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GigI Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet [Riverside] my second step into the world of the Jazz Lab recordings. So far, both I've bought have been winners

Thank you Niko, that's what I'd imagined and hoped it might sound like. I'd visited Zwerin's site and missed the clips there, so thanks for that too. I just found both LPs quite cheaply priced online so may well follow your lead. I'm definitely intrigued

I'm very intrigued by that line up. I tried to find a sample of the music online but failed. How would you describe the music? In my mind I'm thinking quite chamber-jazz, something Giuffre-esque in style if not actual sound?

Too true but without you I'd not know how grateful I should be to them!

Al Francis, John Neves, Joe Hunt - Jazz Bohemia Revisited [Lost Cosmic Unity] I'm forever grateful to Paul Secor for posting this LP a while ago and therefore alerting me to its delights

Makaya McCraven - In The Moment, E & F Sides [International Anthem] more great contemporary Chicago music Now, that is some contrast to the Grant Greens This sounds intriguing, Gustafsson and Moore, if a tad intimidating, Merzbow, (I may stick with the The Necks...). Rarenoise has an eclectic catalogue, equal parts intriguing and scary I find. Apropos of another thread discussion, a very good Wadada Leo Smith was released by them in the last year or so

Irreversible Entanglements - s/t [International Anthem/Don Giovanni Records] As I hear it, one of the most exciting, original and vital contemporary releases of recent times

and it's a very entertaining and informative listen, folks

Barry Guy, Evan Parker - Incision [FMP]

following on from more Schweizer on this Pierre Favre Trio - Santana [Pip]

Me too. Really enjoyable programme

Happy Birthday! May the reign of Ubu continue

I'm very pleased it found a good home where it's obviously appreciated. Now I'm off to brush up my Klingon

Oh, that's Ok then, it means I don't have to be huffy that you bought the copy I wanted... I'm still non-retired for a few years yet but home working can help with listening opportunities when the admin gets too mindless to do without distraction Clare Fisher - Surging Ahead [Fontana]

Tasty. I want one of those. I tried to have Scotty beam me one down a few months ago but wasn't quick enough on the draw. Is yours of Vulcan provenance perhaps? Chico Hamilton Quintet - s/t [Vogue, UK] MJQ - Plays the Music from Porgy and Bess [Philips, UK] this is just gorgeous

or lead onto Ladbroke Grove....?

The joys of the large collection (or too big as less enlightened folk would have it), the discovery of a lost gem! I have ATFT too, so thanks for the reminder on that. A trip to the shelves to find it reveals that here's another very good Lindberg on Black Saint called "The Catbird Sings" with the same band. I seem to recall I purchased these as they very well thought of by Messrs Cook and Morton. I never fully embraced "Occupy The World". I will revisit though as part of an ever-lengthening list of WLS recordings to catch up with (I need to retire...)

Treader is, I'm pretty sure, run by Jon Coxon (once of Spring Heel Jack). He plays with WLS on a number of the albums (and in concert) both with Spring Heel Jack (see "The Sweetness Of Water" on Thirsty Ear - highly recommended) and in duo or with other musicians This morning, prompted by your question, I listened to an album that I'd not thought of when I initially answered - "America's National Parks". It really is a very impressive work. Again WLS is the only horn but the rest of the band are all longtime partners, except the cellist who really adds to the sound. To my ears a more successful recording than the "Great Lakes Suite" with Threadgill et al and I'm a huge Threadgill fan.

4AD, the same label as of old? Haven't thought of them since my Cocteau Twins days which are far too long ago now .... Or the Squidco option

you beat me to it

Chico Hamilton Quintet - With Strings Attached [Warner Bros] An interesting experiment that is largely successful (more so than the cover art). String arrangements by Fred Katz. Early Eric Dolphy.

Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures [Blue Note, mono] at the moment, my favourite Taylor recording. Certainly one of my favourite LP covers previously Tina Brooks - True Blue [Blue Note, connoisseur] Don Byrd & Gigi Gryce - Jazz Lab [Columbia, six-eye] my very belated introduction to this group. I want to hear a lot more if it's all of this standard

Yes please

He's a big favourite and I honestly seem to like all his output which doesn't make me a very objective judge I'm afraid. He really has been on such a good run that I just buy them regardless now and I've not ever been disappointed.The Monk is a wonderful tribute. TUM have really done him proud (and such beautifully produced packages) The albums on TUM are all highly recommendable - the duets with Lindberg and then Moholo-Moholo particularly. I like to hear WLS's playing uncluttered so probably prefer his duets (and solo) albums. The duet with Blackwell, "The Blue Mountain Sun's drummer" is also very good indeed. For something a little different there's another TUM under Mbira's name which has Min Xiao-Fen playing Pipa which brings a whole new dimension to things. Nearer to home, there's some interesting line-ups on the Treader label although I'm not sure how readily available they are. Highlight of those for me is "Bishopsgate Concert" with John Tilbury which seemed an unlikely pairing but was a concert, and a CD, that was riveting.The ECM with Iyer revealed its delights slowly to me but delights there are. Then there's the critically lauded Ten Freedom Summers to get your teeth into across four CDs of writing for strings and today, this review alerted me to one I'd not realised had been released but which I shall be buying http://www.freejazzblog.org/2018/04/tania-chen-henry-kaiser-wadada-leo.html