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Butcher, Durrant, Lovens, Malfatti, Russell – News From The Shed

CCC - Muhal

Circle - The Paris Concert

Miles Davis - Agharta Birthday boy.

It's the way it profiles her as being Diego R's little wife, who is trying out painting as a hobby.

Very sad to hear.

Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata – Trancedance

Will give it a go. I'm never sure about Collier but there are some records on which he's been very good. Thanks for bringing it to the attention.

Agharta is a big one for me, for a complex net of personal reasons. The first record I listened to on vinyl. A favourite of my secondary school russian teacher, who used to bring the conversation around to "avantgyard djyaz founkt" during oral tests. A big obsessive record for my elder son, aged 5 (sadly since overtaken by Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind). One of my jazz loving aunt's most hated records (she walked out of the London show of the same tour). But generally such a great record. I fell in love with it long before I enjoyed fusion or even electric Miles more generally. It is such a big aggressive soup. I'll give the birthday boy a spin tonight.

Mat Walerian, Matthew Shipp, Hamid Drake – Jungle Live At Okuden

Marcus Strickland Twi-Life Group – Open Reel Deck (2007) I dismissed this at the time, thinking it was part of the then-burgeoning jazz subgenre of 'theoretically young 30 year old impresses old people by doing supposedly young thing that the old people don't know is out of date'. It does have some of the trappings, like the subpar hip hop, but on revisiting it, I enjoy it quite a lot more than I did.

Pretty grim stuff, but I guess it was 1933, so there was grimmer stuff in the news.

Is this real? What's it from.

Shinpei Ruike – 4 AM

Is that one Dirty Old Men reissued? One of my favourites.

Sharkey Bonano – Sounds Of New Orleans Vol. 8 (At Lenfant's Lounge)

Miles Davis - Live at Plugged Nickel

I enjoyed this one a lot more than I thought I would.

I'm most interested in the albums. What I want most is a source that directs me towards the major records that caused a splash in this closed community.

I mean any of it, really. There's a bit more text out there on "trad jazz" in the UK than the very various US scenes. But hardly much even there.

I do wish that there were more places to get information on this sort of music past 1939. There are hardly any guides treating it as anything other than a footnote.

Just wait. It will happen. And when it happens, it will be insufferable.

Now that tiktok is un-banned, the revival is just around the corner.

Baby Laurence – Dancemaster

Yeah. But it's not a clever agenda. He likes to stress how fiery hard bop was and how political it was, presumably because he thinks that grows engagement (and he probably believes it and hears it). But he clearly loves bop, cool and the rest. So there's a disconnect between his general overview sections and his specific discussions of records. What appeals to me about him is just how different he is to the rest of the people discussed on this thread. He's not a 78 year old hi fi obsessive from New York. He's some guy in an American football shirt in a tiny suburb of some small mid western town. And he doesn't just do Blue Note stuff every day. It is all second hand stuff too. No reissue wankfests. Sorry. Enough about this guy, who I rarely watch anyway these days. I don't want to derail the thread. Those YouTube hi fi guys are the pits.