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Lol, You think they were Venutians?

Heads up for anyone interested, Real Gone Records has all of their in-stock Black Jazz LP titles on sale for $11.99: https://realgonemusic.com/collections/vinyl/black-jazz I've got the Pure Pleasure reissue LP of Nurnen and am very happy with it. No idea about tape provenance but I recommend this to anyone who wants an LP of this album. I've got a few Pure Pleasure reissues and am happy with them all FWIW. The only Real Gone LP I have is the reissue of Tapscott's The Giant Is Awakened and it's quality too.

Can definitely understand that. There’s no good reason to abandon a music library just for this. From the perspective of accessing these platforms via Droid, that aspect of YT Music is a real advantage unless one really loves podcasts. Spotify almost owns that market at this point.

Trying out YT Music and it’s a very similar interface compared to Spotify. One advantage is that YT can access “videos” of songs and albums that technically haven’t been released on other platforms, but uploaded to YT via users. Pretty big advantage I have to say as you can find stuff Apple and Spotify will likely never have.

Love this album and plan on picking this reissue up soon.

I don't have any Freddie Roach leader albums and don't listen to him often even though I love the B3. He was actually my 3rd guess but I left it with the two I mentioned b/c I didn't want 3 strikes already on the first song! There's more bass in there than I usually associate with Freddie even though I'm not overly familiar with him. I was aware of his R&B inflection but not much beyond that. I've got the Quebec Spring album he's on but admittedly I haven't listened to that one much at all. I'll have to revisit it and check out his other albums. This is one of the things I love about BFTs.

Freddie Roach? He was Prestige/BN exclusive pretty much.

Wasting all this on some Yum brands garbage.

Yeah, that actually worked. Very unexpected.

It’s a fun and eclectic mix. Definitely unexpected but enjoyable to listen to.

1- Early Jack McDuff on B3? If not him (because maybe too much bass) then Earl Van Dyke? Punchy R&B style reminiscent of both 2- MOA advertisement as in the jukebox company? Interesting 3- B3 comping in a pyschedelic way almost. At times it seems to mimic vibes sounds. Fun track. 4- Quirky, with some interesting samples/layers. House artist? Opening sample sounds like something from Can. Not sure of the sax. 5- This sounds like one of those shits from a cassette you buy from Squidco's front page. Those things sell out in maybe a week and good luck finding a copy. I imagine there's someone out there with a treasure trove of these things that they run through a basic tape deck and know all of them by heart. If not that, there's a Japanese film score feel about it. My favorite track so far. Should be on mainstream terrestrial radio. 6- Sun Ra-ish opening. Doesn't sound like a Ra-style production though. Too slick. Someone was listening though b/c there's Ra elements all over this. Lee Perry percussion style around that 3:45 mark for a little bit too. Listen to Zap Pow's River Stone and you'll know what I'm referencing (Maybe. The Voodooism comp is the easiest way to get that track for comparison). 7- When the room starts asking me questions I get a little weirded out. Narrator's running through late 20th century events like Forrest Gump, only African American-centric. Here comes the pee pee and doo doo. Reminds me of Bookman from Seinfeld. 8- This is like if Johnny Hartman woke up at 4am, rolled directly out of bed into the recording booth to sing this song. Late at night, brown liquor in hand and I can connect.

I’m doing a free trial of Spotify premium right now and I have no complaints other than the fact there’s a lot of jazz it’s missing but nothing’s perfect and I think that’s true regardless of platform (same for reggae and other niche genres that aren’t current pop and related). It aligns with what Apple Music offers pretty much. I’m trying YT Music via trial next. Spotify’s artist radio stations are fun too. I’ll prob return to Spotify over Apple when it’s all said and done.

Same thoughts here

I think it varies but I’m no expert. Digital jazz discographies are mostly a mess and it’s definitely not the genre du jour their main audience comes for.

Playing via Spotify on BT speaker and no issues with SQ…a quick comparison with the bandcamp album and it sounded the same. Doesn’t sound live and the bass isn’t recessed; piano fine as well. Sounds like a pretty decent studio recording actually.

Looking at Walker’s bio on his website, he got into jazz after touring with the Fatback Band. Looks like he’s really into studying the roots of the music and no doubt learned of Brooks being from Fayetteville. NC is the birthplace of quite a few jazz legends as most on this board are probably aware…Other than that I’m not seeing any other connection. Need to check this out though.

My Sanders playlist in this past week includes Solomon’s Daughter With A Heartbeat Save Our Children Message from Home Moon Child Love In Us All Thembi Jewels of Thought I’m enjoying all of them. With A Heartbeat is a Laswell collaboration and it’s the only one I didn’t really connect closely with. I think it had more to do with the production style rather than musical issues though. Probably will revisit at some point. Miles’ dig - if it had any musical target - probably included some aspect of the musical theme and feeling/vision in Sanders’ playing being consistent and I could see someone of Miles’ mind having enough of that after a bit. Sometimes brilliance like Miles had could be a curse I guess.

Listening to and enjoying a lot of his records this week after hearing the news. There is a lot to love. He definitely played what he felt and maybe that’s what connects him to a broad audience beyond the jazz universe.

I’d rather listen to PnBRock’s entire album output over any Dead live show or album. For real. Bringing it back to the OP, PnB ain’t bad at all. There’s a good bit of Drake influence on the lyrical structure and delivery but damn, he does it MUCH better than Drake. He was a talented cat, and listening to these tunes now really bring his tragic death into focus. He definitely had an artistic vision albeit way outside this board’s demo including myself.

Yeah, new Jack = new Jack swing

New Jack is the fucking shit. Never heard of the artist in question but RIP.

Looks like Tyner to me

All 3 of these are incredible. This one made the rounds of some weird horror movie social media pages I follow and it’s on my list to watch. Never seen it and it’s almost like a “lost” movie at this point.

3 is Milestones but I don’t know by whom 5 - pretty sure this is the Andrew Hill with strings BN session. My favorite track so far… 6 - Man, this is a good one too. No guesses… 7 - 70s Sanders or Tyner type of vibes. Nice tune as well 9 - Afro Blue but not sure who 10 - venturing out into a different style with good results. No guesses 11 - Familiar tenor style not sure who though 14 - Not sure either but absolutely love it Thanks for putting this together!

June works for me but in the spirit of inclusiveness, if it works better for someone who otherwise wouldn’t be able to participate then I’m up for being mobile.