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Julius Watkins Sextet (Blue Note) It took me a while to discover records like this one: Those mid-50s hard bop records with denser arrangements and some very slight third stream influences by the likes of Golson, Gryce and Pettiford. A bit of a dead end, and slightly lower profile than the more high powered stuff with Philly Joe Jones or Art Blakey, but I find that they dominate my hard bop listening these days. And there we are.

Love this one.

Quinteplus – Quinteplus (Parlophone, 1972)

How are you finding it?

Stephen McCraven – Wooley The Newt (Sweet Earth, 1979)

Nice one.

https://thesmoothjazzcruise.com/ The crowd looks better on this one…

That's a good one.

Jean Luc Ponty - Daniel Humair - Michel Portal - Phil Woods – La Sorcellerie A Travers Les Ages / Gravenstein (Communication, 1977)

Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh - Jazz Compositions (Melodiye, 1979) I'm a huge fan of this record.

Oregon – Music Of Another Present Era (Vanguard, 1972) Life Force – Fearless Warriors (Numu Numu, 1981)

John Coltrane – Living Space

Love this one

Is this a comp?

Passport – Looking Thru (Atlantic, 1973)

The Vandermark 5 – Single Piece Flow (Atavistic, 1996)

Thanks! I look forward to it

Billy Cobham – Life & Times (Atlantic, 1976)

Is this going to get a release? (Hard copy, bandcamp or whatever?)

A nice selection of records I've been wanting for ages. From The Little Record shop in Hornsey, which I believe is round by @mjazzg's.

Winston Mankunku Ngozi – Jika (Nkomo, 1986) From later on in Mankunku's career. This is definitely pop jazz, but like Stanley Turrentine or Hank Crawford, it's never just pop jazz when the greats are around.

Listened to the OP you posted a few days ago. I'd not heard that one before. I'm neither a hater nor a lover when it comes to OP but that's a great record that's very much in his style, and I think I'd recommend it above others of his that are more famous. A nice record, so thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Are these all from the recent trove?

Best performance artist that I’ve ever seen. Really subversive and funny stuff. Shame about the ticket price.

Sonny Fortune – Long Before Our Mothers Cried (Strata-East, 1974)