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Yep. Satoh is a very interesting musician.

Now listening to Masahiko Satoh & Medical Sugar Bank - MSB Two (Openskye/Sony Japan, 1981):

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on the forum.

I think you'll enjoy it, jazzcorner!

You hit pay-dirt. Those sorts of "potluck" sales are fun. Never know what you're going to find. Sometimes nothing. Sometimes really good stuff.

Now playing: Masahiko Satoh - Amorphism (Portrait, 1986) with Eddie Gomez & Steve Gadd Redolent of the 1980s -- it's the synthesizers (among other things) -- but also compelling and unique.

Yes, I'm enjoying A Capella very much. It took me a while to hear The Singers Unlimited -- but I think I've finally broken through. ... Your description of their music as a 'sound adventure' is very accurate, I think. At times, there's something otherworldly -- you might even say uncanny -- about their music. At first, I missed the nearly-surreal weirdness that's lurking just below the pretty surface. Now playing: One of my favorite "new-to-me" discoveries of this year.

Terrific. This album could've easily been titled with these GIGANTIC hands...

Last night: Les McCann - Invitation to Openness (Atlantic/Label M, 1972)

Now on my turntable: U.S. Verve "MPS Series" reissue

TOCJ reissue

Disc 1 yesterday. Disc 2 today. Manfred Schoof Quintet - Resonance (ECM, 2 CDs)

That's a very good decade, indeed.

I agree that both of those are amazing Mal Waldron records. But neither of them were recorded in the 1980s. And this blog project is limited to that decade. That's why I didn't consider them.

Next up: Walter Norris / Aladár Pege - Synchronicity (Enja, 1979) Recorded on May 5, 1978 at the East-West Jazz Festival, Meistersingerhalle, Nürnberg. Beautiful.

Now listening to Arild Andersen's Green Shading Into Blue (ECM, 1978), as heard on this set: with: - Arild Andersen - bass - Juhani Aaltonen - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute - Lars Jansson - piano, synthesizer - Pål Thowsen - drums, percussion More top-shelf Euro-jazz from the 1970s.

My posts for last week: - Mal Waldron Quintet - Crowd Scene (Soul Note, 1992) - The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet - Reunion (Soul Note, 1991) - Charlie Haden with Paul Bley and Paul Motian - The Montreal Tapes (Verve, 1994) It was difficult for me to choose between three Waldron releases, all on Soul Note: What It Is (rec. 1981, with Clifford Jordan), The Seagulls of Kristiansund (rec. 1986, with Woody Shaw & Charlie Rouse), and Crowd Scene (rec. 1989, with Sonny Fortune & Ricky Ford). In the end, I couldn't resist the the smoking two-sax front-line of Fortune & Ford -- but all three of these are five-star records, IMO. One note: I'd already addressed Waldron's collaborations with Steve Lacy earlier in the survey with At The Bimhuis 1982 (Daybreak, 2006). From this listener's perspective, the 70s and 80s were Waldron's most productive years.

Manfred Schoof Quintet - Resonance (ECM, 2 CDs) Compiles three JAPO albums: - Scales (1976), - Light Lines (1978), and - Horizons (1980, less two cuts) with Manfred Schoof (tr, flg-h); Michel Pliz (b-cl); Jasper Van 't Hof (p, el-p, org); Rainer Brüninghaus (p, synth); Günter Lenz (b); Ralf Hübner (d)

Another Byard piano trio: Jaki Byard - Foolin' Myself (Soul Note, 1989) with Ralph Hamperian (b) and Richard Allen (d)

Now spinning: Jaki Byard - Giant Steps (Prestige, 2 LPs) Sides 3 & 4 - originally released as Hi-Fly (New Jazz, 1962); with Ron Carter & Pete LaRoca

If I were to compile a list of my favorite piano trio albums, Groovy would definitely be on it.