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Curious about the Frank Butler - anyone know it?

'An Evening with Joe Henderson', trio with Haden and Al Foster from 1985 is incredible. I think that might be my favourite period for Henderson, there's loads of great trio recordings, generally with Al Foster, official and bootlegs. 'The Standard Joe', with Rufus Reid and Foster in 1991 is another good one, as is the classic 'State of the tenor' on Blue Note (Foster and Ron Carter, 1985). There's some great 70s Joe as well - 'at the lighthouse' and 'tetragon' are 2 I love - Invitation on tetragon is one of the all-time great Joe Henderson solos and this, of course:

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The last two tracks of this incredible box set feature a band with Tatum, Pettiford, Catlett, Eldridge and Bigard. Unless I'm going mad, there's someone playing guitar as well, but they aren't credited... anyone know who it is?

I'm a massive Buster Williams fan - one classic not mentioned here is Shirley Horn's 'Lazy Afternoon', a gorgeous trio album. Anything with Buster and Billy Hart together is essential listening in my book...

I love 'Compositions', on Japo. Quite atypical, the calmest GUO I've heard, very beautiful album

There's a Roscoe Mitchell Black Saint box just out - definitely the best xmas present I got... 9 albums (including one led by Muhal and one by George Lewis) - nice timing for me as Roscoe's work as a leader is a recent obsession and I didn't have any of these

Heard them last night - astonishing! really incredible gig

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Very excited about this! had no idea that it had been released, glad I happened to wander on to this forum... The tracks on youtube are completely incredible