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Lot's of good reasons to buy the Wilson. Charles Tolliver is on there. As is Joe Pass. Teddy Edwards and Harold Land in their 60s prime too ! The 'Moment of Truth' and 'Milestones' sessions are particularly great. Very high standard right through the set (the lesser known material such as 'Everywhere' is also very rewarding) and a unique big band conception that could only have come out of California in the 1960s. Laid back but with precision and pizazz. The booklet is a very fine tribute to the master too, with some good photos of the band in action in and about LA.

0.5 litres of Ruddles County. Not too bad.

Heck, they even do a George Braith 'Two Souls In One' for $10.99 too. That would be an interesting one to hear. The original vinyl version is the biz...

Where do you find 'em?

Very Happy Birthday !

Indeed. Many Happy Returns !

First time I tried to navigate to the other pages I got an advert for American Express Gold Card. Appropriate !

Very fine mainstream clarinettist/altoist. Those Nixa pressings were put out by Pye and are usually built like brick outhouses..very heavy vinyl !

Yes, this is a really good one. I've also found the sound to be more than OK and the Booker Little/George Coleman material in particular is magnificent !

As would Joe Harriott with Booker Little.

Lee Morgan and Tubby Hayes would have been interesting.

Basil Kirchin 'Abstractions of the Industrial North' (Trunk Records)

George Benson 'Give Me The Night' (Warner Brothers)

Quincy Jones 'Mellow Madness' (A&M) Herb Alpert 'Rise' (A&M)

Up for this thread, just listening to the CDs. Man, those trumpeters play high and loud ! Takes a couple of listens to really get into it (Tolliver has a truly unique arranging style - this sounds like no-one else) but once you do, this disk is happening. I agree that the bass is a bit under-recorded (looks like Malcolm Addey did the honours). First time I ever saw a Mosaic for sale too in my local store.

Hank Jones 'Urbanity' (Japanese Verve). Nice DSM sleeve !

With that group. Not. However, it's got some blues stuff on there, and Alfred might have thought it too much of the same thing and limited the tracks to 5. That's my guess. Of course, I doubt this is not too high up on the Cuscuna scale of inquiry. I don't own the Donaldson Mosaic set but this album does not seem to be part of it! Any reason? Why is the Mosaic set called 'The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson sessions' then? I don't have that Mosaic or the listing of it in front of me but doesn't it cover the slightly earlier period of the late 50s, around the time of 'Blues Walk', 'Light Foot' etc?

Happy Birthday and good listening !

That version of 'Walk on By' is amazing. Love that cool trombone intro ! It gets a pretty cursory writeup in the booklet with the Mercury set and Kirk's Mercury contract expired soon after. Is that a Flash Gordon voicebox doing the vocal recitation at the end of one of the tracks? (just before the "Mañana")

Yep !

Curtis Amy/Dupree Bolton 'Katanga !' (Pacific Jazz black label stereo) Ike Quebec 'Soul Samba' (BN Conn)

I've always been very partial to Kirk's 'Slightly Latin' (Limelight) - the last of the albums from the Mercury years and included on that sublime Mercury 10CD box set. The Mexican-inspired material is fairly crazy and there's frequent interjections from Kirk vocals, noise boxes, kazoos etc. but the whole thing grooves. Horace Parlan is at his funkiest best and the lineup is interesting (with Martin Banks featured on flugel). A period piece for sure but an amusing and satisfying album. Another obscure one from later in Kirk's career is 'Other Folks Music'. Again, fine lineups with Hilton Ruiz and Trudy Pitts (including some of their own material). This was after the stroke I think but Kirk plays with great feeling.

Incredible that that tune was credited to King Henry VIII (or one of his 1500s Court musicians)..

I have the 'Two Cities' on a UK Parlophone flat edge Booby Hutcherson 1970s night - DIY vinyl Mosaic Select: 'Waiting' 'Cirrus' 'Knucklebean' (All BN blue Label ) and 'Now'(BN Liberty stereo)

Just spinning the LP for 'Waiting' and side 1 is an absolute corker, a real groover. The second side is not quite so strong but overall a definite . George Cables was definitely on form for this date !