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That would be amazing. I would love to hear more. No need for speed. The thread is a little diffuse at points. That is my fault for not setting proper parameters at the start, and then getting excited when everyone has been pitching in with great recommendations. Definitely, what I am looking for is recommendations of LPs* by post-WW2 swing big bands. They needn't be immediately post-war. R&B and bop influences or inclusion of modernist-leaning players is all absolutely fine. At a push, swing can also include 'dance' bands, if they otherwise fit or are interesting to you. Basically, what I am saying is that I think your suggestions up-thread sound like exactly what I am looking for. * By "LPs", what I mean is either something issued on a long player of some sort at the time, or at least in a historic and now-standard collections issued originally on single or double LP. Vinyl or not vinyl is less important to me than running time and historical 'presence'. I personally find it very hard to listen to or digest 5CD retrospective box sets of singles, even if that is sometimes the name of the game for music issued before the mid 50s. Thanks for this. This is great stuff. Thank you for taking the time to put all of this down.

How is this?

I like Questlove.on the Philadelphia Experiment. Otherwise I've never been impressed. I think it's a halo from his time in Roots.in effect.

These look bang on. Thank you.

Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003

Stanley Turrentine – Home Again (1982)

Round About Midnight / Live at the Totem, Vol 2

The Buddy Rich stuff is definitely in there. We were talking about it recently, and that's one of the things that led me to that Auld record. Do any Lionel Hampton or Illinois Jacquet big band records measure up? I know Hampton's earlier singles, and Jacquet's smaller group records. Jimmy Wales. The Wikipedia guy. Keeps a lower profile than Elon, Big Jeff and Zuck.

Oh. Okay. Wikipedia recommending them, then. Thanks Jimmy.

They look interesting. Is there an exotica / jazz subgenre for big band records about cityscapes?

City Pop. Are the underlined ones recommended?

I do not, although I love TV Action Jazz, so will certainly check this out. One of my wife's favourite records, there. Good suggestion. I'll give it a listen.

I mean, they were all great records.

I just mean that if the band has some bop / progressive edges, that's fine; likewise R&B, or even electric edges. It doesn't need to be preserved in time. But the bop big band stuff I have a reasonable handle on. Obviously these distinctions are not always easily made.

These are great big band records, but not so much in the swing category.

Rick James – Street Songs (1981)

Just read all of that. I feel vaguely dizzy.

What's Sauter / Finegan? The others I know. Probably more in the modernist camp, and more frequently discussed (especially Quincy!) Thank you!

Terry Gibbs I know. Great example of this sort of music. For some reason Gibbs is more in favour than other contemporaries, and I've seen his records posted here and elsewhere with reasonable frequency. This is stuff I see in the bins all the time, next to the equally unloved but slightly more navigable jazz vocal records. Thank you, as always.

What is futurist / jazz leaning big band? I'm pretty intrigued. Do I need to start another thread? Thanks!

Beaver Harris 360° Music Experience With Grachan Moncur, Ken McIntyre, Ron Burton, Cameron Brown – Live At Nyon (1981)

Glad it is good. 4LPs are a bit of a pass from me. Just thinking about it makes me exhausted.

@Big Beat Steve, thank you as always for a wonderful, thought through answer. Basically, what I am looking for is to patch a hole in my own knowledge. I tend to concentrate on LPs (which is the way that I overwhelmingly like to listen to music, rather than box sets of singles, although historic singles collections are fine tok). The Georgie Auld record to which I am referring is swing in a brassy, confident idiom (which I associate with c.1939) but with some (welcome) bop and R&B in the sound, and fresh and of their time arrangements. It is noticeably different to the mainstream jam concept, or to what the more famous big bands like Basie or Ellington had moved to. I really liked it, not because it preserved an historical style (it doesn't, as you say) but because it had a lot of guts, an awareness of what else was happening, and great tunes. Getting record recommendations for this sort of music is hard. It is unfashionable music that is not discussed in the histories of jazz and LP covers are certainly not getting flashed around on social media. It is reasonably easy to identify what the go-to classic records are with which to start for postwar Basie and Ellington, for the bop era big bands like Kenton and Herman, for mainstream swing, or for the later progressive big bands like Ellis, Ferguson, Jones/Lewis or Wilson. In contrast, Georgie Auld was just a name to me until yesterday. I recognise many of the names that you mention, but, other than Gerald Wilson and Boyd Raeburn (both of whose records I know to some extent), I would not really know where to start. Any direction would be hugely appreciated. "Personal quirks" and "firm favourites" in particular (that's what this forum is for!). As mentioned above, if the groups released any of particularly recommended LPs, I would love to know.

10³²K – The Law Of Vibration (2018)

(D)IVO Saxophone Quartet - (D)IVO (2022) Nice to see James Carter doing stuff like this, in good company.