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Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis Another bullseye from MH. She's such an impressive musician

From my youth too. I was all set to see them at Reading Festival in 1979, even had a "Gabba Gabba Hey" T-shirt printed up - they cancelled and Nils Lofgren, of all people, took their place. Still wore the T-shirt though.

Thanks, I was streaming it

I listened to it for the first time yesterday, it certainly has something to it. No liners for me. I never completely warmed to his previous leader dates, they had flashes. He can be heard to good effect with Mazurek

very pleased to stumble upon this. Wade did a fabulous Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson tribute a few years ago and I've wanted to hear more from her. Ernie Watts too!

Today... Pharoah Sanders - Thembi [Impulse, 1971] Pharoah Sanders - Love In Us All [Impulse, 1974] Pharoah Sanders - Elevation [Impulse, France 1974] The Mystic Revelation Of Teppo Repo - Kosmoksen Erakko [Jazzpuu, Finland 2022] Streifenjunko - Sval Torv [Sofa Records, Norway 2012]

Automatic purchase for me, thanks for highlighting it

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Terrific. I remember seeing Protein Man on many occasions

Zoh Amba - O Life, O Light vol.1

I missed them due to COVID too but did see them, for the first time, about 5 years ago. One of the most memorable gigs ever. They were everything and more that I was expecting That I can understand

Jeff Mills & Rafael Leafar - The Override Switch [Axis, 2021]

I always thought that it was a case of 'the truth will out". So stoned he said what he believed rather than hold back. Can't really see how any intoxicant can generate thought processes of such length and depth, they just removed his inhibitors. Anyway, we're agreed the man's a first rank idiot at the very least and probably not worth the effort. Apologies for derailing the thread. I need to restrain my automatic reactions when it comes to Clapton.

I couldn't give him a pass for the racism. His comments were disgusting and vile and he went on at some length which points to the fact he'd been thinking and developing those thoughts for a while, no off the cuff, throwaway racism here (not that that would have been any more forgiveable) This at a time when the far right were very visible on the city streets in the UK and tensions really didn't need stoking. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/eric-clapton-rant-rock-against-racism/ Only good thing about it was it sporned the Rock Against Racism movement in the UK. Ironically I was listening to 461 about that time. Needless to say I haven't done so for a very long time. His recent pronouncements just go to show good guitar (never bought into the God accolades) playing doesn't require a brain Apologies if this post is deemed political, feel free to delete if so mods

Terrific listen

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Kenny Burrell - Guitar Forms [Verve, 1965] followed by Kenny Burrell - Asphalt Canyon Suite [Verve, UK 1970]

I've dug out my copy of what I think is the '85 reissue. Not the best sound but not noticeably poor. The "announcements" are muffled and off-mike to an extent but once the music kicks in it's pretty front and present with noticeable foregrounding to the soloing instrument which does make the rest of the band sound a bit homogenous and distant. Music's great of course. The Pure Pleasure reissue has a couple of very positive reviews on Discogs for what that's worth (not a lot really)

I've used Spotify, Tidal, Amazon and Qobuz and my impression is that each of them have sometimes, but not consistently had more than one version of an album. I don't think any are consistently listing multiple versions and sometimes even if they are it's not always apparent which version is which. The 'cataloguing' of their catalogues is not their strongest point. Just did a check on Qobuz for Henderson's ' Page One' ( just the first title that came to mind with multiple issues) and two versions appear, one dated 2017 which digging deeper is a 90s release and the other is helpfully only referred to as 1963. On Tidal there are four versions all dated 1963! On the credits of two it mentions who mastered it so you could maybe work out a release date from that Both platforms highlight the mastering quality e.g. HiRes, which seems to be the big push in streaming. I will say that I haven't actively sought out particular issues of a release. I use streaming for more casual listening.

How is that one?

Still on the fence if only because there's so much of it. Posts like this ease me closer to getting off the fence though

I thought 'Blues For Memo' from 2016 was really good. I'm not generally a fan of piano/sax duos so passed on the Takase. He was impressive on a more recent Kahil El 'Zabar album. Yeah, with Jaimie Branch too. Intriguing pairing that I can't wait to hear