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I became obsessed with track 1, to me it sounds like european jazz from the 60s, very addictive. I need to identify this one.

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Doesn't happen often you have a woman jazz trumpeter quite like Barbara Donald; instantly liked her sense of style on the Sonny Simmons records.

This has been an excellent thread to read.👍Very much enjoyed reading everyone's insights.

James Williams, Images (Of Things to Come) (Concord)

Clarence Williams, 1933 (Classics)

Maybe because it's not a "group" in the stricter sense of the word but the jazz unit of the WDR (WestDeutscher Rundfunk) radio station based in Cologne/Germany. So by its nature it's a fluent project that above all has provided the jazz big band backing for many different featured artists, something that probably would be hard to work into the framework of a "box set". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR_Big_Band

Miles Davis Quintet “Live in Europe 1967–Bootleg Series Vol. 1” Sony Blu-Spec CD edition, disc 2 This disc contains 2 November 1967 at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark plus the beginning of 6 November 1967 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, France. Sound is not perfect but decent. Interesting performances. I prefer earlier recordings of this quintet but they were a formidable and influential group in modern jazz.

Yes. NP: Magnificent.

I think you made the right analysis @Rabshakeh: I see the same things. The so called spiritual jazz movement seems to do well with a younger generation and especially artists like Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane are popular. When I attended an Evan Parker gig in Gent there we're also quite some younger people that seamed to be there mostly because they wanted to drink a beer and hear what this guy was all about. I don't think they actually had any of his records or something like that but they we're interested in some way. In my experience the Scandinavian jazz scene seems to attract younger people also: when I saw groups like Atomic and The Thing there we're more people of my generation (born in the '90's) then let's say the times I saw Bennie Golson or Sonny Rollins. I have mixed feelings about it. I think a part of them is sincerely interested in the music and another part is mostly doing it because they feel hip/part of a cultural minority/misplaced intellectual feelings etc. I'm skeptic about peoples behaviour trough social media as well. Before you know it some hipster publishes a list of 30 must hear freejazz records without including Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Sam Rivers, Cecil Taylor or as you mentioned the great John Coltrane. When their interest is sincere: I feel so happy the music gets more interest. When their interest is shallow: please stay away.

The session was included on the Mosaic box set of Bud Shank’s Pacific Jazz sessions. Never seen a copy of the original LP tho’ or the UK version.

I like Slam's playing myself. From way back when with Slim forward. Now Walter Bishop Jr’s Fourth Cycle “Keeper of my Soul” Black Jazz cd 342×342 16.3 KB Bass – Gerald Brown Drums – Bahir Hassan Flute, Saxophone – Ronnie Laws Keyboards – Walter Bishop, Jr. Percussion – Shakur M. Abdulla Vibraphone – Woody Murray

Looking up Oscar Dennard's Tangier recording, I found this: https://africasacountry.com/2017/10/tangiers-jazzmen-and-their-phantom-producer

Both excellent Muse LP's. Is this the 32 jazz cd reissue?

Young people listening rapt to EP and PB, whatever next, that's Oto for you! Flippancy aside, I think you hit several nails squarely on the head. Alice as the most hip of the Coltranes is very apparent I think. I'm listening to Kahil El'Zabar at the moment. Someone else whose recognition levels in the east of Dalston population is high. Deservedly so, and I think a positive example of how a younger audience can connect to someone who's most definitely paid his dues, several times over and deserves the benefits.

Disc 1 - originally released as Consciousness

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AMM – Before Driving To The Chapel We Took Coffee With Rick And Jennifer Reed I had a listen to this after it was mentioned a few days ago. Tatum is brilliant on this but I struggled a bit with Stewart: that sawing thing he has going sort of kills the rhythm.

I'm just wondering why there's never been a box set of this group?

Did the guys from the Art Ensemble of Chicago ever visit African countries? I vaguely remember video footage of Roscoe Mitchell playing in Morocco? Perhaps @Chuck Nessa knows best. In Ghana I was also remembered how silly it is that we always talk about Africa as if it's one country (as some people always speak about Europe too). The cultural diversity is so immense. I've visited Morroco, Egypt, South-Africa and Ghana and all of those countries are incomparible to each other. In fact: the local pastor told me that Ghana itself consists of 75 kingdoms with their own kings and own language. 75 languages in a country only 4 times as big as the Netherlands! Every king still has power: a kind of power that runs parralel to that of the Ghanean government. Under those kings there are the village chiefs that run the village together with the village council that consists of the elders. Western people try to pretend that those societies are primitive where they are actually very complex. Those kingdoms made me think immediately of this: I now know that's Fort Elmina on the cover and no castle. We've visited that the last day we were in Ghana. It's the oldest remaining fortress and it was the place where my Dutch ancestors shipped ten thousands of slaves in the most horrible conditions. It was very impressive to visit. Makes me also wonder if John Carter and/or Bobby Bradford visited Ghana or other African countries. Carter made more albums that reffered to West-African culture. Perhaps again @Chuck Nessa knows best?