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Thanks John. I've been looking for an excuse to get that one. It's moved right to the top of my Mosaic Singles 'wants' list.

Back in the 1980s, for some odd reason these were by far the easiest Woody Shaw Lps to get in UK High Street vinyl emporia. Just about every HMV and Our Price had them by the bucket-load ! Fortunately I snapped both of them up (although not my favourite Woody Shaw albums they capture well the sound of the early 80s group with Turre and Mulgrew). Will dig them out to re-familiarise.

Uh oh...

Hey, I'll even sell mine for $499 and throw in shipping. Great deal !

I think I'll stick with my Barclay 'Chet Baker In Paris' 2LP set from the 70s - unless somebody tells me I'm missing a whole load of essential extras !

Happy Birthday. chaps !

What a wanker !

Rendell/Carr Quintet 'Change Is' (UK Columbia Lansdowne, stereo)

Lots of Woody Shaw over the past year. His music just sounds better and better to me, as the years go by.

Rendell/Carr Quintet 'Dusk Fire' (UK Columbia Lansdowne, mono)

'Conrad and Lady Black' by Tom Bower. Not many people come out of this book smelling of roses.

It got a fair panning back in the 70s, mainly I think because of the coverage of R&B tunes and the 'period' sound of some of the tracks. The album with Al Hibbler also got bad reviews at the time too. 'Blacknuss' has stood the test of time though - some very nice music by Kirk on this album and it is a very successful 'crossover' I think.

Correct. I have still not picked up the other BoB studio albums that were recently reissued, but plan to do so soon. Another album from these musicians that really deserves to be reissued is Dudu's "In the Townships." I've heard that there's a 5-CD (!) set of Brotherhood of Breath shortly to be issued by Ogun. Should definitely be worth picking up !

i'm sorry to be the one to say it, but going to see the last two is reason enough to pause and seriously question your sexual orientation. not that there's anything wrong with that! p.s. if you ever attended a cher concert, that's the clincher. The Glitter one can be explained . It was a gig - a big band I was in at college did an all-night student event and Glitter's group (with shiny outfits and star guitars) preceded us onto the bandstand. We came on at 4am !

ELO II Michael Flattulence's 'Riverdance' (a girlfriend talked me into it) and Gary Glitter !!

I'm fairly certain you won't be able to guess the tune. It's much more likely you could identify the guy on the horn. A little poppish, a little over the top, but I love the groove the band gets into, especially the sax. Thanks for your comments! I really enjoyed reading them. Strangely enough, got this one straight off. It's Rahsaan Roland Kirk from his 'Blacknuss' album from 1971 on Atlantic, an old favourite. The track is 'One Nation' and the singer is Princess Patience Burton (Ron Burton's wife?). Charles McGhee is on trumpet, Dick Griffin on trombone, Richard Tee on piano, Keith Loving on guitar. Produced by the late, lamented, Joel Zorn.

Indeed it is. Track 6 on the BFT is, I think, 'MRA', written by Dudu Pukwana from the first RCA Neon 'Brotherhood of Breath' album by Chris McGregor and his cohorts. Malcolm Griffiths and Nick Evans on trombones. Mongezi Feza, Marc Charig and Harry Beckett on trumpet/cornet and variations thereof. Dudu Pukwana on alto. This is a damn good album and highly recommended to the board readership ! Sounds like the version here is a mono copy (just checked my old vinyl and it's stereo). This track reminds me very much of Django Bates' arrangements for Loose Tubes 10 years or so later - no doubt strongly influenced by this group.

Charles Lloyd and Bennie Maupin at the Cheltenham Jazz Fest. Mingus Big Band at the Bath and Salisbury Festivals Charles Tolliver's Big Band at QEH, London. A good year for live jazz !

Yes, a Happy New Year from me too (still about 5 hours to go here).

Some Horace Silver to wrap up the year: 'The Jody Grind' (BN Liberty mono) 'The Tokyo Blues' (BN NY USA mono)

Hope it was good !

Never to be repeated, I would think. By pure fluke that day, I just happened to be passing through the city.

In the 'Poly-Currents' LP sleeve notes Elvin mentions that Tompkins was an old friend, serving at the time in the band of the US Army 2nd Armoured Division, Fort Hood, Texas !

Tyrone Washington 'Natural Essence' (German BN Liberty, blue/white stereo)

Johnny Hodges 56-61 Verve, CD3