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Yep. I listen to anything that is reissued by Matsuli. Some beauts. My kids are obsessed with Osibisa

I don't know Horellou. Is this good?

One of the best records in his very random discography.

Agreed. I quite enjoy Gayle's music. He is an interesting part of jazz history. I agree with you on his mid-gig lectures. They should not have been tolerated as they were. Gayle is not the only one, though, and the willingness to tolerate this stuff (not just outspoken homophobia) has not gone away.

I remember the sweat dripping off the walls. I miss that place.

Just come across this series of still photos from his 60th celebration at Tonic. https://downtownmusic.net/steve-dalachinsky-60th-birthday-celebration-09-24-2006#image207 It was a paid entry event in theory but I don't think anyone except for me and my friend (another Londoner who was living in New York at the time) had paid. Everyone else knew everyone else. I've been wondering who I saw for years (I, a callow youth, was into jazz, but didn't know as many people as I do now). For years I believed Charles Gayle and Paul Flaherty played, but apparently not (it seems that Paul Flaherty was in fact Earl Howard). Equally, apparently I saw Sabir Mateen, Assif Tsahar and Roy Campbell, who I must not have known, and don't remember at all. The big draw for me in those days was Matthew Shipp, who'd blown me away when I'd seen him play live a year or so earlier at the now defunct Red Rose on the Holloway Road. I remember Daniel Carter making a big impression. Crazy to think this was nearly two decades ago. I'm currently reading Dalachinsky's French poems.

Are there other Gayle records from the 1960s? Wikipedia denies everything.

Ben Webster – My Man - Live At Montmartre 1973 Very good.

Anderson .Paak - Malibu I didn't really like this one when it came out but it has grown on me. I flagged it during my recent jazztronica plunge, and this does sort of fall into that category. Robert Glasper is on it.

Are you getting into shape for part 5?

Now on: Pretty Purdie – Soul Drums Now on: Pretty Purdie – Soul Drums Oh. I see. I don't know if I agree. I remember the mid 90s as a bit of a cultural wasteland. Certainly less homogenised. Oh. I see. I don't know if I agree. I remember the mid 90s as a bit of a cultural wasteland. Certainly less homogenised.

What's the bill and its influence? Just that it made communication easier, and was followed by the internet? I think there was also something about how the era's snarky innocence was so different to the current, equally naive and snarky, zeitgeist. Give it a go. Proustian rush, but the smell of rubbish instead of Madelaines. Chase it with some Brand New Heavies (unfair to the BNHs, who are much better).

Stray Cats are alright be me. This is like the Stray Cats but worse and with some Glenn Miller trappings. It comes out as ska punk does Louis Jordan, ineptly and leadenly. It is weird to think of it ever having been accepted, and accepted as something in some way alternative. The 1990s is a vanished world in that sense.

Oops Urs Leimgruber & Fritz Hauser – L'Énigmatique

Daunik Lazro – Sweet Zee

Fushitsuya - Live 2 (1991)

The Brian Setzer Orchestra – The Dirty Boogie I hated this record at the time. I still hate it, but I'm surprised at how differently. There's a forgotten naivity to this garbage which I do slightly miss. Now listening to something not terrible: Borah Bergman And Roscoe Mitchell – The Italian Concert

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.