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Glad these got an outing

Well... in the last 24 hours. HJs Coal Drop, again, yes. They have a really impressive amount of stock for such a tiny shop.hya Black Paladins is one of my all time favourites of this era. I was pleased to find it in the wild, even in a slightly rough copy. i love that Elvin. One of the best covers of any jazz LP too. The late Steve Grossman tearing it up. The Yamamoto sounds interesting. I’ll nose that one out.

Joseph Jarman - Song For Joseph Jarman and Don Moye feat. Johnny Dyani - Black Paladins Hampton Hawes - For Real! Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead Roscoe Mitchell - L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples I was very pleased with this haul: some of.my favourite music.

I would be into this. Where do I sign up?

Great recommendation of something I'd really have never heard of otherwise. Thanks!

That's sad. I was listening to that first Marion Brown ESP yesterday afternoon. The bass parts really stand out.

Good work!

I definitely preferred that album. A step backwards in ambition but I just think it worked much better.

My two year old is a self professed Herbie Hancock fan. It can be done.

What can I say? The signs are there.

I like that one a lot. Probably my favourite of his non-Ra appearances along with Compulsion!!!! and Turkish Women.

I'm agreed. My view from listening to his last three albums is that he is a talented trumpeter in a more traditional vein, but that he gets let down by his ideas. I thought that the rapping and syrupy strings on Origami Harvest in particular were just embarrassing: stale and out of date, and seemingly aimed at the kind of music that a "cool aunt" is into. Guardian music pages / Mercury award stuff. It brought back bad memories of Soweto Kinch from my younger days. (and that's before you get into the rapper in question...). There's such a strong crop of younger jazz musicians with strong sounds and fresher ideas (whether of the sort that Steve Reynolds mentions, who I love and who really do have fresh ideas, or at the more mainstream end) at the moment that I don't really understand why he gets so much bandwidth.

I have to say that I have really enjoyed reading the blog. I've picked up a lot of records I'd never come across before. You're almost at the end of the decade. Any plans for what comes next?

Beaver Harris 360 Degrees Music Experience - Negcaumongus (Cadence, 1981) It's barely recorded at all, but I can't get enough of the duet between Don Pullen on piano and Francis Haynes on steel drums at the start of side two.

What comes next?

Sad news

The teenaged Zappa obsessive in me wants me to ask how this one is.

A big thanks for the Exultations and Fracture Mechanics recommendations. Really great, fascinating albums. They've been getting pretty constant play over the last few days.

Thanks. I liked The Mouser a whole lot, so I'll definitely check this out.

How is this one? He's got pretty prolific and I'm struggling to keep up, but a team up with Tomeka Reid is always worth looking up.

Charlie Parker, South of the Border (Verve, 1995)

From discogs it looks like this had just had another reissue, this time on ORG Music, with the Arista cover. https://www.discogs.com/Marion-Brown-Porto-Novo/release/15835447 Does anyone know anything about the company or the reissue?

Meditations by Prima Materia featuring Rashied Ali (KFW, 1995). I thought the idea was a bit of a weird novelty at the time, but their version has grown on me. There was a lot of talent in the band and I think its music has dated well. This is one of my all time favourites, and among the albums that were responsible for hooking me into jazz back in the day. I remember being surprised at just how much music he was able to generate with just two hands: it is a nice crisp piano trio, but it hits as hard as a brassy big band.

And with Texier too. Looks like the answer was just my ignorance of the scene then.

Jazz in the Space Age by George Russell (Decca, 1960). One of my favourite records with the late Charli Persip on.