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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 !

Many Happy Returns - hope that you get some good new music !

What 'stereo' pressing was that one? A Conn 'Wally'?

Indeed !

Horace Silver 'Blowin' The Blues Away' (BN 47W63rd DG mono)

Corky McCoy James Finney Roberta Flack

There goes the next installment of bargain Euro Mosaics..

Kate Bush Old Bull and Bush Bush

Still awaiting mine..

'World at War' is still an absolute classic. First saw this back in about 1972 when it was first broadcast and it made a massive impression, at a time when these things were still 'relatively' recent (shocks me even thinking of it).

(In descending order) 50s : 'Plus Four' 'Saxophone Colossus' 'The Sound of Sonny' 'Vol 2' 'Live at the Village Vanguard' 'Rollins Plays Bird' 60s: 'Alfie' 'Our Man In Jazz' 'East Broadway Run Down' 70s: 'Nucleus' 'The Cutting Edge' 'G-Man'

One of the first LPs I ever bought was an Atlantic twofer called 'The Atlantic Years - The Art of Charles Mingus'. The first track of LP1 had 'Moanin' and Pepper Adams fantastic full sound leading into the wild ensemble. I've always loved this track and it was no suprise recently to hear a rip off of the tune featuring on TV on a beer commercial. Not half as good as the version with Pepper though. Had more of a problem at the time though with 'Passions of Man'. Another track on the aforementioned twofer.

Wilbur Wright Louis Bleriot Amelia Earhart

'Ike Quebec Complete Blue Note 45s' LP2 I'll be giving the Maynard Roulette LPs a spin a litle later too.

The Jaco biography documents these I think.