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Oh yes, definitely having read that. Enjoy it if you can get to it

I don't know Jessica but I'd be knocking the door down to see what Moran and Mills conjure up 2025 Artist-In-Residence Jason Moran and Jeff Mills with special guest Jessica Care Moore

The Kollektief are one of my most memorable live experiences and I never really found the LPs to live up to it. Not sure I tried this one though

Great

How is it? Up to expectations I hope

No, not at all. The debate reared it's ugly/beautiful head several hours ago as I knew it would when I started the thread. Anyway you're starting a whole new debate, old v new vinyl sq!!

so it took 14 hours for "the great format debate" to enter the thread this time round, we're slacking, surely not getting tired of the debate...

Looks like Muse are now getting the deluxe reissue treatment. Vinyl only by the looks of things, please don't shoot the messenger... https://youtu.be/_wFWH4HgvK8?feature=shared

What a career, she'll be long remembered.

Yes, it's £42 here. I have this by him which is great fun https://www.discogs.com/master/1056751-Akira-Miyazawa-Round-Midnight-Amazing-Jazz-Ballad He reminds me of Billy Harper somehow

Great music on all three. 'Reckoning' is a very special album

Oh, I didn't realise that had been reissued. I may have to join you in purchasing it.

Great voice, I like his album 'The River' a lot. The coverage of his death over here is surprisingly widespread given his more recent profile.

That's on my "to buy" list so I'm pleased it's not on the Discogs list!

Interesting read and not really surprising, although there was a NM ' True Blue' for sale in London recently for only (!!) £3k, obviously a bargain... Collectors the world over treasure originals, be that stamps, art, cars, furniture, comics and beyond and I see absolutely no reason why LPs should be any different. And yes, with LPs this moves beyond the music per se and becomes about the artefact. There is a caché in owning something as close to its original state and I can't see that being a bad thing. Maybe not what we as individuals would choose to do, or could afford but that doesn't negate other's desire to do so. Where there's a collector market then prices will almost inevitably inflate. No one is forcing anyone to pay these prices and if collectors get their hands on something precious to them, then all power to them, I say.

I remember it was a very warm evening and the venue's windows were open, at one point EP mimicked the sound of a police car as it went by. I just checked the prices for the CD, they've crept up I see There's some good players on that, Innanen and Iskola I have come across elsewhere

Original...

I'd happily take a studio album of the band I saw or even a live one, with judicious edits

I saw this band on Saturday in a concert hall, they played for 2.5 hours, no interval. Music surprised me in that it was pretty uncompromising and highly amplified, the loudest Jazz gig in a long time. The set featured tunes from across his career but focussed on Warners and after. An all electric band sounding at times like electric Miles, Blanchard was fierce and at other times a bit like Mwandishi or Headhunters. There was a fair bit of grandstanding and showing off of the considerable chops in the band. Hancock is a phenomenon, physically has so much energy for 85 and his playing throughout was outstanding with no apparent diminution of his powers. He played scintillating solos on both grand and synth. The band really locked in tight and although to my ears Petinaud erred on the rock side a little too often he was at others the star. A fabulous duet with HH during 'Actual Proof'. Herbie treated us to a rather bizarre vocoder speech/sermon about AI and robots which I initially thought was going to be an intro to 'Rockit', it wasn't it was just his thoughts, went on too long and burst the momentum a bit. I left feeling very pleased to have seen him again after at least 35 years but thinking the show could've easily been half an hour shorter and a lot more impactful if some of the solo features had been curtailed. It certainly had hints of what might be called Stadium Jazz. But Herbie is Herbie and he has absolutely earned the right to present his music in whichever way he chooses. The love for him in the auditorium was apparent from the off

Looks like the review didn't post. I will have to try and remember what I wrote now. I'll post again in the Severance thread

She who can do no wrong. Very excited to have booked to see her with Quercus in October, it seems she doesn't play live too often these days

Sorry @HutchFan missed this yesterday. I just posted my thoughts in the Herbie at Severance Hall thread here I'll avoid boring everyone with a double post...

@greggery peccary I agree, you seem to have replied in a way that has made it look like I said what another poster actually said and therefore misattributed @Stompin at the Savoy views to me. I see that they responded to your points anyway. I was professing support for Iommi's playing and skills.

Speak Like A Child, The Prisoner, Empyrean Isles Saw Herbie last night

Back in the mid to late 70s I thought Iommi was the guitarist for HM simply because he wasn't a shredder, he didn't relu on speed and endless arpeggios like some of the players who came in his wake. To me his playing is about presence, depth and heft but I'm no musician so can't give a technical analysis, just a listener and that does me just fine But repetition and simplicity aren't necessarily negative attributes. I suspect your conclusion is correct, this music is simply not to your taste, that's not a bad thing either. But as this is a thread celebrating one of the universally accepted progenitors of the genre it's really not surprising it features lots of folk who hear otherwise. Each to their own.