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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

0433 Tommy Whittle [Bill's Jazz Legacy Volume Four] FLAC 2(24.43)

Contributed by gonzo, from a tape recorded by the late Bill Hugkulstone at The Hopbine Club East Lane Wembley London. Covers by jazzandylan.

Unknown - alto
Tommy Whittle - tenor (02)
Harry Smith - piano
Len Skeat - bass
Unknown - drums

01 On Green Dolphin Street (Kaper, Washington) (13:01)
02 Steeplechase (Parker) (11:43)

Label: Private tape
Recorded: Unknown
Lineage: Tape>FLAC
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14 comments:

  1. zoot24 September 2014 at 11:05

    Many thanks. These privates are historically valuable. I was at almost every Hopbine gig in the 70s into early 80s. Was it monthly anybody ? Harry Smith I do not remember and cannot find much online. The Parkeresque alto I cannot place and can find no obvious candidates.Tommy used for preference his fellow Scot Bobby Orr (who was though normally in tandem with Lennie Bush) but was also mates with Jack Parnell. The pianist on a previous vol seems to be
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/jazzman-played-with-the-greats-20110713-1hduw.html
    1971 is early for private stereo machines and I might have placed these sessions later but Powell left for Aussie in 1972. All very interesting and thanks again. Of parochial concern but I also have a Tandberg 3000 under the roof, the motor went. But anyway all my RtoRs got sticky tape syndrome.

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    1. jazzandylan26 September 2014 at 15:13

      I used to attend The Hopbine with Bill Hugkulstone from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. I recall it being weekly sessions, many of which I missed because of shift work. It was quite a trek from South West London where we both lived at the time, but worth it for the great jazz. Bill used to build his own tuners, speaker cabinets and amplifiers, and was always first in line for any new equipment on the market. So he would have bought a stereo tape deck as soon as they became available. A pity he didn't put more information on the tape boxes though.

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  2. danair24 September 2014 at 15:11

    Thanks very much from me, the other ones you've posted I've really enjoyed so I'm sure this one will be just as enjoyable.

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  3. Newlyner24 September 2014 at 18:37

    Very interesting, looking forward to no. 5 ???

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  4. Newlyner24 September 2014 at 20:10

    Hey, that's great news. Thanks Rodney :)

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  5. Anonymous25 September 2014 at 11:54

    Thanks Rodney and gonzo! Cheers!

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  6. Gonzo26 September 2014 at 17:47

    @ Zoot
    "1971 is early for private stereo machines " For most maybe, but I, like Bill was always trying the latest "stuff" in 1965 I already had built a stereo machine (with valves) using a Ferrograph deck, later that year I took delivery of an Akai X355 a crossfield machine, this was until it's heads wore out, a superb device with a frequency response far in excess of the modern CD, it would do 35kHz plus at 7.5 IPS and at least 20k at 3.75 IPS. I too suffered from "sticky tapes" what amazes me about Bill's tapes is how they have lasted over the 40 odd years, only two actual breaks and a few drop-outs in the 20 or so I have examined, something to be said for buying the best I guess..

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    1. zoot29 September 2014 at 08:02

      Hi Gonzo your work is much appreciated. With the Tandberg under the roof I also have a defunct Akai, wonderful machines. I never lugged these to gigs, that is real dedication, but recorded from BBC, when there was a lot of jazz BBC. Only new formula 70s tapes got sticky, earlier ones survived but pre-dolby are very noisy and beyond listening. But then others recorded BBC too and most of what I taped has been issued publicly or privately. But these live gig sessions are unique.

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  7. Wallofsound27 September 2014 at 22:47

    These are great. Thnaks.

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  8. Jazzjet28 September 2014 at 10:16

    These are really valuable recordings that would be lost forever without the great work of Bill and gonzo. Many thanks.

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  9. Montag11 May 2015 at 00:10

    Many thanks gonzo and Rodney!

    Rodney:

    I was able to get the new configuration of the link you posted to work in my browser (Firefox) and was finally able to download the file that way (previously with the old configuration neither IE or Firefox would let me go there, telling me that "This connection is untrusted.").

    I still had trouble trying to use jDownloader to download the file (I tried that first).

    While the Linkgrabber feature of jDownloader told me that the link was good and that the file was available, when I actually tried to download it I got an error message from jDownloader telling me "File not found"!

    This happened with either configuration of the link (http://8ozgt5qij5.cjoint.net/ or http://8ozgt5qij5.cjoint.net/).

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    1. Rodney11 May 2015 at 11:14

      Glad you got it okay, Montag. I can't explain the failure of Jdownloader and Linkgrabber as I never use them - just Firefox. In your last sentence, links both look the same to me. :-) Valid 1fichier links all have the sub-domain name first, after "//", and a question mark included.

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  10. Rodney20 June 2015 at 15:58

    https://cjoint.net/?8ozgt5qij5

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