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  1. Mine's a reissue.
  2. Yes, happy birthday to the only board member I've actually met in real life!
  3. Nice, all looked to be having fun
  4. Watched it and enjoyed it last night, thanks for the heads up.
  5. I watched "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" on Netflix t'other day, which was pretty interesting, almost all of it new to me. The film showed some pictures of the scene where Fred Hampton was killed in his apartment; in one of them, you could make out a copy of Dolphy's "Out To Lunch" on the floor of the apartment.
  6. How so? In an other-worldly kind of way, you mean?
  7. Another thought; concerning the scene where Wayne Shorter is looking at photos of himself looking at Morgan's bandaged head. It appeared to me that Shorter hadn't seen those pictures before, or at least for many years. When he looks closely at the photo and says something along the lines of "what were you doing man?", I had a sense that he'd almost traveled back in time for a moment or two.
  8. I just watched this on Netflix today. As others have mentioned, the scene where Larry Ridley talked about meeting Helen after she was released from jail was very powerful. I'm a sucker for redemption / compassion stories.
  9. A tune I've always liked since first hearing the Ray Bryant record above, This rendition is nice too:
  10. This hoary old chestnut / seminal work (whichever you prefer): Earlier:
  11. I too thought he had already died. Fats reminds me of my dad, who was a fan
  12. Of the records I've picked up cheaply over the years, these are the ones that have been played most Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 (I never play the Borodin side!) - Decca / Borodin Quartet Stravinsky - Firebird Suite - Decca / Ansermet Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - Decca / Solti Ravel - Mother Goose - Decca / Ansermet Debussy preludes - Deutsche Grammophon / Monique Haas Wagner - Siegfired Idyll (there are others on the disc, but I don't often play them) - Deutsche Grammophon / Raphael Kebelik Beethoven - Eroica - Philips / Bruno Walter The Red Army Ensemble (!) - Columbia Mahler 9th symphony - EMI / Klemperer Witches Brew - a compliation of various composers - my version is the Decca reissue I think that, like Bill F, my selection is quite jazz-led. Even the Red Army Ensemble - when I first heard "Annie Laurie" I remember racking my brains, certain I'd heard it before. It eventually came to me that I'd heard it on a Jimmy Forrest album (I now know it's a trad folk song)
  13. I was watching a documentary on Jacqueline du Pre last night, and today I found this LP in a charity shop for the princely sum of £1.99. Very nice it is too.
  14. Championship? Pah, I have to watch nonleague
  15. What have I missed?
  16. Probably those Horace Silver "United States of Mind" albums.
  17. I've just reached a zenith of Henderson love listening to "El Barrio" through the headphones
  18. Penny Lane Penny Pocket Suzie Sweet
  19. ^ While I prefer later Horace, all Horace is ace
  20. I'm with Clifford here, great spot
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