British jazz reissues

[Roger Farbey]

Decca has released today a vinyl reissue of The John Cameron Quartet's Off  Centre featuring Harold McNair, Danny Thompson and Tony Carr. I think it's only ever has a CD reissue on Vocalion. The album's reissue was curated by the inimitable Tony Higgins who also wrote new sleeve notes.

 

 

 

 

[adh1907]

Shame Vocalion Dutton gave up on modern jazz. At one stage they had a great British jazz catalogue, excellent production values. 

[adh1907]

Does anyone know what became of that incredible website henrybebop.co.uk? It was a source of very detailed information on the UK bop jazz scene, with huge amounts of info on the most obscure UK boppers. It seems to have disappeared, such a shame. I was looking up Ronnie Ball and the links are broken. Terrible. 

[AndreyHenkin]

16 hours ago, adh1907 said:

Does anyone know what became of that incredible website henrybebop.co.uk? It was a source of very detailed information on the UK bop jazz scene, with huge amounts of info on the most obscure UK boppers. It seems to have disappeared, such a shame. I was looking up Ronnie Ball and the links are broken. Terrible. 

It had a few issues in terms of formatting and accuracy but it was useful. You can still access an archived version from June 2024 here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240616224949/henrybebop.co.uk/

[adh1907]

Thanks, but that didn’t seem to work for me. There must be somewhere on here familiar with ‘Henry’ and his brilliant website. Shame if it’s no longer easily accessible, there was a mass of detailed information there. 

[romualdo]

On 5/6/2025 at 5:55 AM, adh1907 said:

Shame Vocalion Dutton gave up on modern jazz. At one stage they had a great British jazz catalogue, excellent production values. 

All of that Harriott/Garrick material now gone cept for one twofer & a DVD

Also missing in action: Shake Keane, John Surman, Harry Beckett, Henry Lowther, Alan Skidmore, Mike Westbrook, John Cameron, Amancio D'Silva, Bob Downes, Ray Russell...........

Edited Friday at 11:39 PM by romualdo

[mjazzg]

Finally...

Mike Taylor's 'Trio' and 'Pendulum' LP reissues released 25/7 through the British Jazz Explosion series. Pre orders are open

https://ukstore.everythingjazz.com/

Great news and great work by Tony Higgins and others

[Seven8H]

Late to the conversation here...but...

Both 'Pendulum' and 'Trio' have been reissued by Decca Records and seem to only be available here!

https://www.everythingjazz.com/story/a-story-of-vision-and-tragedy-british-jazz-pianist-mike-taylor-reissue/

[romualdo]

11 hours ago, Seven8H said:

Late to the conversation here...but...

Both 'Pendulum' and 'Trio' have been reissued by Decca Records and seem to only be available here!

https://www.everythingjazz.com/story/a-story-of-vision-and-tragedy-british-jazz-pianist-mike-taylor-reissue/

tried to pre-order both but this initial pressing with "poster" appears to be already sold out

actually I've tried multiple items & all are unorderable due to being "sold out" - what gives?

Edited 5 hours ago by romualdo

[mjazzg]

I successfully ordered from the link in my post, just before I posted.

Just checked now and was able to add to basket from here

https://ukstore.everythingjazz.com/products/trio-vinyl-exclusive-art-card?_pos=2&_sid=4071f78cd&_ss=r

Hope you manage to track them down. It might be worth checking Juno or Honest J's as I'm sure both will stock them at some point.