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New Zealand lamb roast today !

Have never even seen or heard of that recording. Talk about obscure !

George Russell 'The African Game' (BN DMM)

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis 'Potpouri' (Philadelphia International) Well, if the economy is back in the 1970s we need the soundtrack to it

Pat Metheny 'Secret Story' (Geffen 2LP) Nothing like a bit of overblown pomp on a Sunday morning

Saw them, too, along with Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott and Dusko G. (can't spell his surname!) Are they all on the record? Kenny Clarke and Kenny Clare, too? I'm jealous ! No, just a sprinkling of the CBBB on the LP. It's really a showpiece for Benny Bailey with strings recorded in Cologne 1971 - and a wonderful one too. Tony Coe is in the lineup. Kenny Clarke is not though - it's Tony Inzalaco on drums and also Jean Warland on bass. Gojkovich I think !

Armadillo with rabbit-like tendencies here

Benny Bailey & Francy Boland Orchestra 'Mirrors' (Freedom, white promo pressing)

Hmm - not my experience at all. The ones I have (Carrere) sound very 'thin', to say the least. ahh...I'm talking about Musidisc editions ( earlier?), the few Carrere LPs ( mostly OJC copies) I have are very variable. Lush Life is very good and meets the Esquire version head on , where as Art Peppers Modern Jazz Classics sounds like mud- very poor indeed compared to a Vogue mono of the same session. Don't know about the Musidisc editions (from the 60s?). Sometimes though (and not often) the Carrere's (from the mid to late 70s) can throw a total wobbly and sound fantastic. I have a Clarke/Boland Big Band French MPS LP that comes in that category. Now where's Brownie when you need him for some comments on French Prestige?

Hmm - not my experience at all. The ones I have (Carrere) sound very 'thin', to say the least.

Carmen McRae and the Clarke/Boland Big Band 'November Girl' (Black Lion)

Kenny Wheeler 'Gnu High' (ECM) one more once Whoah !! A floating earth connection was discovered today in the interconnect between Supercap and pre-amp. A trip to the hi-fi store for a solder job and -a revelation ! Unfortunately I can't yet demo the phono stage due to lack of Naim 5-pin to 4-pin DIN. Damn !

I don't think I've paid more than £5 for any of them - and that includes 'Limited Edition' titles. The sound is usually very acceptable indeed. The mid-70s 74000 series RCA Prestige/Milestone/Fantasy twofers can sound even better, IMO (apart from the ones pressed in France - not sure why that is).

Just listening to this one on the mono vinyl. Nothing profound but very, very enjoyable nevertheless. Grant has a very sympathetic backing partner on this album in Herbie H. and the Warren/Higgins team do their usual excellent stuff in the background. Strangely the session reminds me very much of the very different Gordon Beck 'Experiments With Pops' - very unlikely material (in that case '60s pop song covers) made into jazz gems by a crack rhythm team treating the material with sympathy but adding a total new spin to it. The crack up-and-coming guitarist on that particular album was one Johnny McLaughlin. Garvin M. by the way also appears I think as part of Blakey's perscussion team in 'The African Beat'.

Grant Green 'Feelin' The Spirit' (BN NY USA mono)

Claude Williamson Stu Williamson Bob Brookmeyer

Fred West Peter Sutcliffe Harold Shipman

Art Blakey 'Gypsy Folk Tales' (UK Roulette stereo) - tribute to Dennis Irwin RIP Duke Jordan 'Jazz Laboratory Series' (Signal, mono)

Yep, those King Crimson sleeves were classics, along with Gentle Giant and other Brit prog rock of that period. The first sleeve designs that really blew me away were the UK CBS 2LPs Miles Davis 'Bitches Brew', 'Big Fun' and 'Agharta'. Bought those on the spot - reasoning if the art was so crazy the music must be good. Not disappointed. Still can't live without having original cover art !

Happy Birthday, Berigan !

I just found a German pressing of this album in great shape, autographed by Julian for $5.00! and I thought my mint German copy for $6.99 from the 'Vinyl Museum' in Toronto was a great deal !

Jeez - some of us are trying to eat our breakfasts.

Damn - that very OJC LP has been staring out at me from one of the racks all this time. No wonder it was so familiar ! It's going back on the deck this weekend. :rsmile:

Appalling Chancellor - redeemed by his liking for jazz. A frequent habitue of Ronnie Scotts, back in the day I believe.