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still remember buying this, 1981?!

Oh Yes!

Lucky you. End of the month I think for release. Made me revisit this one which is good

Just sampled the one available track on Bandcamp. Sounds great

Dee Dee Ramone Dee Dee Bridgewater Dee Dee Warwick

Yes, pleased so far. Now onto this Kahil El'Zabar - Spirit House [Spiritmuse, 2020] I saw El'Zabar and David Murray, who features on this, play a fantastic duet in the then newly opened Jazz Café. No licence, so only coffee, and only temporary heating but they raised the temperature. So this is a nostalgia purchase as much as anything.

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]

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