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Yep, the Moholo gig was part of the 'Jazz Britannia' weekend I think. Sadly, Jarvis had already passed away some years earlier - I kept the obit from the paper and still have it somewhere. I think it was the 80s that he was particularly active in London.

Ah - if it's tracks from 'Harold McNair' on RCA I have the LP so can probably skip. Which one has the Val Wilmer notes and photos - is it the Jazzprint? If so, that sounds like the one to get.

Splendid !

Nice stuff but either on the "high end" of normal... to completely out of line. $100 for the Curson on Marge?? Not to mention $50-60 for the Jasmine Tubby Hayes LPs.

Jimmy Ponder 'Jump' (Muse). With Big John Patton and recorded by RVG.

Which issue of McNair's 'The Fence' do you recommend, Roger?

This may explain it - "GOELZ: The funny thing about Zoot was that I was about 26-27, and we always conceived of him as a 50 year-old, burnt-out musician. Now I'm 53, and I still can't play him - probably because I'm still locked into the Zoot I played from the beginning. If I started fresh it would certainly be easier at this point in my life. Anyway, I had a conception of him as a guy who was totally into his music, who lived in a succession of hotels, who had never had a home... his life was just music. And he was just spaced out all the time. He had no ability to communicate with people using words. As a result, whenever they scripted lines for him, I tried to give them to Floyd. I was always trying to give away lines, because I didn't know how to do him. The irony was, after I did this for awhile and Zoot became established as a rather silent character, people started coming to me and saying, "You know, that Zoot is amazing. I know somebody just like him." Sammy Cahn came up to me during the party after the British premiere of The Muppet Movie and said, "You do Zoot? He is fantastic! I've known so many sax players just like him." I was bowled over; The only sax player I knew was Frank Reedy, of the Jack Parnell Orchestra, the musicians for the Muppet Show, and he wasn't anything like Zoot."

Hmmm. Don't know. Could be, perhaps. I always thought he was played by Gato Barbieri.

Stunning list - and an impressive number in NM condition ! Wish I had $1k+ in loose change for that JR Monterose Jaro. May be of interest to the Bush tax refund fraternity perhaps?

Thanks Lon! From the comments here, "Cosmic" sounds like a winner. Another for "Cosmic Scene".

Another big for the small-group material Gryce recorded with Brownie in Paris for Vogue. 'Strictly Romantic' etc. Still wonderfully fresh ! Not forgetting the arrangements either for Lee Morgan on his early Blue Notes.

I'll take a shot at it: a) Yes - and Canadian b) English (mainly English with some Scotish & Irish ancestry and somehow a wee smidgen of Welsh in the gene-pool that I know of) c) Yes d) No

I think the wait is about 50 minutes between loads on Rapidshare. Not too bad - I'm nearly there.

To be honest, I rarely buy online these days. Of late, most of the LP buys have been from trusted local purveyors of vinyl or from the likes of Oxfam. Checkout though that other thread on the board today with the Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff Prestige LPs for sale. Some good stuff on there !

Now, that would be telling !

Yes, that was sad to hear. It made the newspaper obits here. The house trumpeter for the Muppet Show - and trumpet linch-pin of many a UK TV orchestra (ATV etc).

Great place - often visit there for a walk around the stones. Anyone see that TV film from some years back of the full-scale radio-controlled model 'UFO' that was flown over there for a wheez? (Channel 4 I think). Resulted in panic calls and headline news on CNN etc. (even though the thing was airworthiness cleared by the authorities - love it ): Apparently the pub across the road was packed with Summer visitors at the time. One of the funniest things I've ever seen !

He did a gig at the Barbican a year or two back but unfortunately I missed it. Seeing Louis' name reminds me of another great drummer-in-exile who was part of the UK scene for many years - Clifford Jarvis. I recall him being very influential on the London scene in the 70s and 80s in particular. Incredible that he chose to settle with us - sad that he didn't get much recognition here.

Didn't Hank sketch out the charts whilst he was in jail? For Duke P. to then orchestrate.

Oh - and that too. Definitely !

Stix Hooper Wayne Henderson Joe 'Piano' Henderson

You mean there's more than 1 pic?

If he'd won at Stamford Bridge we'd be speaking Norwegian now and York would probably be the capital instead of London. Sounds good to me ! On the other hand, the Danish Viking Cnut (Canute) eventually became English King earlier that century and he was quite mild afterwards and by all accounts a pretty good ruler - the locals 'tamed' him it would seem.

Know it well. Film location for '101 Dalmations' and the TV comedy show 'Vicar of Dibley' outdoor locations. I can relate to the blazer and tie bit (the caps had largely disappeared by the time I went through the school system). Very British, that. Standing for the National Anthem has largely also gone by the wayside now but I remember when it was pretty well mandatory in cinemas and public events. Other things - an addiction to greasy fish 'n chips (mmmmm), chain-drinking cups of milky tea all day long, patient and orderly queuing (a WW2 ration fad that never seemed to go away) and an infuriating tendency to talk about how bad the weather is (a tendency that they share with the Canadians). Oh - and lousy plumbing.

Its great..... but not THAT great..