30 December 2013

MILJÖVÅRDSVERKET ‎– NOW'S THE "FRIPPE" TIME (DRAGON RECORDS, 1985)




A1. The Shape Of Music To Come
A2. Now's The "Frippe" Time
A3. Spontane-O'reenie Part I
A4. Spontane-O'reenie Part II

B1. Spaces And Places
B2. O-Bop-O'reenie
B3. Sounds Of Life


Bengt "Frippe" Nordström, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, tenor saxophone, vocals
Björn Alke, bass
Jan Adefelt, bass (A2, B1, B2)
Peter Axelsson, bass (A2, B1, B2)
Peeter Uuskyla, drums
Lars Svantesson, violin


Recorded at Fasching on 13 June and 21 October 1984


Dragon Records ‎– DRLP 82

Vinyl Rip


29 December 2013

LOUiS MOHOLO-MOHOLO - London Jazz Festival 2010


This was drummer's 70th Birthday Special concert at LJF 2010 in two sets. First set reunited Louis with Keith Tippett under the title of their 1982 FMP album No Gossip, second set presented him with special version of his Unit. I recorded the broadcast off the BBC i-player and kept the whole sequence with announcements and interview, given in the afternoon before the concert. For various reasons it took me almost 3 years to prepare it for posting, so at last here it is. All the best in 2014 to all.


01. announcement + intro interview  5:02


LOUiS MOHOLO-MOHOLO & KEiTH TiPPETT

02. No Gossip (improvisation) + announcement  33:24

Louis Moholo-Moholo - drums
Keith Tippett - prepared piano including woodblocks, pebbles, bells, music box and plastic pan pipe


03. main interview  19:55

Louis Moholo-Moholo and Alexander Hawkins talk to Jez Nelson.


LOUiS MOHOLO-MOHOLO’s SEVEN FOR SEVENTY ensemble

04. The Tag (Jason Yarde) 5:54
05.  Mark of Respect (Pule Pheto & Gibo Pheto) 6:08
06. Un Ti Son Ba Ou (Francine Luce) 5:43
07. Sonke (Pule Pheto) + Lost Opportunities (Harry Miller) 11:03
08. Dikeledi Tsa Phelo (Pule Pheto) + Zanele (Pule Pheto) 14:42

Louis Moholo-Moholo - drums
John Edwards - bass
Ntshuks Bonga - alto saxophone
Jason Yarde - alto & baritone saxophones
Francine Luce - vocals
Henry Lowther - trumpet
Alexander Hawkins - piano


Recorded at the Purcell Room, London on 19 November 2010
Broadcast Mon 24 Jan 2011. BBC Radio 3

BILL COLE ‎– THE FIRST CYCLE (MUSIC FROM DARTMOUTH, 1980)




A. The First Cycle
B. The First Cycle


Bill Cole, Ghanian flute, Chinese musette, Indian shenai, voice
Sam Rivers, tenor saxophone, piano
Warren Smith, drums, kettle drums, marimba, percussion

Recorded in the Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Centre, Dartmouth College, on 1 August 1975

Music From Dartmouth ‎– D100

Vinyl Rip

28 December 2013

DEREK BAILEY and MIKE OSBORNE. Soho Poly, 1978

















The sound quality of this recording is considered too poor to become an Incus release, but Derek's partner Karen has kindly given her blessing for this piece of history to be shared and enjoyed for what it is.
So, major thanks to her and of course to my good friend Gus who was savvy enough to take his cassette recorder along to the gig back in 1978.

DEREK BAILEY, guitar
MIKE OSBORNE, alto sax

1. First piece  18:50
2. Second piece  24:12

Soho Poly, Riding House Street, London.

6th August 1978

Cassette recording by Gus

INCUS RECORDS website here





25 December 2013

ITAKURA KATSUYUKI - UMINEKONO SHIMA (JOHNNY'S DISK, 1983)


Holiday greetings to everyone








Track List





Itakura Katsuyuki, piano



Recorded live in Rikuzen Takata, 3 June 1983

Johnny's Disk - JD-07

Vinyl Rip

















24 December 2013

YUSEF LATEEF - October 9, 1920 - December 23, 2013 RIP



Sad news - Yusef Lateef has left this plane of being. R.I.P.

