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Currently really enjoying Nathaniel Mackey's Fro a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. Not sure whether this is a "jazz book" or not.

Great. Sent a donation now. What's the current balance of what is still needed for the year?

Are you still receiving them? I've been holding off this year pending confirmation but will donate if it is still working. How much is needed for this year?

What's this one? An arresting cover.

I do love that blog.

I remember the first time I listened to thus. I was expecting George Duke or Azymuth. It's actually a surprisingly heavy electric jazz record.

That's basically it. That and the diction. I had Seven Son stuck in my head though today, so maybe it's percolating through Thanks, and I'll give these a try

I'm a long term Mode Allison sceptic, but I am prepared to change my ways. What LPs (not comps) would forum members most recommend of his?

I never doubted.

Now one:

There's a Twitter account I follow where the poster is a big fan. Not so much my thing. Mod type stuff.

Eero Koivistoinen Kvintetti & Sekstetti – Odysseus (1969) A great Finnish post bop record, despite the terrible front cover.

Thanks. How do it do that?

Sad news: Brazilian keyboard great João Donato gas passed away aged 88. I am particularly fond of his later records, particularly Donato Elétrico, which I will be playing tonight.

Adolphe Parillon – I Paint The Sky ~ Cé L'En Mô (Quennette, 1980) There's so much gold in these French Caribbean jazz records. All streamable too..

Glenn Spearman – Night After Night (Musa-Physics, 1981) Sounds interesting Sounds interesting

Joe Magnarelli - Hoop Dreams (Criss Cross 2006) Some really lovely hard bop genre work on this, although I'm not sure about the head of Ask Me Now.

Takehiro Honda & Gerd Dudek – Flying To The Sky Very impressed by this one. The emotional content comes with a heavy Coltrane quarter input, but Honda's playing really shines here.

I've just spent a happy hour or so browsing that thread and the Jazz Beat thread. My experience of SHB is that its jazz threads are just endless repeats of people wowsering of whatever new double/ultra deluxe hereditary audiophilac version of Kind of Blue has been released in the last week. But those two are genuinely good threads. Lots of interesting records I had not been aware of being flagged, with a nice mix of ancient and modern.

Cheers

Which thread is that? I generally find Hoff pretty bleak, but I'd like to see.

That's a great book. This might just be a British thing but I am always surprised at what a low profile the book has.

Some interesting suggestions that I don't know. I'll give these a go.

Rowe / Müller / Sugimoto – The World Turned Upside Down

Herbie Mann – Herbie Mann Returns To The Village Gate I think I may prefer this to the original. Hotter rhythms and less shopworn material.