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Is this good? Interesting line up

Looks amazing. Good luck with the event. Is your book out now, by the way?

The Jamal is madly overpriced. I really don't think it is his best save for the echoey dubby effects on side two which are cool. For avantgarde jazz I am One In / One Out at the moment, and the axe has fallen on Drum Dance and Lester Bowie's The Great Pretender. I can't claim to truly love them, so better to create space. For whatever reason my seven year old really likes Don Cherry. He keeps playing Brown Rice to his bewildered school friends. We recently went to a museum in Exeter and the kids got dragged into some sort of marimba and flute happening designed for kids that really did sound like Eternal Rhythm, so that's got the kids obsessed with Cherry's music again. Sadly Eternal Rhythm is one of the few records my wife won't tolerate so it only gets spun when she's having a lie in. The Roach was my late father in law's. I like Roach's music generally but it is not my favourite of his. But still enjoyable enough and nice to keep as a memory. I didn't actually listen to it though: my one year old has taken to "helping" me to chose records, and the record that he was throwing on the floor and jumping on this time was the Roach record, which I then put safely out of harm's way.

Those would be my choices probably, although Gentle Giant album by album only.

King Kong

Its one of the few actually creative prog records. Its hard to think of other records that sound like that.

The Modern Jazz Disciples – The Modern Jazz Disciples

Area – Maledetti (Maudits)

I'm not sure this one qualifies as fusion or jazz rock - Canterbury scene for sure but at the more art rock end of it, maybe? But it is such a great record, and one that I always forget, so thanks for reminding me to dig it out.

I was thinking of them. A strange mixture of Roxy Music and jazz rock. I didn't know about the Lacy and Lytton connection.

This record is a weird one. Kraan is regarded as one of the jazzier German rock groups, but I could never really hear it. It is rock music to my ears. Having said that, it is good rock music. This live record is one of the greats. I like it a lot more than Embryo etc.

Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm Decided to lose a Khan Jamal record Drum Dance To The Motherland which I never really listen to, so reputation restored

There's something happening here.

Orquesta Porfi Jimenez – Porfin Porfi The 1 year old is pretty taken with this one.

I missed the Herbie thing. Sounds undignified.

His Paul Horn flute record did eat a lot of jazz column inches, and he is headlining jazz festivals these days, so it does affect the likes of Iverson a bit, I guess. Probably more Kamasi Washington than Iverson, but that record has had a big impact on the kids. Probably not Shipp, so much, as you say, but then Shipp has strong ideas, particularly about piano, which don't stop at the merely musical, and I guess he finds Andre 3000 acting the piano dilettante to be offensive.

Fair dos. I have always had severe space issues and tend to panic if I have more than one record by the same artist, so I'm always interested in others' collecting habits.

Out of interest, why own this on five versions if you are comfortable with one particular version? Do the others have special bonus tracks or something?

I do find it a bit weird how the negative crits have focused on how he is "not a pianist" rather than that he can't play piano well or an interesting manner. Plenty of good piano jazz records out there by non-pianists (e.g. Mingus).

One thing that is interesting about these records is that they form such a strong cross-genre continuum. It isn't always easy to tell what's jazz rock and what's prog.

September – Zadnja Avantura A recommendation from the Euro Fusion thread.

Mind you, I would still take Andre 3000's anodyne piano music to the releases by other legacy hip hop artists this week...

It ends with a list of reviews from publications, all glowing, and then comments left on the YouTube video.

I haven't actually heard that one. It's on my to stream list.

That's right.