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I had that one. It reminded me a lot of Louie, Louie.

Yesterday was the third day in the past six weeks that for me the site was apparently offline. But I see that there were plenty of posters who did not have this problem. Any ideas?

Absolutely no interest in reading Simmons' autobiography. No one's perfect, how about stepping off the high horse.

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Revealed! Thanks for the thoughts! #4 does not feature Paul Chambers. But it features players from a city he famously visited. #5 You've IDed the clarinet player. #8 Would agree that the tenor player takes the honor here. The alto player is (or was) a topic of some debate on this board. #9 Trane is not only an influence... there's a label-mate situation (sort of) in play here. #12: totally agree about the brass soloists, but, for me, that's part of the charm. This is from a date that, as far as I know, has been been made available digitally.

My reaction to your clue turned out to be spot on. Sonny Fortune's debut with organist Stan Hunter, Trip on the Strip, track is HFR.

Not Sonny Cox, and not Chicago. The saxophonist's roots run further east (but they don't leave the lower 48). Thanks! 8 is not Mingus, but there are Mingus connections threaded throughout this playlist. Garbarek is a good guess on 11, and most everyone has pegged that this is an ECM recording. But its not a high-profile ECM recording. Bingo on the overall sensibility and orientation of the band on 13. "Pop"... only in a very broad sense. They did have some hits, but they were mostly known for their albums.

These are excellent points. I agree that Sun Ra is not properly speaking "spiritual jazz" at all, but I think that as used on social media and indeed by record labels these days, "spiritual jazz" means must about anything. What interests me is that, when those reissues did start in the 1990s, it was the 1960s records that got reissued first (or at least that attracted attention): Magic City, Atlantis, Heliocentric Worlds, etc.. Not Languidity or Disco 3000. Then I remember the surge of interest in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the 1950s records were re-released and people were confronted with a Sun Ra that was so much more accessible. But it still took a few years for those late 1970s records to come out.

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RIP to a legend. Willie Colón is one of my favorite Latin music artists. Willie Colón/NY salsa, Fania All Stars, along with Cuban music, are my favorites. El Gran Varón is my favorite Willie Colón song. It exemplifies what was so special about his best songs - the combination of great music and a powerful social message. Que se vaya con Dios, maestro!

Yeah, I have little interest in the book to be honest. The few reviews I've read aren't particularly inspiring.

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Agreed that Sun Ra is not spiritual jazz, and agreed that his popularity was held back by the fact that his work on famous labels Impulse and ESP is so much less accessible than other periods of his work like Lanquidity or the Chicago years as exemplified by Jazz in Silhouette, or the current edition of his band

I love that record. ❤️ It's one of Sir Roland's finest, imo.

All very good and valid points regarding the increased popularity of Sun Ra. I think that the major factor in Sun Ra's increased "popularity" has been the increased availability of his music on CDs and records. 30 years ago it was extremely hard, with a few exceptions, to find any Sun Ra records or CDs. But, beginning with the Evidence CD reissues in the 1990s, a slow trickle of Sun Ra releases has turned into an avalanche whereby presently almost his entire prodigious musical output is readily available in one form or another. And in much improved sound quality, thanks to improved technology. Of course, availability of music does not always equal sales and popularity. But, in Sun Ra's case, the increased availability of his music has resulted in a kind of Sun Ra renaissance in the past 10 years due to some of the factors noted by Rabshakeh. However, I am not sure I would put any of Sun Ra's music in the "spiritual jazz" category and tie the increased interest in his music to an increased interest in spiritual jazz. Sun Ra's more "mainstream" albums, like Liquidity, will always have a bigger mass appeal than his more cacophonic "out there" albums. That will always be the case since avant- garde jazz in general appeals to a much smaller demographic. I think that, in Sun Ra's case, people who were curious about Sun Ra's mystique and aura, were finally able to listen to the music due to its ready availability and they liked what they heard. I always say that there is not one Sun Ra but many Sun Ras. Part of his genius was the ability to always move forward and transform his music. There are as many Sun Ra styles as Sun Ra albums. And it only makes sese that more people will be attracted to his more "mainstream" style. But I do not relate those albums to spiritual jazz and do not think that his increased popularity is a result of the spiritual jazz crowd suddenly "discovering" Sun Ra. I may be wrong of course, but it is a very interesting conversation to have about the Sun Ra "phenomena" of the past decade.

Novak String Quartet No.1, Op.22 - Novak Quartet Novak String Quartet No.2, Op.35 - Janacek Quartet

#1 reminded me of Sonny Cox on Argo but at first sight there's no 6 minute track on those albums... Still, I hear Chicago/Argo, not Europe