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Thanks! These look excellent.

4 CD box set. I'm saving it up for when the kids are packed off to university.

I'm really enjoying this one at the moment: Paul Dunmall Brass Project – Maha Samadhi (Slam, 2016) 2016, so not really a new release. Dunmall and Olie Brice are both very good on this. The surprise for me though is the trumpeter Percy Pursglove, who is absolutely fantastic. Does anyone know him at all?

I remember the comics boom in the 1990s, where they kept releasing collectible editions. They then all lost their value overnight around the dot com crash. Even rare second hand comics didn’t come back for about 15 years. My father in law used to say the same about the antiques market in the 70s, which has never regained its value in the UK. I reckon vinyl is going to go the same way pretty soon. Money will become expensive again, and the assets boom will stall, taking vinyl with it. I suspect that vinyl won’t make a comeback for a while because in its popularity it will have stopped being associated with DJs and start being associated with fathers. I don’t care personally: I’m not buying as an investment. I suspect that the same is true of other forum users. The only issue would be if the flow of reissues stopped or the record shops closed.

I can never recognise McLean from one photo to the next, even when he was young.

I know that Bud Shank's style is meant to have changed in later years, but I'm not sure that I ever heard any of his music from that time. What do you think are the stand out records from his later career?

Stan Levey – Grand Stan (Bethlehem, 1957)

Gerry Hemingway Quartet – Down To The Wire (Hat Art, 1993)

Reggie Workman – Cerebral Caverns (Postcards, 1995)

Julius Hemphill / Peter Kowald – Live At Kassiopeia (NoBusiness, 2011)

Bobby Enriquez - Richie Cole – "The Wildman" Meets "The Madman" (GRP Crescendo, 1982) Now, as detergent: Keith Rowe – The Room (Erstwhile, 2007)

A nice list.

They're absolutely great on this record.

Joe Haider Trio – Café Des Pyrénnées (Kick, 1973) First listen to this German piano trio record and enjoying it a lot.

He mentioned that he "played a bit of guitar". I'm such a fool.

Oh wow. I had no idea.

Cecil Taylor Unit – Spring Of Two Blue-J's

Globe Unity Orchestra And Guests – Pearls (FMP, 1977) Brought from Atlantis records in Hackney. The owner claims it came from Evan Parker's collection and that he buys from him occasionally. Had a nice chat.

I'm being slow. Who is he?

He'd need the hair. Who is that?

Jeremy Pelt – Soundtrack (HighNote, 2022) Someone posted this recently and I thought I'd give it a listen. It really is good. Chien Chien Lu is fantastic on vibes.

Has anyone ever seen Eric Alexander and the leader of the British opposition in the same room together? It's getting uncanny.

Warmed over.

I'd never heard of Bobby Enriquez. I'm interested where this is going.

I blame it on my sausage fingers.