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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.

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.