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I really like them! Extremely clever and subtle visual puns aside, what is going to happen to that train? This cover is so bad that it has a weird nightmarish memorability. There aren't many contemporaneous bop comps that reach those heights.

I'd missed this. Will have a listen tomorrow. Is it on any podcasters for download? Or would one need internet?

Good one. This is one the Young Lion micro-heresy records I actually enjoy.

Looks great! About as glowing a review as you can get. I had not realised you were writing this book. I have a long term sentimental attachment to Shipp’s music, so I shall definitely pick this up.

Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions 1978 This is one of the Braxtons that I saw recently in the wild. Kicking myself for not getting it now, because it's good. From the more direct and visceral side of Braxton, similar to the Arista classics and the George Lewis group.

So it sounds broadly legit? I had a look at the website, and it seems to mostly be content involving some sort of musician in the plotline, rather than about jazz per se, but clearly it isn't just a website with nothing behind it.

Very different to some rock concerts, where there is any choice of t shirt as long as it is black and XXXL. Maybe jazz musicians could sell bow ties.

Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown And The Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band Really surprised how great this record is.

Kenny Baker – Kenny Baker Presents The Half Dozen

I recently bought a great Brotzmann t shirt, white with the cover of Balls reproduced. There has also been talk recently about the Uniqlo Blue Note t shirts. These look great, unsurprisingly, given that jazz is well known for its imagery. But for whatever reason, there doesn't seem to be much of a jazz clothing merchandise culture. When one goes to rock concerts, there is always a merchandise stand selling t shirts. As I understand it, it is one of the main ways that bands make money these days. You have the same stalls at jazz gigs, but it's just CDs and vinyl. I'd love to wander around with a moody Mal Waldron t shirt or a super-colourful Decoding Society thing. But it's hard to find these things, even on the internet. Not much a question here. It's more befuddlement as to why jazz artists don't sell t shirts.

Has anyone ever watched the BeBop TV channel that is at the centre of this thing?

This one's very good.

Allen Lowe – America: The Rough Cut

Zbigniew Namysłowski Air Condition – Follow Your Kite

https://petapixel.com/2023/06/21/four-months-of-chaos-the-bewildering-story-of-bebop-and-madavor-media/ Interesting. Not a particularly neutral article. It is hard to tell what precisely is going on in the lawsuit (a transfer of assets pre completion and even pre due diligence is not that normal, but perhaps the allegation is that bad faith due diligence requests were being used as a way to obtain confidential information. If so, that doesn’t really come out) and I think the idea that BeBop is suing on this failed sale as a money making scheme due to pending debts on the acquisition is a little far-fetched. My key takeaway is the debt heavy structure of the original acquisition of jazz times along with the rest of the portfolio, combined with wider closures and run downs of all titles. Either way, the whole thing feels pretty grim, both the structure of the purchase, the consequences, and BeBop’s attempt to frame its actions.

One of my local record shops has clearly bought a job lot of Braxton. Not sure who it is who has died or moved house, but there's a ton of the stuff and almost none of it that I recognise. He just put out endless records, even in the comparatively undocumented early 80s (when most of these seem to date from).

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That's really interesting. Not something I'd have ever found on my own. At times it sounds like a Bonzo Dog spoof. Which of the Feetwarmers' and the Two Beat Stompers' records should one seek out? I think Roswell Rudd may have also got his start in Dixieland. Another one I'd be interested to hear. I may imagine it, but I do hear Dixieland elements, especially timing, in both Rudd's and Lacy's later work. I think Roswell Rudd may have also got his start in Dixieland. Another one I'd be interested to hear. I may imagine it, but I do hear Dixieland elements, especially timing, in both Rudd's and Lacy's later work. I had a root around for the Bennink and A Mangelsdorff early recordings in the idiom, but struggled to find. Which are the ones you are referring to?

Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom First listen, and only out of idle interest. I assumed that this would be a particularly horrible record, in the vein of Rod Stewart's songbook records, but I am pleasantly surprised at how personal it is.

Who is it on the cover? Back when I first started, I assumed it was Randy Weston, a name I didn't really know. Obviously it is.

Currently listening for the first time to George Haslam – Argentine Adventures Part 3: Travels With My Tarogato, which I only know about from a tip off from @Д.Д.. This is the kind of playing and record I really love. I'm surprised that this is the first I have heard of Haslam, other than his playing on Lol Coxhill's Holywell concert, which I found fairly underwhelming. Any other recommendations for him or groups he played with (including any other records in this series that are as good) would be appreciated.

And here's another one: Slawterhaus – Monumental

What is this one? Would you recommend it?

Many of the obits for Peter Brotzmann mentioned his start in Dixieland. I don't think that's particularly uncommon for the stars of the European scenes who emerged in the 1960s. Do any recordings exist of him or others playing trad styles? Hoping for records with Derek Bailey playing banjo on My Old Man's A Dustman or of Manfred Schoof tootling on When The Saints Come Marching In.