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It's a fantastic record. Pure blues.

Just bought Fanfare by the Art Ensemble and live at Willisau by the Brotherhood of Breath. @mjazzg - Further East London news. I'm afraid OTO has now started to sell second hand jazz vinyl at a fairly reasonably price, apparently via a connection in Japan. Some seriously good stuff.

Science Fiction is a great album, but part of me does wonder whether Broken Shadows is not the superior of the two records. I certainly prefer the CD reissue that combines the two, which is where I first heard them.

I just lean them against the dust shield. It doesn't work for gatefolds, though. I've been taking these for a few years and posting them on Twitter. Since I've started trying to wean myself off social media I thought I could post them here instead.

They are a huge sink for time.

Listening out of interest only, really, although the truth is that this record is not that bad. Certainly better than the studio albums. Catchy, in sections.

I think that this is my favourite Teagarden. At least this is the one that I fell in love with.

First spin of the new purchase

I read somewhere that there were versions of Ascension released for Jukebox. How to clear out a pub in three seconds.

I am with you.

It's quite Steeplechasey but there's lots there. New up and down.

Stan Levey – Grand Stan Blue Mitchell – Blue's Moods Both from Flashbacks on the Essex Road in London, which appears to have recently bought a large collection of bop stuff from. 50s-90s and is selling it off at pretty good prices. Worth checking out for any Londoners in here.

I love a bit of Dave Grusin. Le Jazz Hypermarche

Am I a culprit? If so, my deepest apologia. Go on then, we want the finest lines drawn. What I really want though is Sim City soundtrack keyboard jazz. A hard one to find.

Buddy Collette Quintet – Buddy's Best

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A dystopian proto-fascist organisation created by someone with precisely no imagination either. Even 2000 AD could have come up with something less dire for it's bad guys.

Given the recent discussions on James Reese Europe etc, I wondered whether we have a thread for discussion of older blues and roots music.

Must say, coming back from holiday to find Twitter rebranded as X is a bit of a final straw for me. The number of users is pretty clearly collapsing and, whilst it is still better than it's rivals (Threads is just dire, and Mastodon is a bit of a ghost town), it is increasingly not worth really carrying on with it. The users whom I like are now spread across three platforms and rarely posting at the rate that they used to. Probably time to call the old micro-blogging a day. Still going to keep a lurking insta site, since it does have some good jazz vinyl accounts that I learn a fair bit from.

What's the cover?