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This may be a complete no hoper but does anyone know any sources of photos of Tina Brooks apart from what appears on his Lps and in the Mosaic box?

I prefer the Small Faces photo to all this chat. They were a tremendous band - in fact I still subscribe to their fanzine!

Certainly Braudel is a good place to start and that's what makes Reformation so disappointing. Braudel doesnt even get a namecheck in the book let alone any other historian of the period dealing with the social issues. You get statements like - a town council of rich burghers ousted the bishop and ruled the city and were sympathetic to Calvin -(I paraphrase of course) but no attempt to determine whether these things were connected or in what way. But even with these enormous limitations its a fascinating read - especially when you can see the source of so many of the crazy religious positions still around today.

I've been reading "The Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700" by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Fascinating stuff! Now I know it was all St. Augustine's fault! Seriously though its a good read and tells you a lot about what happened. Unfortunately it completely fails to tell us why any of it happened giving us no inkling of the economic and social underpinnings of the period. But certainly worth a read now it has appeared in paperback for less that £10.00.

Surely there must be room for a "Penguin Guide to Jazz CDs Out of Print" book by now. How else is Tina Brooks (not mentioned in any edition I've seen) ever going to get a mention.

Is this the famous - and ultra rare - "Leonard Nimoy Sings Free Jazz Classics" and accompanies himself on spoons? One to die for!

I'm going to be in Paris for 6 days from next wednesday. My travelling companion is in their 70s and we would like to find some live Jazz that doesn't involve staying up too late. Where can we find live jazz in this most wonderful of cities in the evening? Any good music shops you know there? Second hand saxophones?

Until last year there was a guy with a Sax shop semi retired in New Pitsligo up here who sold the 5th edition Real Books Volumes I II and II in both Eb and Bb He sold up after his wife died and moved back to England but told me that the books would be available from ther big music shop in Oxford (I've forgotten the name but they are nationally known - Myatts?) I bought a volume from there earlier this year so they are still available. I have the first two plus a couple of other similar books so if there is a particular tune and you cant find it tell me what it is and I will check if I have it for you.

Solos can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/andyw129/ and http://www.saxsolos.com/

Spike Milligan's "Puckoon" is the funniest novel I have ever read. I read it again recently after his death and it was still hilarious. If you haven't already read it you are missing a treat.

Go here to find the Live At Birdland 1962 CD on sale at Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...6306079-3498821

Thanks for the reference to Amazon UK, Phil. The Live at Birdland 1962 CD is available from Amazon for £7.99 though they would appear to have only one copy left. It has, as I said 4 tracks on it, Mr.PC, Miles Mode and My Favourite Things, all with Dolphy plus a Body and Soul with only the later quartet. I can't find the On Stage 1962 for the moment but I AM interested in finding everything available with Coltrane and Dolphy together on it. As I have said elsewhere here I think Eric had a major positive effect on Coltrane. He seems to have instilled a sort of discipline in him which produces a very tight exciting sound and prevents Coltrane straying into self indulgence. I can't get enough of the combination. Is there a listing somewhere of everything recorded by them so I can separate the wheat from the - eh, not so wheaty?

My favourite live Coltrane LP is "John Coltrane Live at Birdland - featuring Eric Dolphy" which I have as an Affinity LP released in Britain though it would seem to have been a Charly Records issue. It has Dolphy on three of the four tracks recorded Feb 10th 1962: Mr PC, Miles Mode and My Favourite Things plus a Quartet track from June 2 1960: Body and Soul. I've never come across it on CD though I would like to.

I'm watching an original Blue Note of Tina Brooks "True Blue" on ebay soar through $2,000 (£1,800 already) and still two days of the auction to go! So I put my Mosaic of it on while I play free internet poker. Beautiful. God, I wish I could play like that.

Is there a website for this somewhere? where? I used to astound my friends (well, my grandma, anyway) with my sleeping twins madfe out of a hankie so I would love to find out how to make these beauties.

Showing my ignorance here but does this copyright protected on the European BlueNotes mean it is impossible to copy them or is there some way to bypass all that. I stress that I dont have the facilities or knowledge to do any of this anyway but sometime in the future I would have liked to be able to make a copy for using in the car (when I can afford a car with CD in it, of course) knowing that it will get lost under a seat and be stood on umpteen times until it is useless at which point I could make myself another copy. Does this copyright protection prevent this all together?

Well, thank heavens thats all over at last. As a scot I always get to support more teams than anyone else in a tournament in that I always support whoever is playing England (no change there then, doctor). But this has been such a boring tournament it has been hard to get up any excitement about any of them. Perhaps Sweden, Denmark and the Czechs. But there have been a helluvalotta grossly overpaid, underperforming seals out there on the park these past few weeks. oink! oink!

the ebay "Back to the Tracks" went for just over $40.00. Where was that copy for $35? I cant get into acousticsounds at all (Sunday night) i will have to keep trying.

It was "Back to the Tracks" which I would very much like to get on vinyl. I have now seen it on offer in both 33.3 and 45rpm guise. Damn it maybe I should just try to get both. Nice to see that Open Sesame is/was also available on vinyl - must search for this too.

I've seen a record I'd thought was only available on CD advertised as a set of one side only 45rpm 12" records from Classic Records. Searching the internet I find it was at some time also available as a 33.3 LP. Who are/were these people and are the records still available new? I've also asked this on another lost but so far no answers.

Many thanks req. I'm away in Stirling at a tai chi weekend as of tomorrow but I will search it out when I get back Monday. I presume you are in Aberdeen too?

I've now contacted every one I know (and a few I don't) with a digibox to ask if I can get them to tape the Coltrane set on BBC 4 tonight - to no avail. The only one I could contact was my wife's 79 year old mother who told me she had finally managed to work out how to get the digibox to worlk but had long ago given up trying to figure out how the video recorder worked. Would anyone give/sell me a tape/DVD of the set once they have recorded it - pppllleeezzzzeeee?

sorry just noticed reference to Howard McGee CD. Will chase it up

I'd never heard of the version of "The Connection" with Tina playing on it. Its not in the discograpohy I have. Is it readily available?

My jazz tastes were always pretty narrow - Coltrane, Bird, Weather Report - big name almost exclusively until I took up tenor sax some years back and then started trawling through the sax players increasingly impressed by Fifties and Sixties Jazz especially. Discovering Lucky Thompson, Tubby Hayes and Hank Mobley were epecially welcome and the juxtaposition of trumpet and sax turned me on to a whole raft of trumpet players. So when I heard Freddie Hubard's Cd "Open Sesame" I was stunned by the lyrical tenor sax player jousting with him. Who was this Tina Brooks? A search through ebay nabbed me three of the man's CDs and I managed to get the rarer "Minor Move" as well. The guy us a a revelation! No rush to the head here speedwise but long lyrical lines and a wonderful tunesmith to boot. Go listen to "Back to the Tracks". Just superb! "True Blue" too has some excellent stuff on it - and Freddie Hubbard too! I'm now searching out his dates with Jackie McLean and Kenny Burrell - but what a waste. He only ever made four sessions as leader (though since Open Sesame was all penned by him this really should count as a Brooks session as well). Go find! Go enjoy! Anyone else out there feel the way I do about this musical genius?