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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.

Earl Bostic – Jazz As I Feel It (King, 1963)

One of my "What IS this?!" solos.

I find that I like El Zabar when I like him. He’s not a draw for me, but when he is good he is good. Those rhythms feel quite organic. I see him as a more approachable version of Milford Graves.

Is this a comp?

It is a lot of work, but I do really enjoy this sort of thing. Post 1960s (maybe post 1970s, these days) the jazz canon is so much in flux that there's always new things to be discovered. Plus I enjoy the strange late period and straight ahead records you often pull up that other bloggers ignore.

A sudden swerve with today's posts from co-writer Dan. Georg Graewe stands out as a name that we haven't seen until now.

Yes! That's a lot better. Generally a big fan of the upgraded look and upgraded performance.