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Sonny Fortune 'Waves of Dreams' (A&M Horizon) Woody Shaw 'Song of Songs' (OJC)

(drool..) Must console myself with the CD

Indeed ! Dental orthodontic cleaning for humans around here is around the £40-50 pound mark (ie. $100) so I'd say $100 or so should be about right. $1000 should get you a row of gold feline crowns at least .

That free disk is damn good ! My favourite has got to be the 'Neon' trio track with Stan Sultzmann, Gwilym Simcock and Jim Hart. Looking forward to seeing these guys in live performance. Sultzmann remains a real class act.

God forbid !

For the last 30 years at least, Jazz Record Requests has been treated like a second class citizen. The moment a live opera broadcast from the Met comes in, it's shunted off into the midnight slot - either that or (more usually) just cancelled. It would be great if they did a programme again that was the quality of Charles Fox 's 'Jazz Today'. It was only 30 minutes but it packed a very big punch in its limited duration. Alas, I fear this is not to be. Maybe the BBC can start up a budget specialist jazz/blues/folk/alternative station and keep all of us happy for once (it would probably make the classical mafia happy too to get us out of their timeslots). Celebrity jazzoid presenters perhaps like Prescott, Ken Clarke, Fabio and William Hague (now he's been to Ronnie's)?

Great ! Thanks for posting these gems (heard lots about them but never before seen).

Pat Martino 'El Hombre' (Prestige blue label stereo). One for Weizen

A classic - especially on original vinyl. Picked mine up for £5

WTF? Is this for real? Based on my experience, the quality of the lead from source to pre-amp is very critical, prior to any signal conditioning. Quality of loudspeaker cables can also have a big effect in terms of matching, signal dispersion, linearity etc. I've also found the quality of connection to the mains and the spec of the mains cable to have a significant effect. Really, you could write a pHD thesis on the whole thing and as ever it's a case of try things out and see what works for your system.

Sad news - RIP. Saw her on TV quite recently, being interviewed for a BBC documentary on Dinah Washington. Didn't she also record an album under her own name for Columbia? Have never seen a copy of that one. Certainly, her playing with the Quincy Jones Orchestra (can be seen on that Jazz Icons DVD) was excellent.

Miles Davis 'Jazz Track' (Columbia 6-eye DG mono)

Hank Mobley 'Third Season' (BN Liberty Rainbow series)

My best wishes too and hope things sort out OK.

Wayne Shorter 'The Soothsayer' (BN Liberty Rainbow series) Checking sound against the new RVG and the Rainbow trounces it I think.

Wonderful album! The Prestige LP has been a treasured possession since the sixties. A U.S. import certainly cost enough in those days! and issued here on Esquire in a mono pressing with RVG in runout that kicks ass ! :rsmile:

'Introducing Kenny Graham' (Dutton Vocalion) Wayne Shorter 'The Soothsayer' (RVG)

(He's back ) Tyrone Washington Casey Jones Philly Joe Jones

Jeez - some people are subscribing to both of these offerings. Some people are obviously recession-proof

Delia Smith Gordon Ramsay Anthony Worrell-Thompson

I use one of these in beech: Henley Designs

Donald Byrd 'Mustang' (NY USA mono). Listening to 'Dixie lee' is is obvious where the inspiration for much of the 60s Motown beat came from - Freddie Waits. Grant Green 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' (BN NY USA mono)

Celia Cruz Celia Zaentz Saul Zaentz