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Disc 6

My resistance didn't last very long

My SW facing kitchen hit 30C yesterday evening, no cooking, door open all day. A short trip to the shops yesterday reminded me of heat I'd felt in Aswan! No breeze at all, a slight one this morning for my 6.45 pre-work walk.

UK set to break 40C for first time today.

I wasn't overly impressed by the description of PB as a "sax scrawler" and FvH as a "piano pumeler", pretty reductive and not very respectful. That aside, a decent enough read

A very good album, I thought

How about I stream it? Will that be acceptable to everyone? Sigh

But if you have the first UK LP you can enjoy it just as it should be. Lovely listen, may just indulge myself post dinner. Music to cool a sweltering summer day in the city.

Long overdue a new one from Ms Wilson

That souylike a very difficult situation. Gilles Peterson has been sharing the Go Fund Me on Twitter, hopefully they'll be a good response

Elton Dean's Ninesense - Happy Daze [Ogun, UK 1977]

It is, isn't it? So many great players on it. Nick Evans is really standing out on this listen. The notes say that the selections are taken from 2.5 hours of playing, that would've been some gig

I hope you like it

If only they realised. But they do need us to hoover up all the L and over stock

Elton Dean's Ninesense - Oh! For The Edge [Ogun, UK 1976] Rambunctious music making

Or Larry Young's 'Into Somethin'' hey, a whole new thread "Trying to help out Uniqlo by suggesting designs"... In fact, thinking about a couple of them I've had for some years they do exactly as you suggest. My favourite is Anthony Willams' 'Spring' which simply has a horizontal thick orange stripe across the chest with the text across the top of that and the 'Let freedom Ring' design has no borders, just the text/design over a white tee.

I hate trying to describe music - Ethio Jazz keyboards with horn choruses, some solos. Has a laidback funkiness to it with some almost Middle-eastern touches. Sits somewhere between Atstatke, something on Brownswood Records and bizarrely Khruangbin. It really grew on my through the album. Ideal summer music, I'd say Better than taking my words for it

first listen, impressed

Muse LPs have appeared as reissues a fair bit over the last decade or so, I'm never sure of their provenance though. They look like Muse, the sound like Muse but who's behind them I have no idea. I see this listing has Muse as the label rather than a reissue label so it could be the same with this. It's a great album. I see I started this thread, well I ended up investing in the original LP and never regretted it

I think that Pharoah's current currency amongst those lucky youngsters also owes something to the influence of Gilles P and his ilk. There's quite an established Jazz/dance crossover appeal for the later post-Impulse dates amongst that crowd which I think filters through to younger DJs/taste influencers today. I could of course be completely wrong... 'Promises' really worked for me but not as a Jazz album per se which is where I think some of the stick came from. Also helps that I rated Floating Points beforehand. Also, to keep thread relevant, I have five Uniqlo BN or Prestige t-shirts bought over the years.

The John Handy Quintet - The 2nd John Handy Album [CBS, UK 1966] Great band but Michael White!

An education, as ever. Thank you. Particularly taken by the spoken word tracks and the Handy which sent me straight to taking that album off the shelf.

Kahil El'Zabar Quartet - A Time For Healing [Spiritmuse, UK 2022] Grachan Moncur III - Shadows [Denon, Japan 1977]

Daniel Villarreal - Panama 77 [International anthem, US 2022] one of this year's best for me, so far