sidewinder

This is one case where the Mosaic CD set format scores big time over original vinyl. Great music though, indeed !

Cecil Taylor/Buel Neidlinger Candid LP1

Presumably this is the same performance to that on Vol 12 of the 'Lost Quintets Tree', right?

Your birthday present is in the mail !

Thanks for the advisory !

I have a black box room decoration theme.

A couple of great goals there. Certainly the best FA Cup Final I have ever seen on TV (and I usually don't bother watching it). Critical opinion seems to be that this was the best final since at least the 1950s. Too bad West Ham threw it away on the penalty shoot-out though..

Lee Morgan/Wayne Shorter Veejay, CD 1

Very Happy Birthday , Tooter !

Miles Davis 'In A Silent Way' LP set. JJ Johnson 'Columbia Studio Sessons' LP set.

Really saddens me to hear that. Only saw him the once but it was very fine. As part of a group accompanying Teddy Edwards on a very rare NYC excursion. Numbing to think that both of these wonderful players, who were in great form that night, are no longer with us. Can't have been more than 5 years ago either. I'll put on the Blakey 'Jazz 625' video this weekend in remembrance.

What sort of job is that?

Johnny Dankworth Orchestra 'Full Circle' (Philips stereo). With Kenny Wheeler, Henry Lowther etc. John Zorn 'Spillane' (Electra Nonsuch). With Big John Patton.

Just the other day watched again the Jazz 625 broadcast with Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer. Brookmeyer absolutely on top form in that performance (he must be one of the most consistent guys in jazz) and just over-running with ideas. What a great combination Terry and Brookmeyer were !

Bud Powell 'The Vintage Years' (UK Verve 60s compilation)

The original LP by the way was on Hot House Records, a spin off from the now lamented Mole Jazz London shop.

I operate Naim Audio pre and power amps with Dynaudio Contour speakers. Works well !

Graham Collier Sextet 'Down Another Road' (Fontana stereo). With Harry Beckett, Karl Jenkins etc.

There's a post on AAJ that states that pianist John Hicks has very sadly just passed away in NYC. I've seen no other confirmation of this so can't substantiate further. If it is true then my thoughts go out to his family. RIP.

John Dankworth Orchestra 'Zodiac Variations' (Fontana mono). With Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims.

Ask Sidewinder to tell you about his Esquire pressing of that one... pretty hip! Unfortunately I don't have a scan of it but it has a nice charcoal portrait of Lady Day by what must have been a very young John Marshall ! Strangely though the LP is under Paul Quinichette's name ('with Webster Young') - Quinichette probably had higher UK prifile at the time of release. Now spinning Paul Gonsalves 'Humming Bird' (Deram stereo)

There is a whole 'cult' around that one. Must be about the rarest item on Vocalion.

Great, I hope this is true. Haven't heard anything further though.

Are you talking the original LP or the Connoisseur LP? I had the original LP and I agree that the CD sounds much better. However, I read somewhere that the Connoisseur LP sounds good and I've been looking for a copy for quite a while to see if this is true. You can save me further searching if you're saying it's not worth it. Kevin Good point, thanks. I'd forgotten that I have a copy of the 'Wally' Conn LP in my racks (amazing how these things get lost/forgotten about) so will retrieve it later today and check out the sound. I'd love to hear the Japanese issue King LP of this session (probably definitive).

The Miles Live '75 from the nickel and dime store. Wow !