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Gil Melle 'Tome VI' (Verve, stereo)

Happy Birthday !

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Thanks for the reminder on this. Time to get thinking about the BFT selections.. I'm thinking of one of the disks with British and other European Jazz, if that is OK with everyone.

Horace Silver 'The Tokyo Blues' (BN NY USA mono, DG side 1) and, for contrast.. Don Ellis 'Soaring' (MPS/BASF German pressing, stereo)

One of Freddie's best , and the engineering is terrific - my Liberty copy sounds better than the Connoisseur CD ! Some of those Libertys can be pretty good - especially the early ones and the blue/black label !

Kenton/Holman/Russo LP set, LPs 4 and 5

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Freddie Hubbard 'Ready For Freddie' (BN NY USA mono). Stonkin' ! Anthony Braxton 'The Montreux/Berlin Concerts' (Arista 2LP stereo). A reminder that the forthcoming Braxton Mosaic is going to be good.

Thanks for the heads-up !

That would be Ian Carr's two-part documentary done for UK Channel 4 quite a few years back. Well worth checking out, with some nice live clips (much of which has subsequently been released in one form or another).

Yeah, those were the people who bought stacks of Windham Hill new age vinyl BS back in the mid-80s to listen to whilst supping their designer wines and gazing at crystals That must be the 'Duck, Son & Pinker' CD shop (really a musical instrument shop that does CDs) you were referring to. Always worth a look in there. Bath of course also has that really excellent specialist little jazz CD store a bit further up the road, near 'The Hole In The Wall'. Greatest concentration of jazz CD outlets per head of population in the UK ! First time I saw McCoy back in about 1981 he was as Tom mentioned a pretty beefy build. Certainly stayed that way through the 90s and into this decade but I noticed quite a bit of weight loss about 3 years ago. He's not too agile going across the stage now either but looked to be enjoying himself at Bath and, I'm glad to say, got an enthusiastic response from the crowd. Most interestingly, the band seemed to cover quite a bit of old Blue Note material including a few tracks from 'The Real McCoy'. Don't think I'd heard him do 'Passion Dance' before.

I have to say Bev that it was (bar the Tyner) probably the weakest lineup I've seen at Bath for years - not helped by the big cutback in terms of numbers of concerts. Sadly, I guess the Olympics ( ) are starting to eat into subsidies for these things. Or maybe Bath and North Seast Somerset Council have cut back their subsidies?

Yep, saw him earlier in the year at a local club venue. One of the best players/small group playing the UK at current time !

Fine Tyner performance last night, a real pleasure. McCoy isn't pounding the keys as hard as he used to but if anything he's more thoughtful and lyrical these days. His stamina seemed fine too and the band (Eric Gravatt in particular - astonishing) gelled nicely. Shame about the boominess of the acoustics in The Forum though (old art-deco theatre). Acoustics worthy of Dean Benedetti !

What do they mean by this? The acid jazz DJs (e.g. Gilles Peterson) like it and have forked out thousands (well - hundreds at least) to get hold of an original.

McCoy Tyner 'Supertrios' (UK Milestone, 2LPs) and 'Cosmos' (BN brown bag, 2LP stereo)

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That was completely my feeling at the time as well. Bl**dy motherlode !

McCoy Tyner 'Dimensions' (Elektra Musician) and 'Passion Dance' (Milestone)

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Big surge in Mosaic box set orders coming up, I guess !

Clarke/Boland Big Band 'Our Kinda Strauss' and Johnny Griffin/Milt Jackson 'Griff 'n' Bags' (Rearward/Schema 2LP sets)

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