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The Lat-Teens – Buena Gente

Charles Lloyd – Voice In The Night

Greg Howe – Introspection This one is pretty good. There's something actually at its heart, which isn't always the case with this music.

Thanks! Never heard of them. Will check out.

Frank Gambale – Live! This record cover is basically what I had in mind when I started this thread. Great AllMusic review, in its entirety: "You can't live without this intense live guitar album with over 64 minutes of blazing guitar virtuosity".

Which ones are these?

Flim & The BB's – Tricycle This one hasn't aged into greatness.

I'm with you. Blood On The Tracks and Desire both use a narrative approach that you don't get on those earlier records (or the later ones). I really like both of those records.

Rodrigo Amado, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler, Chris Corsano – A History Of Nothing

Cassius Lambert – Quote (Kaprifol, 2015) Quite gimmicky record by a younger swedish bassist, but some of the gimmicks work (hand claps; accordion) and the melodies are decent. Not everything about it works. It feels a little overproduced (which given that it is recent probably means it was not sufficiently extensively produced to not sound overproduced) and there is a bit of an 'electronica chill' to it. But some nice fresh ideas.

Now moved on to this one: Muriel Grossmann – Birth Of The Mystery Not sure this is Grossman at her most inspired, solo-wise, but overall I think it is a pretty good record, in the ALS lineage. Grossman is very popular on the wider internet, but I don't see her posted that often on here. It may be that she falls between camps too much.

Morning listen so far, all first time listens: Omer Klein – Fearless Friday J.R. Monterose, Jon Eardley, Rein De Graaff, Henk Haverhoek, Pierre Courbois – Body And Soul Boney James – Shine Yesterdays New Quintet – Angles Without Edges The Omar Klein record is unexpectedly good. I had no expectations for it. It's got a lightly funky world/modal thing going. Nothing mopey or academic. Some Jewish / Israeli folk tunes and pop melodies handled in a non-cloying way. Not quite the full deal yet but worth checking out.

That's quite a trek. I crossed via the John Zorn landbridge from an extreme metal entry point at around the same time. In terms of recommendations, the one that I really do recommend is Niacin, probably starting with the record upthread.

The boundaries between prog, metal and fusion are pretty blurry in this period. These are some fun records. I haven't listened to Ozric Tentacles in many years but I'm having fun doing it now.

Tzadik no streaming curse. I will check it out if I can.

The 60s charts are all fire, no dire. There's very little easy listening stuff on them. The most easy listening it gets is Wes Montgomery's proto-CTI stuff, which I know was viewed as pap at the time but I think has aged very well. Lots of soul-adjacent stuff. Not much purist bop, but it is a generalised chart showing mass consumption trends. It's a bit like looking at rock charts in the 1970s. There are years when there isn't a single album that is not still regarded as a classic. Thanks, both.

This is great.

I was hungry and had a twenty year old's metabolism.

I never really connected with Previte. A little too rocky and stiff. Anthony Braxton – Nine Compositions (Hill) 2000 This one is really excellent. Nice to hear Braxton with actual arrangements. A good recommendation from @mjazzg, for which thanks!

When I worked as a waiter, every day at the end of shift I used to get French fries (i.e., US style chips), gravy and mayonnaise. That was my happy place. It helped that I was running up and down stairs and on my feet for 12 hours a day.