sidewinder

Capitulating and assuming Brad will bail me out as and when required () here’s a pic of the Melvin Lastie that I’ve already framed. Here’s the new McLean print.

Mine is totally blank at the back, no stickers or writing. In fact, just like the previous prints I bought years ago.

Can’t believe it but my print has just arrived !

Nice haul - the Martino and John Patton are very cool finds. Shame the Patton has the corner clip but often the case for that era.

Yeah, I wasn’t sure. Can only recall seeing them on the site from the 2000s but they were probably already there beforehand.

Saw him around 2007/8 with his Trio in a Contemporary Music Network tour over here at two venues. Former board member JohnS (RIP) was with me at the Southampton show. After the Bath show (Tippett Centre) managed to wangle a nice chat with him afterwards and he signed some CDs, LPs and the Mosaic booklet. Diabolical handwriting, a delight to chat with !

Dirty Harry Dirty Den Dirty Digger

Peppa Pig The Fat Controller Thomas the Tank Engine

Yes, this was already a superb sounding album in previous versions but Mosaic did an outstanding job on their CD reissue. Woody’s finest hour in the latter part of his career, especially the Basin Street West material.

Mosaic Single

I found a Jon Eardley Esquire 10” LP in the racks of a store in Auckland, New Zealand. About $20 with some sale discount additional to this, 30% I think. A very obscure pressing indeed, not only in the UK but more so in NZ. Blow me down but elsewhere in the racks there was another identical copy of this Esquire, around the same price !

Wow - that was fast ! Hope that UPS expedite mine across the pond. The quality of these prints, from experience, is absolutely first rate. I don’t recall Mosaic selling these before the 2000s but may be wrong. With a Charlie Lourie sticker maybe these were 90s promotional stock intended for exhibitions/publications etc.? Yeah, right...

‘California Soul’ and ‘Eternal Equinox’ on CD5

It was the Dizzy Gillespie Group at Onkel Po’s that I was wondering about, not with Hayes. That T.S. Monk Group, as I recall it, had Don Sickler on trumpet and I think Bobby Poricelli on saxes. Not sure who was on bass. They played quite a few of the Sickler arrangements which are on the TS Monk Blue Notes, including some of Thelonius’s tunes of course but also gems by Kenny Edited to say that the bassist, I think, was Scott Colley. Next time I saw him was in the UK with Jim Hall ! Can’t recall if Willie Williams was also in the band on tenor but he might have been.

Yeah, same here. Haven’t done a careful check between the two versions yet but suspect that there’s not much in it. Alas, my deck is out of action pending some servicing so it’s CD only at the moment.

Gheorge - I saw Ronnie Matthews with T.S. Monk’s group around 1995 and he was great - a very supportive pianist to the group, I thought. I need to get a copy of this Hayes/Cook CD and also the one featuring Dizzy Gillespie. It is a good series.

Fantasy CD

Mastered by Gearbox and pressed by Optimal I think. They did a very good job.

If I remember correctly their early period through the early to mid 70s was in the UK, where they had a few big hits around the time of glam rock and became famous. I remember seeing them on the TV show Top of the Pops during this period when they hit No. 1 in the charts and being quite amazed - absolutely nothing like it at the time. Real originals !

Not being a lawyer, I would prefer to apply caution on this one.

The ‘Step Lightly’ session.

Reminded that condition of purchase of these is no reproduction of any kind, which we agree to when we purchase off the site so have to comply with that I’m afraid. Thanks anyway ! End of an era.

Nice ! I saw the Fishwicks at Swanage some years ago. With a bit of luck they will be back, once ‘normality’ returns.

Just tried but there’s a 100k limit - damn. Also just remembered Mosaic’s image reproduction statement. Too bad.