Go to his website.

22 December 2013

JEAN LUC PONTY, JEAN CHARLES CAPON, GILBERT ROVERE, LIONEL MAGAL, JEF GILSON ‎– CONCERT À LA M.J.C. COLOMBES (PALM, 1972)





A1. Sniffin The Blues
A2. Espagnolades
A3. Tears For Billy

B1. Chant Inca
B2. Pour Barbara
B3. Chromatisme


Gilbert Rovere, bass (A1 to B1, B3)
Jef Catoire, bass (B2)
Gerard Rakotoarivony, Fender bass (B1, B3)
Jean-Charles Capon, cello
Lionel Magal, percussion
Jef Gilson, piano, flute
Jean-Luc Ponty, violin


Recorded in November 1968 at the Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Colombes.

Palm ‎– PALM 2

Vinyl Rip

Stan Tracey-Louis Moholo-live in Novara Italy 2006

Here's another great Stan Tracey Broadcast , originally taped and shared by Dimer Survivor69 (many thanks to him), a duo with Louis Moholo , in beautiful crystal clear sound , again largely freely improvised,though i have a suspicion that the last piece is a blue notes tune, but i cant quite nail it !
A marvellous show which at times strongly evokes Moholo's Masterful FMP duo with Keith Tippett.
ENJOY!
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...
Novara Jazz : Stan Tracey & Louis Moholo duo 

Recorded at Auditorium Fratelli Oliveri del Conservatorio Guido Cantelli, Novara (Italy)
on sunday 30 April 2006, for Novara Jazz Festival 2006
Stan Tracey, pianoforte - Louis Moholo, drums

nine unannounced (and unknown to me) tracks, for a total of 58'56" see FFP for sequence

FM radio broadcast by "Il Cartellone - Radio 3 Suite Jazz", Radio 3 RAI [third channel of Italian national radio], on wednesday 9 August 2006, 22:00 hours.


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
duo piano-batteria proveniente dalla storia del jazz britannico, comunque lontano dal soul aframericano (nonostante moholo sia sudafricano), solo verso la fine ci si interstardisce in fastidiosi fraseggi accademici-classici, quasi contemporanei, ma specie nei primi brani vi si trova anche adeguata cadenza. Tra Jarrett (con molte meno note) e Tippett, con un occhio ad Evans...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Lineage (FM > MD > CDR > wav's > web):

notes by Survivor69

Gunter Hampel and Jeanne Lee-Oasis 1979


Here's another great Horo record , a truly magnificent testament to the love Hampel and Lee  must have had for each other when they did this . To Me this is.another one of those records where one feels one is eavesdropping on an intimate ,private, at times sexually charged conversation ... it feels very much as though they are playing to and for each other ...Lee's scatting even sounds like love smitten baby talk  on a few tracks ..
Joyous , Wonderful Music, which doesn't deserve to languish in obscurity on  the musty shelves of 'specialist" collectors.

Info from Discogs
Tracklist
A1-Oasis-20:00
B1- Wellspring, Op. 341 10:45
B2-Opus 169 10:05
C1-Communication 9:35
C2-One Excerpt From "The Jamaican Suit" By Jeanne Lee 9:55
D1-Second Excerpt From "The Jamaican Suit" By Jeanne Lee 7:40
D2-Couplet 15:10
------------------------------------------
Credits
Design – Natalia Barsini
Engineer – Aldo Amici
Photography – Isio Saba
Producer – Aldo Sinesio
Vibraphone, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Gunter Hampel
Vocals – Jeanne Lee
Notes
Recorded Rome. July 12 & 13, 1978.
Telecinesound Studio
Horo HDP 33-34


A straight vinyl rip , light declicking only ,no compression or digital syrup employed!
ENJOY!!

Gunter Hampel , appears to be systematically  reissuing most of his Birth records catalog , check it out here's his web page


PS ... A small request ,please could someone who downloaded Riccardo's Lee and Hampel concert from 78 ..re-up the flacs , i and i'm sure others would be very appreciative!


