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Scott Henderson and Tribal Tech – Nomad This one's towards the top of the 1980s fusion pile I guess. Still pretty stiff but not that stiff, and with an awareness of the concept of restraint. Good bass work too, and a slight sniff of late period Weather Report.

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The Pepper-Knepper Quintet – The Pepper-Knepper Quintet With Pepper Adams & Jimmy Knepper (1959)

Zeena Parkins – Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics (2017)

Akosh S. Unit – Élettér (1998)

Georgie Auld And His Orchestra – In The Land Of Hi-Fi Really into this one. My first listen to Georgie Auld. Music with guts. Any other recommendations for Auld or similar records very welcome.

Is that who the guy was? Ridiculous behaviour.

I generally don't like Mouzon that much, but I think that as jazz funk goes, this record is very strong. I think it stands out among Mouzon's back catalogue.

Jon Appleton & Don Cherry – Human Music

Nels Cline – New Monastery (A View Into The Music Of Andrew Hill)

Alphonse Mouzon - By All Means Necessary I don't understand why this isn't more famous. A great jazz funk record.

George Jones – I Am What I Am Oh. What are the shades? That he could still do it at that point? Was Henderson perceived to have sold out?

Live in Japan by Freddie Hubbard?

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Sorry. I know I always do this, but which would you really go for? Leaving aside Mercy.

Great cover. How is it?

Gosh. I don't know. It's not my music. I think I enjoyed Light Years the most of the earlies, but this one is maybe stronger, particularly once past the first track. I think a lot of that is down to the recording style, which is more natural and dynamic.i hate how those early records sound.

Strangely I find this one easier to handle than most. The first track is gross out space invaders fusion, but a lot of the rest of it is pretty good electric jazz, much better recorded than those very dry and lifeless earlier records.

Chick Corea Elektric Band – To The Stars Chick's clientology record. A tone poem inspired by the works of Elron. David Weckl kills on this record, even if it isn't all that great otherwise.

That's why he's available on the cheap. Luton must act now.

Ha! Sorry / glad to help. Let us know what he's been up to when you've had a chance.

For a while I had a Football Manager save as Luton. Long before he rose to prominence, and whilst my Luton was struggling in the Championship, I made a chance hire of a relatively unknown young Flemish player from the Dutch leagues called Kevin de Bruyne, who the FM scouts must have rated as a youngster. He turned out to be just as good a player as he later developed into in reality a year or so later, and propelled my FM version of Luton into the Premier League. What I am saying is that this all seems very natural to me. I am also saying that Luton would probably benefit from signing De Bruyne. This is the kind of insight that only profound managerial experience can create.

David Sanborn – Straight To The Heart

He's good on that recent Famsworth record on Smoke. A really fudgy tone that shows all the classic jazz he's been re-enacting, but it's interesting in a genre hard bop setting. I like him on Chico Freeman's Destiny's dance. He plays a good solo, if I recall, on Shirley Horn's You Won't Forget Me, on the track "Don't Let The Sun...", If I recall. Citizen Tain is a good record. I started a thread a while back asking for recommendations of the other young lions, and there may be a couple out there. I'm generally partial to the Fathers & Sons record that the Marsalises and Freemans. Mainly for the split between the tight laced neo bop of the former and the sudden turn into blues power with the Freemans. In the longer term, I think that the Young Lions were victims of their own marketing and rhetoric. There's a whole generation of talented young players who never got a chance to mature, and who find their records retrospectively ignored.