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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!

HJ have it

I read the 'had' and was jolted by the fact he's no longer with us, thinking how I'd forgotten. Then checked and was relieved to see he is

How are you deciding what stays and goes? This is the sort of thinning I need to do

Christensen is very good at "heart"

Me too Fire Music!

I'm almost certain not but someone will now post that they have a cd copy...

I need to listen to Thelin more. Only heard one a good while ago that I really enjoyed

Thoroughly deserved. Completely agree with your description. The influence of diasporic elements in the current scene is its great strength I think. I like to think of them as today's Jazz Messengers filtered through 75+ years of immigration to London. They can play too. They also just seem genuinely good blokes and made a telling acceptance speech about the closing of facilities for youngsters to meet up as they did initially, at a youth club Their Glastonbury performance this year was amazing, even from my sofa. Typo in your thread title

Absolutely this. Astral Weeks changed my world too, still does every time I listen to it. The story goes that Van hadn't written the parts just told Davis to do what he usually did. Result, an absolute masterpiece. Even in you're not keen on Morrison have a listen for Davis alone

Jeanne Lee -Natural Affinities [Owl Records] New arrival, sublime. Big thank you to @Alexander Hawkins for including a track in a recent broken vase podcast

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

So many great recordings he leaves us

I hear links to future compositions on Picecanthropus and East Coasting, mood but also structure but I'm no musician so that's purely a listener's perspective. I have a couple La Porta LPs I really enjoy

Yes, I agree. the group name and LP title sum it up nicely. I love this era of Mingus. With hindsight you can hear what's coming down the line but I think the era has merits all of its own. Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner [Blue Note, Germany 1970(?)] always been a favourite Herbie date.