21 December 2013

GUSH - ELECTRIC EEL (QBICO, 2005)




A1. EL
B1. AL Part 1
B2. AL Part 2


Sten Sandell, electronics, piano, harmonium, voice
Raymond Strid, guitar, percussion, amplified and processed instruments, objects
Mats Gustafsson, fluteophone, flute, sopranino recorder, soprano vocals, tenor and baritone saxophone


Recorded November 6th, 1996 at Blue Tower Sound System at Fylkingen, Stockholm.
Mastered March 2004 at Alibi Studios, Gustafsberg.

Qbico ‎– QBICO 30

Vinyl Rip



NEIGHBOURS WITH ANTHONY BRAXTON (GNM, 1980)



Anthony Braxton, sopranino, soprano & alto saxophone
Dieter Glawischnig, piano
Ewald Oberleitner, bass
John Preininger, drums, percussion, pearl syncussion sy-1


A1. Lines (Glawischnig) 14:25
A2. Meditation [for Florian, his son] (Preininger) 5:39
B1. B.O.P. (Preininger) 7:08
B2. Erzherzog-Johann-Lied (traditional - arr. Preininger) 5:16
B3. Anthropology (Parker) 5:44

Recorded on July 24, 1980 at the Tonstudio Ströher, Innsbruck, Austria.

GNM Vol.3 120754 (1984)

20 December 2013

LUIS DE PABLO "POLAR / MODULOS I - MODULOS III"


Polar
Modulos I
Modulos IIIa
Modulos IIIb

Ensemble Instrumental Alea de Madrid
Jose M. Franco Gil , conductor

Erato - STU 70385 (1968)

19 December 2013

Stan Tracey-Mike Osborne Original 1972


Here's a further commemorative tribute to to the late great Stan Tracey, in a duo setting with equally legendary saxophonist Mike Osborne.. recorded in 1971 for Cadillac , Ogun also released a collaboration between the two, 'Tandem' in 1977.

This features Tracey in seldom heard completely free modality, something he returned to later in life in a  fabulous series of duets with Evan Parker , which are available(and whole heartedly recommended!) on Parker's Psi ,label .
This was transferred some years ago from a friends quite battered copy , the low res covers are from discogs.
no eq, compression or digi syrup employed, sweeten to taste!

Enjoy!

NARADA BURTON GREENE ‎– ZEPHYR (BUTTON-NOSE RECORDS, 1983)





A1. Autumn Song
A2. When You're In Front, Get OFF My Back

B1. Karasar Zeybegi
B2. Zephyr



Narada Burton Greene, harpsichord, piano, prepared piano, percussion, voice

Side 1, in concert, France, Autumn 1983. B1, NOS Studios, Hilversum, Holland, 11 Apr 1983. B2, Odeon Theatre, Amsterdam, Holland, 12 December 1982.

Button-Nose Records ‎– BN 06

Vinyl Rip

17 December 2013

MARC LEVIN ENSEMBLE "SONGS, DANCES AND PRAYERS" (SWEET DRAGON, 1972)



Marc Levin, cornet, fluegelhorn, mellophone, flute
Brian Ross, saxophone
Calo Scott, cello
Balakrishna, sitar
Frank Clayton, bass
Billy Hart, drums
Jay Clayton, voice


A1. Benediction  05:46
A2. Birth Of The Dove  07:22
A3. Love Song  06:18
B1. Pantomime Of Fear  04:08
B2. Angel's Face Has Many Doors - Jesus, Moses and John Coltrane  15:00

Recorded January 1972 at Decca Studios, New York, N.Y.

SWEET DRAGON M.L.1

(lp rip)

16 December 2013

Stan Tracey at the BBC 1978 - 1982


To follow up our previous posting below, here is some truly vintage jazz to commemorate the passing away of Stan Tracey on 6 December at the age of 86. We have selected to hone in on recordings done for BBC radio in the late 70s and the early 80s. At this point he kept a regular quartet which sometimes was contracted into a trio and other times expanded into a sextet, octet and even a full orchestra. For this post, we have two quartets and a trio with a slight variation in line--up as his son Clark Tracey came to replace Bryan Spring on drums. And for a contrast, I've thrown in a batch of the full Orchestra doing a superb set of Ellington covers.

