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She also gets my vote. Throughly enjoyed her performance at NorthSea this Summer. Innovative - no. But in the best spirit of jazz - yes.

Benny Golson 'Groovin' With Golson' (Esquire, mono). Benny and Curtis Fuller lettin' rip on this one and just about the heaviest slab of vinyl I have ever seen !

But it doesn't have a black box, pink invoice and a number !

Chico is ageless ! (He, Sam Rivers and Gerald Wilson should form a club). Very happy birthday to him and hopefully lots more to come..

Jackie McLean 'McLean's Scene' (New Jazz DG mono)

By the way, his quartet of albums from the sixties have been issued on CD but not distributed outside of his own company (QNote) and they don't publicise this fact. They are all excellent albums too and very very underrated. Dankworth's arrangements have certainly influenced the likes of Wheeler and Mike Gibbs to name but two. 'Full Circle' on Phillips from the early 1970s is also a very good one - although quite a bit more rock-oriented than 'Windmill Tilter'. Quite a few of the arrangements on this are by Mike Gibbs.

Yep (along with the Mike Osborne 'Outback')

Yep, it's a Johnny Dankworth album with arrangements by Kenny Wheeler.

Kenny Wheeler 'Windmill Tilter' (Fontana stereo) Barbara Thompson 'Wilde Tales' (MCA)

Absolutely superb LP - really a Johnny Dankworth Orchestra session from the late 60s, composed and arranged by Wheeler when he was in an 'inactive' period due to injury (and commisioned as a favour by Dankworth). The CD I believe will be a needle-drop from a mint/near mint LP of the Fontana, which now a pretty rare album on the vinyl. The Dankworth LPs from this period are not too difficult to find but this one seems to have slipped off the radar very quickly after issue. It's been a favourite of mine for some years now and I suspect lots of people on this board are going to enjoy it. I'm sure Dave Holland (who is on it by the way) must have been listening to it when he was doing the arrangements for his most recent big band LP (the way the brass unisons with vibes etc). Great Don Quixote/Sancho Panza cover too - must have cost 6d to put together but very effective !

Check also a 'certain site' for a Gigi Campi documentary with the CBBB, transmitted originally on German language TV. Well worth picking up !

Hey, I have that one too. I'll have to dig it out..

Does she do spinach?

Ask her if she likes Mosaics

Splendid news to start the day on !

Very cool !

Interesting thread. I have the Blakey set on vinyl so I'll give it a spin during the week. Never noticed any particularly bad quality before though. Fortuitously, I have pretty well all the LPs used in this set (except 'Pisces' and the two 'Jazz Corners') on mono NY USAs as well. I've always preferred these for soundstage/dynamics but if I get time I'll do a bit of cross-checking.

Looks like that woodwork needs some serious weekly polishing with the Mr Sheen !

I operate an LP12/Aro setup not dis-similar to this one (but with a felt mat )

Seeing this reminds me that the music shop in London where the Black Lion sessions were recorded (on Regent St) is still very much in operation. I was in there not too long ago browsing the music and instruments.

Wow ! I think I paid 90 Euros for the 3-CD set. Great music, of course.

Several of the Blue Note Conns for £5 each at 'Fopp' (including 'Tex Book Tenor') plus a batch of the German Fantasy CDs that also seem to be popping up at zweitausendeins - bargain price of £3 each. Both Don Patterson/Booker Ervin 'Legends of Acid Jazz', a couple of Stitt/Ammons 'Left Banks' and several 'limited editions' such as the Jimmy Woods 'Conflict'. Also the nice 4CD 'Riverside Story' for £15

Looks like a K-Tel Mosaic. What a bargain !

Amen to that. Will have to pull out the vinyl slab later in the day. Just been listening to that July 27th 2001 performance at 'Smoke'. Too bad that Big John and Eric Alexander weren't recorded in a rehearsed, studio environment - that would have been good. Big John had more soul in his little finger than the summation of current R&B crew/rappers/deck-jockeys/hangers-on etc..

Poppa Lou must do that 'fusion and confusion' spiel at just about every gig he's done for the past 40 years !