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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Duke_J SUBS 15th Dec 2020		Book Arkadi Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic	The title was adopted by Canterbury-Scene band Roadside Picnic
Duke_J SUBS 17th Nov 2020		CD Album Don Grusin And Bill Sharpe - Trans Atlantica	I expect you're right: this Bill Sharpe is the American jazz bassist, so we can conclude that the jazz albums State Of The Heart and Kingdom Of Fitzrovia are his. The Shakatak Hits album is the British keyboardist and arranger.
Duke_J SUBS 26th Oct 2020		Vinyl Album Various Artists - De Beste Van De Edison Winnaars	Wonderful jazz trio [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 14th Mar 2020		Vinyl Album Miles Davis - Miles Ahead	The original 'sailing' sleeve image was vetoed by Miles and quickly replaced by the photo of the artist
Duke_J SUBS 3rd Feb 2020		78 RPM Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - The Girl In My Dreams Tries To Look Like You / Flamingo	Another "Flamingo", showing this 78 but presumably remastered for a CD [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 3rd Nov 2019		Vinyl Album Anita O'Day - All The Sad Young Men	[YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 21st Jun 2019		78 RPM Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists - Flamingo / Keni B'Sindika	A-side will be the popular tune of the day [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 21st Jun 2019		78 RPM Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists - I'll Remember April / Jump For Joe	[YouTube Video] Jump For Joe is upbeat jazz [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 5th Nov 2018		CD Album Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life	Straight Life settles down into a steady groove. [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 5th Nov 2018		CD Album Art Pepper - Modern Jazz Archive	Straight Life uses the changes, and the tune really, of After You've Gone (Turner Layton, Henry Creamer)
Duke_J SUBS 3rd Nov 2018		CD Album Kenny Baker's Dozen - Play Not Quite Two Dozen	[YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 20th May 2018		CD Album Blind Willie Johnson - Sweeter As The Years Go By	He had recorded the title track several times, usually as "Sweeter As The Years Roll By"
Duke_J SUBS 10th May 2018		78 RPM Johnny Mathis - Wonderful! Wonderful! / When Sunny Gets Blue	When Sunny Gets Blue, with Ray Conniff and his Orchestra [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 9th May 2018		Vinyl Album Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um	Goodbye Pork Pie Hat has very much the feel of Monk's Round Midnight [YouTube Video] See the video notes for more details about the album
Duke_J SUBS 26th Apr 2018		CD Album Carmen McRae - Book Of Ballads	Review 27 tracks, all but one with sparkling big-band arrangements, and every one about that most vacuous of song topics, "Love", perfectly forgettable, even I Couldn't Care Less which had been crooned by Bing Crosby. The one exception is where she is accompanied by Don Abney on piano in a fine version of the unforgettable Angel Eyes. It is only a shame that the last line is cut short: this seems to have happened with two Carmen McRae compilations and I'd love to know if it was missing on the original Kapp LP. Somewhere the end of the tape with the words "while I disappear" and probably a piano coda, has dropped on the cutting-room floor. [YouTube Video] 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Duke_J SUBS 28th Mar 2018		Vinyl Album Carole King - Pearls: Songs Of Goffin And King	[YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 22nd Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Barbra Streisand - Simply Streisand	Several jazz evergreens, but it was the arrangements by Ray Ellis that turned this into a Jazz Album. I always found 'Sunny' quite entrancing. [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 6th Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Carmen McRae - This Is Carmen McRae	Angel Eyes is from her 1960 album Book of Ballads, with Don Abney on piano
Duke_J SUBS 3rd Jan 2018		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Honky Tonk Train	This LP could equally have been entered as a Netherlands entry: the Classic Jazz Masters series was edited by a Netherlands team and the cover printed in Holland. However Riverside production seems to have been intended for a pan-Europe market. The catalogue number RM 8806 was printed on the sleeve but has been covered by a sticker with a number presumably intended for distribution in another country, which could be either UK or USA. My copy came from The Diskery, B'ham in the 60s This video shows one of the 78s from which the material was transcribed, Slow Drag Blues by Charles Davenport. Dr. Rookmaker has edited the tracks and other revisions may be uncovered via YT or 78cat [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 15th Oct 2017		Vinyl Album Carmen McRae - This Is Carmen McRae	Is this slow ballad version of Angel Eyes as on this album, and if so, is she accompanying herself, or who is playing piano? Jimmy Rowles? [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 18th Jul 2017		Vinyl Album Ray Charles And Betty Carter - Ray Charles And Betty Carter	The famed duet song on the strength of which which Frank Loesser and Lynn Garland dined out for many years [YouTube Video]

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