Stan Tracey Quartet
Jazz In Britain, BBc radio 3, 31st August 1978
Art Themen (ts,ss), Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b), Bryan Spring (d)

1. Waltzy Waltzy
2. Amoroso Only More So
3. Lovers Freeway

Stan Tracey Orchestra
BBC jazz Club, 27th January 1980

Tony Coe (ts, cnt), Bobby Wellins (ts), Don Weller (ts), Art Themen (ts, ss), Jeff Daly (as), Malcolm Griffits (tmb), Jeff Perkins (tmb), Colin Sheen (tmb), Chris Pyne (tmb), Dave Hawler(tmb), Mike Davis (tmp), Henry Lowther (tpt), George Chisholm (tpt), Alan Downy (tpt), Harry Beckett (tpt), Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b), Clark Tracey (d)

1. I'm Beginning To See The Light
2. radio announcer - Peter Clayton
3. Mood Indigo
4. radio announcer
5. prelude To A Kiss (piano solo)
6. radio announcer
7. Lay-by
8. radio outro

Stan Tracey Trio
Jazz In Britain, BBC Radio
Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b, b-gtr), Clark Tracey (d, perc, tablas)

1. Radio intro - Charles Fox
2. Ripped Off In Bogota
3. Doin' It For Art
4. OK J.K.
5. Radio outro

Stan Tracey Quartet
Sounds Of Jazz, BBC radio, 26th September 1982
Art Themen (ts, ss), Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b), Clark Tracey (d)

1. Undercover Lover
2. radio announcer - Peter Clayton
3. Amoroso Only More So
4. radio announcer
5. Fatima Di Milo
6. radio announcer
7. Everywhere Derriere

These were recorded off FM onto cassette, digitised and uploaded to the dime torrent site by aw4, if I remember correctly. Mucho credits for invaluable preservation services!

15 December 2013

NARADA BURTON GREENE ‎– IT'S ALL ONE (HORO RECORDS, 1978)




A1. Buddy's Blues
A2. It's All One... Fun
A3. In Your Own Sweet Way
A4. Django

B1. Renaissance Variations
B2. Daoud
B3. Hey, Little Mama!

C1. Sbruce
C2. Trees Revisited

D1. March Sun
D2. Nicolai Covaci
D3. Cycling Thru The Cycles


Burton Greene, piano, percussion, recorder


Recorded in Rome, April 12, 1978 at Mama Dog Studio.

Horo Records ‎– HDP 27-28

Vinyl Rip


14 December 2013

TTT - BE COOL IN MUNICH - LIVE CONCERT (PRIVATE LABEL, 1985)





Heinz Wollny, bass, percussion
Butch Morris, cornet, percussion
Dennis Charles, drums, percussion
Frank Wollny, guitar, bass, percussion
A.R. Penck, piano, flute, drums
Frank Lowe, saxophone, percussion
Billy Bang, violin, flute, drums, percussion


LPs 1-4 from the 6 albums  listed on the rear cover, 5-6 are unreleased.

Konzept Raum Alptraum

A.R. Penck's private label 16-19

Vinyl Rip

11 December 2013

KATSUO KUNINAKA - DANCING ISLANDS (NEXT WAVE, 1981)





A1. Nietzschestrasse 26
A2. The Legend of a White Serpent

B1. Room No. 602 Dream
B2. Dancing Yosuke

Katsuo Kuninaka, bass
Shigeharu Mukai, trombone
Kazutoki Umezu, reeds
Shota Koyama, drums

Recorded live at on 18 October at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 1980 festival

Next Wave - 25PJ-1008

Vinyl Rip


9 December 2013

STAN TRACEY ORCHESTRA. GENESIS live at the Proms 2009
























Stan Tracey (piano)
Guy Barker, Mark Armstrong, Henry Lowther & Nathan Bray (trumpets)
Mark Nightingale, Andy Wood & Alistair White (trombones)
Dave O’Higgins, Simon Allen, Mornington Lockett, Alan Barnes & Sammy Mayne (saxophones)
Clark Tracey (drums)
Andrew Cleyndert (double bass)


1. Intro
2 - 8. Genesis [The Beginning – The Light – The Firmament – The Gathering – The Sun, Moon and Stars – Feather, Fin and Limb – The Sixth Day]
9. Solo 'Little man you've had a busy day' and outro

Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Saturday, July 18, 2009

BBC Radio 3.

