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Now playing. Super fast service from Honest Jon’s. Beautifully produced music in all ways possible

I've succumbed and just order this, damn you......

The Conversation (OST) Trunk - a very listenable soundtrack

Sad news. A great talent.

another curse of Brexit ... I recently paid VAT twice on ordering and to get DHL to deliver. It was darkroom materials from Dublin. Over a month later I'm still waiting to see if I'll get the second set of VAT back.

the other arrival from FSR has turned out to be equally as good Herberer/Fonda/Hertenstein-----Remedy Vol. 2------(FSR 12/2023) A quite playful trio set - trumpet/bass/drums. I really like this .

I'm holding my breath. I wasn't charged duty either but I've known to receive these charges later. It's only ever happened when Mosaics have arrived by courier services. I noted that the full value of the set was declared on mine unlike all previous Mosaic shipments over the past thirty years.... The music is superb and I'm only on Disc One. A real triumph of set by Mosaic.

Recently I had an attempt at an LP clear out. This was on the pile for possible onward movement.Once I listened to it I realised that it was a keeper. Better sound compared to the Bird in Paris set , but that too was a keeper.

Nicely done issue of this music. Grant's live dates add something. The two sets offered up by Resonance a few years ago are very good too.

A friend returned from a trip to Tokyo with a couple of things for me. One was this.. Yosuke Yamashita------Montreux Afterglow----(Frasco) 1976 date

Very sad news. He championed the music and put it out there. Thanks and RIP

Ernst Raijseger & Alan "Gunga" Purves---------Cellotape & Scotchtape-------(Data) 1981 Beautiful duet. I was lucky enough to catch Gunga guest recently with Playtime quartet. He was born here in Edinburgh but seems to have spent most of his career in Amsterdam. His style is very reminiscent of Han Bennink.

I couldn't immediately lay my hands on my copy of I:ToSG but looking at Cinedelic's reissue of Togashi's "Speed and Space" it states that it's licensed from Teichiku Co. Ltd. Label reproduces original (?) Union label and has Japanese OBI ! This reissue also has great sound and on the face of it appears legit.

I've not heard it on mine either...

Interesting I haven't heard Tristano in Masayuki's sound ...only the that of an angle grinder. Kidding aside his music on "Tread on sure Ground" is very fine. Cinedelic Italy have reissued this on vinyl (Juno, Soundohm etc). Pressing is excellent IMO and way way better than I was expecting. Cool JoJo sounds positively mainstream from the clips I've heard by comparison.

Corto.alto-------Bad with names ---------(New soil) A very cohesive set of ambitious music. Jazz definitely, some hip hop , plenty of uncategorisable music. Sounds new

I'm still waiting on New Soil. I'll probably pick up two or three from this list.. Action, action / Medina/ Dialogue

A couple of CDs arrived today from Fundacja . Took a wee while to get here but it’s always worth the wait. first up a quarte recording with two from this parish Karl Evangelista ——What else is there ——-( FSR 11/2023) featuring Alexander Hawkins .

Sylvie Courvoisier----Chimera------(Intakt) Arrived a a few days. I've been listening to disc one on repeat. It offers a very different sound to other releases I've heard by the leader. Beautifully spacious recording with a floating cerebral feel but much more visceral than a typical ECM session. Unusual line up with two trumpets , piano, vibes , guitar, bass, drums. Interesting stuff.

I was twenty and in my second year of medical school. I'd starting paying attention to JRR with the late Peter Clayton on BBC radio three. He played an Adderley track "Barefoot Sunday blues" which blew me away. This CD was the only Adderley I could find and was my very first modern jazz purchase. This lead to Somethin' Else and the rest is history.

new arrival - ---- a classic surely ....

Definitely getting this. I had some bias to Byas with a mix on 78/ LP

will this be distributed in the UK ?

Extra tracks are from Brownie with strings album IIRC. Sound wasn’t as good as other emArcy reissues

I’ll need to check that out. I rate Kris Davis highly but haven’t heard much from her in the past few years