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Anybody else hearing about this? http://www.ifaonline.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=815617 Yeah - I heard about this one too. The biggest defaulters by the way are likely to be the Icelandic banks. Those guys are in deep permafrost doo doo.. Quite a bit of excitement over here in the UK today. One of our banks (HBOS - biggest domestic mortgage provider) went through the floor (probably hedge funds) and they are tonight working on a deal with Lloyds TSB. The Government is probably in there with the sticking plasters. Ouch !

Broon (groan) The Grim Reaper Damocles

There's quite a big write-up on Calvin Jackson and his influence in the Buddy Collette bio.

and probably correct.

'Us 3' rocks !

Stand by for a long-term shift to lower valuations worldwide. I suspect it won't significantly recover for a fair old while and nowhere will be immune IMO. The imploding of 100% mortgages on houses (not to mention 40 year repayment periods, never mind 25) were a time-bomb just waiting to happen. I expect we'll be back to something like the old prudent system of 3 to 3.5 times employer certified income on max. mortgages for the longer term. No more 'liar loans' And not before time either !

They must have had a production run of 20 copies. Never saw them on sale here !

Miles Davis 'Agharta' (UK CBS, LP2) In stereo

Professor Pat Pending Anthill Mob Rufus Roughcutt

Nice to know. - as good as Damian Hirst ! 'Rollins Plays For Byrd'?

Brother Ray Mr Ra Mr Re

That's the one - terrible pressing. I brought one back and the one I stuck with was only a bit better. Thus the desire for a nicely sorted new version on CD. I wonder if Ronnie was influence by Henderson playing his club (not sure if he did). The one time I saw him he did 'Blue Bossa' and 'Recorda Me' and I've got earlier versions of 'Lazy Afternoon' (which is also on Serious Gold) and 'Invitation' on Henderson discs from that era. Yep - 'Blue Bossa' and 'Recorda Me'. Saw him play both of those. I'm sure he was a big Henderson fan and Joe played the club on quite a few occasions I think (but I never saw him there unfortunately). I think my pressing of the 'Serious Gold' LP is fine but those Pye LPs were never the greatest. I did hear Ronnie saying to the audience that Joe Henderson was playing at the club next week though. That's Joe 'Piano' Henderson.

Really?

Thanks for the info ! Looks like it's back on the Mosaic US list for this one.

A wise move by the sound of it, porcy. What you need is a pair of these: Didn't Miles get his designer frames in Milan, too?

Price of Blue Note vinyl stock went through the floor too, as well as AIG, HBOS, Lehman etc.?

Really? As a Euro-Mosaic that one must have come and gone in a pico-second !

Isn't that one of the ones where he plays 'Invitation'? Ronnie loved that tune - seemed to play it just about every time I saw him. Either that or 'Little Sunflower'. I'll dig out the 'Serious Gold' LP later. On Pye/Ronnie Scott Productions I seem to recall.

Bought the LP set when that one was coming up to OOP, which must be eons ago now !

Bill LeSage Saffron Burrows Yma Sumac Yna Yna Gerald Wilson Harold Wilson

Almost certainly correct. Taken from Esquire 78s and 10"s of the time. That short-lived big band from the early 1950s had quite the line-up - but proved to be commercially a total flop, alas !

Yeah, I saw that. I think he even personally admitted it on the documentary. Very sad news - and way too young. He added a strong jazz element to recordings such as 'Animals' on the Fender Rhodes.

I suspect this whole mess will take years until it finally works its way through the system. I blame it largely on the derivatives 'products' of the 1990s onwards, the ballooning of risk as asset prices exploded, lack of regulatory controls and resultant inability to price (and control) bottom-line risk. What is happening has taken a pretty long time to hit the fan but is to a vary large degree, I think, inevitable. Just a damn shame that the fallout will affect the innocent parties (ie. most of us) instead of the spivs in fancy braces who instigated and perpetuated this sham. The whole mess primed of course by interest rates way too low for too long. Thank you, Mr Greenspan, for that (although he was on TV last night deflecting the blame elsewhere). From what I'm hearing over here, that insurance company AIG looks pretty damn vulnerable.

You don't want to know! Damn. I'd previously managed to erase this band from main brain store for 25+ years - now thanks to this thread I have the goddam tune pounding away in my head 24/7

Wow ! They were 'omnipresent' back then. :rsmile: