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The Gardens of Harlem by Clifford Thornton and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCPO, 1975).

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I'd previously avoided this one because I assumed it would be the dreaded early 70s free jazz mass blowfest, but I'm pleased at how wrong I was. Really good tunes on this one and some nice soloing. It could perhaps have done with another rehearsal or two, but it's good as is.

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15 hours ago, BillF said:

Just heard the first track of the album and with Jeff Hamilton on drums and John Goldsby on bass they're really movin'. :tup

Any sign today of masked Boris in the RAF helicopter flying around and inspecting your neck of the woods, Bill? :D

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1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Any sign today of masked Boris in the RAF helicopter flying around and inspecting your neck of the woods, Bill? :D

Heard (unusually these days) an aircraft this morning, but missed my chance of pushing the passenger in the river.

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5 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Are the floods local to yourself?

Fortunately no. I live about one mile from the Mersey. The houses that were evacuated are 100-200 yards from the river.

IIRC about 20 years ago when the Environment Agency first published flood risk maps they showed two levels: areas at imminent risk and areas at once-in-a-hundred-years risk. My house is a few hundred yards beyond area 2. All the houses affected last night were firmly in area 1 (as are large areas of central London). Again IIRC, publication had such an impact on property values that a revised edition omitted area 2 completely.

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18 minutes ago, BillF said:

:tup :tup

First heard the sextet in the late 50s, but it was on this album. Formative influence on my jazz tastes:

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For me too! It was one of my fathers jazz records and he was really the one that got me into jazz. His collection was a bit limited but Mulligan was one of the artists that was present. And this very record remained one of my favorites by him (and generally in jazz).

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14 minutes ago, BillF said:

Fortunately no. I live about one mile from the Mersey. The houses that were evacuated are 100-200 yards from the river.

IIRC about 20 years ago when the Environment Agency first published flood risk maps they showed two levels: areas at imminent risk and areas at once-in-a-hundred-years risk. My house is a few hundred yards beyond area 2. All the houses affected last night were firmly in area 1 (as are large areas of central London). Again IIRC, publication had such an impact on property values that a revised edition omitted area 2 completely.

Interesting - good to hear that you aren’t affected. River level and flow rate near my place today (piddling little puddle) was ‘robust’.

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