Tony Pusey

Africa, many thanks for the link!

Africa, like to hear that Shank(ar) collaboration- was it ever reissued?

Coming soon, Brown Sugar on Water!

John Handy and Ali Akbar Khan.Karuna Supreme and Rainbow. I have a double cd version put out by MPS a couple of years back.

Che, sometimes its difficult fitting all the pieces into the jigsaw of life, who am I? where am I ?what is the meaning of life? why did god create Robbie? The ineffible ( how many f s in ineffible?)mystery of it all..........and well save the memories and nostalgia about punk till another day. bye for now.

On paper not a Mosaic I would put in the top flight, but as Bev says, an absolute joy, very playable and one that I find I return to more often than many other more worthy (again on paper!) sets. Adams, well whew.....

Good thread! I have been eyeing up the Sundazed reissue program myself wondering where to begin! Looks like I start on the Josie sides and keep goin till I run out of breath!

Che, if your wife prefers Robbie Williams and Rap I wonder where her parents parenting went wrong! Now MY Mum turned me on to RocknRoll and Ska! (It helped that we lived in Hackney for the Ska!-I can remember the West indians cruising up and down on a sunday afternoon in their cars with the sound systems blaring in the early 60s pre My Boy Lollipop days!)

Che, my son loves Back in Black, always wondered where I went wrong as a parent...

Nice 2 choices Kenny, always dug that double whammy of an opener on the first album and New Country Song , and Aimee/Fallin in and out of love on the second......did these ever appear on cd?

Didnt think I got more than 1 shot at this, but since you all give multiple choice answers so factor in Quicksilvers Happy Trails and Big Brothers Cheap Thrills. Since I only seriously began buying jazz about 10 years ago, and I am now 52, I cannot seriously say that any single jazz album is up there in the frequency stakes but Mingus Ah Um is getting there!

Love, Forever Changes.

Clem, funny you should mention Sill, because her first 2 albums on Rhino Handmade arrived yesterday. Never rated her back in the 70s when a good pal of otherwise unimpeachable taste played them for me, but now they hit with the impact of a steam train, this is now the third time Ive played them in 16 hours, a situation chez nous which is as rare as hens teeth! Me thinks the Water is not now far behind. PS Zodiac!

Latest listing at Water shows Freddie Roach Brown Sugar,Watts 103rd Street Rythm Band and Gene McDaniels Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse, the last 2 mean nothing to me, but I am glad for the Roach!

Knew her way back when she sang with the surrealist punk band KUKL!

Couw, I actually think that there are in fact 2 seperate series, Ubu and I tried to sort this out on a thread awhile back- the digis and the jewel case / rhino/Dorn issues- at least several releases have appeared in both formats- I know I have seen Lateefs Blue and a Bill Evans in both versions. No idea if there is a coherant or semi coherant reason, my guess is that local territories of WEA or whatever they call themselves these days. in Europe are operating completely independantly of each other.A complete travesty.

Saw Stitt in a dive in Norwich, England in the summer of 81, with I think, Red Holloway, anyway he was amazing, in full flight. I was with a group of students who had never heard jazz live before, they went ape! and a very lovely German woman in the group was moved at the end to pick him literally off his feet and kiss him enthusiastically.

Nothing to add except to say what an amazingly intelligent and engrossing thread, thanks one and all!

I dont think you can go too far wrong if you stick to what has been reissued on the Takoma label ( Except perhaps the Christmas albums.) One Takoma I would love to see out is the Lawrence Hammond ( ex Mad River)Coyotes Dream. Nothing to do with this thread tho!

I ve got a Toledo, red,no spoiler.

Don Pullen select, all new to me and its a corker!

In 2 weeks I am off to Morocco, so I expect I will see a band with bellydancers! Aint life grand? Seriously Africa if you like Kaleidoscope perhaps you should check out the catalogue of the Turkish label Kalan ( they are on the web) who have an embarassment of riches, both traditional and Turkish fusion, I picked up about a dozen albums around new year and I shall soon go back for more. Taxim!

And Plant said that Kaleidoscope was his ideal band many moons ago in a Zigzag article! Loved all the belly dancers and flamenco dancers...Now how would Dazed and Confused come across with several shimmering dusky beauties rolling their midrifts? Might have even made me a fan (or perhaps not...)

Africa, you could be right about the chronolgy...I heard that his then girlfriend was a witch hence the dark stuff to which you allude. I have heard that the guy who was brought in to keep Skip in line at the time of 20 Granite Creek was his dealer, and it was thus best to have him on hand. In a recent Mojo about psychedelia Robert Plant recalls meeting Skip once and that he was a real sweet guy despite his health problems. Also interesting to see that Oar has now been elevated to the pantheon of the greatest psych albums ever! (and good to see that Loves Forever Changes is listed as number two after Electric Ladyland, I would have put it at number one!)

Thanks Africa. Yes apparently Skippy attacked the other members of the Grape with a fire axe in the studio, jumped on his bike and drove off to record Oar.