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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)

For sure. I think that I was looking more for the perception anyway. I guess that the kids were wow-ed by this stuff, and thought it was the bee's, even if it was not really much more than scales, deployed effectively. At some point, I assume that led to a worldview where "jazz" came to mean something other than fusty parent music and instead was a mark of quality.

Zoot Sims and Jimmy Rowles - Warm Tenor (1978, Pablo)

Do you like these? I always thought they were a bit of a missed opportunity.

I have googled this. It looks intriguing. The links to HMR and the presence of Elvin Jones. Interesting! The discussion mentioned in the first post was partly spurred by your description (which I read as positive) of Bloomfield in God Don't Like It. I hadn't listened to it before that, and checked it out as a result (for whatever reason, it seems to be less famous in the UK than the States).

From Wikipedia: ”It sold more than eight million copies within its first year of release, outselling every record in the history of recorded music to that time”. Gosh.

Thanks everyone. Some great answers. closing out the era and a bit later, I guess there is also that Allman Brothers live record too.

Which do you think we're the "breakthrough" records in terms of extended soloing?

What about the San Franciscans? Were they later developers in jam terms?

I don't know that Chambers LP. That sounds interesting. As with the discussion with the horn bands, there are always at that point two groups of listeners to consider, even before crossing the Atlantic to Europe. Nice call on Freak Out. One of my strongest held musical beliefs is that it is difficult to understand the development of art rock or fusion (especially in Europe) without early Zappa. Some of the initial jazz forays aimed at rock acceptance by e.g. Dave Pike look very much like an attempt to enter through the breach Zappa had made. Again. I wasn't there and I may be wrong.