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No, it's not Hank Jones and the tune was written by the pianist himself and so, NOT an old bebop classic. Keep swinging Durium Really? Maybe I'm thinking of another tune (and not 'Blue and Boogie') but this one will probably have me pulling my hair out in frustration. It does sound like Hank though ! Barry Harris?

Quite a few of the Saturns have been reissued in the US on LP during the last 10 years and they sound OK (in so much as a Sun Ra Saturn can sound OK, sound-wise). I have a few of them.

Happy Birthday Alexander !

Shorty Rogers LP set currently getting dusted off..

Naim are currently selling the 'Private Collection' on 3LP vinyl via their dealers and available at the website. The latest brochure I have got from them mentions this release (I try not to look at it as it is a sure-fire way of emptying the pockets ). I'll bet it sounds phenomenal ! I've got the Haden/Anderson on CD. Sounds amazing too.

Track 14 says to me 'Hank Jones'. The tune is an old bebop classic but the name eludes me. The precise and 'finnickity' chordal keyboard style (meant in a VERY good way I might add) says Hank Jones to me. If so, one of his more recent recordings.

Fantastic ! I always regret never having seen him play. It was indeed a miracle that he came back and made all of that great music after so many 'lost' years. For sure a great man.

Track 2 - 'When You Wish Upon A Star'. That sweet-sounding altoist has got to be Frank Morgan and the pianist sounds very much like George Cables. So I'll go for This One

Just checked, you're right - and I don't think I even have the 'First Stand' on vinyl so this may be one RVG CD that I'll buy !

Marky Mark Barry Harris Harry Barris

Barry Leadbeater Geoffrey Boycott Jimmy Binks

1958. A heck of a lot of money back then. Before my time.. -_- The LP is absolutely pristine by the way - I don't think it was played more than once or twice for the review, then archived away.

as of now this album is still in print, a cd-version from 1999. but ... happy to see that the rvg-series is still alive! I'm sure I've got a Conn of that one. This is getting confusing..

I was watching the DVD of that 'Jazzin' The Black Forest' a couple of days ago. Well worth checking out - some nice home-movie footage of the recordings with Oscar P. and clips of Dave Pike, Manfred Schoof, Volker Kriegel, Jean-Luc Ponty, Eberhard Weber, Charlie Mariano etc. Also a good overview of the recording studio setup (in a disused noodle factory !)

Lots of head-scratching going on over here..

And this one.. Freddie Hubbard "The Night of the Cookers" Pensativa/Walkin'. Blue Note Q 8LP4207 0 BST84207 (12 in., 45s. lid. Incl. PT) 'Location' recording (i.e. when portable equipment is taken to a club or concert) involves a dangerously high element of chance. Having taken his gear along to Brooklyn's "Club La Marchal" last year, engineer Orville O'Brien must have realized, with despair, that he had chosen a night when the musicians were simply off form. For this is not a particularly good example of either Freddie Hubbard or his guest, Lee Morgan. I suspect, in fact, that if the musicians had had any say in the matter they might well have decided not to sanction the issue of this LP. In retrospect (and how easy it is to be wise after the event) the cards appear to have been stacked against the project right from the start. There is, after all, no reason to suppose that a regular unit (in this case Freddie Hubbard's quintet) will benefit from the addition of a couple of guests (Morgan on trumpet, Big Black on conga drum). The musical balance of the regular group is thrown off-centre and it is clear at the outset that no one was very happy with Clare Fischer's Pensativa. As is sometimes the case with lack-lustre performances, both tracks go on far too long, and this is an occasion when less might have meant more. The total playing time is over 40 minutes, yet I suspect that the really valuable moments could all go on to a single EP. Incidentally, the sleeve carries an advertisement for a second volume (Blue Note mono BLP4208 stereo BST84208) from the same session, and again comprising only two titles. If the present LP is anything to go by, then I suspect that we shall be presented with yet more filibustering by Hubbard, Morgan, Black, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley and Pete LaRoca. A.M. I'm assuming Vol 2 never got reviewed.

Wow - here's one of them ! Kenny Dorham and the Jazz Prophets The Prophet : DX/Blues Elegante: Tahitian Suite. (H.M.V. 10 in. LP DLP1184-27s. hOd.) Trumpeter Kenny Dorham formed the Prophets after leaving Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in December, 1955. The music of both groups is based on the same " post-Parker Quintet" formula, with extended solos and skeletal frameworks. Dorham, an excellent and greatly underrated musician, has a hot, attacking style, sometimes reminiscent of Conte Candoli on a good day. Unfortunately, Dorham's front-line partner, tenor saxist J. R. Monterose, is not up to his standard by a long way. Monterose is one of many young men who have subjugated their individuality in favour of slavish imitation; Sonny Rollins is quite obviously his idol and he copies him even to the extent of playing with occasional technical imperfections. Although Monterose performs well on Blues Elegante most of his solos rarely get beyond running up and down the chords. But the record is worth buying for Dorham, who plays with authority, good taste and genuine excitement and who also wrote all four of the tunes. The plaintive Tahitian Suite is hardly a suite in the true sense of that term, but it uses 6/8 and 4/4 time signatures. The rhythm section—Dick Katz (piano), Sam Jones (bass) and Arthur Edgehill (drums)—performs adequately. This session took place on April 4th, 1956. Due to the swift-paced life of modern jazz groups, the Prophets no longer exist as a unit. A.M.

It used to be about 1- 1.5 pages by Msrs Fox, Harrison and Morgun I think. I think it was there in the early 80s but for sure by the 90s it had gone.

I've got a sprinkling of LPs (mainly Blue Notes) which were originally Gramophone review copies, signatured on the back by either Charles Fox or Alun Morgan. It'll be a hoot to find the reviews from 1960-ish whilst I spin the actual LPs !

Hank Mobley 'The Flip' (BN Liberty blue/white stereo) Wayne Shorter 'Speak No Evil' (BN NY USA mono)

...and sidewinder beats me to the punch again! Percy Sledge Jan Hammer Ezra Pound Buck Clayton Dollar Brand Tilly Shilling

Long John Baldry Baldrick Sir Percy Percy

On the Grachan Moncur Mosaic Select. Agree re: the cover art on the Leo Parker. A good reason to hang on to the DMM LP ! Shame they didn't issue it on vinyl 'back in the day'.

Wow - I'd love a copy of that one. Have never seen it ! 'Unpredictable' is a pretty accurate description.

Stanley Turrentine 'The Spoiler' (BN Liberty blue/white, stereo). Excellent sounding LP. Grant Green 'Goin' West' (BN Liberty blue/white, stereo). One of the LPs from Dan.