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Light In The Attic double of the two Timeless LPs. The recording quality isn’t the greatest but the music is stellar. Updated one day later to add that I am liking this one a lot and the recording is fine (must be my ears !) not perfect but not bad at all. In addition to the Messengers lineup of the time there is Curtis Fuller on trombone (always a plus) and Ray Mantilla on congas. Vols 1 and 2 totally passed me by at time of issue for some reason. Although this one is on purple vinyl (why?), pressing is fine, the sleeve and OBI are well done and make this into a nice issue.

Yes, I’m spinning it too. This is a good live performance by this band - and in decent sound too. Must have been good to witness it. I’ve been in that Montreal theatre and it is a lovely concert venue. Some good playing by Bill Evans - that flute feature on side D is almost Sonny Fortune-ish, in a sort of Agharta throwback as the tempo is dropped towards the end of the performance. Otherwise though, the influences of the time, the MTV era, dominate. Miles’ (very good) open horn solo on the second track on side B reminds me of the blues solo he did on the ‘Big Fun’ album. More ‘70s continuity than expected !

Just cracking this one open. Decent sound, lots of ‘punch’ in the vinyl version.

I have a number of those ‘Jazz West Coast’ compilations. Forget originals - this sounds pretty good. ‘Two Trumpets’ and ‘Young Bloods’.

He’s always there at every gig blocking the view in front of me.

I see that the signed copy of her ‘starkers cover’ double LP with John Lennon which was in John Peel’s archive has just sold at the Bonhams auction for over £15,000 !

Blakey was wearing those dungarees the first time or two I saw him but not the rest of the band. See cover photo of ‘Gypsy Folk Tales’ LP. Wynton was either in blue jacket plus chinos or suit, definitely not dungarees ! I remember seeing Herbie Lewis wearing dungarees at a Ronnie Scott’s gig as well. Height of fashion at the time.

Listening to the sample track on Bandcamp, the piano sounds out of tune. They have also done the vinyl reissue of Ian Carr ‘Belladona’.

And also former Forum member ‘Deep’? (or was that the BNBB?)

Another superb Tone Poet release.

I think I did call in once - they had no jazz so I was in and out in less than a minute !

Honest Jon’s always seemed to specialise in jazz and reggae. Even back in the 70s/80s and across various London area sites. Probably reflects the interests of the founders/owners. I wasn’t even aware of these guys and checking their site they seem to have an ‘East’ and ‘West’ store. Aha, thinks I, the ‘East’ must be sited East of Yonge St to serve that region but no, they are both on Queen St West. WTF !

Their site is an eye-opener. Ludicrous pricing, even for very ordinary stuff.

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Never been record shopping in Minneapolis/St Paul as the one time I called in was on a flight change to Cedar Rapids, Iowa (about -30C at the time, damn cold) If it is like much of the mid-West it is possibly a bit low key on the jazz vinyl side, although places like St Louis do have Euclid. That would go for that region on both the US and Canadian side, based on my experience (admittedly years ago though now). My experience of Toronto was that it was great for new CDs but that second hand vinyl stores were a bit elusive (there was a place called the ‘Vinyl Museum’ on Lakeshore that I used to pop in to). Again, that was many years ago now and I wasn’t exactly seeking out jazz vinyl.

The ‘Collectors Choice’ of that Bill Potts album was a great reissue. Incredible band lineup.

Yes, I have that too on a Japanese pressing. ‘Yesterday’s Thoughts’ or something like that? I prefer the other two though - need to dig them all out. The ‘green lady’s straw hat’ one is particularly nice , really captures the Walton trio well. Somewhere I have a truly ancient Philips vinyl LP of that one. Sonically, one level up from Edison cylinder .

Picked up my LP copy as an Inner City deletion around 1980, from Mole Jazz I think. That and the one with the lady’s sun hat on the cover are both great. Bought ‘Salt Peanuts’ I think as I was on a Parker/bop kick at the time. Many years later I saw Med Flory, Conte Candoli, Lou Levy and Jack Nimitz in person, which recalled hearing them on this session.

Picked up a near-mint copy of Vol 3 last year for about that in £, it was the only one of the 3 sets I didn’t have. Hope to crack the box open and spin a few sides this afternoon. Amazingly, the box was acquired from a physical store. All 3 volumes were already well OOP from Mosaic before I started buying from them.

I bought that ‘Salt Peanuts’ album by Supersax when it came out but haven’t played it for years. UK pressing by Capitol, I think.

Well..... I do. Nice contribution by Kenny Burrell too so this is a winner. Not having an original of this one, or ever likely to have an original, the TP release is a great option. Being a stereo release I guess the comparison would be against the 1966 Liberty, with the Tone Poet likely to be superior.

Another very good Tone Poet.

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Yes, Ruiz and Higgins. Bassist was Herbie Lewis so must have been the next European tour (Wim Wigt?), late ‘79 or early 1980. One of the most enjoyable Coleman performances I witnessed was a free open-air one, near MacArthur Park, LA. That was with Cedar Walton, David Williams and Billy Higgins and I have photos taken of it somewhere.

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