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Thanks, interesting seeing these reviews. They both have UK sessioners on, think the one I've got has Ike Isaacs on, the other has Don Rendell, Kenny Wheeler etc

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, the JC Paul Oliver is 1962, I meant the original publication date was 1960, same as the LP...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 10h

I've avoided the one with André Previn a few times, but maybe even that is alright? Just worry it will be too cocktail jazz trio sounding

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks, book and LP are both 1960 so wondered...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 10h

Didn't buy it (probably would have done for a quid!) but love this very Blue Note looking Cherry Wainer LP sleeve I saw earlier

Cherry Wainer "Waltzes in Swingtime" on Top Rank. Sleeve is divided into a grid with colourful stylised instruments and a monochrome photo of Ms. Wainer

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 11h

Is that related to the book? I can't read the sleeve notes on the Discogs scan

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 11h

I think that's the only one of that series I have, wonder how near completion @thameschoral.bsky.social is? 😀

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 11h

Besides a Hawaiian shirt, final charity shop purchase today was a book that looked interesting, from the Jazz Book Club series. Paul Oliver "Blues Fell This Morning"

Old hardback book, monochrome cream/brown dust cover with stylised engraving or drawing of a trumpet, clarinet and trombone and piano keyboard

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 12h

It was only a UK mono though (the least desirable format for this stuff!) and rear sleeve a bit grubby. Holding out for a US and/or stereo copy 🤞

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 13h

From a more interesting looking collection than normal in Oxfam. Unusual pre-Beatles era stuff, Tommy Sands, Ral Donner, etc. Left Julie London in Satin and a Blossom Dearie as both were rather pricey (£20 and £25) and will see them again at some point...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 14h

Sad news, huge thanks to all the organisers. It has been quieter on BlueSky so it is understandable I guess...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 14h

Not checked the rest of the album, but this track on youtube sold me on the Gogi youtu.be/XoPUJ6VZENM

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Wayfaring Stranger

YouTube video by Gogi Grant - Topic

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 14h

The rest of today's charity shop finds. Second chance for John Edwards - had it back in the 90s but got rid off as it wasn't funky enough! Gogi Grant is spirituals with Billy May arranging, XALOC - comp of "United Kingdom Goans" (no idea!), and "Nigeria, Musiques Du Plateau" on Ocora

Four LP sleeves - John Edwards (and some female friends) on a Merry-go-round, Gogi Grant "If you want to get to Heaven... Shout" with blue/white photo of her singing, XALOC has a bunch of the Goan artists on London's south bank, and Ocora Nigeria LP has brown sleeve and someone in traditional dress holding a rectangular instrument

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 14h

Turned out that none of the To Be In Love remixes have grabbed me, but the B-side of the Wiley is pretty good (am a sucker for woozy sounding reversed samples) youtu.be/hlE9NO7ty-4

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Wiley - Split It Down The Middle (Instrumental) [2/2]

YouTube video by dannycgrimetime

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 14h

At the Jumble Trail the other week also picked up a couple of 12s from a small abandoned collection dating from 2002 that the seller had found when they moved it. Picked up Wiley "Eskimo" with intention to flip and a double pack of remixes of MAW/India's "To Be In Love" with intention to keep...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

I liked Breaking Bad a lot but it did seem to repeat a few episode ideas. It's probably the lower quality crime/thriller stuff than annoys me! They always have a great first couple of episodes then...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

26 episodes just meant it filled six months of the TV schedule, not that you had to watch them all

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

And maybe the "they should be longer" folk forget that before streaming only really hardcore fans would see every episode of long running shows - most people would miss quite a few due to social life or other commitments and it didn't matter

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

I get the impression there are two camps of viewers - one who thinks most series are too long (early cancellations aside!) and another who thinks they should be much longer. I'm very much in the former camp, often with an 8 part series I'm thinking "that could have been a two hour film"

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

The two Insides albums I have (1st and 3rd) can be quite intense with the lyrics etc, have to be in the right mood (but great when am). Not heard the 2nd, missed it at the time and had completely forgotten about its existence...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

I'd heard the tape loop Reich stuff (It's Gonna Rain etc, probably on Radio 3's "Mixing It" or similar) but had no idea about the existence of the rest of his work...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

If only more Internet comment sections were this friendly!

