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I'll probably spring for the Lee/Christy. Great timing ! The Columbia Small Groups and the Tal are both really nice by the way.

Hope it's a good one !

Heinz Wolf (once stood behind him in a dinner queue - at Uni) Francis Wolff Ike Quebec

How about Bobby Hutcherson 'Oblique' RVG in the sought-after 'Herbie Hand-cock' edition. Maybe only a few hundred of those before they were yanked off the shelf..

Yeah, right. I forgot the handful of cold gravel. 'You were lucky..'

I hope he makes it over to London again this year with Lonnie Smith for the 'Jazz Cafe'. Few things entice me over to London these days but a return visit of those two would.

This is a good sounding Select. Certainly glad I picked it up, even though I have most of the sessions (apart from 'Bout Soul) on vinyl.

RIP, very sad news. This one on Fontana I've always liked. A gem:

Some of the streets I remember in the 60s/early 70s were still lit by gas and were cobbled. In fact my dad converted the first house I ever lived in from gas to electric light. I can still picture the gas mantle fittings in situ on the neighbour's wall - I used to bash the crap out of their piano !

Yeah Shawn - It's absolutely true that when it comes to the crunch you don't need too much to sustain you and live a happy life. Kids weather this stuff pretty well anyway and will put up with pretty well anything as long as they are fed and cared for. I remember making my own toys with paper and glue etc. back in the early 70s and was more than happy doing it too. Even made my own comic books (an absolute hoot that was !). In fact it was WAY more creative than Nintendo, X-Box etc. There was a striking documentary on TV the other night first broadcast in 1973 about a day in the life of a Northern English city (Sheffield, as it turns out). Just a typical day - showing births, deaths, marriages, policeman at work, people toiling at steelworks, milkmen delivering milk etc. What I found striking was the film of a 65 year old guy at his last day at work in one of the numerous steel plants in that city. He'd put in 50 continuous years at the coal face (literally) from 1923 and his house was a tiny 2-up 2 down still with an outside WC ! The MD at the company he worked came out of his ivory tower to utter a few words to the camera and actually splashed out big time to award him a set of cutlery too (first time it was done - say no more ). Yet he appeared amazingly content with his lot - astonishingly so considering the years of toil and danger at the foundry. A lesson for us all there, I think.

More sads news, as reported by Roger over on AAJ.. Guardian Obit I wasn't aware of the fact that he'd met Parker and Monk but was aware of his 1960s albums recorded for Dennis Preston in the UK and also his work with The Duke. 'Emergent Drums' (Columbia) 'Afro Jazz' (Regal Zonophone?) 'The African Zoundz of Guy Warren of Ghana' (Regal Zonophone) With Rendell/Carr - 'Change Is' (Columbia)

Jimmy Smith 'Midnight Special' (BN NY USA, stereo)

Heck, it's only a few hours car drive.. Do it ! :rsmile:

The Enron Book - 'Smartest Guys In The Room' (NOT) Proves pretty conclusively that nothing whatsoever was learnt in the US as a result of that fiasco.

Yep. A very unusual ECM in that it was recorded here in the UK at the old CTS studios in Wembley (where lots of the 60s stuff was recorded - not sure if it still exists though). The band did a UK tour at the time of this recording. A similar lineup with many of the same musicians (plus Lee Konitz and with Peter Erskine and Dave Holland) toured nationally for Kenny's 70th too - memorable !

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Yeah ! Art Farmer's sound on this one is captured beautifully.

Grachan Moncur CD1 More than acceptable sound on this set !

You were lucky ! We have black ice, snow remnants and sub-zero temperatures. Nice blue skies though ! (the blizzard will apparently be back on Monday). Blue Notes and Mosaics for me too this afternoon.

Not to mention Freddie..

Must be awesome having Euclid as your local brick and mortar. If I lived within 50 miles of that place I'd be cleaned out within a month !

Henry Lowther Band 'Child Song' (Deram, stereo) and two Impulse 70s ABC reissues - Archie Shepp 'Four For Trane' and Oliver Nelson 'Live In Los Angeles'

Sonny Clark 'Cool Struttin'' (Music Matters)

Sonny Clark 'Leapin' and Lopin' (Music Matters 2x45rpm stereo)

John Dankworth Orchestra 'What The Dickens' (Fontana, mono) - Ronnie Ross, Tubby Hayes, David Snell etc.