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I was listening to a new DJ Spinna radio show of "London Jazz-funk" Some of the tracks: London Town - Light of the World Escapee - Daniel Casimir Rude Movements - Sun Palace Movin' On - Outside Sphynx - Brand New Heavies Walk in the Night - Paul Hardcastle You Gotta Get It - Congress Night Birds - Shakatak summer grooves - Mirage Mr moon - Jamiroquai Parisienne Girl - Incognito Can't Keep Holding On - Second Image Then moved on to:

Per the CDC, community transmission rates are still substantial to high across the majority of US population centers. Likely will be more variants, with long-term effects still largely unknown. Hopefully advancements are made in treating and understanding this disease so that future cases years & decades down the road don't lead to more unnecessary deaths.

Sign me up for long-form, live Mingus. I love that live in Bremen set, big time. Looks like I need to pick up both the Jazz in Detroit/Strata & Ronnie Scott's.

1 - Love the tempo and energy. Total concentration from that bass player. Super clean production. Pretty sure I've heard this one before but can't name it. 2 - Nice trio, live recording. Haynes on drums? Sounds like a standard but I can't tell which. 3 - This reminds me of a Freddie Hubbard CTI date. Pretty sure this is a standard too. 4 - Take the A Train... Will have to come back for the rest later...

Thanks for putting this together. It's a reference point for me now, with the recorded firsts - very interesting! I think this is the 2nd BFT that I've participated in where there was an early Cecil Taylor song included and I really liked both of them. Clearly I enjoy his early recordings...

I'm in an early-ECM mood. These two are great for scratching that itch.

Felt the same way after listening to it. It's about as close to rock as I come these days. The groove they got into was great.

Mal Waldron with Fred Braceful, Eberhard Weber and Jimmy Jackson, The Call from '71. Not sure why I never listened to this before as it's phenomenal. Two songs, each stretching over the side of an LP and these guys really dig in. Late to the party on this one, but glad I made it.

Indeed. Rooster Ties’ collection of obscure 70s jazz by no names sounds like it could make a helluva comp.

Well I'm stumped on guessing a theme.

Milford Graves Memorial Fund link. I hadn't seen it before, so sharing in case others haven't either. Unlocked Festival sounds fantastic.

Streaming has changed my music listening and collecting habits immensely. I've got a lot of physical media that I'm going through to purge at this point. If the rights are ultimately owned by a major, then chances are it'll be on a streaming platform in perpetuity (unless that major is Sony who for some reason can be weird), so there's no real reason to hold onto el cheapo CD versions.

When we were helping care for my MIL while she was battling some very aggressive cancer up to October of last year, there was a lot of time spent at the hospital. They would not allow any cloth masks by themselves. Everyone had to wear surgical masks as baseline. There's a reason(s) the medical community held to that standard and continue to do so, and I don't think it's anything nefarious. It's because proper masking works.

Azymuth's Telecommunication Last Summer in Rio is super smooth, but not cheesy. My favorite track on this album.

Well done

I'm a pig on a truffle hunt. Well, that's one of my mottos anyway.

Thanks for the review

Will be interesting if he does allow his "harshest critics" to remain, along with threads such as:

Kyoto Jazz Massive actually popped up in the continued play algorithm once that Of All the Things record played through and I dug that sound too. United Future Org will be checked out as well. Thanks for the lead! This started popping up over the weekend and I didn't know it had previously unreleased tracks. Adding to the queue.

Well that sucks. Noted. Enjoying these enough to keep digging.

Interesting. I don’t have that one but thought it would be decent since Nana is on it. WP/NP: New group for me. The Strata record caught my attention and was perfect listening for Sunday afternoon evening. Of All the Things went perfect with Monday AM.

Haven't seen a post from @Dmitry in a while so hopefully he's still on board for May.

Participating in the BFT's has opened my approach to listening to "jazz," but I realize I'm still very much a novice with this music and hope to keep that sense growing in terms of recognition/knowledge of all aspects of this idiom. It's a struggle to articulate my thoughts on those songs, but that's a challenge I want to get better at because letting it rest at "this song is good" or "I like this" seem shallow and rather dismissive and maybe disrespectful at times. No idea what key songs are in for any genre. Rudimentary music ability as I've only had few years playing an instrument and that was long, long ago. I would say my literacy level for sheet music is still at that middle school level, but I had a very good teacher back then. I can follow the notes if reading while hearing a song, but bass clef and percussion sheets confuse me a bit. It's my own regret in life that I didn't stick with playing for a longer period, but I had to make a decision at about 12 years old and well, 12 y/o kids don't make the best decisions. One has no real grasp on how that will basically affect the rest of your life when your 10 - 12 y/o self is making that determination. Oh well. Thankfully others made different decisions and put things on tape. I listen to a lot of genres fwiw. Outside of "jazz" I dig reggae and most any JA music style the most. While those styles aren't technically difficult, there's still an enormous amount of feeling & emotion that I connect to; and dabblers and interlopers can be spotted real quick, mainly due to drummers not being able to carry the swing in that syncopated beat, but there's other factors at play too. Other genres I dig are funk, rap, hip hop, R&B...but also mainstream pop (there's some really good funk-influenced tunes being produced on the charts these days), "smooth" jazz and soft/yacht rock...all kinds of "world" music - the list goes on. Country and classical are outside of what I typically enjoy, but there are oases in those deserts that I've been able to find. But back to "jazz," I tend to concentrate on overall composition and the conversations that I can pick up along with some true feeling being expressed. My antenna isn't always in tune so I return to things I may be challenged with so maybe the frequency can be picked up better. The SGQ was like that for me. Couldn't connect at all at first, but kept coming back and it finally hit me, and I'm glad it did.

Last time I listened to this set it definitely seemed like something was off, like maybe some more rehearsal or playing time before laying down these tracks was needed.

If I'm not mistaken the guy says this is an underrated release due to...the liner notes? I enjoyed the story but I'm not sure I make the connection between this album being underrated and the content of the liner notes.