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Thanks! Fuse One – Fuse One (CTI, 1980)

Lil Hardin Armstrong And Her Orchestra – Chicago - The Living Legends (Riverside, 1962)

I don't know much about this series - either the New Orleans or Chicago iterations. Are any of the series worth picking up?

The Ted Brown Sextet Featuring Warne Marsh And Art Pepper – Free Wheeling (Vanguard, 1957)

Yep

Or Ran Blake.

Freddie Hubbard – Blue Spirits (Blue Note, 1967)

Max Roach, Connie Crothers – Swish (New Artists, 1982)

Binder Quintet Featuring John Tchicai (Krem, 1983)

Kenny Clarke – Klook's Clique (Savoy, 1956)

Imamu Amiri Baraka – It's Nation Time - African Visionary Music (MoTown, 1972) I had no idea that this had been rereleased in 2018. For whatever reason, Sounds of the Universe in Soho has a bunch of them. Sounds great. just realised that this should be in the vinyl section.

Other than word of mouth, social media and this board, I find that one of the best ways to discover new music is through lists that other music lovers post online. Back in the day, Amazon's ListMania was an incredible resource for finding out about records. These days, I tend to rely quite heavily on lists appearing on (i) Discogs (which also feed into Discog's pretty good algorithmic recommendations) or (ii) the Rate Your Music website. (The latter's main functionality is as a rating for a group's records - basically useless - but the user generated lists are very strong.) There's a wide range of lists out there. Everything from some user's favourite hard bop on Blue Note, to incredibly detailed lists of mostly Yugoslavian jazz rock from the 1980s. It's a really good way to discover the "deep cuts". Does anyone else use lists in this way? Are there any other good sites that allow for user generated lists like these that I am missing?

I was listening to Bedside Manners Are Extra yesterday. The second track has duelling mellotron solos. More 1970s than Noddy Holder eating a steak garni and black forest gateau.

Michael Mantler – The Hapless Child (Watt, 1976)

Paul Burwell / Hugh Davies / Max Eastley / Paul Lovens / Paul Lytton/ Annabel Nicolson / Evan Parker / David Toop – Circadian Rhythm (Incus, 1980)

Mario Schiano, Roberto Bellatalla, Lino Liguori – Concerto Della Statale

Malik's Emerging Force Art Trio - Time & Condition Just rereleased, digitally and on vinyl. I had no idea.

The Barry Altschul Quartet – Irina (Soul Note, 1998)

Who did these covers? They're substantially better than make of the fake Reid Miles jobs that get stuck on official vault issues.

I remember reading this a while back. Presumably Matthew Shipp himself?

I think that this is my wife's favourite jazz record ever. It's one of mine too. Not hurt by the gorgeous cover.

Same. I like this era a lot more than the earlier free-er stuff, which to my ears sounds one dimensional (perhaps "more" one dimensional).

Ditto. Just finished God Didn't Like It, the second of your books that I have read this year. Hard to think of anyone else who writes like this.

100% Kamasi. Including the general sprawl of the thing.

Dino Saluzzi – Albores (ECM, 2020)