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Moor Mother – Jazz Codes (Anti, 2022) Another listen to this. It still sounds to my ears an awful lot like an early 00s Mike Ladd production.

Eli Soda - Honk If You’re Sad (2022) Lakecia Benjamin – Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope, 2022) I am not sure what I was expecting from this one. Great cover though.

Rather embarrassingly, I actually had not realised that there were five. I thought just it was LMO, Ballad and Dream Keeper. That's despite @JSngry's reference about to Not In Our Name.

Anthony Braxton - Echo Echo Mirror House (Victo, 2013) So dense, but some very good moments. My first listen but will certainly not be my last. I really agree with this. I find a box set to be a real turn off, and really like to here the original records, as (the producer) intended, and with the shorter and more digestible playing time. Also, what an excellent record this is.

The greatest.

Thanks! I know the first Opa but not the second. That YT stream looks great too. I meant Central and Southern - I was trying to find a way to include Brazil. Cuba in particular is, I think, a better explored area than the other local scenes, although any recommendations still appreciated.

My comment on “Spanish civil kitsch” is really a non-musical one, which reflects a personal irritation regarding the way that republican Spanish civil war themes, iconography and slogans continue to appear in modern cultural and political discourse. I think that this is one, very subjective, reason for my not really loving the first record, and preferring the later ones. The bigger issue for me is that the first record is really a concept album based around brass band interpretations of the songs from the era, interspersed with personal meditations. The treatment seems to move between nostalgic, martial and lachrymose, which is really not to my taste. The tunes are also handled quite directly, save for pauses for contemplative bass solos, or atonal and/or zany breakdowns. I find that I can see a lot of it coming, before it starts, which is not something that I could say for The Magic City or Seasons. I find that the other two records manage to avoid these traps (which probably only appear to be traps to me - this is all purely subjective). The Spanish Civil War becomes more inspiration and less subject matter, and Carla Bley’s arrangements are much more important. Bley had only gotten better in the intervening time, and I think that is a huge contributor to what I like about albums 2 and 3. I think that Bley also opens the second and third records out to the players, who get to say more interesting things. Anyway, it is all opinion, and I am aware that many people really love that first record, so I probably am the one who needs to revisit it.

I actually prefer this one to the original a bit. More Carla; more Don Cherry; less Spanish Civil War kitsch. I realise that I'm probably wrong, but that's my very subjective take.

These look cool. Thanks! What records would you recommend?

Bring on the deluge.

I like the reissues. I'll take those. It is the insufferable Twitter posts about Pharoah Sanders weaving delicate filigrees made out of dreams, etc., that I would like to lose.

How's this one?

Not a record that I know but certainly sounds worth visiting.

Nice idea for a thread. Interesting to consider two eras when it was quite common for record companies to try to engineer all star groups. In the 1970s there were a number of all star records, often under a title that referenced the label (CBS All Stars, etc) and often live. A mixed batch of jams for stadium audiences. @CJ ShearnI think wrote a nice blog post about the era recently. That record, with an eye catching turn from Mark Shim on tenor, is one of the few straight ahead records from the era that I really enjoy. There were also a number of all star groups during the Young Lions era. OTB probably the most famous. Those also tend to underperform, although I think the New Directions group with the slightly younger Young Lions did better. Just to confirm, is the point that the groups have to be made up of existing A listers, rather than star making groups like the First Quintet or AEC? So Old and New Dreams and VSOP but not Ornette's Atlantic Quartet or Davis' Second Quintet?

I recently listened to this excellent record, based off an Instagram post: It is an electric post bop / fusion record by Argentine musicians from 1972, that moves either side of the In A Silent Way marker. Not dissimilar to other excellent examples that came out of Germany, the UK and Japan around the same time. It is very good, and worth streaming if you haven't heard if. Most of my exposure to jazz from Central and South America comes from the artists who emigrated, like Deodato or Gato Barbieri, but there were presumably fertile local scenes that continued. Does anyone know anything about jazz during this period in Latin America (presumably Brazil and Argentina were the largest scenes?) or have any albums to recommend?

Wow

Good way of putting it. #spiritualjazz® thing as it exists on twitter is pretty tiresome clout-chasing stuff.

Just listened to this, and it’s a cracker. Phoar!

YouTube’s algorithm is surprisingly excellent for jazz.

Thanks!

Jolted by the recent double post in Listening To…, mine is the Black and Blue label. I wasn’t even aware of it until February this year, when someone I think posted Earl Hines’ and Budd Johnson’s The Dirty Old Men. I’ve been completely hooked by it since. It helps that the label has such a high success rate.

Hadn’t seen this when I posted! Black and Blue was a great label.

Milt Buckner Featuring Jo Jones – Block Chords Parade (Black and Blue, 1975)

There's a lot of love directed towards Ms. M. Michiru on this forum, but I realised that I have never actually listened to her. What is the one record that you would start with?

I liked the Atlantic self-titled record. A nice example of the sort of "progressive" hard bop that didn't really survive the modal era.