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Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah (Nessa) 2-CD version with bonus cuts

Last night and today: An extraordinary band and an amazing trilogy.

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Woody Herman - Herd at Montreux (Fantasy, 1974) Continuing my recent exploration of WH's 1970s recordings for Fantasy. I think this live album is a shade less convincing than the studio LPs from around the same time. There's no problem with the band's playing. I'm just not as keen on the repertoire.

You can’t go wrong with the Terry Waldo stuff, imo. Those are the only Blackbird records I know.

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Rab, here's the Discogs entry: https://www.discogs.com/label/321539-Blackbird-3?page=1

Prompted by some Yusef Lateef talk elsewhere on the forum: Now listening to the music originally released as Hush 'N' Thunder (1973).

I think I'm gonna wait and throw my business Dusty's way. They usually get the pre-order option up fairly early -- but there's nothing there yet.

Now this: Baden Powell Quartet - Vol. 3 (Barclay, France, 1971) Dayum! This music swings so hard!!! . . . IMO, this particular band might've been BP's best -- in no small part due to bassist Ernesto Ribeiro Gonçalves and drummer Helio Schiavo.

I agree. IIRC, Blackbird Records was based out of Chicago, and the catalog was later acquired by Delmark, Bob Koester. Jazz in the Afternoon always makes me smile. It's evidence that early-jazz revivalism doesn't have to be amateurish or necrophilic. Because they sound great! . . . And Waldo literally wrote a (if not "the") book on ragtime.

Waldo's Gutbucket Syncopators - Jazz in the Afternoon (Blackbird, rec. 1971)

I'm jealous. I never had an opportunity to see & hear that group live. I wish I could have!

Ganelin, Chekasin, Tarasov - Con Anima / Concerto Grosso (Golden Years of New Jazz) Two LPs originally released on Melodiya; recorded in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1976 (Con Anima) and 1978 (Concerto Grosso) There's a frenetic, "crazy carnival" aspect to this trio's music that (at times) reminds me of Shostakovich's music. It's a very vivid sense of a certain kind of madcap absurdity. But there's also passages of that are straightforwardly touching and beautiful. It's very unusual and interesting. . . . It seems miraculous that these recording were ever made & released in the USSR. I think some grounding in that particular historical context would be helpful (if not required) to fully understand this music, as with DSCH and others. Good stuff!

Next up: Dave Frishberg - Getting Some Fun Out of Life (Concord, 1977)

Of course! It's just a matter of time.

Now spinning: Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (BN, 1971) Tough and funky!

Masaru Imada Quartet - Now!! (TBM, 1970) Craftman reissue

Steve Smith (US drummer) and Steve Smith (Canadian bassist)

Ridiculously good.

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Bobby Hutcherson featuring Harold Land - San Francisco (Blue Note, 1971)

More Herbie: Another masterpiece.