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Times Remembered - The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio (University of North Texas Press)

He features in parts of Joe La Barbera’s recent Bill Evans book. CD1 onwards of this 13CD set.

Maybe a geographic thing. Frustrating ! Either that or an alternative Jutta Hipp universe !

Not showing anything for me. Just LPs etc.

Delving into this 18CD set - ‘economy’ Italian version. CD8 - Trio 65 and the Ogerman Symphonic session.

Other than on the front cover, I don’t think so. The Mosaic booklet has plenty of his photos though. I did meet Bill once - and bought a book of his photos off him, which he kindly signed. A very nice guy ! Very comprehensive ! I remember those ‘Jazz Lab’ reissues but associate them more with the 1980s and not the 70s. That ‘Leonard Feather’ series I remember too - yes, as you say, they were US imports.

With regard to Shorty Rogers ‘Clickin’ with Clax’, Todd Selbert’s notes for the Mosaic box are informative. Apparently in the mid 1970s the Rogers tape archive was requested from the vaults and this session was amongst them. Via Nesuhi Ertegun all of the Atlantic affiliates were contacted to see if they wanted to release the new material. None of them gave an affirmative, even the Japanese. Eventually just the UK relented, hence that particular LP only coming out here. So, not surprising that Big Beat Steve only saw it later at Mole. The big Atlantic warehouse fire happened shortly afterwards so a bit of a miracle that this material got to see the light of day. That Atlantic ‘That’s Jazz’ series put out in Germany around 1976/77 was widely available here and I picked up quite a few of them. Also those MCA twofers - quite a lot of Bob Thiele sessions, I recall. Weren’t they called something like ‘Jazztime USA’?

Yeah, I’m working my way through it for the first time in a while. Slowly, as CD1 has been on repeat play . CD sound is very good indeed.

Yes, I thought of that too. The elder generation who were coming into their 50s would account for the following of West Coast Jazz. Personally I was more into Blakey and co. at the time but did like Shorty. ‘Modern Sounds’ sold quite well on 10 inch LP here in the early 50s, around the time that Kenton took off. Big following here for ‘trad’ such as the Dutch Swing College Band. Bristol as well being ‘home turf’ for Acker Bilk. The Dutch Swing College Band had an enthusiastic fan base over here at the time, including folk who weren’t specifically into jazz.

Well, these Tone Poet LPs can sound very good indeed so if you have a decent turntable and don’t already have the material on LP they can be an attractive proposition. Hence the wetting of oneself in anticipation going on in some quarters e.g. on SHF regarding this set. Personally not interested as have all of them on LP. £210 here in the UK and not available until end of Jan. Almost $ for £ - extortionate.

CD1

Can’t beat Germanic marzipan !

Will do. I respect Roger’s word on this and suspect that it will be 10x a good thing. The approach seems to be in line with the Barbara Thompson set i.e. full FM broadcasts remastered to the very best standard. I heard only a couple of these broadcasts at the time and this is a great chance to ‘catch up’.

Madness in the supermarket this morning - people bumping into you and barging through just to get hold of their damn Xmas sprouts and parsnips. The basics on social distancing seem to be being forgotten !

Can’t go wrong !

Nucleus BBC 13CD set on its way for some intensive Xmas listening. Great timing !

The esteemed Mr Tanno supplied me with a copy of that King. Immaculate condition too !

There has been so much guff put out there about AZ, much of it not by the likes of us but by various big wigs who should know better, that we should all be careful what statements we make about it. I repeat - my statement addressed your original assertion.

Maybe - but your statement was specific to rate of tailing off and was incorrect. Sorry !

Not true. AZ lower initial efficacy but tails off more gradually. https://www.statista.com/chart/25575/pfizer-astrazeneca-efficacy-loss/

Maybe the Shorty Rogers enthusiasm was a British thing. ‘Clickin’ with Clax’ certainly sold in decent numbers - around that time he was also touring the UK so maybe that also helped. As for Dixieland - the nearest I got to it in that era was seeing Peter Schilperoort’s Dutch Swing College Band at what used to be the Bristol Colston Hall. That evening was a packed house.

Well, the book has arrived ‘over the pond’ and a quick scan through so far has been illuminating. Glad to have it. The French fan’s recollections in the appendix concerning tune selection certainly gel with my own. Can vividly recall them playing ‘Laurie’ both nights, also ‘Theme From Mash’ (‘Suicide Is Painless’) both nights and ‘Nardis’ being used as set-closer with lengthy Evans solo intro on at least one set per night. Other tunes I remember include ‘My Foolish Heart’ and ‘Elsa’. The story about Evans setting fire to his hotel bed was new to me. The ‘signed Ronnie Scott’s flyer’ (folded card on each table) in one of the illustrations is astonishing - just for the quality of the ‘acts’ that season (Chico Hamilton, Art Pepper, Yusef Lateef - Dizzy Gillespie following on from Evans). I didn’t see the Pepper gigs but did catch him at RFH during that stint. Remember at the time being peeved that I couldn’t see Dizzy - work commitments (or maybe impending vacation) ruled it out. Those Summer months were packed with stars at Scott’s as many of these bands were doing the European Festival circuit, including Nice etc.

Very glad I picked all of those up when available - and the Bill Evans. Higher prices on deFranco/Clark CD version probably reflective of scarcity vs the LP version.

Good one.