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Do you know what this one is called? Apologies for not thanking before. I did not actually see the update, which is why.

So good.

Horace Tapscott Quintet – The Quintet This is a good record.

The River is another good one that I’ve just remembered Which are these? I’ve tried googling.

I really enjoy that record Peterson did with Milt Jackson too. Vibes seem to tame the beast. I do really think that the two instruments have a magical sympathy.

Which of these are your favourites?

Charles Lloyd still has the same glasses! Impressed you got Coleman.

For whatever reason he really cut through in the last five years. He and Sun Ra (Philly era) are the face of jazz to a lot of younger people I know.

Is that Harold Mabern?

Thanks everyone!

I love the combination: joint piano and vibes front line, with intricate traded solos, with or without a rhythm section or an occasional horn. There's obviously the classic Hutcherson / Hancock Blue Notes, and the MJQ. I would also include Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson on Pablo, Khan Jamal and Matthew Ship, and Burton's Hotel Hello with Steve Swallow on electric piano. What are.some other examples I'm missing?

I love the combination: joint piano and vibes front line, with intricate traded solos, with or without a rhythm section or an occasional horn. There's obviously the classic Hutcherson / Hancock Blue Notes and the MJQ. I would also include Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson on Pablo, Khan Jamal and Matthew Ship, and Burton's Hotel Hello with Steve Swallow on electric piano. What are.some other examples I'm missing?

When's the blog going to be updated? There's not much more of Toots looking at me quizzically that I can take.

Very sad to hear.

I got mine for £4 from Alans in North London. One of the best value records I have purchased because I spin it all the time.

Bobby Jackson (12) – The Café Extra-Ordinaire Story (Ninth Note, 1977) First listen to this one, which I think is a recent re release of a fairly obscure record 1970s Minneapolis. Very good, very modal, stuff.

I might be confusing it with the Nate Woolley records from the same time.

Harold Johnson Sextet – House On Elm Street

Sonny Rollins - Falling in Love with Jazz (Milestone, 1989)

I could swear that we had a VSOP thread around here more recently than this but I might have imagined. Anyway, a recent substack on the "Stadium Jazz" phenomenon. https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/stadium-jazz

I was wondering recently whether that’s the end of this project. Sorey seems to be moving back into the jazz world recently. (Unless I’ve missed anything.)

I AM – Beyond (Division 81, 2022) I know that other people have raved about it, but I wasn't prepared for how good this one is. I have seen Collier live and heard him on record and thought that he was fine but a bit of a spiritual jazz hipster. I was clearly completely wrong. Ode is very good too. Really impressive.

That's great news!

Still on the Horn Bands, what about early Mothers of Invention? They had introduced horns by 1967. I often think you can hear their influence in the likes of Dave Pike and the early German and British fusion guys.

A joke at the expense of 1964. The record is hilarious enough on its own.