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If you trawled the comments on Stan Tracey's Latin American Caper you will no doubt have been intrigued to see this from Ramu: Hi, I tried to get Windmill Tilter reissued years ago as part of the Impressed Re-pressed series (I helped compile the Impressed comps with Gilles P). Manged to get a first batch of reissues out (Mike Taylor, Neil Ardely, Amancio D'Silva etc..) but Universal, as ever lost faith, let it all slip iaway to labels like BGO and Vocalion. Had a killer hitlist of all the Lansdowne stuff - Rendell Carr, Hum Dono etc... they couldn't care less. Treat their catalogue - and music fans - with contempt. Impressed 3 has been ready to go for about 6 years - and Universal??? What do you think, not awhiff of interest. Shame, as it has top stuff from Dick Morrissey, Kenny Wheeler, Quincicasm, Don Rendell etc on it. Don even wrote an introductory piece for my notes... maybe you could post it on here!! True to his word Ramu has sent over what would have been track list...

Stan Tracey, his Piano, Big Brass & Woodwinds for Columbia UK from 1969. Stan Tracey - Piano & Musical Director ;Kenny Baker, Derek Watkins, Eddie Blair, Les Condon - Trumpets ;Keith Christie, Maurice Pratt, Bobby Lambe - Trombones ;Chris Taylor, Roy Willox, Ray Swinfield - Flutes ;Ronnie Chamberlain, Don Rendell, Derek Collins - Clarinets ;Barry Morgan - Drums & LA Percussion ;Dennis Lopez, Stuart Gordon - LA Percussion ;Lennie Bush or Dave Green - Bass ;Alan Branscombe -Vibraphone & Marimba Recorded at Lansdowne Studios in London on July 16/17 1968 Supervision - Denis Preston;Sleevenote - Peter Clayton;Engineer - Adrian Kerridge Here's Peter Clayton's excellent sleeve notes : Stan Tracey is one of those people who could go to a fancy dress ball in full klu klux clan regalia and still be instantly recognisable. I'm speaking figuratively, of course: for him to appear physically outlandish is unthinkable. You could set him down on London Bridge Station any we...

Mal Waldron for JVC/ECM Japan from 1971. Mal Waldron (p) Isla Eckinger (b) Fred Brasful (d) Ludwigsburg, West Germany, September 18, 1970 This has been on my "most wanted" list for some time so I was bowled over to receive the actual LP through the post last week purchased from Japan (at considerable cost it should be said) and sent as a thankyou gift from one of the followers of this blog. So stand up and take a bow Munnnnnph !!! Thanks a million - what a guy! Recorded and produced by Manfred Eicher this is only the second recording for ECM (the first being Waldron's Free At Last).Recorded prior to Eicher setting up his own label both albums were picked up and issued only for the Japanese market by JVC's Globe subsidiary . Despite it's historic importance "Spanish Bitch" has never seen a reissue in either cd or vinyl format thus making it extremely hard to track down. So here it is - 3 long Waldron compositions plus a comprehensive shredding of "E...