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I feel like this is a genre that doesn't get its due.

Is this a new one? I haven't seen it advertised or mentioned.

Barre Phillips, John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg - We Met - And Then (Relative Pitch, 2021)

Big news!

Seems to me that there are almost no significant (whosever that term is used) science fiction books or writers that are inspired by, linked to or even feature jazz. That's in sharp contrast to the wider literature and to other areas of genre fiction such as crime. Can anyone think of any?

I wish that I owned this one. It's surprisingly hard to find, even with the resources of the internet.

And now on Adam O'Farrill's Black Sand, which I'd recommend highly to anyone who likes Afro-Cuban post bop. It's got all the late 70s percussion greats on, plus O'Farrill does a good job.

Chick Corea - The Leprechaun (1976)

Hugh Masekela - Home Is Where the Music Is (Chiesa, 1972)

It’s not just the music. They’d been playing in stadiums. Different kinds of tricks go down.

I like that. Fusion-brained.

I'm not sure if it's the place or time, but my main memory of Dr. Smith's music is driving down the motorway blasting out Afro-Desia completely lost in the moment, only for both of my kids to suddenly get explosively car sick, followed by my wife too. The car never recovered, and a year later I am still not allowed to play Dr. Lonnie Smith in the house because my wife is so traumatised. Anyway, RIP to one of the greats. There are few jazz players who could completely hypnotise me with their solos in the way that Smith could.

This is a breakfast. I frittered mine away with a Binker Golding record. What's the Hal Singer like? Now on: Miyasaka Takashi Quintet - Soul Tomato (Aketa's Disk, 1982) Similar in feel to those 70s vamp heavy bop records like the Hutch/Land combo, perhaps leaning a little more into fusion territory.

Movement in the City - Black Teardrops (1981) Having just finished: Boston Duets (1992) by Oliver Lake & Donal Leonellis Fox

Thanks!

There are a lot of names in the thread above, but what about LPs? Are there famous stand out classics or had the genre's lifecycle largely passed by the era of the LP?

I wasn't there at the time, but Woody was on to something. A very different group, and not just because of Hubbard. None of them had stayed still in the intervening period. Depending on the player that isn't always for the better, but really the music does have a very different feel to the Second Quintet's. Perhaps it is something that the musicians had picked up during their respective fusion careers and which passed over to their acoustic playing when they resumed it. Thanks in general for this thread. It's something I've always been interested in. Why do the Histories note Dexter Gordon's return and the rise of Marsalis but not VSOP or (in a different world) Old and New Dreams? It's something that always puzzled me.

Jack DeJohnette - In Movement (ECM, 2016)

Still the greatest 1 minute and 50 seconds in jazz history that doesn't involve Charry Wainer.

I can't wait for the press releases: "Essential ultra-available materialist jazz classic from the heart of the 1980s mainstream, finally remastered for the 40th time on 360 gram coloured shiny gold vinyl".

It's all about the enormous and prominently displayed watch.

I'm looking forward to the materialist jazz scene of the 1980s getting rediscovered. Someone on Columbia get Gilles Peterson on the phone.

How's that Miranda? I love him as a bass player but don't own any of his leader dates.

David Wertman and the Sun Ensemble - Earthly Delights (1978) I assume Astral Spirits' graphics team took note of this one.

I was living in Tokyo at the time, but would have gone otherwise. I remember looking at the listing with envy. Funny to return to these after the recent FloPo / Sanders record.