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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?

Thank you!

Cheers

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.

My Friend John. There is the Coltrane modal thing. The influence is not always great (the last track) but it is still a very good record.

What is this record? Looks interesting as a concept. Is this for budding saxophonists to practice with, like in the Conversation?

I wonder whether trad groups are statistically more likely to feature venues on covers. A lot of trad groups are closely attached to the pubs they play in, so if could be possible. Ha!

Various – The Passion Of Charlie Parker Interesting record. I'm not sure why I've only just heard of it. For those who don't know it, it is the jazzish band from David Bowie's final record Black Star, featuring Ben Monder and a saxophone player called Donny McCaslin, with the addition of Craig Taborn, playing behind commercial jazz vocalists, singing specially written songs arrived at by setting lyrics about Charlie Parker's life to well known tunes associated with Parker, with very generous solo time for the musicians. It's quite successful. McCaslin is a bit limited, but he does well enough on most of the tracks. The lyrics are good, and the singers, most of whom I don't like at all in their normal roles, sound very silky and sumptuous. Weird how they went to all the effort with the concept, though, but didn't bother to put any money whatsoever into the cover artwork. It just looks like a generic cheapo Charlie Parker record.

Art Pepper - Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard

Thank you, both.

The Cecil Taylor Quartet Featuring Archie Shepp – Air

I don't really know Irabagon other than MOPDTK. Are there any of his records you'd recommend?

It's easily available. I used to own it on CD, which I brought in a mass market record shop (back when that was a thing) in a provincial.

Johnny Dyani Quartet – Mbizo

We’re the Stitt sessions ever released before this?