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Buddy Collette And His Swinging Shepherds – At The Cinema! (1959)

Miles Davis – In Concert (Columbia, 1973) Probably the weakest of the electric records (to my ears, the rhythm section struggles to get into any sort of order on the first Foot Fooler LP). But I love the version of "Ife" from Big Fun that opens up side 3.

Florian Arbenz - Conversation 5: Elemental (Hammer, 2022)

It's pretty divisive stuff. I find early electric Ornette very hard to handle and Ulmer a little hard baked, but love later electric Ornette, The Decoding Society and Music Revelation Ensemble. Some of it clicketh and some of it don't. Show Stopper by Jamaladeen Tacuma is a great example of a harmolodic funk record that is still easy on the ears. Love that record and worth a spin.

Florian Arbenz: Conversation #8 Definitely enjoying this one. With thanks to @mjazzg

There've been some recent Don Byas posts. Where next to go with Byas after Minton's, the Savoy comp and Anthropology?

Weird good. It’s a fusion record but very murky. Bits made me think of Jimmy Giuffre or “Planet Caravan” by Black Sabbath. That kind of weird.

Weird!

Jorge López Ruiz – Viejas Raices (EMI, 1975)

Does anyone know whether this is still happening?

I only know the Cannonball. Which other Wilson records do you most recommend?

Chile con Soul’s a great record.

I was listening to this in the car this afternoon as snow started pelting down (the first snow my kids have ever seen). Whilst I am by no means that target audience, it is by a long way my favourite Christmas jazz record, along with the Carla Bley record. Possibly runner up goes to the Kenny Burrell.

I was listening to the Stuttgart and Bremen records two weeks ago, and I was surprised how up-to-date they sound. They could have come out on Clean Feed or Intakt in 2014.

I hadn't realised that The Grateful Dead were so directly influenced by Cream.

I briefly worked for The Gramophone, where the BBC Music Magazine was considered the enemy. Sadly over the last decade Gramophone has collapsed; always pleased to see that the BBC Music Mag is still going.

L., S. - F., M. – Adonis 21.10.1983 (JnD, 1984)

Interesting. I'll check it out.

I have just seen on Wikipedia that Charles Mingus wrote a guide to toilet training domestic housecats. Has anyone read it?

Charles Mingus / John LaPorta – Jazzical Moods (Bethlehem, 1954) This is music to get lost in. It's a shame that the sound quality is quite flat. That smokey mixture of Thad Jones and John LaPorta, and the weird and intricate arrangements.

I don't know how everyone else feels, but I am struggling to follow it. It just doesn't feel like a world cup. The quality of the football has been abysmal in the games that I have watched. It's always fairly weak in world cup games, but this has been real lower league scrabbly stuff. There've been all sorts of upsets, but I think a lot just comes down to the fact that it is December, mid-season for most football leagues.

Just finished streaming: Jazz Ensemble Boomerang (Melodiya, 1983) Now on: Gianni Gebbia - Augmenta Vol III: Early Music (2020)

Thanks. I'll give it a go. Looks like it's from slightly later on.

I'm a big fan of this late one. All kinds of stuff happening. Should be listened to as a new wave classique rather than a late period jazz record. Is this good? Norman Connors – Saturday Night Special (Buddah, 1975) I have always struggled a bit with Norman Connors. Like Weldon Irvine and a lot of "New Note" stuff, it is, to my ears, neither fish nor fowl. At least this one has some decent hooks.

Andy Sheppard – Soft On The Inside (Antilles, 1990)