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Oliver Nelson Argo/Verve/Impulse - CD4.

So do I.. Just picked up (fanfare) the Gillespie Verve/Clef 7CD set for £39.99

Same bargain source? I thought I was doing well with my CD version of this for £18.

Hmm - interesting..

Easy to under-estimate just what he did with 32Jazz - OK, the packaging was weird but for just getting all of that material back out there, including all those Woody Shaws, we owe a major debt.

Wasn't Mobley due to be on that one too? Now spinning 'An Electrifying Evening With Dizzy Gillespie' (Verve, stereo) and the Bill Evans Mosaic LP set.

The session on the 'Wardell Gray Memorial Album' (Prestige) must be one of his earliest. A very good one too !

Is it me or does it feel bl**dy freezing?

Bill Evans Village Vanguard set, LP4

Who cares what the record sounds like with that great cover art! You mean this groovy cover? The colors were more vivid on the original. Heh. My LP copy has a b&w cover. Yep, so does mine. Dootone late 60s/early 70s reissue.

Nothing wrong at all with the Chico set. Maybe some of the material might be a bit 'twee' for some tastes though. No complaints from here.

What a shock - and, yes, way too young. RIP - and yet another one lost this year to jazz. His enthusiasm for the music will be missed !

How is that album? Ever since I found out about that one, I've wanted to hear/buy it. I've never seen it in any format. Fabulous. Kirk with Golson's orchestra on side 1, just the quartet on side 2 (Harold Mabern on piano). One of Kirk's very best albums IMO and one of the better recorded ones too - and yes, it does seem to be somewhat scarce.

Miles 'Complete On The Corner' box set, CD1. One of the great jazz releases of 2007, for sure.

Could well have been. I think I heard that one too. Lovely lady, from what I have seen on interviews with her on various Miles DVDs.

Paul Desmond 'From The Hot Afternoon' (Japanese A&M stereo)

Woody Herman 'Jazz Hoot' (UK CBS stereo). Nice production by Teo Macero

'The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets The Benny Golson Orchestra' (UK Mercury, mono)

Solal is definitely one of the greatest pianists I have ever seen (1987-ish). In solo performance, he was all over the keyboard and full of inspired, unusual angles to interject into the music. A phenomenon ! Probably the gig which exceeded all expectations (and they were high to start with).

Saw Fred Katz perform one of his third-stream suites at one of those open-air LA West Coast bashes back in the late 1990s. Mix of jazz group and string section, quite reminiscent of the music he did with Chico Hamilton. His neice (or was it grand-daughter - can't remember) was on 'cello, I seem to recall. Fred didn't play I think but did conduct the group.

There were LP reissues on King in the 1970s as well so no doubt significant $ from them too.

Time to retire with the "Posh" one and live off the Japanese royalties..

Don Fabio, as they call it in Madrid, is a damn tough guy. I foresee hard times for Beckham's fashion advisers. I hope he kicks some underperforming asses. No wonder he's smiling all the time though. At £6 million per year he ought to. Jeez..

Consider yourself stoned !