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Two favourites, very interested

Xhosa Cole Quartet - K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us [Stoney Lane Records, UK 2021] I like this more evrey time I play it. More straightahead than many of his contemporaries' recordings. Will be seeing him in an improv quartet at Cafe Oto soon

Yep

Just checked, my copy is the same. Never noticed before

and in London

I will!

I have the LPs so a pass from me unless there's extra material

David Sanborn - Another Hand [Elektra, 1991] This appears to have aged rather well to my ears

That does look interesting, thanks for highlighting it. I'll track it down for a listen

Wadada Leo Smith - Fire Illuminations

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

That's a legacy

Friday night, Nubya Garcia and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra playing Sauter/Gets 'Focus' and two other pieces. A late swap of conductor may have explained some of the tentativeness. When it worked well it worked very well, most notably on parts of 'Focus' and a great encore. Good to see Garcia outside her usual band and sound

That's sad news to start the day. Will have seen him play a number of times and heard him on numerous recordings. A real pillar of the scene.

Glad it's hitting the spot This is an interesting Previte https://www.discogs.com/release/680809-Bobby-Previte-The-23-Constellations-Of-Joan-Miró

I'm also really enjoying Yusef Dayes' 'Black Classical Music', I can hear the Milford connections I have the Boyd/Binker duo albums. The live one has something to it I thought and the last one with some electronics showed a possible route forward. I saw Boyd drum with Garcia and he was terrific. Cross was on tuba, Armon-Jones on keys. Hell of a night, made me feel very old with the young crowd really getting into it, no chin stroking in evidence.

Rosie Turton is my hot tip for a good album next time. Her last ep was very interesting.

I'd say at least as interesting as the late 60s scene with the SA and Jamaican musicians interacting with the locals Today's London scene is less imitative than the 80s "Jazz revival" that I lived through here as a keen new Jazz listener, I agree. The scene now is drawing from a deep well of musics from a number of diasporas and from the dance scene. It's the influence of those musics that make a minority decry the music made as "not Jazz enough", absolute nonsense. Just listen to Ezra Collective. Interestingly tomorrow I'm off to see Nubya Garcia and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra play Getz's 'Focus'. So that's a major name of the scene looking backwards. I'm intrigued to hear what they make of it. The Nu Civilisation Orchestra has done a number of takes on classic albums recently. . As for albums not being "classics" yet we'll give them a chance, even the most established artists are only on their second or third recording. I'd put a vote in for Theon Cross's 'Fyah' being an overlooked classic from the current batch, more so than the Kemet albums. Halsall and Birchall are on about their tenth album each. They're consistent and I own most of them but wouldn't make a claim for any to be classics I don't think I have lots of observations about the 80s scene with Pine, Loose Tubes, Sheppard etc but not really the time. What I would say is it was a lot smaller than the current scene, focussed on fewer artists and mostly in response to the Young Lions in the US (obviously not Loose Tubes who were from a long tradition of UK big bands, see Tippett et al). The scene was fun and had some very good players but didn't feel nearly as originally British or even London as the current crop do

AMM - Last Calls

Whoa! Saw them several times way back when. Hope they still cut it

I read it when it was published and it left a very strong positive impact at the time. That impact is a bit hazy 20 years on, now just a positive glow I finished Overstory before realising it was the same author

Is that Texier on bass?

And now covered on main BBC news. Interview with the great Gary Crosby. Mentions of Steamdown and Tomorrow's Warriors, highlighting it's about dancing not sitting. Marvelous

I was thinking the same Pim

Interesting, thanks. You better treat your wife with the proceeds!