sidewinder

Banned.

My most recent CD upgrade was one of these - Naim CD555. Solid aluminium block and I run it with separate power supplies for the analogue and digital circuits. Weighs a ton ! I figure that this will be the last CD player I ever bother with. When it is no longer supportable I can retain the supplies and just switch to Naim’s 555 reference streamer. Although vinyl playback on my LP12 setup is still superior for the most part, this beast runs it fairly close. You can even do an ‘open sesame’ with the hands and open the lid !

2CD set

Still have my old 1974 copy of that LP. Good stuff.

I remember when Mulgrew toured that album - no Henderson and McBride but Nelson was in the lineup as well as Wallace Roney. Good stuff.

Yes, the circular breathing technique was very prominent in those gigs. Over 2-3 years I caught several appearances by the Quartet plus two I think by the Octet so he was a frequent visitor (Ronnie Scott was a personal fan I think). Billy Higgins almost seemed like a fixture, as he appeared each time with Cedar Walton’s group as well. Happy days ! The Octet had an interesting lineup. Danny Moore, Mario Riviera plus Frank Strozier on at least one occasion. Not to forget Harold Mabern and Iris Muhammed as well.

Saw that group at their next Club visit, with Herbie Lewis in place of Ray Drummond. Coleman was phenomenal in that period.

You capitulated then?

Wouldn’t have thought that the isolation between the fluffy carpet, stands and turntables would be the greatest.

The last Hubbard release I recall creating a bit of a stir was ‘Live at Fat Tuesdays’. I remember being in a rental car in central NYC circa 1992 and (of course) turning the radio on to check out some radio jazz. On the airwaves was Freddie featured on that album with a very OTT enthusiastic DJ who in retrospect must have been Alan Grant. In the cold light of day, that album, although lively, is somewhat erratic.

The blue denim suit with laces was in a David Redfern photo of Miles taken at Newport I think, around 69/70. A print of that photo is still on the side wall at Ronnie Scott’s.

Kenny Wheeler 75th Birthday Big Band Concert, QEH London, 2005.

Two of my favourite Turrentines too.

Only have those recordings on the Mosaic CD set but agree, excellent sound.

10” LP version

Yeah - I remember hearing one track on side one and the whole of side 2 being broadcast on a radio show, liking it from the off and buying the LP very soon after.

When that LP came out in 1976, I thought of it almost like a ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ linking the Sorcerer era on side 1 with the ‘Dual Mr Tillman Anthony’ stuff on side 2 as a missing link into the ‘In A Silent Way’ period. A real humdinger release at the time, when Miles was otherwise silent. I don’t think Tony Williams’ drums was ever recorded better by Columbia than he was on those side 1 tracks.

Deram DG, stereo version

Retirement project #1 - play every Mosaic set end to end..

Need to remove the cobwebs off of that set and give it a spin.

I think Tadd ended up marrying the English-born nurse who looked after him in the NYC hospital back in the early 60s. I recall an interview with her by the BBC on the ‘Sounds of Jazz’ show back in the 70s, with recollections of Tadd. Wish I’d recorded it !

I remember that from the website. Don’t recall some of the more obscure choices though and there is more content in the book from the short writeups I remember online.

The glasses are correct, circa 1971 !

Interesting read - lots of obvious choices, some less than obvious.