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Hm - I like it. Especially 'And Satisfy'

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not sure if it was in '76 or '77 that I saw them. Bristol, Colston Hall. Alan Vizutti was on trumpet, Lyle Mays for sure on keyboards. Got to go backstage after the concert, where Woody was jovially bantering with everyone. Great memories

Clarke/Boland Big Band 'Our Kinda Strauss' (Rearward 2LP) Clarke/Boland Big Band & Gitte 'My Kind of World' (German Columbia/Hor Zu)

'Our Kinda Strauss' is really great, just spinning the 2LP set. Not to be missed in fact (sorry). Keep an eye on the Rearward site as additional copies of these sometimes become available. When they do, Dusty is usually first in the queue to offload them. (For example, the Shihab 'And All Those Cats' LPs - unfortunately though not the 'Strauss').

Not quite It was gone - cursed, kicked myself and applied self-flagellation a la Max Mosley - and by major miracle from heaven snapped up the one copy still available on Amazon UK Marketplace. Cheaper than Mosaic too. :rsmile:

Prima/Manone Mosaic Set

The sound of this Mosaic box (as with the Kelly/Chambers) is very good indeed. The only possible 'negative' for some might be the multitude of alternative takes - I'm glad to have them. Not sure about the sound on the individual CD option.

I find the sound on the Turrentine set quite acceptable. It's a set I don't play anywhere near enough.

did you pull the trigger in the end? Yep - and after it had gone OOP !

Yep. Alf Garnett = Archie Bunker

Prima/Manone set now gone. Where's Soulstation1 to do the honours?

and there's me thinking this was a thread about Andrew Hill's 'Grass Roots'

Johnny Hodges/Leon Thomas/Oliver Nelson '3 Shades Of Blue' (UK Philips, stereo)

Hill of Tara - that's the one. It's the West Midlands and Wales that seems to have been hit bad. Not sure about the SW. No doubt we will all be kyboshed big time, wherever we live. In any case, house values are a virtual thing. It's only the amount you pay out each month and the balance outstanding until it's paid off that count (assuming your mortgage is in place of course - hardly a certainty at present).

Weren't they planning to build a major motorway and development over that sacred hill-top near Dublin? The Gods have spoken..

Yep, a friend of mine who moved over to Canada around the same time had a lovely Georgian detatched house in Dublin which he ummed-and-ahed over and decided to keep, renting it out. At the time it was worth maybe £70K but must be around the Million mark now, at least. A good decision on his part (assuming he kept it and possibly returned back over there).

Thanks for that, looks good ! BBC4 has been hitting lots of bulls-eyes of late. Good program last night on the 'history of men's TV adverts', very well presented. Had me chortling over the likes of Old Spice, Brut, Milk Tray, R White's Lemonade etc. The new 'Medieval Season' looks good too, with Stephen Fry presenting a program on the 'Guttenberg Bible' tonight But I digress..

Hmm - I thought the rises in house prices here were pretty daft but the Republic of Ireland (and N.I. for that matter) has been off the scale. Considering the relatively low base at which they started from in the 1990s, it could be a shocker. Spain too has been a total cowboy market. Don't envy any Brits with 2nd places over there..

Damn cool !

Bought mine in '95 too. Played it end-to-end several times through those first few weeks. Getting the Five Spot material together in good sound was a revelation, along with things like 'Trane Whistle'. Still one of my favourite box sets. Next up purchase after that was the Joe Henderson box.

Interesting looking rare as hen's teeth test pressing of Big John Patton's 'Blue John' up on ebay.. Blue John

Jackie McLean 'Bluesnik' (BN 47W63rd DG mono) 'Introducing Frank Foster' (BN Lexington 10")

'The Soul of Jazz Percussion' (Warwick, stereo)

Dizzy Reece 'Soundin' Off' (Toshiba-EMI)