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I hadn't even seen this one. Time was, every new IA release got huge publicity on social media. Will check it out.

Is this one as good?

Tumi Mogorosi – Group Theory: Black Music (Mushroom Hour, 2022) My first listen to this one. Really excellent, and recommended.

Tom van der Geld & Children At Play – Out Patients (JAPO, 1980)

Thanks!

Thank you! Actually, that’s grim. I wish that I hadn’t read it.

Remy Le Boeuf - Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly Of Shadows (Soundspore, 2019) First listen to this recent big band record and not that impressed. The drums have a looped quality that feels like fake swing, and the arrangements sound too obviously written on a programme - you can practically see the blocks of sounds moving past. Not a record to which I would return.

What happened?

I hope so because it's so great.

Thanks.

There’ve been quite a lot of new releases recently. Does anyone who’s keeping up feel like recommending any?

It’s a deep vault.

Daunik Lazro / Joe McPhee – Élan, Impulse (Adda, 1997) This one's very good indeed. @Д.Д. Do you know this one?

Willem Breuker & Leo Cuypers – ...Superstars (FMP, 1978)

That sound like it.

UPP - UPP (Epic, 1975)

Bobby Previte's Latin For Travelers – My Man In Sydney (Enja, 1997) Quinsin Nachoff's Flux - Path of Totality (Whirlwind, 2019) I've listened to this quite a few times this week. Strangely horrible internet age production on the drums, but really absorbing.

This is turning into quite a binge. I like all of these to be honest. Nothing I'd choose to own, but there's something about that throbbing impressionist Sebesky sound.

Thanks. I was wondering what had happened to him of late. After releasing about 12 box sets a week of new music over the last few years he has suddenly gone quiet.

Active Ingredients (Chad Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, Tom Abbs, Steve Swell, Rob Mazurek, David Boykin, Avreeayl Ra) – Titration (Delmark, 2003) A very good one, which I somehow missed when it came out. Chad Taylor is really incredible here.

El Corazón -Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell (ECM, 1982)

Listening to this now. It's very good.

Sign me up for the pre-order.

Aha. The CryptoMachine Gun. What would have happened if Van Hove had been subbed out for for the delicate harpsichord of Odile Bailleux? We shall never know. In all seriousness, it is strange that I can easily think of more subs for Machine Gun than I can for Ascension. Probably it reflects the fact that the stakes are lower. Ascension means free jazz celebrity, so I guess we all take it more seriously.

Sadao Watanabe – Live At The Junk (CBS, 1970)