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Elaine Mitchener at Café Oto. From bemusing to ecstatic, visiting challenging on the way. Providing more evidence, as if it were needed, that Pat Thomas is a national bloody treasure.

I still remember the furore when, as a librarian, I bought 'Songs For Fucking' to add to the public library collection.

Just read this, a shock. He leaves a legacy that's for sure

This worked really well live, haven't heard the album yet https://www.discogs.com/master/3288400-Mike-Reed-The-Separatist-Party

Often wonder about that top one, I should seek out a listen someday and stop wondering. Second looks interesting if only for WLS and Hopkins

I'm a big fan of Kazuko Shiraishi's album, words are spoken in Japanese but it has a great feeling to it, obviously helped by the presence of Sam Rivers, Abdul Wadud and Buster Williams https://www.discogs.com/master/332790-Kazuko-Shiraishi-Featuring-Sam-Rivers-Dedicated-To-The-Late-John-Coltrane-And-Other-Jazz-Poems Of a lot more recent vintage is Aja Monet https://www.discogs.com/release/27677148-Aja-Monet-When-The-Poems-Do-What-They-Do

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Tyshawn Sorey - The Inner Spectrum Of Variables

Yoko One 'Music Of The Mind' at Tate Modern, thoroughly enjoyable

Also agree, a significant artist/composer

Claire Daly - VuVu For Frances

And will hopefully sound good on mine when it makes it over here. Thanks for the tip off about this release. It's good to have a proper justification for buying more music, I wish her well in her treatment.

Me too

Glad you were able to track it down

Happy Birthday!

Yeah, I saw El'Zabar duet with David Murray in 1990 and that concert still sticks in the memory as very good

I heard one track on the radio, sounded really interesting, lots of Duke.

Lovely venue, uncomfortable pews. Having to miss it unfortunately.

And the venues are getting bigger, Union Chapel this month. I think a lot of the current exposure here in the UK is down to him being on a UK label. Also to the comparison with Lloyd, whilst he's been on ECM and Blue Note El'Zabar has releases on Denmark and Spiritmuse.

Has that been reissued? I should go and look really

Yep

The one Flaherty that really worked for me is the Jumala Crossing CD, with McPhee, on Clean Feed. Not listened to it in years but I suspect it's on the more accessible end of his spectrum

Mine looked ok too, scratch wasn't obvious until I looked for it after hearing it. Soul Brother Records readily offered replacement

A shame, 77 isn't very old these days although he did well to get there having lung cancer. I really enjoyed his early works and reconnected with 4321 which I thought was a really good read.

Agree with all of this