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New arrival no.2 Kahil El'Zabar - America The Beautiful [Spiritmuse Records, 2020] I'm not sure El'Zabar gets the notice of other AACM and Chicago musicians but this just drips that Chicago sound and is a lovely album. If 'How Can We Mend A broken Heart' isn't a tribute, subliminal or intentional, to Lester Bowie then I'm deaf.

Joe Harriott & John Mayer - Indo-Jazz Suite [Columbia UK, mono 1966] first listen to one of today's new arrivals. Good to find a nice and clean copy.

'J Mood' and 'Black Codes' were the two I bought at the time, relatively early in my Jazz journey. Enjoyed them both, 'J Mood' the most and haven't listened to them in 20 years. maybe they should be dusted down

I had no idea either, streaming it now. Sounds terrific. That voice

Thank you both. I'd spotted the trio albums as possibles so will duly investigate

OK all this love, so which albums? I remember listening to a Dolphy album years ago which didn't grab me then by Potsa Lotsa or similar

Two really good albums featuring Ralph Wyld who I've just (re)discovered having forgotten about him winning the Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize a few years ago The second is very reminiscent of the Grachan Moncur III/Bobby Hutcherson BN sound. Very nice.

Who doesn't? Surely Thanks gents, streaming it is from those comps then

struggling to find this online, is it? Some of it appears on an 80s compilation confusingly of the same name

Marty Paich - The Picasso Of Big Band Jazz

I have that one too, one of the few Latin Jazz albums in my collection. I know nothing about the two musicians though, sorry. Good album.

It's in my list above, stands out for the number of female artists represented I think

My problem is I DO trust you on this. Oddly not many copies for sale over here unlike other titles I splurged on last month.

Ooh, sounds like another I'll have to track down...stop it with the Moodys!!

I'm pleased I'm not the only one. I'm always disappointed by that album when I play it, ever since I bought it in the 80s. Never seems to hang together in any way and as you say Byrd/Shorter doesn't seem to gel. I played it again a few weeks ago in the hope that I would get a different impression, I didn't. On the "to offload" list.

Michel Pilz Quartet - Jamabiko [M.P., Germany 1984]

Significant coverage on BBC radio lunchtime news

Well they certainly ploughed the furrow for all its worth but I never quite got overwhelmed. But I also really like Electric Masada. Relationship breakdown - all the Masada CDs and just one John Surman CD somehow went missing in the general smoke and fire - always thought since it was an odd combination...not as if my ex actually enjoyed hearing them. Maybe they were the fire

I agree with you but I think you're setting the bar too low at "labels which have rarely or never given opportunities to women" as I can think of several that do just off the top of my head - Leo, Rogue Art, Relative Pitch, Clean Feed, ECM. I agree about Intakt. I think a more realistic expectation would be to ask which labels have a significant representation of women as leaders in their catalogue - "significant", I'll leave to others to debate. Somewhere near 50/50 would be nice as an aspiration, wouldn't it? And no, I'm not suggesting quotas.

Yeah, hope he's OK. The two ECM albums I listened to yesterday are both excellent. Now playing Masada - Sanhedrin, 1994-1997 [Tzadik, 2019] I thought Masada were one of the most exciting bands at the time. This is reminding me why having not listened to them since my almost complete CD collection of their recordings went AWOL.

Thanks for the report, sounds great. I love his "dancing", he did a fair amount of that at Ronnie's the last time he was here. I haven't heard the band with Brown so I'll look forward to that if he comes over I envy you seeing the Marvel's with Lucinda, a lot!

Thanks. Appears from Stalling's Discogs entry to have been a one-off on the Jazz front. He certainly didn't fool around and fall in love with it...

Julian Priester And Marine Intrusion - Polarization [ECM, Germany 1977] Revisiting this and I was prompted, maybe for the first time, to check who was playing saxophone - Ron Stallings, now I need to find out more about him. So how did someone more used to playing with Elvin Bishop, Southern Comfort and later Huey Lewis get this gig I wonder?

On Our Own Clock - s/t [Mushroom Half Hour/Total Refreshment Centre, SA/UK, 2021]

How was it, which band? At Lobrero Theatre? I watched a stream from there during lockdown, looks a lovely venue. He seems to regard it as his home venue. I have tickets for his London performance in a month, just need to resolve some health issues and I'll be there. Can't miss a visit from Charles I haven't had a booster, another 6 weeks, so I'm not risking it, sadly.