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Heading off future regrets...thanks to @Rabshakeh for the nudge

And that's one I regret not buying when it was about

The next batch are due next year according to a Twitter response I got from Tony Higgins. He wasn't letting on which titles though. Norma sounds very nice, peas or no peas...

Dick Morrissey Quartet - Storm warning! [Norma, Japan 1993] preceded by The Cal Tjader Quartet - Saturday Night/Sunday Night At The Blackhawk [Verve 1962]

I'm with you on that and I am not very tolerant at all of those choosing not to be vaccinated, apart from for medical reasons. I've spent too much time recently in the caring hands of the NHS to feel much sympathy for those who are wilfully stretching very thin resources by choosing not to protect themselves. But how many of them would have been infected if community infection levels weren't so high. Also, high levels of infection have proven fertile ground for variants. I simply believe more can be done and that we're witnessing an increasingly laissez-faire approach from the government which seems at odds with a lot of medical opinion at the moment.

It's been like that for a while now. People believe it's all over and done with thanks to 'Freedom Day' rhetoric and lack of leadership in how to behave - full cabinet meeting, no masks etc, etc. Sadly health policy based solely on "common sense" and "individual choice" is not sustainable and could be described in many more ways less generous. It appalls me that 1000+ deaths/week is no longer worthy of mention by any government spokesperson. It's as if that's an acceptable fatality rate. Almost as if the much mooted and denied "herd immunity" policy has been there all along

strict 6 month gap here between second doses and boosters so it's another 3 weeks + for me. Having had a major op in the interim I wish it were sooner especially given our government's negligent management of community infection levels.

I remember really enjoying it at the time and thought it sounded quite fresh but maybe a little weighed down by the concept. Just having listened to 'Magdalena' I think I prefer that but to be fair it's a while since I've heard 'Reciprocity'. Time for some attention. As you say, it's early days for her recorded career so one to keep an eye on, I think. Now I'm reliving the late 90s and watching an Erik Truffaz stream from Ronnies.

John Cleese Dita Von Teese Teasy Weasy

It's still readily available. Mr Bongo reissue is fairly new I think, supersedes the Jazz Man one from a few years ago https://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Mankunku+Quartet/

What a voice that man has. Last time I saw Massive attack he came on in a wheelchair with a leg in plaster and still sang like an angel

What do you make of it? I listened a few times a while ago and thought it had something. Yesterday I listened to her preceding one on that label and thought it merited the attention.

Really?

Eberhard Weber - Fluid Rustle [ECM, Germany 1979] and now Mankunku Quartet - Yakhal' Inkomo [World Record Co./Mr Bongo, UK 2021 Repress]

And that's an "interesting" perspective that I'm not entirely disinclined to agree with. Or putting it another way, there's a hell of a lot of very interesting things going on around him from everyone else on that bandstand. I like the bass "interludes" too, in fact I think calling them "interludes" undermines their contribution to the whole a fair bit.

Probably not the time to say I've never heard of him but the Guardian are running the Press Assoc. piece https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/27/funniest-of-them-all-tributes-paid-to-mort-sahl-after-death-aged-94

I need to spin that again, not done so for ages Meanwhile, always great to have a new ElSaffar arrive

The pre-release tracks on BC

I saw that line-up in London in 2018. They were great

Oh to be 22 again

He's a completely new name to me so I had no idea, sorry.