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That was well spotted from the car. Always good to give to charity...

Tony Oxley Quintet - The Baptised Traveller [CBS/Realm LP] At last!

Thank you. I ended up buying the Webber from Presto. They do seem the only alternative to Amazon I completely agree, lovely release

Thanks John, good to hear you rate it, that's recommendation enough. Not sure how it has slipped under the radar until now.

Ancient Infinity Orchestra - River Of Light Jiyu - Totem Of Quiet Mystic Levon Eskenian and The Gurdjieff Ensemble - Zartir Joe Harriiott - Movement/High Spirits Charles Lloyd - Trios: Chapel Charles Lloyd - Trios: Sacred Thread And yesterday from my favourite record shop, 1964 French press of Pithecanthropus Erectus and 1962 UK press of George Russell - The Jazz Workshop.

Thanks for the reminder, just purchased 'Movement/High Spirits'

Listened to it once and initial impressions are very positive. Not like her previous album except the writing comes across as having a depth and breadth not dissimilar to the big band disc. The quintet sounds bigger than it's five parts. I like the use of synthesiser This seems more about harmony than the rhythmic focus of the small group disc of the previous set. There's a very involved theoretical explanation of what's she did to create the music but it went way over my head. Well worth a listen but maybe not quite as original in sound, rather than approach, as all the theory suggests.

I remember offloading the CD box set when times were tight. Often regretted it since.

Craft releases seem to make it to UK retailers after a while

Mine's on the way. Her previous recordings on Pi are well worth a listen. Do you buy Intact from a UK seller?

I'm glad you're enjoying it. It's a fabulous release I'm playing Kofi Flexxx - Flowers In The Dark [Native Rebel, UK 2023] having streamed it a few times I thought it was time to actually buy it. Until reading the credits just now I hadn't realised @Alexander Hawkinswas so involved in it.

Still on the fence. No doubt it looks great but I'm unconvinced that what little text there appears to be is going to be too revelatory. If not it's just then a nice coffee table book of LP covers, nice enough but how often consulted

I was looking at Quick-To-See Smith's work online yesterday after a couple of mentions here. Looks very interesting. Can't see any of it travelling here but we can live in hope. Wiley we have had some

Glad you enjoyed it Dan!

😂 you'll not be disappointed, I'm sure... That is interesting. I often feel like it sounds as if Sonny is the least comfortable of the group with the music. Not that he doesn't make interesting contributions. £3.50 from Mole according to the sticker, would've been '82 or so

Turning the heat up, it's cold today Milford Graves - Children Of The Forest [Black Editions, 2023] one of the albums of last year

Sorey easily sold out 150 capacity Cafe Oto for two separate performances on the same day recently, one piano solo the other in duet with pianist Pat Thomas. I'm actually surprised they're not performimg in a larger venue, with the cachet of that album crossing over to a number of audiences and I'd see that selling well in London let alone home turf. Either way, I'd love to be one of the 200

Two very different but equally good exhibitions this weekend Hiroshi Sugimoto's photograhy at the Hayward Gallery https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/hiroshi-sugimoto and then, George Baselitz sculpture at The Serpentine https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/georg-baselitz-sculptures-2011-2015/

Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down [Impulse, UK 1976 RE] A big album in my early Jazz listening. I'm never sure these days how successful it is but it sounds good today

Haven't thought about that album for a long time

That really did make me 😂. Such a long and complicated history we have with our northern neighbours, beautifully summarised right there

I didn't know this, thank you. Will definitely be getting it when it turns up over here

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They are all very good to my ears. The more recent are a bit more focussed, some others can sprawl both in numbers of players and time (see Rogue Art 2CD release for example). Having said that one of my favourites is an early one, the first https://www.discogs.com/master/143927-Exploding-Star-Orchestra-We-Are-All-From-Somewhere-Else Mazurek is a fascinating artist who I've been following for about 25 years now. He performs his compositions in so many configurations from solo (great when on trumpet, a lot more challenging when solely electronics) up to the ESO.

Classy third stream works for me. Now to find a copy. I can't imagine it was a huge seller at the time which may account for it being so few and far between