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NP: Irakere - Misa Negra (Messidor, 1987)

Flora Purim - Stories to Tell (Milestone/OJC, 1974) and Paquito D'Rivera - Manhattan Burn (Columbia, 1987)

Seconded!

Rab, Here are a few of my Konitz faves that don't appear on your list:

Airto Moreira - Struck by Lightning (Venture, 1989)

Never seen that Threadgill ad before! It's kinda hilarious. But good for him for making some cash off his cache.

Yes indeed.

Also, it seems like, beginning in the 80s, jazz came to be very much associated with "upscale" stuff -- more than it had been in the past. A sort of cultural signifier for "classy shit." And watches would be one example of that. Associate your watch with jazz and ergo you have a classy, sophisticated watch. All marketing nonsense, of course.

LOL

My guess would be latter. Yeah, I remember how digital watches kept getting bigger and BIGGER. Eventually, lots of them had calculators with full numerical keypads built in. Man, they were so ugly. ... MUCH worse than the one Paquito's wearing. Now spinning:

R.I.P.

Excellent! Sure thing!

Yowza !!!

Oh you're right. I'd forgotten about that! I don't disagree that there was some wretched cover (non)design during the 1980s. ...But there was some excellent cover art too, IMO. See two cases in point below, both issued on the Gramavision label: and And, more importantly, the music on these albums is every bit as good as the cover images -- if not better.

One of Tito's best from the 1980s, IMO.

Earlier this afternoon: CD 1 - originally released as Sonando, Sanchez's first Concord release Masterful. And hooray for Al Harewood!

Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time (Black Saint, 1983) A great album.