Miles sounds like the kind of sponge of whom I approve.  I get a massive thrill out of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and the Carmina Burana.  No less than Porter, Gershwin and Irving Berlin (plenty of others, naturally).  I grew up as an only child in a slightly bleak working class house which was brightened by my mother playing Sinatra and the soundtrack from 'South Pacific' or 'Moon River' - that kind of thing.  But I'd also hear New Orleans, some jivy stuff like Al Cooper as well as 'Swan Lake'.  Thank God they both had broad tastes.  Anyone dig Sondheim, that kind of thing?  Anthony Newley?

Tribute to Machito? Sounds particularly good. His son (Mario Grillo) still leads the Machito Orchestra.

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Machito and his Salsa Big Band – Machito!!! Not his best work but still well worth a listen.

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Great input from Alvey.  All I could have hoped for and much, much more.

Yeah, I would have picked it up if it hadn't been so beat up. Looked like it had seen 1000 house parties and been thrown onto the dance floor without a sleeve after each play. Sleeve would be a G+, record would struggle to make G. The other records that looked like they were from the same owner (similar markings/writing) were similarly destroyed latin lp's, the Mar-keys meet Booker T & the MG's, "This is Soul" (Atlantic), A Date With The Everly Brothers, and a budget label Dave Clark Five record. Now I regret not getting it just for the cover.

I made a habit, some years ago, of visiting an antiques centre in a tourist town where a dealer offered ancient jazz EPs etc. and, yes, bought them just for the colourful covers.  Then I went through a phase of Ebay buying and selling and a Joe Harriott that I'd paid two or three pounds for got a lot of attention.  Sold to a woman in France (where they do like their jazz, right?).  I would be tempted to do this again if the opportunity presented itself.

Yuca wrote ‘ Yes those Dave Clark Five sleeves are nice.’

I was in Regent Street last Saturday and it was closed to traffic for a display of the London to Brighton vintage cars. There was also a line up of E-Type Jags, including a white convertible that was sold new to Dave Clark in the 60s and was later owned by the drummer Mike Smith. I mention it because the car featured on a couple of their album covers.

One of several stunning E-types that were lined up. Now,  if I ever came into a large sum of money …..

On the subject of jazz, back in the nineties I briefly moved away from dance floor jazz, and started to collect more ballads, with strings albums and mainstream artists such as Scott Hamilton.
It was romantic, late night music. The forgotten sound of seduction.
Patricia by Art Pepper, Night Lights by Gerry Mulligan, Love Theme from Spartacus by Coleman Hawkins. Early Autumn by Stan Getz.
You get the picture.
Jazz covers such a broad spectrum of sounds.

I like the DC5 but thought Yuca was having a bit of a laugh with a deliberate misinterpretation there. I meant the Latin Jazz Quintet cover.

AFS : Getz was also referred to as “ nice bunch of guys??
It might have been by Stan Tracey. Getz had been particularly hard work across a residence.

One of my all time favourite jazz albums is his Bossas and Ballads The lost sessions. It’s one of his later albums.

My Dad saw Konitz (who sadly died recently) in a pub in Leicestershire: probably in the 80s.  Ian Strachan is said to have been something of a Coltrane fanatic.  The earlier tracks are probably the best.  Dad began collecting around 1952 and amassed a massive collection of albums and, eventually, CDs.  He was pretty pleased when I started taking an interest.  We saw some CDs for sale the last time we met.  He said he'd go back for them: some Chicago recordings.  He died a few days later.  Just goes to show.

Sadao Watanabe and Hiroshima Fukamura  Hunt up wind- what a tune.
Your journey from jazz funk into jazz was similar to mine. I think it’s a natural progression.
American clothes were big on the jazz funk scene in the early eighties.I remember varsity jackets known as Richie Cunningham jackets, letterman cardigans and sweatshirts from Russell and Champion being big.
We called loafers slipper shoes.Great for dancing in.
About 84 a load of really rubbish electro came out.The guys who were into jazz started to dig deeper.It wasn’t such a big step from Donald Byrd Dominoes to Jeanine. Getting hold of the records was really easy too with a relatively large number of specialist stores.
There was an awful lot of music snobbery too.The older guys I met at gigs were unwelcoming and treated jazz as some kind of dark art of catalogue numbers and sidemen credits.They were also scruffy.