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Very, very cool! Congrats on bringing this out.

Looking forward to all of them. Ali is really one my favorite drummers. The last two records where I was pleasantly surprised by his company were Marion Browns Why Not and Jackie McLeans ‘Bout Soul. He always bring a certain energy to the music en even when he’s all over the place the structure and rhythm remains there.

this one is so incredibly good. You could easily picked it up from a used bin for 10 euros. I did anyway.

Such a great record. Hope it could be of help on your Waldron quest! I am pretty sure you are going to enjoy that Blood and Guts recording. It has the same energy as Number Nineteen.

Oh yes my mistake. I always mix those two up. They are both excellent bass players by the way.

another excellent one from these series. With Junior Cook on tenor sax, Woody Shaw on piano, Ronnie Matthews on piano, Stafford James on bass and of course Louis on drums.

More McLean from ‘the shelf’.

This one's getting a repress.

I now see that they did not include the second session on the Connaiseur cd... That's a very weird choice. It's very, very good.

Well with all European groups he recorded: Mal Waldron Trio (1966) Ursula (1969) Blood and Guts (1970) A Little Bit of Miles (1972). Of these Blood and Guts is the most essential. Thats such a great one. There are also a lot of albums with great European players on them. The ones I'd reccomend best are: Free at Last, 1969, with Isla Eckinger from Switzerland. The Call, 1971 with Eberhard Weber from Germany Black Glory, 1971 with Pierre Favre from France Hard Talk, 1974 with Manfred Schoof from Germany and again Isla Eckinger One Upmanship, 1977 with again Schoof No More Tears for Lady Day, 1988 with Paolo Carduso who is Brazilian born but lived in Germany From Dark into Light, 1994 with the excellent tenor saxophonist Nicolas Simion from Romania Misterioso from 1998 with again Nicolas Simion One More Time from 2002 with Jean Francois Jenny Clarke from France You might like to check out my blog on Mal Waldron: https://snake-out.blogspot.com/2020/12/all-reviews-in-chronological-order.html

Ive been in a real Marion Brown mood last weeks so looking forward to this one.

Always thought that guy was the richest saxophone player on earth.

Makoto Terashita with Harold Land - Topology. Though a 2 Lp edition is always a little too much for me this is one fine reissue!

Yeah that’s a great one. That’s Dutch drummer Martin van Duynhoven on drums. Mal played with some excellent local music back then, not only on Holland but also in France and Germany.

Yeah Trible is an excellent singer. And I actually LOVE Adele Sebastian’s singing on The Call!

That one’s so good 🥰

Not a huge vocals fan here either but must say that with Tapscott it mostly really adds something special to the music plus the singers could actually sing. I experience the opposite with some of the records of another fave of mine: Hannibal. On his records the, imo sometimes awful singing, really annoys me though never enough to fully skip a record of him.

I can see what you mean, I have a bad feeling bout them too. But I mostly think about my intentions: they weren’t bad when I bought them as they were seen as legit back then. If they weren’t I would have never bought them. I am not going to throw them away. I will not buy them anymore and spread the word about them being bootlegs everywhere on the web. And of course will support Nimbus West by buying more records including this new one. Got the excellent 3LP set as well