Steve Gray

This description definitely sounds like Dobell's after it relocated to Tower Street. It probably mentions in in the NY Times article (I didn't read all of it) but Asman's was in New Row, a small street off St. Martins Lane. The woman who ran it after James Asman retired, and moved to Mole with it, was called Maureen. When Ray's moved from New Oxford St. to Shaftesbury Avenue, it was actually in both Shaftesbury Avenue and Monmouth St. You could walk in one side and out the other. Monmouth St. is an extension of St. Martins Lane (actually Upper St. Martins Lane). I just mention this in case anyone was confusing Monmouth St with St. Martins Lane.

Here is a picture from the later days in Charing Cross Road, after the addition of the folk and blues shop. I went to Dobell's for the first time in about 1962 and for me it was never the same after the move to Tower Street.

Michael Cuscuna

£56 will buy you one ... Humphrey Lyttelton Discography

Mildly fatal?

I have the Japanese CD issue. I had been looking for the cover art for this to add to iTunes and hadn't been able to find it so a big thank you for supplying it. :-)

Billie Holiday's father, Clarence Holiday, played guitar with Fletcher Henderson among others. Is that what you are thinking of?

I am really surprised by the anti Benny Green feelings expressed here. I personally enjoyed Benny's sleeve notes enormously. But then I probably come to him from a different angle to you guys. I'm English, he was English, and I spent my teens getting to know Jazz partly through his radio programs in the 60s. When Kind of Blue was first issued in England, it had notes by Benny which I thought were a model of intelligent writing.

Lonnie Mack

Fish wearing a hat

I wonder if the release of a Mosaic Ellington 30s set has been affected by this new Sony box. I hope not but I fear the worst. I have this but I would still buy a Mosaic complete edition in a heartbeat. Ellington 30s 4 CD Set

Order placed for the Ellington. On CD I already have the Naxos issues but there are enough non-overlapping tracks here to make this worthwhile, especially at the ridiculous price. I will still buy any Mosaic release though. I think this release deserves its own thread.

Paris Review

It works on the same principal as zip files, it looks for repeated patterns to reduce space. My configuration is Hard drives (2 terabytes) --> iMac --> Squeezebox --> Benchmark DAC1 --> pre-amp and I am very happy with it.

All I can say is that I do not agree at all with this opinion. His early autobiographical volumes, 'I play as I please' and 'Second Chorus' are well worth searching out. They are OOP at the moment I think but perhaps they will now be reprinted.

I may be wrong but isn't this a reference to L S Lowry. At least I have always assumed it was. Lowry on Wikipedia I gave her the ring, she gave me the finger

A very sad day Humph has been very important to me since the late 50s when I first heard my father's Parlophone EPs and 10 inch LPs by Humph. I still have them and treasure them greatly. The last time I saw him was a couple of years ago at the Bulls Head. Playing 'Blues for Waterloo' right now. RIP Humph

Does anyone know why the Evans material is not in the Verve box set? (apart from the fact that it is not very good) I don't know if this was explained in the notes in the box. I don't want to open the box because I don't want to get rust on my hands :-)

Sounds like a job for switch cleaner This is what we would buy in the UK Maplin Just google for 'switch cleaner' or 'switch cleaning lubricant'

Taking it for a Happy Birthday spin right now.

Thanks Chris. I didn't think they could have been issued. I am particularly fond of that line up, with Fawkes and Turner, and without a trombone player. They were both wonderful soloists and I really wish I could have heard that band myself. Steve

Chris With regard to the recording you made of the Lyttelton band, where was that issued? Is it available? Thanks

I remember my father had the Louis Armstrong album with the Dukes of Dixieland that was on Audio Fidelity (I now have it on a Spanish label CD). He also had a Peter Appleyard album that featured lots of percussive effects. (listen to the shaker gourd on the left channel) The earliest stereo Jazz recording that I am aware of is the Lennie Tristano quartet with Lee Konitz recorded at the Confucious Restaurant in June 1955