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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Be Known: Ancient / Future / Music (2019)

Jimmy Smith – It's Necessary This record is crazy good. I'd never listened to it before today. A whole other level. Yes it is good. It sounds like Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink recording a duo album in the seventies, released on ICP. Exactly like that. Mengelberg's in particularly good form.

Misha Mengelberg / Han Bennink – Einepartietischtennis (ICP, 1974)

The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine – Remembrance (MPS, 1978)

Tony Oxley / Alan Davie – Elaboration Of Particulars (Confront, 2021)

This is great! Well done.

Hellborg / Lane / Sipe – Personae Jonas Hellborg can play some bass. Too much widdly guitar but the bass is good enough to make this record for me. As always, past 1980, widdly widdly guitar starts becoming a real issue for fusion.

Mal Waldron – One Entrance, Many Exits (Palo Alto, 1983) This is a good record.

Thank you. These look really good.

Thanks!

Thanks. I was actually looking for the next steps after those two. I had managed to go through life missing After Midnight until now and wanted to know where to go next.

Just checking for Nat King Cole LP recommendations, and I don't believe that we actually have a thread. Does one exist? Otherwise I'll start one.

Roy Eldridge - What It's All About (Pablo, 1976)

I was a bit too young for them, but I remember it as adult music that used to be around a lot when I was a little kid and seemed very sophisticated to me as a 7 or 8 year old. Just in the mood for a little 90s silliness.

MonoNeon – Banana Peel On Capitol Hill

I've been listening to a fair few of these Joe Locke records that were recommended upthread. I've never heard a vibes player who sounded more like a pianist.

The Brand New Heavies (1990)

Klaus Weiss – The Git Go (MPS, 1975) Ah. The nineteen seventies. Note the thrillingly clever Velazquezian touch to the cover art.

Thanks.

I think I've heard Carl Allen on a few thinks, and Kikoshi on fewer, but I don't think they're names that I see regularly.

Is this good? I enjoy all the horn players on here, but I don't know the others.

I have always thought that Mitchell was a great player with a really interesting and personal sound on her flute, but I think that some of her earlier records sometimes adopted ensemble approaches that, whilst good, perhaps didn't show off how unique her playing is. I first fell really in love with Mitchell's music when I listened to the solo record I posted above. I could listen to that record all day. This was similarly excellent, with the piano opening up new possibilities for the flute. It reminded me a lot of Hemphill, Newton and very late Debussy, whilst still being it's own thing. Two players who work beautifully together. I would love to hear a duo album. Sadly, OTO was not full last night either, although it did have a quite intense and studious small audience feel, which was nice.

I did, with Alexander Hawkins of this parish. I really enjoyed it. Very moving. Edit: I should add, and not just because one of the duo might be reading this, that I thought that the combination of Mitchell and Hawkins really worked well for both, and brought out something really magical.

Nicole Mitchell – Engraved In The Wind (RogueArt, 2013) These can't go on Bandcamp soon enough, in my view.

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – Sing A Song Of Basie (ABC Paramount, 1958)