indeed - it looks like their box design !

'Passions of Man'?

I can never work out what that 'TCB' cover art actually is. A brain cell? or pizza gone wrong maybe?..

Hooray Henries Cammeronistas Bullingdonian Prats

Did you say that an 'Impressed 3' is coming out? That track listing looks pretty damn good. The 'commentator' must have been Tony Higgins, who was the driving force behind the original 'Impressed' and the 'Jazz Britannia' tribute on TV and at the Barbican (2005 I think).

Might be an ageing CD transport issue. Skipping on mine got progressively worse until I sent back to manufacturer for a new transport earlier this year. Did the job - and with latest firmware ended up sounding significantly better than before.

John Lydon Jah Wobble Rat Scabies

Ridiculous story I know but a tragedy for sure - he gave quite a bit of money to charity. The BBC reports were saying he 'fell off a cliff into the River Wharfe'. That's not the River Wharfe that I know.

No suprise that Surman recorded this West Indian-style material. Lots of musical activity around Notting Hill back then (not the Cameronian millionaire's area that it morphed into in the 90s - bed-sit land back then), exposure to the lively Caribbean musics played there and I think John Surman's old mate Mike Westbrook resided in the area back then too, not to mention Joe Harriott and others.

'Contemporary Records Story', CDs 1 to 4

Mr Bean Vince Cable George Cables

Citizen Smith Ed Milliband Mr Ed

Seconded !

Picked that one up back in the day for 50p. WH Smiths ! An enjoyable listen. Now spinning Kenny Wheeler 'Music For Large and Small Ensembles' (ECM, 2LP). More Kenny to follow - 'Song For Someone' (Incus) and 'Gnu High' (ECM)

Looks like they dumped half of the ashes on the pickup arm !