Review         Stan on Desert Island Discs

Obituary (Guardian)    

 The Stan Tracey Appreciation Society (Facebook)

THE REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE ‎– THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC (HORIZON RECORDS & TAPES, 1976)





A1. New York
A2. Trio For Trio
A3. Chinese Rock

B1. The People's Republic
B2. Ponderous Planets


Sirone, bass, large gong, vocals, bells, shaker, wood block, trombone
Leroy Jenkins, violin, viola, small gong, claves, thumb piano, recorder
Jerome Cooper, drums, bugle, piano, vocals, balafon, temple block, wood block, gong, bells, arco saw, cymbals

Recorded 4-6 December 1975 at Kendun Recorders, Burbank, CA.

Horizon Records & Tapes ‎– SP-708

Vinyl Rip


8 December 2013

MAL WALDRON SEXTET "UNNA 1979"



This concert in northern Germany happened more than one year after "Moods" (on Enja) was recorded.
The line-up is quite similar as for this concert - only Manfrd Schoof plays for Terumasa Hino and <jimmy Woode for Cameron Brown.
All songs are also on the LP/CD - I recommend to buy the CD/LP if you do not have it yet.
For me it's a masterpiece.
You can listen to both recordings - a rare chance for examining the differences and similarities...


Manfred Schoof, trumpet, fluegelhorn
Hermann Breuer, trombone
Steve Lacy, soprano saxophone
Mal Waldron, piano
Jimmy Woode, bass
Makaya Ntshoko, drums

1. A Case Of Plue 4's
2. Russian Melody (Minoat) 37:22
3. Siege Haile 24:17


Recorded at the Theatersaal, Unna, Germany on October 10, 1979.

Note: track 1 + 2 are an uninterrupted performance.

7 December 2013

JEF GILSON - JEAN-LUC PONTY - JEAN-LOUIS CHAUTEMPS – ŒIL VISION (DISQUES DU CLUB DE L'ÉCHIQUIER, 1963)





Claude Lenissois, bass clarinet (A4,5, B1)
Daniel Humair, drums, percussion (A1-3, B1,2)
Gilbert Rovère, bass (B1,2)
Guy Pedersen, bass (A1-3)
Henri Texier, bass (A1-3)
Jacques Di Donato, alto saxophone  (B1)
Jean-Louis Chautemps, tenor saxophone (A4,5, B1,2)
Jean-Luc Ponty, violin (A1-5)
Joseph Martin, horn (A4,5)
Liliane Mazeron, vocals
Pierre Caron, tenor saxophone (B1)
Pierre Sim, bass (A4,5)
Stéphane Vilar, drums, percussion (A4,5)

A1. Œil Vision
A2. Chant Inca
A3. Chromatisme
A4. Jeffology I
A5. Jeffology II

B1. Satirique
B2. Chant-Inca

Recorded at studio Europa-Sonor, Paris, France.

Disques Du Club De L'Échiquier - AF1, 1963
Société Française De Productions Phonographiques - SFP 13.002, 1968
Spalax Music - SPX 6836, 1981.

Vinyl Rip




6 December 2013

MASAHIKO TOGASHI & J.J. SPIRITS - PLAYS VOL.2 (VERVE, 1991)




1. Monk's Hat Blues - I'll Remember April
2. It Might As Well Be Spring
3. On A Slow Boat To China
4. If I Should Lose You
5. Everything Happens To Me
6. Joy Spring
7. Bemsha Swing


Masahiko Togashi, percussion
Masahiko Sato, piano
Kosuke Mine, tenor saxophone
Nobuyoshi Ino, bass

Recorded at Sedic Studio, Tokyo, 5-7 June 1991.

Verve - POCJ-1097

Vinyl Rip


NIGHT AND DAY - PLAYS THEM ALL - SET 12 (EDITION ARTELIER, GRAZ, 2003)




Last set after three successive nights on 27-29 May 1992 at the Badenscher Hof, Berlin.

