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What record is this? I assume this is just a CD in a CD box set, in which case it is a double no for me (technology and listening preferences), but let me know if it is also free standing as I love Pursglove.

Oded Tzur – Isabela (ECM, 2022) This is the sort of gentle, low concept, ECM-produced jazz for adults that I normally find pretty forgettable, but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this.

Cath Roberts & Olie Brice – Conduits (Relative Pitch, 2022)

I think that this may be one of the Dexter's that I most enjoy.

Thanks!

Various – Montreux Summit, Volume 1 (CBS, 1977)

Al Jarreau – Glow (Reprise, 1976) Streaming this one after @Teasing the Koreanset off a burst of thoughts about the transitional era between 1975 and 1982 in the Black Jazz thread.

In what sense? I think that I probably agree with you, but I am interested to hear.

Avishai Cohen Trio – Shifting Sands (Naive, 2022) I like Cohen's compositions, but I am not sure that I have ever enjoyed one of his records. I tend to give them two or three dutiful listens and then forget them. I'd like to hear a more dynamic and perhaps less serious group handle his material, with a bit more zip than he seems to allow his groups.

It is very,

Aldo Romano Quartet – Canzoni Came up recently here. Oosh it is good.

Buddy DeFranco Quintet – Cooking The Blues (Verve, 1957)

Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 With Greg Osby – The Off-Off Broadway Guide To Synergism (Pi, 2022) Just listening to the taster on Spotify at the moment, but I find this a little disappointing. Sorey is wonderful, but the record breathes the same sort of close air as some of the 00s Motian releases, but without the strength of ideas that Lovano and Frisell brought. I find Aaron Diehl particularly disappointing but Osby not far behind. I would be interested in finding out other members' views, particularly those who've heard the full set.

I'm pretty certain that we do.

On Bill Lee specifically, I have noticed that he is heavily involved in a number of later Strata-East records, many of which might be euphemistically described as "community projects", the record A Fresh Viewpoint being a good example. It is interesting that, at a time when many musicians were not able to record at all, Bill Lee was able to be comparatively prolific, and that he used this platform to release such odd records. Does anyone have any insight into how this came about, or Lee's network, standing, and behind the scenes role in what I assume was the New York scene at the time?

I find it interesting how current jazz fandom often compares Black Jazz to Strata-East. One of those labels is pure quality all the way through, whereas the other is pure peaks and troughs.

Is it good? Venus is an interesting label but with an uneven output. Now playing: Solomon Ilori And His Afro-Drum Ensemble – African High Life Not a great record, but it is still interesting for the way some tracks, particularly the more "jazz" tracks, prefigure the more recent London scene with their mix of West African-derived jazz rhythms and dance-minded saxophone solos.

Joe Farrell doesn't always turn up, but when he does, and he was pretty consistent for a while, I'll take him over his contemporaries mentioned above.

What's the lol for?

Maybe Clifford Thornton then? I'm counting Ben Dixon put on account of the fact that it doesn't really feel like it's his vibe.

Orchestra – Not In Our Name

Quarteto Negro – Quarteto Negro (Kuarup, 1987)

By the way, notwithstanding the original post, it isn't only fusion. Any suggestions for bop, post bop or free stuff welcome, acoustic or electric and cut with non-jazz idioms or otherwise.

Patricia Brennan – More Touch (Pyroclastic, 2022) This one's cool. Vibes with heavy pedal warping over diasporic (mostly Afro-Cuban) rhythms. Some old school electronics flourishes.

Mali Obomsawin - Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head, 2022) This one seems to be impressing a lot of people on my twitter feed at the moment, so I thought that I would give it a listen.