Screenshot of two comments, first saying "very nice" and a reply underneath saying "I agree"

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

Charity buy this afternoon - Flowchart "Tenjira". Four track EP of mellow electronica 🌞 #12inchTuesday

Brightly coloured record sleeve with a cartoon-ish sun with a smiling face. The sun is wearing headphones and half hidden behind two green hills.

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

That Insides CD was my introduction to this stuff - only heard Music for 18 Musicians about 5 years later, and it was both disappointing to hear what it was so clearly based on but also exciting to learn that the Insides record wasn't a unique one-off and there was more minimalism out there...

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 15h

They are great but not normally quite so Reich-like (I believe the record company released this without their permission)

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𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 19h

I have no idea quite what was going through the mind of the illustrator responsible for this Portuguese picture sleeve of Clive Dunn's Grandad, but it's quite something to behold.

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 20h

Oh and I can't spell Charlotte Greig

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 20h

Still seems to be some copies of the Charlotte Grieg LP on bandcamp if anyone fancies some home recorded songs with harmonium, drum machine and folky vocals charlottegreig.bandcamp.com/album/night-...

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Night Visiting Songs, by Charlotte Greig

10 track album

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 20h

The Simonsound was DJ Format and someone else, is from 2010 or so, had completely forgotten about this, it's very enjoyable, more psych/synthy than breaks

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 20h

Three for a pound CDs from last week, apologies for crap photo. Pleased to find the Charlotte Grieg having bought the posthumous reissue of "Night Visiting Songs" LP, another folky one is Trefor & Vicki Williams which was just a punt to make up numbers but is nice, other is The Simonsound

Three CDs in jewel cases - Charlotte Grieg "Winter Woods", The Simonsound "Reverse Engineering", Trevor & Vicki Williams "The Bare Branch"

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 21h

No, now it needs to be hung by clothes pegs (or a clothes hanger) and left in a sunny window for maximum charity shop #vinylstupidity 👍

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 21h

Cover photo also "sampled" on Stock, Hausen & Walkman's "Organ Transplants" LP (Probably has a Stoneham sample or two as well, long time since I've played it)

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 22h

I love them all, but have a special affection for this as it was the first I watched. Vague memory of taping it off late night telly, and thinking "what the hell did I just watch?!" after the ending (with the moon creature)

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Curiously seems to only appear on comps? Previously unreleased I suppose

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, picked that one up a while ago. John Ylvisaker's LPs are still eluding me, only thing I have him on is an Avant Garde label live album

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wish more Xian records sounded like that

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyway, this is the standout, has been comped as you can see. Gerry McClelland "Come Listen to Me" youtu.be/rZRHwzKHpSc

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Gerry McClelland - Come, Listen to Me

YouTube video by JazzmanRecords

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Got a very cheap copy of this on eBay the other week, classic crap seller behaviour - no inner sleeve and rubbish homemade "mailer" (folded scraps of card and plastic bags) Turned up safely luckily www.discogs.com/release/1233...

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Gerry McClelland - South Wind And Spices

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1968 Vinyl release of "South Wind And Spices" on Discogs.

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've never actually seen Watership Down (put off by it involving animals and also "Bright Eyes") didn't know there was a Zardoz floating head in it

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looks like an Italian guitar? @dimorphodons.bsky.social will know! Clearer pic here, but I can't read the headstock, "Bar" something?

Hubert Sumlin in a 60s suit and tie, playing a white Fender style electric guitar with ornate scratch plate and lots of switches

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Four! That's 3 and 4 there, there is another CD with 1 and 2 on

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a new game taking the internet by storm: Cornell or Carvery?

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another £2 all-Bacharach LP - been keeping an eye out for this one for a while, not an expensive one but it's Polish (on the Muza label) - Aleksandr Mazur Quartet & the Novi Singers. Love the end section on this version of The Look Of Love youtu.be/sZ3G7vcXOa0

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The Look of Love

YouTube video by Aleksander Mazur Quintet - Topic

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MJ @grooves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another £2 buy from Friday - The Gals & Pals "Sing Somethin' for Everyone" LP. Swedish vocal group (with a taste for patchwork madras!) doing an all-Bacharach album youtu.be/s7nE4yvrPwU

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Cross Town Bus

YouTube video by Gals & Pals - Topic

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