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One of the most distinctive things I noticed when seeing him with McCoy fairly recently was those huge cymbals and their almost vertical orientation.

Elvin Jones 'Poly-Currents' (BN Liberty blue/white stereo)

Happy (belated) birthday !

Would be interested to hear your opinion of that one. Passed on a copy of it a year or two back - I think it was about £6. Fred Tompkins of course is flautist on one of Elvin's Blue Note albums ('Polycurrents').

chewy, I will give you that date if you promise to wear a French maid outfit and fish nets in the video.

I think he already had the OBE so the CBE is a step up ! Nice to see one of these awards go to someone who has really earned it. Often they are given to 'jobsworths'.

Andrew Hill 'Lift Every Voice' (BN Liberty blue/white stereo). Great sounding copy ! Art Blakey 'At The Jazz Corner Of The World Vol 2' (BN 47W63rd DG mono)

Really?

Sorry to hear this news - but very best wishes with the future plans. Take care !

In a Liberty pressing I think !

Sonny Fortune 'Long Before Our Mothers Cried' (Strata-East)

End of an era.. Cue the last post bugler as the final Miles LP set hits the dust.

Oh shit..

Will be hitting the road for a family 'do' a bit later but just calling in here with glass of wine in hand and Mosaic Hodges 56-61 set blaring away and doing its magic. Roast Welsh lamb in the oven. Dillema at 3pm. Watch Her Maj on TV or listen to more Mosaic?

A good way to remember Oscar at his peak is on those 'HGBS' home movies from Villingen captured in excerpt on the 'Jazzin' The Black Forest' DVD and I will be watching that this afternoon bay way of tribute.

It's just confirmed by the Globe and Mail. Oscar Peterson RIP

One of Canada's greatest sons passes on. May he rest in peace. What a great and long-lived career he had though - and what a great ambassador for jazz.

Season's Greetings and Good Listening to all !

Hi Allen - put me down for one set of the full monty. PM on its way !

Johnny Coles 'Little Johnny C' (BN NY USA mono, DG side 1)

Cool ! That Bechet set is presumably pre-QLP but should still sound really good. Still to play the majority of my 'London' sets but the next week should give a chance or two - hopefully.

Grant Green 'Talkin' About' (BN NY USA mono)

This isn't so much of a disappointment as a Santa-disaster one year when I was a youngster - sneeking a peak from the ladder in the attic before the day to check out what pressies had been bought (Subbuteo, Scalectrix, model railway etc) when I dislodged a huge great (and expensive) bottle of "Oil of Olay" that my mum had bought for one of my aunts. Took ages to clean the pink gunk from the carpet (which left a major stain) and explaining the whole thing to my folks was tortuous. Of course, I can look back on it all now and laugh !

Wishing a Very Happy Birthday and good listening !