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Did you take them to a shop?

Lee Ritenour – Captain Fingers (Epic, 1977) Gradually coming to the conclusion that I like Lee Ritenour's stuff quite a lot. It's light pop fusion, but it never has the deadly quality of stiff rhythms or silly guitar shredding. Sort of a watered down Bill Cobham sound. Dated enough to be distant and charming. Actually nice. Doubt it appeals to 90% of listeners here.

Where should one start with Etta and Houston?

These are great. Alpert and Quincy exact examples. Trying to think of more, justly forgotten, stuff though.

We had a bit of chat around the Swingle Sisters and Bach-done-jazz type records a few months ago, and I wondered what other smash hits of the jazz and jazz-adjacent world there were in the 1950s and 1960s? The sort of stuff that was not actually targeted at jazz fans, but more at your general normie consumer. I'm thinking of records like Swingle Sisters - Place Vendôme Kai Winding Featuring Kenny Burrell – !!! More !!! (Theme From Mondo Cane) Frankie Laine And Buck Clayton And His Orchestra – Jazz Spectacular Les Elgart And His Orchestra – Sophisticated Swing I guess that some classics would also fall into this category too, like At The Pershing, Getz' samba records, Hello Dolly, Sinatra's Capitol records, etc. This is really out of historical interest, more than a request for recommendations.

Let’s hope for something along the lines of Jazz United again. I really enjoyed that podcast.

How does this one compare to the four Minton's records, Tenor Scene, and the three "Sets", and to the Twofer with the same name?

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin – Battle Stations (Prestige, 1963) Such an excellent date. Query whether it is the best of all the records that they did together. It's a high bar.

5 Spot for me. Hot stuff.

Seems like they're worlds away to me too.

I have a friend who is a big fan of City Pop and YMO. It's good music.

Louis Moholo / Larry Stabbins / Keith Tippett – Tern (FMP, 1983)

Just spotted one in the wild. Volume 2.

Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour, Diane Schuur, Dave Valentin – GRP Live In Session (GRP, 1988) This one has one of the best write ups that Allmusic ever achieved: Start of review: "On this 1985 date, Diane Schur at least is interesting." End of review.

Playing Live At The 5 Spot.

Those comps are very good. Pp I wouldn't class myself as a fan of the genre any more than I would New Wave just because I like the singles. I find it slightly odd that it gets fetishised so much.

This thought here too. RIP.

Interesting. Is this the same as the Riverside record?

Face to face and Brown Sugar are both great records, but I think that the fire dries some of the grease into calorific crust. Here ‘Tis is pure lukewarm grease. The prissiness adds to it. Scrape it off the top and put it back in the tub. Thinking it through, perhaps Green Onions by Milt Buckner, though…

Lost on the other side of an ocean, but I always liked the idea of College Football. You have to get your lower league kicks somewhere.

Oh. I assumed it was an unknown solo record. Still, an excuse to listen to it again.

The Archie Shepp Deja Vu is good.

That’s a great record. Possibly the greasiest out there.

This is a good image. I may steal it. Which record’s this? I think that, with time, those A&M Montgomerys have gotten better. I’m a big fan.

I am reading one of his books at the moment. I remember going to an event in NY in 2006/7(?) at the Knitting Factory (I think) for one of his significant birthdays. Matthew Shipp played. I wish I remembered who else was on the set. I have tried looking a number of times but found nothing.