HutchFan

Right on, Eric. That set made it possible for me to hear the Japan-only release Inner Glow for the first time. I'm sure it's shocking to everyone that I agree with your agreement. Of the five albums in the Mosaic Select set, I'd put Cirrus right up there with the finest albums of Hutcherson's career.

I feel like a kid on Christmas morning. My big order from Discogs > philadelphiamusic just arrived! Fresh outta the box! I'll be hiding out in my basement all weekend.

Azar Lawrence - Summer Solstice (Prestige, 1975) Craft "Jazz Dispensary" reissue Baden Powell - Images on Guitar (MPS, 1972) I love the whole Brazilian & jazz cross-pollination thing that was happening during the 1970s. Of course, it happened both before and after the 1970s -- but it seems like the Brazilian influence reached a sort of crescendo, in terms of its influence on jazz, during the 70s. . . . Or maybe it just seems that way to me because I focus on 1970s jazz so much. I dunno! . . . In any case, both of these albums are terrific (and very different) examples of Braz-Jazz intermixing, a sort of fusion that really rings my bell.

Precisely. Ever diminishing returns. But there must be a market for it. Otherwise, they wouldn't make it. For "well heeled" audiophiles and jazz lovers, I guess.

This album reminds me of a story. All through high school and college, I worked construction jobs -- both after school and full-time during the summers. One summer, I was working on framing crew building houses. Someone would always bring a "boom box" to the jobs, and we'd usually listen to the radio while working throughout the day. Occasionally, someone would bring a cassette tape and we'd listen to that. One day, someone popped in a country music cassette. Nothing unusual there. But I quickly noticed something that was unusual: The words coming from the boom box were incredibly raunchy. I don't mean double-entendre type raunchy, like the album pictured above. I mean full-on pornographic raunchy. No details spared. . . . I didn't know that such a thing even existed! Turns out that it was an album by David Allan Coe. Along with his "regular" country music, I guess he had a side-hustle as "porno-country" musician. Odder than odd. Yikes!!! One of the many things that I learned as a teenager/young adult working on construction sites. My apologies if I've already told this story here. I'm getting old(er), so I guess it's inevitable that I often repeat myself.

We're ALL loonies! But we're the best kind of loonies to be: Loonies for MUSIC!

@kh1958 -- I should add this album to the rotation?

Yep. I'm familiar with Free Lancing and Odyssey. Those two -- plus Captain Black -- are the three albums that I've been cycling thru while trying to get a foothold on Ulmer's music.

Lucky Thompson!

Next up: George Adams / Don Pullen Quartet - Earth Beams (Timeless, 1980)

I agree. His music almost reminds me of someone who's heard and absorbed Jimi Hendrix and then traveled back in time to visit and play with some early Delta bluesmen. Like it's modern and ancient simultaneously. Rhythm-wise, though, it doesn't sound like "jazz" (very much in quotes, to me). It up-and-down, march-like rhythmic feeling reminds me of something that preceded jazz.

I'm still wrasslin' with Ulmer's music -- but making some progress, I think. James Blood [Ulmer] - Tales of Captain Black (Artists House, 1979) I'm discovering that it's best to approach this music through a different doorway than the one called Jazz. To cop Ornette's phrase, this other doorway might simply be called Something Else.

Yes, absolutely. The goal is to always find someone who's even MORE extreme in their collecting habits than we are. Then we can point at them when our spouses raise their eyebrows and say, "But look at him!!! Compared to that guy, my habit is completely reasonable!"

Now spinning: The Michel Petrucciani Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard (Concord-George Wein Collection, 1985) with Palle Danielsson & Eliot Zigmund

Good stuff! Martinon was (is?) an under-appreciated conductor, I think. Did you get to see him while he was MD at the CSO?

Ooooooh. Nice! Thanks for the heads-up.

Very, very interesting, Allen. Thanks for sharing those thoughts.

Beautiful. NP: Larry Willis - Sanctuary (Mapleshade, 2003)

I think this is something that many of us here on the board have experienced as well!

Interesting. I had no idea that book existed.

I don't think these genres exist anywhere -- aside from the minds of our fellow board-members! Then again, invention is an essential component of jazz. So . . . why not !?!?

Earl Hines - Tour de Force (Black Lion, rec. 1972) Truthful title.

That tracks.