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I second this. I fell head over heels for those trips a few months back. Just great.

Mike Osborne Trio – All Night Long (The Willisau Concert) (Ogun, 1976)

Evan Parker / Paul Rutherford / Dave Holland / Paul Lovens – The Ericle Of Dolphi (1985)

Grover Washington, Jr. – Reed Seed (Motown, 1978) Grover's funkiest!

Arthur Blythe – Put Sunshine In It (CBS, 1985) I hadn't realised Arthur Blythe did a smooth jazz record.

Etta Jones – Don't Go To Strangers (Prestige, 1960)

Niacin – Deep (Magna Carta, 2000)

Sam Rivers Quartet – Crosscurrent Live At Jazz Unité (Blue Marge 1982)

David Wertman – Kara Suite (Mustevic, 1976)

Masayoshi Takanaka – The Rainbow Goblins (Kitty, 1981) This one is as silly as the title. The whole thing has this weird pastoral British folk vibe that sits oddly with the mixed quality 80s fusion (which could be by Casiopia or someone else).

George Howard – Dancing In The Sun (TBA, 1985)

James Moody and Al Cohn – Too Heavy For Words (MPS, 1973)

I love this record. Always gets heads bopping.

Nate Wooley – Argonautica (Firehouse, 2016)

That's fighting talk. Go in, then. What are your favourite three of his sideman dates?

Allen Kwela Octet – Allen's Soul Bag (Atlantic City, 1972) Other than Kwela himself, does anyone know who the musicians are on this one? They seem to be uncredited, but they're heavily featured solowise.

Zytron – New Moon In Zytron (Pacific Arts, 1978)

Forgot Zappa. My first jazz records were definitely Hot Rats, Waka Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. I'm not sure that I really thought about them as jazz, though.

I like his 80s records like Warning a fair bit. Some plodding stuff, but still 2/3s good, and with some well-written tunes. Also, an important drummer for the evolution of Hip Hop, of course.

I like it a lot. Very maximalist. Despite what the cover promises, it's not full of sitars etc.

It's a lot of fun. Lots happening.

Emil Richards & The Microtonal Blues Band – Journey To Bliss (Impulse!, 1968)

Bobby Bland – Dreamer Why the hell don't Bobby Bland records ever get re-released?

I grew up with an ex-jazz fan dad and a mum who never ever listened to music and didn't tolerate it in the house. The first jazz record I owned was John Coltrane and Jonny Hartman, which was bought for me when I first left home by a friend of the family, as what I assume was a joke baby-making record. It's a great record. My first purchases for myself were the usual Kind of Blue; plus Freedom Suite and Concert by the Sea, both of which were favourites of my dad and aunt, but which at that point I had never heard. First jazz record that I fell in love with was My Favourite Things. Then I randomly bought Sounds by Roscoe Mitchell and that was me done.