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Joel Futtermann, Jimmy Lyons and Robert Adkins – In-Between-Position(s) - A Trio In Eight Movements

Another recent acquisition, this time not a jazz record: Albert Collins - Ice Pickin' Again, happy to own this one finally.

It's one of my favourite of his weirder ones.

Eddie Harris - Instant Death A record that I have wanted to own for a while but which never showed up at the right price point, bought on recent trip to Phoenix.

I did not know about this. Having checked up on it, it looks really interesting! A family affair. How does it sound?

I started listening to jazz in the 1990s, during the reissue era that Cuscuna himself ushered in. At the time, those pastiche-Reid Miles style re-covered CD reissues of LT-era releases were everywhere. It really shaped what I listened to and bought. Cuscuna and his involvement in the LT series and beyond is a piece of jazz history that I would love to see explored in a detailed longform article. Anyway, RIP.

Has anyone listened to any of these yet? Any that are outstanding? Any that didn't need to be issued?

This really made me chuckle

I agree. "Church influence" is funny in this case, since presumably it comes from records. I'm not sure of how substantial the pentecostal saxophone scene was in East Sussex in the mid- to late-1960s, but I'd guess that the answer is 'not very'. Where did he first come across this stuff, and what other records are there that influenced him? Vernard Johnson is not exactly a house name of here. One thing that I don't hear much with Butcher is an Ayler influence, which is where you would have assumed he would have started from. It's a good record by the way. Very enjoyable as breakfast music, even if my wife is a bit less tolerant of outwardly churchy music.

Vernard Johnson - I'm a Witness Too I forget who on this board recommended this gospel saxophonist. Apparently a big influence on John Butcher. $2 purchase from Zia Thunderbird from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona.

How is this one? I never really dug these guys, but I always liked how their records looked. Something about the late 1970s jazz ecosystem.

That's a good record. I really like it. Not really the same thing, but I like George Szabados too, in Hungarians from the era.

Just listened to this one for the first time. Excellent record. Good rich sound to it.

Les McCann - Layers

That's dedication. All the signs of RSD were there, including some funny handwritten notes. Genuinely nice vibe. Everything that a local record shop should be, and obviously rewarded for it by the customers. Yeah. I didn't want to suggest that I actually felt threatened at all. It was 10:30am on a Sunday morning when I visited, and it looked okay. The only thing that was alarming was how keen everyone was to tell us how dangerous it was for us to be there. No problem. I was pretty time-poor, and I got lucky to be able to get out and about on the Sunday morning.