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Just arrived and spinning right now. Nice package and excellent audio quality. Up to Dark Tree’s usual high standards. Fully authorised by Horace’s family. Very impressed

Lee Morgan-------The Sixth Sense-------(BN Liberty) blue/black label RVG on of the better later Lee Morgan dates. Having Jackie on board doesn't hurt. Must locate the CD to play the unreleased tracks as memory suggests they were pretty good too.

Small donation made. Curiously it's listed as "offline" when it was very much "online"

Reflex order placed

Sad news . I always valued his opinions

Grudging respect to Spurs from me. ...

An incredible game. Alexander-Arnold's corner was cheeky genius. The atmosphere sounded deafening . Cliched it may be but the crowd really were the 12th man last night.

I'm totally new to FF. His discography seems to be pretty vast. Which Intakt releases were you referring to, and would these be a reasonable place to start? thanks...

I could weep watching Arsenal these past few weeks. Gripless defence and just not enough attacking intent to make up for goals shipped at the other end. Unai is the right manager but we need a boat load of better players. On current form we don’t deserve CL football next season. Don’t get me wrong it’d be outstanding to win the Europa League but we’d only get humiliated next season by the big boys. rant over......

Ingrid Laubrock———Two works for orchestra with soloists——(Intakt) this has sat unopened for several weeks as I’ve been listening to a bunch of Kirk Knuffke discs in rotation. This however was well worth the wait. It’s a pretty outstanding piece of playing and orchestration. I find Intakt to produce discs consistently high standard .

Manfred Schoof———-Distant Thunder———(ENJA) incendiary playing with Japanese noise merchants including Akira Sakata on the alto sax.

Horace Tapscott A Tapscott binge for the holiday weekend. Currently playing Live at I.U.C.C. The Call and Flight 17 ( Outernational) lined up for playing later today.

This excellent Vick. NP Derek Bailey——- Cyro——-( Honest Jon) pretty stunning record and a very nice reissue. Time and Aida also arrived today and await full audition....

Mal Waldron———-Sweet love, bitter——-(Impulse Jpn) film soundtrack from 1966. George Coleman seems to get most solo space but Dave Burns can also be heard.

Steve Reid———-Nova ———-(Mustevic /Soul Jazz Records) 1976 date reissued in 2019. Roughly hewn loft era jazz. Quite impressed by this obscurity

Hal Russell ——-NRG Ensemble———(Nessa) prompted to look this out. Vital music, sounding utterly contemporary in the best sense. I recall being hesitant to check Russell out , fearing his music to be in some way forbidding. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It’s immediately engaging stuff which I’d highly recommend.

I like this one a lot

This is a wonderful album

amazon.co.uk have a release date of 22/3. I've been on a bit of Tapscott binge lately having listened in sequence to Vols 8-11 of his solo material on Nimbus.

Any sources this side of the pond?

David Wertman————Kara Suite——-(Mustevic Sound) pulled this one randomly off the shelves for the first time in a while. Plenty of energy in this free jazz blow out. Charles Tyler and Ken Simon battle it out on the saxes. Drum, bass and a french horn make up the group. Recording is pretty dark to muddy but the music is clear enough.

Rendell/ Carr——-Dusk Fire——-(Jazzman) Strange but true this music is entirely new to me. It’s been on the list for years but I’d not pulled the trigger until now. All five Jazzman reissues landed today ( sans box) . Very impressed by the music and the presentation. Lovely quiet vinyl.

I’ve just come across Draksler on a trio disc on Intakt. The sound the group achieve on PUNKT.VRT.PLASTIK is pretty astounding. It’s been on repeat without leaving my CD player for nearly 3 weeks. Need to prise it out , to play the new solo disc by label mate Hawkins ....

I’ve preordered because i want to support Mosaic i don’t have Thinking of Home and the unreleased tracks

Sad news. I’ll need to look through discogs to remind me of sessions known to me , that he played on.