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Seems incredible with the number of experts involved in this release (plus extensive sleevenotes, including ‘a great jazz scholar’), that the wrong drummer is listed. Is there a jazz detective in the house?!

So, track 7 will play in my car but track 6 still has glitches and skips towards the end. I’ll send it back (Juno in the UK) see what I get in return…

Nothing to do with fidelity, tracks 6 and 7 of the CD are not playable. Sony portable, Marantz separate. Something has gone wrong here. Do not buy this CD, it’s faulty.

Correct. The tracks are unplayable. Jumping, stuttering, stalling. I’m sending the CD back. Who signed off this Kenny Dorham CD? Where is the quality control. Dreadful. I am requesting a refund. Don’t buy this CD.

Interesting! It does get better after the first couple of tracks though. I must get that Wheeler book.

Now I have listened to it all, Live at Antibes is a cracking CD with some of the best Tubby live I have heard. Great sleeve notes by Mr Spillett. Recommended. Probably should be in new releases section.

Yes, but after the first 24 seconds of the track, there is a pause and you can then hear that 24 seconds again. Bit of a glitch on the CD and the download. Odd how these things slip through with all the refined presentation, production and extensive sleeve notes. You would have thought the key thing was getting the music right. Or at least explaining why we got the intro twice.

I was quite impressed at how comfortable the ordinary seats were at Lords. Was Sir Jimmy playing?

Thanks for the information. They all seem pretty much of a piece with Windmill Tilter. The sound and musicianship, though Wheeler’s compositions take things to a different level. To my ears, there is always a touch of twee to Dankworth’s compositions.

Heard that on Gilles P yesterday, sounded stunning. Have pre ordered the CD via Juno (and the Kenny Dorham) to avoid the usual disappointment with new vinyl pressings.

Interesting, thanks very much for the information. What an oddly bolted together work, recorded in NYC and London plus lots of overdubbing of key soloists. Seems to work from a listening perspective though.

Guiltily I have only just unsealed a John Dankworth Twofer Vocalion CD, after years of it sitting in a pile of unplayed CDs. The CD combines the Zodiac Variations and the Million Dollar Collection. The Zodiac Variations despite pages has to have the most uninformative sleeve notes I have ever come across. Loads of dribble about astrology. It seems to have been recorded in the US and London, featuring Clark Terry, Zoot Sims and Tubby Hayes. Does anyone have the personnel and recording info? Thanks in advance! PS one track apparently features solos from Osie Johnson and Kenny Wheeler. An odd pairing.

Kenny Clarke Francy Boland big Band Complete live recordings at Ronnie Scott’s. Volcano and Rue Chaptal. Great CD, the band is on top form. I hope I am mishearing but someone utters something way beyond the pale before track 1.

Middlesex Lancs at Lords. I enjoyed the fourth day, it was a close match. Amazing weather. Sunburnt in April. Nearly hit by a six, I lost sight of it in the sun and it clattered down nearby.

I saw him for Lancs against a touring Indian side at Old Trafford. From checking, it appears this was May 1974. I have the scorecard somewhere. Quite how I got off school for the day (dropped off by my parents), who knows! Nice weather for Manchester I recall. Lever was Agnew’s hero, I have heard him speak in awe of him.