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A couple of items from my Hiroshi Tanno library, in remembrance. Toshiba with OBI. In immaculate condition as always and sounding great. Bonus voucher on the OBI to get Reuben Wilson ‘Love Bug’ ! I have a Liberty if this one and can’t recall it ever sounding so good. Will have to check. Another Toshiba - no OBI but again, immaculate.

Could hardly afford it when I did buy from Mr Tanno but it was such a pleasant experience, never any shipping problems and the boxes of LPs when they arrived were a joy to behold. Thank you Mr Tanno !

The queuing is actually not so bad, at least at my regular haunts. The usual batch of local regulars to ‘shoot the breeze and catch up’. Assuming that is that the weather is behaving itself and not raining. The only issue with the queuing is that other shoppers wonder what is going on and look at you as if you are a zoo exhibit/curio ! I draw the line at queuing at 5am/6am as in some stores though - not that keen ! With the 500/750 runs on the Resonance titles no doubt we will be very lucky if we ever see them in the stores over here. Given this, I’ll be happy with the CDs - and at a third of the price too. Yes, I think there is something too that. At least one store that I know has commented that RSD keeps them solvent for the rest of the year.

Based on my experience the shops order what they would like to sell from a set list and are basically given an allocation, sometimes just one or two copies. Then it is a question of queuing up on the day and hoping that you are near enough to the front to snag what you want. Failing that, order online from stores after 6pm and hope that someone still has what you are looking for in stock. Many stores give details of what they will be selling in online news before the day.

I’ve got it but I haven’t listened to it for years. Don’t recall any major issues with it but maybe I’ll dig it out for a spin.

Dipping into the Mosaic Box is a good option, if you have it. Personal preference would probably be ‘Genesis’ but they are all great. I also have a great liking for ‘At This Point In Time’ and that Lee Morgan session on ‘Prime Element’. Over here in Southern England we have been battered by very severe Atlantic storms, the worst in at least 30 years. So - a great opportunity for jazz vinyl listening this weekend, assuming your local electricity supplies aren’t cut off. Sadly, I don’t have fall back option of wind up gramophone. At the moment, I seem to be in a healthy area amongst a sea of outages, like quite a bit of the South. Italy sounding good at the moment.

I have a copy of that Feldman on Pacific Jazz as well - will see if I can find it, along with the copy of that Venezuelan curio he did.

Joe LaBarbera mentions that Buenos Aires gig in his book as being a good one.

Not Ayler but talking of the RSD event, this caught my eye - Recorded University of Alberta, 1972

Amazed to catch on BBC4 tonight a vintage 1961 performance by John Collins tonight as part of a Nat King Cole special put out by the BBC. Also in the backing group were trumpeter Reunald Jones and drummer Leon Pettis.

That looks like a wind-tunnel model for the Avro Vulcan (or one of its developmental offshoots). Presumably purloined from RAE Farnborough?

RTI must be booked solid just doing Tone Poets.

I see there are only 500 to 750 copies for many of these forthcoming RSD sets, including the two new Bill Evans Argentinian sets. Ridiculous !

Freebie MPS selection CD from the latest issue of ‘Jazzwise’. Pretty good ! Good way to recover from today’s domestic storm destruction.

Really sorry to hear this, Hiroshi was an absolute gent and professional and his LPs live on in many collections to be treasured. RIP and thanks.

With very best wishes !

UK CBS 2LP Big fan of Glass Bead Games here. Not only is it a very good Clifford Jordan album - but also an excellent feature for Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins. I have the Strata-East double and also have it on the Clifford Jordan Mosaic set so will pass on the PP, fantastic as that no doubt is.

Wayne signed the back of my Liberty ‘Schizophrenia’ LP - that would be around 2003 when I caught the Quartet for the first time.

Very sad news - he signed my copy of ‘Holidays in Hell’ with ‘stay at home’. In person, expectedly witty and also with a kindly nature, I found. RIP.

Recall when I saw Louis Bellson’s Big Band the first time that Blue had been in the recent lineup and most recent recording (on Pablo I think) but had sadly passed on after ilness not long before the tour. The band did a tribute number in his memory called ‘Blue’ featuring Bobby Shew.

‘Another Story’ is a real sleeper of a session - excellent LP.

The Jazztet titles I picked up on this All Platinum/Cadet label had noticeable warp and wow effect. Not what you want to hear on ‘Killer Joe’. Back in the late 70s it was the only way over here to hear this music though.

And ‘All Platinum’ was bankrolled by Morris Levy of Roulette fame, I believe. There were stories of that studio being given cases full of cash no questions asked during that period. Money laundering? Stores like Mole and Honest Jon’s over here were full of those pressings with the B&W covers back in the late 70s and they all had that notch cutout. Don’t think I ever saw one of those Cadets without the notch and all of the ones I have - have it. Reeks of a scam ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nlkb This is an interesting listen !

Yes, excellent sounding LP. The King was good too.