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That's the one I really enjoyed (it may have helped coming from an Irish Catholic heritage). Like others my copy of Ulysses is untouched from about page 80. One day...

I saw them duet at one of Tracey's birthday gigs at the Barbican. Astonishing pairing. I also saw the duet with Bourne which grabbed me less so by some degree.

That was probably my first real exposure to KT. Purchased for Sheppard bizarrely.

Another fan of it here

The Giuffre is possibly my favourite Giuffre, and that's saying something

"I close my eyes, say a little prayer, whether I'm playing preconceived or spontaneous compositions, and I give my all. !'m interested in moving an audience. That's my job:' Did he ever. Every time in my experience. KT from Wire interview with Julian Crowley, 2091

Which reminds me I should email Bev. He's a big KT fan, I inherited some of his Ogun LPs

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/15/keith-tippett-the-jazz-great-music from one of our best writers

I saw Mujician at the Vortex in 2010, stage front and centre. The intensity of the playing and interaction amongst the players made me think at the time that this is what hearing the Coltrane Quartet must have been like. I haven't felt that about any other band, before or since. Awesome indeed. Half of them gone now.

Working Week with Stabbins perhaps. My first Camden Jazz Festival gig was WW, always had a soft spot for the first album and the 12" singles

This is so sad. He was always the most humble of performers, invariably thanking the audience profusely for sitting and listening to an evening of spellbinding music. The most recent of his performances I saw help sum up his breadth - solo; with Julie and a string Quartet: in duo with Peter Brotzmann; with the Octet playing O'Gonogon. This is a really sad way to start the week. The last news I'd read was that he was over his heart issues. British and world Jazz has just become less bright. RIP

Fascinating

I missed them before so very happy to see them here again. Two of my favourite Horn LPs are the Dots. With you on 'Cleopatra' TTK, although I didn't find mine in DG sadly. One day.

Well that's my birthday present to self sorted nicely. I thought I had signed up to the updates but obviously not, thanks for posting

Everyone needs to, now and again...

I love lots of Horn recordings through to the early 70s but haven't gone much beyond that. I didn't know about 'Altura' so thanks for mentioning it.

Listening to 'Distant Thunder' now. Great listen. Thanks for dragging back into my eyeline Rabshakeh. Very much agree about 'Esprit De Sel'

I hadn't noticed but with that description I'm digging it out later it's a trumpet/mic photomontage

I've given up in face of the tsunami of duo recordings with Shipp! I saw them at the Vortex and they were tremendous so I suspect any of those recordings are worth trying. Clifford Thornton of this parish has recently reviewed some of them. Others I enjoy are: Sad Life - with William Parker/ Rashid Ali Living Jelly - Joe Morris, Gerald Cleaver The Gift - Shipp, Bisio The Passion According to G.H - w. string quartet I tend to scratch the occasional purchase itch based on other players/instrumental line up as much as anything else. All the Leos are on Spotify I think. Most at least

And the accompanying notes... I doubt I’m the last musician (and maybe not the first) who’ll want to create a musical piece of eight minutes and 46 seconds duration, the exact length of time it took for a man’s life to ebb away on that horrifying video we have all seen in the news. After I first saw some of that footage, I wept trying to describe it to my wife. I was extremely disturbed by what I saw. Soon after that, the protests began, and they have continued. When I finally heard on the news the astonishing amount of time that actually elapsed while that man – and many bystanders – pleaded in vain for his life, I knew I had to memorialize that number somehow. How long is eight minutes and 46 seconds? Very late last night, I dressed in black and went out to my Lab to make this video. It was done in one take. All of the flaws and struggles you hear should be considered a part of the piece. This is something I’ve never done before: a protest piece. It was not fun to make, and is probably no more fun to listen to. Nor should it be. The statement I want to make with this is not only about one man, or one police officer… or even about that one issue, large as it is. There is so much that is wrong right now, so much to cry out about. So much killing. The senseless, ongoing killings of black people. The endless parade of mass shootings in our schools, churches and workplaces. The gang violence in our cities (yesterday saw the confession of a 13-year-old involved in a murder in Central Park). The killing of our forests, our species, the rich and beautiful abundance of life on this amazing world we’ve been entrusted with. And now the coronavirus is killing us, 100,000 of us, some of my friends and colleagues among them. Meanwhile we find ourselves in this time of anguish, of multiple crises and emergencies, being presided over by a selfish, spoiled child who cannot possibly lead, unite or heal, because he fundamentally does not understand or believe that other people are actually real. We have so much to learn… but some of us aren’t even in school. I am sorry if any of this comes across as self-indulgent, melodramatic, or offensive to anyone. Please forgive me if it does. This is not about me. I simply felt compelled to make this statement. Silence is complicity. Now I will return to making music for the pure love and joy of sound. There is one more thought I would like to share. I’ve never done anything like this before, and wasn’t sure I could get through it. By the end I was shaking, and some desperation was starting to creep in. But there came a moment, when my timer showed about 1:20 remaining, that I realized I was going to make it. Sadly, that moment never came for George Floyd. Scott Robinson www.sciensonic.net

It's the only Shorty Rogers I own and I'm entirely unsure why that's the case

Armonicord - Esprits De Sel [L'Ectrobande] Thanks Clifford!

Great minds...

The Burrell is lovely. When you want to offload one of those 'It's Time'...

I'm impatient for the Jackie McLean. Some listings but no preorder option found yet. I know Honest Jon's will get it so I just need to wait Or listen to the CD....