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Yeah. That crunch.

I'm always surprised at how many random Braxton Moerses there are. Anthony Braxton - Five Pieces (Arista, 1975)

What's the view on why Rhodes overtook Wurlitzers? I perhaps don't know Hubbard's mid 70s work well enough, but I'm surprised to see him described as "fussy". He always seemed the weakest human link in VSOP (although I think that the overall stadium jazz vibe is worse than any one part) but fussy wasn't necessarily what comes to mind.

£30 is cheaper than I'd seen it. I didn't check the vinyl itself but the sleeve was in good condition. Just saying. All fine, thanks. The now-not-so-toddler has baby asthma and sometimes things get a bit hairy. He's okay now though. He got an ice cream and I got a Julius Hemphill record.

No. I was unfortunately in the neighborhood of UCLH so popped into HJ East. A much smaller jazz section at the moment, but some good stuff still, including a copy of For Alto in good knick for £30, which I didn't get as I already have it.

Julius Hemphill - Blue Boyé (Mbari, 1977) The Mbari original. Not in the finest condition but plays great and wasn't too expensive.

Big fan of this one.

Chico Freeman and Von Freeman - Freeman & Freeman (1981) Now mellowing out with: Pat Metheny / Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)

Why's that?

I'm not sure how highbrow my criteria were to tell the truth. The tracks great. I assume I'm in the virtual presence of a Fabio Frizzi fan...

Hmm. Yes. I remember being broadly disappointed. The film perhaps didn't fulfill my, at the time, fairly specific, criteria.

Apparently it's a branch of a Tokyo shop. I may accidentally find myself there over the weekend.

What's the other one? WoE fills quite a specific ecosystem, although I rarely buy from there.

Bobo Stenson or Bobo Shaw?

Currently listening to A Message From Garcia by Dick Garcia. Some really top notch Tony Scott on this one.

The British Channel 4 used to show European art house cinema every Friday evening in the late nineties. Sometimes it was more art house, and other times it was perhaps less so. Whether it was Fellini or Kieslowski, they all had lengthy introductions by high minded film critic Mark Kermode. Looking back, it is hard to tell what caused me, a 16 year old boy, to stay up late in order to watch this obscure classic of Turkish cinema (perhaps an interest in Anatolian folklore, or a love of the Cyclades and its unique architecture? Maybe just a dedication to and love of pure cinema?), but Kermode’s 20 minute introduction, which focused primarily on the film’s bold exploration of themes of alienation and subversive deployment of mise en scene, really stuck with me as an avantgarde classic in its own right.

Veeery nice. Which shops?

I do intermittently enjoy a bit of 80s Miles, but have never really understood why I should not just listen to Prince.

Why oh no?

What? Why?

Woop!

Snap!!! Albeit not on vinyl for me.

That's true. That's certainly what I use it for.

Norwegian Wood has a lot of jazz in it. But it's one of Mr Murakami's least science fictiony works. I'm really surprised at the lack of British and American science fiction writers who were jazz fans or mentioned jazz in their writing at all. Science fiction in the 1950s-1980s was a great place for interesting, experimental and progressive writing. There seems to be an obvious cross over with jazz, which is all those things. Many great science fiction writers frequently touch on music. But no jazz at all.

I was and am a huge Zappa fan, but let's just say that I'm glad so much of his output was instrumental.