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Hank Mobley 'Soul Station' (Music Matters 2x45rpm, stereo). Sounds pretty good in stereo and the new sleeves are

Happy Birthday !

Chummy McGregor Gordon Broon Hamish Macbeth

Welcome also to the Board, David and thank you for sharing your memories of the session. I have the Horace Tapscott bio open in front of me so here's an extract of the text that refers to the session: 'The first day we went to the studio to record, we found another band there. All these other cats were around, like Dick Nash, Conte Condoli and Pete Christlieb. I didn't even know who Pete was then; he was just out of school. We came walking in with our guys and, man, we went off. I went off on Sonny first and then the producer from the record company. Don Schlitten from Prestige Records had brought in all these other cats. Sonny went crazy. He got drunk and got to hollering and screaming. So we had to get out of there and cool it. I walked out of the studio. Cecilia came after me and said, "Baby, you spent the money already. You can get sued for this." We had paid bills and got out of some problems. So I had to go back and do it. We did get Everett Brown on drums, and their cats read the music well, but our cats had it down. They didn't need the music in front of them and we were getting a sound after playing the tunes at all the gigs. We had rehearsed every day, all day, because we had nothing but time. There wasn't much else going on for us during the day. And when we went to the clubs at night, we'd be just poppin'. I told the cats who did the recording that I wasn't angry with them, that this had nothing to do with them. It was between me and this guy, Schlitten. That was a rough day, a real rough day. After the experiences with Prestige and Flying Dutchman, my reputation was like, "He's really gone crazy now. No telling what he might do in the studio."'

Incidentally - there's also another really nice UK Columbia LP from the early 70s by Amancio D'Silva - 'Reflections' - that still awaits reissue. That one is more of an MOR session, with strings. Similarly the 'Cosmic Eye - Dream Sequence' session for Regal Zonophone, with Clem Alford on sitar.

George Benson/Lonnie Smith/Ronnie Cuber 'Willow Weep For Me' (French CBS stereo - Henri Renaud reissue )

Absolutely no news so far this year about Harriott/D'Silva 'Hum Dono' being reissued by Universal UK. I've got the feeling that the master tapes haven't yet been found (although presumably the Lansdowne studio may still have a copy on file? - he says hopefully ..) There was a rumour in the press concerning release on CD of Kenny Wheeler's 'Windmill Tilter' but - again - just a rumour so far.

Happy Birthday ! :party:

Heck ! This is a bad dream..

Yes indeed - the nudey beach isn't far from there (though I'm sure it's full of lard asses you wouldn't want to look towards ). I was down there a week or so ago for some well-earned sun (covered up) and walked along that very stretch of road en route for a newspaper. In fact, said type of bus drove past me a few times (and there is no pavement).

Yes, I've got a few - and they can sound great. Clifford Jordan/Cedar Walton 'The Pentagon', Joe Sample 'The Three' (both East Wind) and the Walt Dickerson on Steeplechase are three that come to mind.

And only a VG copy !

Milt Jackson 'Big Band Bags' (Milestone 70s twofer, stereo) Henry Lowther Band 'Child Song' (Deram, stereo) Lee Morgan 'Cornbread' (BN NY USA, stereo)

Jacqueline du Pre Roy du Nann Nick du Toit

Happy (advance) Birthday Jazzbo - May your next year be a great one ! :party:

Awesome deal !

Let's hope he wasn't on the pier ...or on the Studland bus !

I'll second that...! Plus, that album just really SOUNDS so good. Love the organ sound on that recording... RVG was the master. I have two copies on vinyl of this album. The first, a NY USA mono, sounds predictably great. The real surprise though is the second one - a blue/black Liberty pressing but with an 'original' sleeve. That one sounds phenomenal too !

Nice ! I think I've seen this in the shops only once, back in the day. Don't have it though. My guess is that it's a digital master. Now spinning Kenny Wheeler 'Music For Large and Small Ensembles' (ECM, 2LP)

Missed a great Bird connection with that one. Chuck Nessa Charlie Chaplin Prince Charles Signor Tamponini Bert Gladys

For 'Get Carter' fanatics everywhere..

Yeah - I have quite a lot of the material from the Donaldson Mosaic on a mix of original LPs, Japanese pressings, Conn Lps and 45-rpm issues . I like the idea of having all of this Lou Donaldson material on CD so that it can be popped on the I-Pod etc. but it is lowish priority. Otherwise I would have jumped on it at the sale !

Phew !

Big Daddy Giant Haystacks Shirley Crabtree