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Watchable, but I'm still waiting for first entry in my Favourite Films Seen in 2018 list. Perhaps over-long at 133 mins.

Yes, nice! Just listened. There's some very good stuff nowadays from American/European international groups, this one teaming an American visitor with Spanish and Italian musicians. A couple of years ago in Southport I saw Magnarelli and Dmitry Baevsky with an Anglo/French/Greek rhythm section! (Joe and Dmitry were great guys to talk with, by the way.) A year later Southport followed up with a sextet of Brits Osian Roberts and the Fishwick brothers, plus NY-based Frank Basile, Jeb Patton and Mike Karn. Southport has also had Eric Alexander and Jim Rotondi with Austrian Bernd Reiter and Slovenian Renato Chicco. I would love to hear John Marshall with Dutch musicians. They sound great on record. The dreadful Brexit will probably shut the door on all of this, though. (I am allowed to be political in this thread, aren't I?)

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Sonet goes back a long time. On a visit to Norway in 1958 at the age of 18 I bought an E P of the Charlie Parker "Now's the Time"/"I Remember You"/"Confirmation"/"Chi Chi" session re-issued on Sonet.

Yes, that's nice stuff, John!

You're confusing him with the Mflanagans.

I saw Max at Club 43 here in Manchester in about 1967. Those were militant days. He berated the English audience, asking them to consider how the members of his group came to have old English names like Roach, Tolliver, Pope , Cowell and Merritt. (I guess I don't have to explain here.)

Just seen this evening. Very good.

"Now reading"? OK if I post this here?

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