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Drew Gress - Spin & Drift (Premonition), Yves Robert - In Touch (ECM), the two Wayne Shorter gigs i have recorded over the last month - Montreaux & Edinburgh, likewise, The Bad Plus live in London's PizzaExpress & Ralph Towner - Anthem (ECM)

funny you should have brought this up because last week i was cleaning (yes, cleaning) and i regressed several years (in terms of what was on heavy rotation then). tumbling from the speakers were Soundgarden - Superunknown, Veruca Salt - American Thighs & The Amps - Pacer. Fantastic stuff. The Soundgarden album must surely be one of my all time favourites, putting me in the mood for anything that requires raising my pulse 40 or so beats.

A Grammy winner if ever i saw one!

fro what i can hear from memory, herbie regularly used lots of suspended chords; ie. ones that suggest neither resolve to a minor or a major but give an ambiguious feel. this may have been ideal for settings when the harmony was a bit 'out'. i'm not a pianist so forgive me if this sounds rubbish.

Fantastic album, light years ahead of its time (despite many forward thinking releases at that time). That dark insistant rhythm going on throughout Mephistopheles draws me in every time i hear it. Superb band, great compositions, wacky liner notes and it's on BN as we used to know it. What more could you want.