sidewinder

Essential stuff !

Same here - 2 or 3 times. The last time would be late 2019 during their season at Ronnie Scotts, right before the onset of the pandemic.

Omnicron much more infectious than delta though. Hopefully the vaccinations and boosters will provide the safeguard that we didn’t have 12 months ago. I’m hearing that parts of London have around 40% of the population unvaccinated though, which is worrying, albeit not typical of the country at large.

Must have been the consequence of one of Francis Wolff’s European Summer holidays and a deal which was made. Rearward also put out an additional LP of material from those sessions, recorded in Koln I think.

On deck for tonight - Candid CD

Again, the sound has more presence to my ears, than the CD version. Good though the CD is - happy to have both. By staggering the LPs from the CDs, Jazz In Britain are onto a good little earner !

I’ve still got the 2LP set of this one and like it a lot. Will dig it out.

NY Mono, ear Esquire, mono

That is a great set - was playing it just the other day. The Fillmore West tracks on CD1 are particularly good.

If I remember correctly, there was petrol rationing over here late 80/early 81. That was fun !

More ‘Jazz In Britain’

Definitely NOT going there ! Yeah, the Commodore series is indeed a treasure trove. One of my tasks this Xmas break is to explore within..

Might even have an extra copy of DeFranco Clark myself but will have to check ! The Commodore Vol III was the last ‘biggie’ that I wanted/got hold of - managed to get a near mint copy for a good price. Not too many other sets I want/need, although the forthcoming Tristano is on the list. The limiting factor is how many black boxes can you fit in your house.

Got the vinyl just before they sell out. It’s noticeably punchier than the CD, so well worth getting hold of. Important issue !

Very true. You just have to look at what happened to the thickness and quality of Impulse vinyl through the 70s. Strangely though, those thin ones can sound good ! Used to waste whole afternoons navigating backwards and forwards between Sam’s and A&A on Yonge St. Bit later period though, when LPs were on their way out.

Blue Note seemed to be scarce in Europe in the mid 1970s. For a time, just cutout blue label were the norm in the specialist shops plus that UA release around 1977 of selected titles such as ‘The Sidewinder’ and ‘Roots and Herbs’. Shorty Rogers reissues were very popular over here in the late 70s - that ‘Clickin’ with Clax’ topped the jazz sellers list at a time when Spirogyra were all the rage.

Over here, some of them were pretty good sellers - the Miles twofers of unissued stuff put out by Teo Macero, the Dexter Gordons and the Stan Getz releases come to mind. Then there were things like ‘Summit Meeting in Birdland’ and that Miles in Paris release with its lousy audio.

UK CBS

I’ve got some Triang/Hornby stuff boxed up. Haven’t used it for about 50 years. OO scale.

July 21 would have been the first (Monday) night of the gig - August 2 the final night (Sat). Not entirely sure but I think I was there on Tues and Wed, possibly in the first week. Interesting about the Dreyfus recording - a similar thing happened some years earlier at Scott’s with those recordings put out on Resonance.

Yeah, forgot that he/they put out Mike and Kate W’s ‘London Bridge is Broken Down’.

Fascinating, thanks for that - can’t wait to read this book. I can’t recall seeing John Le Mes (who was himself not well at the time I recall) but I was there just 2 nights of 10 (or was it 12?). Marty Feldman I did see on one occasion at the club - in fact it might very well have been on the 1st night of this stint; he got dragged out between the front tables by the staff, blind paralytic drunk with his eyes rolling, I kid you not - can still picture it now. My table at the club on that first evening of the Evans Trio was shared with Art Garfunkel and his guest. Pretty sure it was him, or it was an exact double. Didn’t say a word, didn’t stay for the final set ! I think I recall seeing Brit pianist Pat Smyth sat at the front on at least one of those late post-midnight sets. Ronnie Scott as well.

From that unusual period in time when the Bearded One invested some of his dosh in recording jazz. Didn’t last.. CD version