Ronnie Ross

[tooter]

So here's the list of twenty that I'm still looking for. If anyone spots them, please let me know.

List transferred to later post. August 26.

Edited August 26, 2005 by tooter

[tooter]

That sophisiticated software one sees in the movies where a filter runs through a picture making it clearer at each stage is apparently not around here then? Been watching too many i guess. 

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I tried to get the bigger file from the site, but it turned out a dead link. There is only so much magic one can apply to bad graphics.

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Yes, I tried that too. Gave a message in German (?) which even I could understand. Thanks for trying.

[tooter]

I incorrectly stated that I had a full house of pics for 1957 but I can now say it again, truthfully. Another cover has come up on eBay, the picture has already been inserted into the Ronnie Ross Jazz Discography and what is more my list of those I'm still looking for has now dropped below twenty! A landmark!

This one is just an EP but even so starts at $25. Quite a rarity I should think.

[tooter]

So here is the shorter list of nineteen albums for which I am still looking for cover pictures. Please keep your eyes peeled.

(list deleted - see later post)

Edited September 17, 2005 by tooter

[king ubu]

Congrats, Rodney! And I think I haven't mentioned that perspectives to get those new dates have risen considerably, a few days ago! Will take some time, though!

[tooter]

Thank you, Flurin - I get a lot of help and support here. On tenterhooks about the new recordings.

[tooter]

An album, with Ronnie Ross is the line-up and that I have just recently added the cover picture of, has just sold on eBay for $773.00 - "Don Rendell Presents the Jazz Six" from 1957. Gone to Taiwan.

[sidewinder]

has just sold on eBay for $773.00 - "Don Rendell Presents the Jazz Six" from 1957. Gone to Taiwan.

That place gets sillier by the day !

At least the picture was free though.

[tooter]

has just sold on eBay for $773.00 - "Don Rendell Presents the Jazz Six" from 1957. Gone to Taiwan.

That place gets sillier by the day !

At least the picture was free though.

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eBay or Taiwan? Most of the bidders were in Japan but they were pipped at the post in the very last few seconds. Quite exciting to watch, even as a non participant.

[tooter]

Incidentally, Sidewinder, I picked up a new copy of "Thames Suite" on CD, that you told us about, at eBay quite cheaply.

[sidewinder]

I saw that one in the shops the other day for £7.99. Tempting - but I'm holding out for a cheapish vinyl copy.

[tooter]

Thanks to our in-house image prestigitator (Couw), a new album picture which came up on eBay and which was on my list has been rendered presentable and is now on www.ronnieross.com as part of the Ronnie Ross Jazz Discography there.

[tooter]

So there are now eighteen album cover pictures that I am still looking for. Here is the up-to-date list.

(moved to later post - Sept 29 2005)

Edited September 29, 2005 by tooter

[tooter]

Busy day today. This one does not reduce my list because I did not know the album even existed until it came up on eBay the other day. I now have it and so have been able to scan the cover. Ronnie Ross only participates as a non-soloing sideman but can be heard occasionally. Plenty of jazz played on this album, some novelty vocal numbers and a quite Peggy Lee-like version of "Why Don't You Do Right (and get me some money now!)" by Marian Montgomery. There is a baritone (or what sounds very like a baritone) solo on the last track but I'm pretty sure it is the other baritone player, George Hunter, unfortunately.

I am as yet unable to explain why both this album and the one at 75/2 entitled "The Greatest Swing Band In The World" (no ...Is) have the same number. They were made at the same place and at the same time but the material is different. I will try to sort this out when my friend in California comes back from his Hawaian holiday - vacation, I mean. He has the other album.

[tooter]

I had a picture of inferior quality for this one but keeping an eye on eBay has paid off again. With thanks to Couw for the usual processing, it now adorns our website - www.ronnieross.com

[tooter]

List of cover pictures still wanted is now down to seventeen. This one has come to me from website founder member Mack McShaffrey.

[tooter]

And so here is the current list. Please do keep an eye open for any of these. They keep trickling in.

List moved to later post.

Edited November 2, 2005 by tooter

[sidewinder]

Sherlock H. reporting in, boss..

Here's the cover of the UK original on Parlophone for the Tommy Watt 1958 album (issued on King under another name I think).

[tooter]

Egad! Well done, Holmes! Zounds! The picture I had for the album was really of the compilation which included "Watts Cookin'" (for which I have a picture) so I have cut the hot pants (see below) and substituted the more demure image you have supplied.

Making progress - keep up the good work, folks.

Inspector Lestrade (?) Moriarty (?)

[sidewinder]

Here's a better picture of that rare Don Rendell EP on Tempo:

[tooter]

Thanks yet again, Sidewinder. A distinct improvement once I had removed the thing at bottom right.

[couw]

is it? this is the one I have on my harddisk

[tooter]

I think so, yes. The previous one has a rougher texture in the detail, around Don's horn and the mike particularly, although it does seem to have better clarity of the text at the bottom. The smoother picture swings it I reckon. I make them all just 200 X 200 on the website (or try to - some seem to have minds of there own as to the size they want to be) so not too much can be seen there anyway.

[sidewinder]

A bit of yellow around the mike on couw's piccie although the one I've posted does have some yellowing ageing I guess.

[jazzman4133]

Personally I prefer the "hot pants" cover.