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TV networks have been churning out worse with less plot changes - this even if it runs to ground with a note to say the recording was awful - would at least close the file.

Cue very dramatic music ! The plot thickens......

Oh wow - where to start - such a back catalogue and introduced me also to so many other artists. What a character and what a legacy. My fav 3 right now: (as is firing them up on the system -will change by next week!) Alligator Boogaloo Callin All Cats and that recording of John Pattons Funky Mama I was lucky enough to have a whole set of videos of him playing along with Lonnie Smith which although not live in person were a pretty close second. Many of them are thankfully on YouTube...talking of which - I have just found this -

Wow - that is a very nice find.

No need to apologise This stuff needs time and effort Listening now to Woody Shaw after a whole heap of Bobby Hutcherson - lovely Website a little noisy with graphics but loving it so far Jazz on Class

Do tell more? Is this one of the "live" tapes we had access to or something new? I knew this was a keeper But none of my work = Javier Gonzales - wonder if this sprung up the sorts of leads thesis can ie "well did you ever speak to ...." Hope so For Javier's sake Such a rich piece of work - turning what we say here as "well I heard" into cited quotes etc

Did you want access to the thesis? - I remember putting that here for wider reading: https://andybleaden.blogspot.com/2007/07/thesis-on-john-patton-by-javier.html I also put it onto a pdf - not sure now why - probably so I could print it back then: John Patton Thesis by Javier Gonzales

The Steppin out lp I remember seeing quite a bit in UK Secondhand record shops - remember hearing it and was nearly tempted and also Boss Tres Bien and quite liked the title track - in fact - now I have just also found a version on youtube and that floats my Sunday morning stuck in because it is raining boat!

I have had this for years and years and did not ever have the brains to work out the Ray Draper set was the one from Prestige (or as it says here now I have my glasses on - from Jubilee Records!)

This looks like Don Wilkerson to me (dont get too excited - no sound) from the late 70s' Don Wilkerson

Mine was the Larry Young set I had recently bought a big box of jazz lps (pre ebay) and some of them were Blue Notes - originals too My local jazz record shop in Manchester UK (Decoy Records) had a look and out from under the counter popped a Larry Young Mosaic set - AND a box of the Other Side of the 1500 Series (Japanese LPs) I went home happier than I had ever felt trading records. Larry Young I had only heard I think 3 tracks of and there was all his stuff and his sides with Grant Green ....and then that Japanese Blue Note set. Still have the Larry Young set - my favourite still. Bought all the Blue Note boxes and loved ringing up from the UK (as fast as I could as it cost a fortune) to place an order for the next one or ones I had missed.

All these years later I still miss BJP and cherish the odd evening to myself to immerse into the world of Big John Patton Tonight Dec 8th December it is the Minor Swing release

Imagine the squeals if they surprised us and turnout a nice odds and sods set ( a little like some of the older Japanese rarities) I know there is not a great deal and the prospect might not be real but I would still squeal! In all seriousness the prospect of another nicely compiled box of new bits and pieces along the lines of a Lost Grooves plan would just be enough

Same here - nowadays all these Mosaics have the same material I have where as previously they had absolute hidden treasures like the Larry Young or Hank Mobley or Lee Morgan sets that back then were really impossible to find on CD However that said - these are lovely sets to see - especially the Joe Henderson and Sonny Clark - I would love to have seen one that tied up a few artists like Baby Face Willette/Freddie Roach - or as others have said - long since unseen one LP wonders. Nowadays I still enjoy the ones I bought - last one was the JJ Johnson and the two Vee Jays with Lee Morgan Wayne Shorter and Paul Chambers and Wynton Kelly =they were nice sets

oh and that weird bid band thing from 1964 Big-Band Live at the Vestlandhalle, Recklinghausen, Germany, 1964 Not one song but all this

Also to add in the mix there was a radio dub (not "released") but recorded on WBCN Boston 1973-09-04 - cracking tracks see attached

That is true - I have a fair few that were also radio broadcasts and would love to see more issued - as they did with the Half Note sessions I just gave the Blue Lament another play and in particular Mason Dixon Line - I still like it

Wow - this I missed - now watched What a lovely lovely treat I never ever thought I would see. and then to learn about Tina Brooks as well - luck is in the room

i had some rough cuts of this a few years ago now sounds a lot brigther

After all these years Dan well done

Well I have a fair bit of Kenny Dorham This is not his best but nor is it his worst. If you can snaffle a copy as this may not get released officially (but you never know) then do It is better than 60% of what I have heard of Kenny Dorham in my sonically challenged world

Open House Plaint talk two fer never ever lets me down

Well it is mostly free. Free = no moderating = shanty town but I do find it useful and have scrubbed up a few sites where they lack recordings

Used many paper based discographies They take enormous effort I could pick faults but they have been in my opinion excellent. To monetise online ..maybe the best offer is a trial membership access...so many logins for a fee

There used to be an army of regulars that used to go to the Manchester Jazz Society - to listen to jazz records who waxed lyrical about seeing many of these Manchester gigs - not sure how many more of them are still with us Time gone by I used to turn up with my latest Mosaic Box set or new Blue Note CD and try to get them into the "new stuff" from the 50's and 60's - they used to call me the Blue Note Kid Still here: https://twitter.com/jazz_manchester?lang=en