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Yusef Lateef - Psychicemotus {Impulse/ABC] Yusef Lateef - A Flat, G Flat and C [Impulse] Mono followed by Stereo Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute [His Master's Voice] Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings, E&F Sides [International Anthem]

I didn't know this album. Listening now and it's very good. Thanks for posting about it. 👍🏼👍🏼Love that one. I think I may have bought after reading about it here a few years ago

Today... The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - Facts Of Their Own Lives [Nine Winds] limbering up for the imminent arrival of the 3LP set Beaver Harris 360 Degree Experience - A Well Kept Secret [Shemp] Barefield/Holland/Tabbal Trio - Transdimensional Space Window [Trans African Records] It's a lot better than the cover suggests. Anteloper - Tour Beats, volume 1 [International Anthem] Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception [Eremite] not noticed previously that this isn't credited to The Natural Information Society, only the latter ones in the series are. but what a series and band/concept.

...they couldn't find them, perhaps whatever the reason it doesn't augur well

Talking of players he plays with, I discovered trombonist John Rapson who has a couple of very nice albums on Nine Winds

There are other members who know more about him than I do. Jcam44? But I own about eight albums, split evenly between early Nine Winds vinyl and more recent CDs. I can honestly say I have never been disappointed by any purchase of his leader dates. I could just list them all here Two recommendations would be 'In The Right Order' by his trio from 1979 and by way of contrast a great solo disc 'Music for like instruments: the flutes' from 2004. But as I type this I have to add the 'Haunting The Spirits Inside Them' with Ken Filiano and Joelle Leander which is simply stunning. He's someone that if I come across something by in the racks I just buy. His facility on such a range of instruments is lightly worn it seems to me and he always chooses interesting contexts in which to display it. It certainly appears that the distribution of Nine Winds in the UK and possibly Europe as well has been patchy at best. Having said that I haven't recently scoped the NW bandcamp situation. This thread will be my prompt and prove undoubtedly costly if there's much available. There's an early Large Ensembles set I would love to get my hands on. Update to add: just found and purchased the Large Ensemble set. UK seller with other Golia vinyl, could prove a costly thread 😄

if I had spent half as much on hi fi as I have done on music I would probably be able to understand all the specs being discussed or posted here

Yes, of course! I remember that vaguely. I was at school and I'm not sure whether anyone actually bought the album or whether we just talked about it a lot.

No strange odour on mine. That might be the first time I've deliberately, or accidentally, sniffed a CD cover

I'm not jlhoots but that is the one that had the recent CD reissue. I have the LP, a very good album indeed, up there with the best of Beaver's in my book. Great steel drums! It is. I don't know why I'd slept on him. I'd been knocked out by the CD comp from '97 (wow!) and haven't listened to it for probably 10 years. This weekend he came into my head and I listened to Chapters 1 & 4 on Spotify and decided I needed the LPs for all Chapters. Interestingly, just looking at the CD comp booklet for the date I've read that a number of the tracks are unreleased as they are the full versions of tracks shortened for the LPs. Now I have to listen to the CDs too...

All of the Beaver Harris leader dates are really good. A good number have steel drums. Meanwhile, I decided it was time to plug some Gato sized holes in the collection. Today's arrival Gato Barbieri - Chapter One: Latin America [Impulse] I knew some of this from a CD compilation. It's good to have it in its entirety. Chapter Two's in the post. So until that arrives it's this Oliver Nelson - Swiss Suite [Flying Dutchman], featuring Gato Barbieri & Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

I wondered about that one but didn't buy it in the end. Bought the Harry Beckett instead.

Chad Taylor Trio - The Daily Biological [Cuneiform]

Julius Eastman - Femenine. Apartment House, livestream from Wigmore Hall

That sounds very interesting. Just checked Discogs I'm also surprised they don't pop up on UK Jazz recordings more. I think Orphy Robinson may have played them in the past

I live happily with the 1977 UA edition not that I play it very often not because of the pressing just don't need to hear it much

Yeah, that would be a great listen

That was all over Twitter at the time. I decided it was a luxury I and my shelves could live without.

The expanded 'Too Late To Stop Now' is a gem, not least for the DVD and Van's hilarious attempts at a high kick. Music is peerless. I suspect that Dante had something to say about hanging out with Sir George Ivan. People might be a bit more inclined to listen to him if he didn't throw phrases like 'Fascist bullies' into the public arena. Not a lot to respect there, I'm afraid.

First listen to the Graves/Pullen and first time hearing this music. Impressive stuff. The hand painted sleeves reproduced in this cover are something else. Have the ICP with Pukwana to investigate next.

£30, tempting indeed. I remember not being able to afford it when it was released. Maybe now's the time, an opportunity to consolidate my JC collection which is pretty comprehensive but spread across various editions. Or, I could just head over to Spotify and save the shelf space Thanks Niko, that's really helpful. I have a very early CD of 'Giant Steps' and 'Coltrane Jazz' so no alternates. I also have the recent mono LP of GS so it's the alternates and the sound that make the current reissue tempting.

If everyone is happy with 'Heavyweight Champion' am I safe to assume that for someone like me who doesn't own that box (am I even allowed to still post here...😃) this current issue is pretty essential?

Morrison has produced some of my favourite music. Astral Weeks, possibly my favourite album. Over the years I've accepted that he was a curmudgeonly reactionary and squared that with my enjoyment of his music as I don't hold by having musical heroes. However I find this episode deeply disturbing. Peddling lies is not 'speaking truth to power', it's highly irresponsible as more lives are lost here and in other countries. My only compensation is that he's largely irrelevant to the wider population so that his infantile but dangerous rantings will go largely ignored.

Sault - Untitled (Rise)