Rabshakeh

One of my favourite covers.

Amon Tobin – Bricolage

In store? I may need to pay a visit.

Impressed by this one: Jukka Eskola – Jukka Eskola (2005) Not the cleverest, but enjoyable. Finnish trumpeter-led record that essentially updates and dumbs down In A Silent Way for enhanced danceability. I think it does a better job of being 'soul jazz' than most recent attempts to revive that sound, largely because it is forward looking.

Hot life.

Stephane Grappelli – Young Django Enjoying this one whilst baking to death in an office on a Sunday.

I like Joel Ross on the final track here.

I like these LA Express records. Good fun.

Does it work? Are these the same Red Onions who were on the Shel Silverstein record?

Thomas Blachman Feat. Alwayz In Axion – Blachman Introduces Standard Jazz & Rap, Vol. 1 first listen to this jazz rap record from the Danish 1990s. Completely horrible. I was listening to this one yesterday.

Is this good? Time to bust out Satan in Goray.

These mid period Hubbards get a bad rep. There's a lot of worth on them.

All middle period?

High Risk

I didn't know about it until now! It's great. A very different record but that fact makes both records better. Strange that this is the second remix of the record after the Jamie xx one. Were they not happy with it?

Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven – We're New Again (A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven) Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven – We're New Again (A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven)

Black Milk & Nat Turner – The Rebellion Sessions

Theon Cross – Intra-I

It's the name his mother gave him. I find the same with a lot of electronic and hip hop music from the 90s and 00s. It feels very repetitive. That goes for a lot of the jazz and improv music from the same period which was "updating" the music with beats. I don't think it's the case with hip hop or electronica any more. The rhythms are generally more open and breathe. Whilst a lot of the "nu jazz" stuff I have been listening to is extremely and insufferably beige, at least it doesn't feel locked in.

Mal Waldron – Tokyo Bound (Victor, 1970)

Madlb – Yesterdays Universe!

What are the non Sanders 'Flo-Po' records that fit most?

I remember liking Mr Scruff at the time, probably because he felt different to the prevailing culture of the early 00s. He had a mixtape release that had a Pharaoh Sanders track on it from Journey to the One that was a big important moment for me in my own journey into jazz. Other than that the jazz edge to his music never really occured to me. I don't really understand why Fourtet doesn't get mentioned as an example of a jazz electronics guy. A lot of the more recent artists sound very influenced by him, and he is a massive jazz fan, who put out those Steve Reid records that I think work pretty well and haven't dated. Perhaps he was too famous and so not fun to put into weird internet genres.

That looks interesting. Does it collect specific LPs? Discogs is not much help.

Yeah. Not just samples of jazz music. Despite the -tronica name, there seems to be an emphasis in most of these groups on "real" instruments. But the actual deployment of the instruments seems to be quite different to jazz. It is a long way divorced from concepts of swing or "soul", but I suppose that if your starting point for jazz is Jan Garbarek or the EST then it makes more sense. Often it seems closer to minimalist composition or new age music to my ears.