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Enrico Rava Quintet – Tribe   This one is a really great record. Rava really worked magic on ECM. 

A cool still morning. Going to be a beautiful day! Starting off with Lauren Henderson “Sombras” Brontosaurus Music cd     This is the first I’ve heard Ms Henderson, bought because Joel Ross is part of the supporting quartet. Wow, what a graceful phrasing and voice that draws one in. Such a pity her other albums are so expensive to collect! And now Donna Fuller (with Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra) “My Foolish Heart” Liberty TOCJ Japan Super Bit Jazz Classic lp facsimile cd From 1957. Nice sounding disc!      

Andre 3000 is coming out with a piano record now.  Matthew Shipp wrote a review on Facebook: "so a friend called me up and mentioned that Andre 3000 has a piano album out--i was like what. I checked it out on youtube -- my impression of it. I think it is complete and utter crap -horrific-god awful insipidly wretched nothing. oh my fucking god this is some atrocious shite --- is he some type of fucking asshole ? is he a complete and utter dilletante ? I could go into detail about why each cut is stillborn --but why bother --it does not even deserve the attention of a critique it is so dreadful. the guy is not a pianist -that is the beginning and the end of it ---what an ugly piano sound -- lets not even talk about telling a story with harmony ---sounds like he listens to a bunch of music gets a couple of gestures in his head sits down in a stream of consciousness and gets at some gesture for a few bars of something that he has not internalized -and barely knows on the most superficial level and then he loses the thread--of course there is zero composition going on in the improvisations --no language to speak of just a few cliches in his head that he can't actually play the cliche but he hits and tries at it until he peters out quickly --- wow -- he is so horrible at playing harmony --so many horn players that piano is not their instrument play so much better --- this sounds to me like pure fraud what a lack of respect for the discipline by someone who in my opinion is a complete asshole for doing this -- it is depressing that this garbage will get any attention because he has a name and fame --- there is nothing refreshing about the naivety of it --it is just downright dreadful and awful--true fucking crap insipidly wretched nothing -" It's a shame that he didn't say what he really thought of it. Hard to tell whether he liked it or not. 

Ack. I hadn't realised that he was in it. Poor boy having to listen to this sort of thing on a sunny Saturday morning.

That boy in the background is getting some excellent musical education 😇