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And in Europe, Rogue Art have done Mr Mitchell proud in recent years

It's download only (cue outrage and gnashing of teeth) https://markhelias.bandcamp.com/album/pillars-columns but if you want it, you want it...

I always had trust in the maligned Mrs B

Restrained today, just Matt Moran - Return Trip Laurence Pike - Destiny EP Harry Beckett - Joy Unlimited

My needle will drop on a needle drop, all sounds a bit Escher to me

Thanks for the detailed review. It is still available through Amazon it seems. I came across the Cadillac 'Joy Unlimited' reissue whilst looking for the book and ordered the LP

Yes, thank you. I'd not heard it for a while (I'd forgotten it is cut at 45rpm which led to a moment's confusion). Marsh really standing out on this listen (at correct speed)

Mitchell, Marsh, Edwards - Improvisations [OtoRoku]

Scanner - Warp & Weft

Interesting, how is it?

Bandcamp day strikes again Purchased the day of release. At the time it had trouble standing up to Swoon which I still prefer

Indeed but not quite post-Snurdy as requested though

Thanks, that one has passed me by. I'll have a listen. I like his work with Charles Lloyd

Yes, encouraging young talent like Billy, they certainly should!

This worked for me and this with some locals Or did you mean solo recordings only? just realised you may have

Got a copy on the way. I couldn't ignore such a strong recommendation as that, thanks John

I'm heartened to see that BN are signing some new talent. I haven't seen them discussed here but then they're not dead or in their 80s Anyone checked any of these out yet? I like the Ndudzo Makhatini a lot, the Ross I'm less convinced about (although very much liked his contributions to the recent Peter Evans) on a couple of listens and I still need to hear the Wilkins' 'Omega' Anyone spotted any more?

A deeper catalogue and a wider appeal than most other labels, in fact probably all other independent labels. It easy to criticise Eicher but what other label can boast recordings on a spectrum from Manu Katche to Schnittke with everything in between?

I feel a new thread coming on...

I'm sorely tempted by the UK set, living without a booklet I would read once in a blue moon doesn't seem too much of a hindrance. Having said that I think I have all the music, apart from the three unreleased ones, already.

I'm not too sure what the definition of "stone cold classic" we're working with but given the number of cover versions of this I'd say it's entered some kind of canon

Wishing Mr Graves strength https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/milford-graves-drummer.html

Clare Fischer Big Band - Duality [Discovery Records] and then by way of contrast Moholo/Stabbins/Tippett - Tern [FMP] Larry Stabbins!

Is there another label that creates so much debate ( and no little hot air) as ECM? I certainly seems to divide opinion It must be ten years ago I started a thread specifically to allow such "debate" and deflect it from discussion of the actual music but sadly that's lost to the mysteries of the search function.

Beautiful, and funny too!