Rüdiger Carl, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Alexander von Schlippenbach, piano
Jay Oliver, bass
Sven-Åke Johansson, drums

6-10. Whistle While You Work
6-11. This Is New
6-12. So In Love
6-13. Without A Song
6-14. From This Moment On
6-15. How Deep Is The Ocean
6-16. Speak Low
6-17. Just A Gigolo
6-18. My Heart Stood Still

Edition Artlier Graz, 2003

CD Rip


RADIO JAZZ GROUP STUTTGART - Koppelaar-Carl-Reichel-Dauner-Honsinger "STUTTGART 1977"



Bert Koppelaar, trombone
Rüdiger Carl, tenor saxophone, clarinet, accordion
Hans Reichel, guitar, violin
Wolfgang Dauner, piano
Tristan Honsinger, cello, voice

1. unknown title 05:30
2. unknown title 14:32
3. unknown title 24:30
4. unknown title 06:28


Recorded at Radio Studio SWR, Villa Berg, Stuttgart on March 3, 1977.

5 December 2013

MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA ‎– UNITED PATCHWORK (HORO RECORDS, 1978)






A.  Via Della Luce

B1. Fox
B2. Cross Over One
B3. Slugging Rocks

C1. Psalm
C2. What Is Freedom?

D1. Dewline
D2. Cross Over Two
D3. Cross Over Three
D4. Sea Line



Frederic Rzewski, piano, electric piano
Karl Berger, piano, electric piano, melodion, vibes
Steve Lacy, soprano saxophone
Richard Teitelbaum, synthesizer, shells
Alvin Curran, synthesizer, piano, vocals, flugelhorn
Garrett List, trombone

Recorded at Mama Dog Studio, Rome, 15-16 November 1977.

Horo Records ‎– HDP 15-16

Vinyl Rip

3 December 2013

NDR JAZZ WORKSHOP NO.70 "Jet Set From Bangkok - Begegnungen mit Asien." (Manfred Schoof Group)





Manfred Schoof, trumpet, fluegelhorn
Elito S. Valmonte, trumpet
Eddie Ramirez, trumpet
Albert Mangelsdorff, trombone
Leonardo S. Sanchez, trombone
Gerd Dudek, tenor saxophone & clarinet
Heinz Sauer, tenor saxophone
Michel Pilz, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Pablo M. Martinez, tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute
Bill A. Saragih, vibes
Loreto G. Albano, guitar
Alexander Von Schlippenbach, piano
Alphonso Soliano, piano
Günter Lenz, bass
Marinito S. Balbuena, bass
Fernando C. Cortez, bass
Ralf R. Hübner, drums
Romeo S. Dila, drums

1. Jet Set from Bangkok (M. Schoof)        13:12
2. Conversation (M. Schoof)                18:07
3. Pachita Blues (D. Soliano)                07:59
4. Roaring Plenties (G. Lenz)                10:50
5. Insertions for Four Parts (M. Schoof)   07:20

Recorded during the Ruhrfestspiele at the Festlandhalle in Recklinghausen, Germany on July 16, 1970.

2 December 2013

BOBBY FEW ‎– CONTINENTAL JAZZ EXPRESS (VOGUE, 1979)







A1. Continental Jazz Express
A2. Feeling So Alone

B1. Beautiful Africa
B2. The Spleeping Clock
B3. Everybody Has The Right To Be Free



Bobby Few, piano


Recorded March 12, 1979 in Studio Sidney Bechet.

Vogue ‎– JT. 2605

Vinyl Rip


1 December 2013

REF. Radio session

















One that nearly got away, which is well worth hearing.  A recording of a radio broadcast which I can't stop playing since I rediscovered the cassette twenty years after being sent it by the good Mr Greenaway.  Thanks to him.

MARIA STANGE,  harp
JOHN RUSSELL,  guitar
PAT THOMAS,  keyboards, electronics
ROGER TURNER,  percussion

1. Intro. 0:30
2. Impro 1 15:06
3. Impro 2 19:08

BBC Radio session. 1994(?)

Don't forget the two John Russell / Roger Turner cds on Emanem : Birthdays and The Second Sky.

(Thanks to Rhodri Davies for correcting my initial misspelling of the harpist's name)