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It's Flashbacks Essex Road. No one's favourite record store, but better than many, and you sometimes find some good stuff. I'm still jealous of the Tottenham Lane shop, though.

Just got the new reissues of Tshona! by Pat Matshikiza and Kippie Moketsi and Shrimp Boats by Lionel Pillay and Basil Coetzee, both second hand and apparently never played. Someone must have got them for a birthday present or something and taken them straight back to the shops. Anyway, a good lunch break.

Luella is a brilliant record.

Yeah. It's good. Now on: Miles Davis - 1958 Miles (CBS)

Maybe Free Jazz Blog isn't just going off on one. It seems like these are pretty popular.

Rachel Musson - Dreamsing (577, 2021)

I liked Znachki Stilyag a lot. I haven't heard any others.

That's a hilarious look. I can see him as a bad guy in an 80s comedy. Is the record good? An interesting line up.

Ditto. Not just because of the £30 postage fees, either.

FJC has been outdoing itself of late, with 4.5/5 star reviews. I obviously take these with a grain of salt larger than the Pyramid of Cheops, but I wondered whether any soberer heads than FJCs enthusiastic band of amateurs had heard of any of them and thought they stand out? MingBauSet – Yakut’s Gallop (Fundacja Słuchaj, 2021) Day & Taxi (Christoph Gallio, Silvan Jeger, Gerry Hemingway) – Run, the Darkness Will Come! (Pergaso, 2021) Oùat - Elastic Bricks (Umlaut, 2022) Myra Melford - For the Love of Fire and Water (Rogue Art, 2022) Ballister - Chrysopoeia (Not Two, 2022) Wolves and Mirrors – Wolves and Mirrors (Klaeng Records, 2021) Eldritch Priest – Omphaloskepsis (Halocline Trance, 2022) This Friendship Is Sailing – Live on Curious Ear Radio (Beartown, 2021) Other than Myra, these groups are new to me.

Chris Potter - Underground (Sunnyside, 2006)

Now we know: "he dropped out of Juilliard, shimmying off the rigid curriculum to tour with A$AP Rocky. Now, in 2022, Rodriguez is on the cusp of a stellar release that weaves his life and influences - from Monk, Coltrane, Solange, James Blake, Sampha and more."

I was listening to Scott this morning off the back of the above post and really enjoying it.

Remembered it warmly?

I do sometimes wonder how the 1980s generation would be seen had the Young Lions marketing campaign not happened. I wonder whether it damaged e.g. Terence Blanchard in the longer term to be associated with the Marsalis hype machine. On a totally different note: I've recently been exploring the later period Wynton Marsalis records: the larger and more 'ambitious' group works like Blood on the Fields and Citi Movement. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I'm pretty surprised at how poor they are. They're like something a promising 16 year old would write. Whether you like his 1980s stuff or not, he seems to have utterly failed to deliver in the longer term. Even his role as a contraversialist seems to have been taken by Payton recently.

Benny Golson - Stardust (Denon, 1987)

Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony (Atlantic, 1987)

Dusko Goykovich – Soul Connection (Enja, 1993)

Sandro Brugnolini - Gli Arcangeli (RCA, 1963) Inspired by the euro modernists thread (still giving…) and a recent post on London Jazz Collector blog.

Okkyung Lee – I Saw The Ghost Of An Unknown Soul And It Said... (Ecstatic Peace!, 2008)

Thanks. Great post.

None that I know, but all interesting looking. Do any of these stand out to you?

Likewise with the new posts that Dan just put up. I'm always interested in Michel Petrucciani. He passed away in the late nineties and his star seems to have faded fast after that, so that it wasn't really visible by the point when I started listening to more recent jazz. I've never really clicked with any recording he is on, including e.g. the duets with Konitz, but he clearly made a big impact on those who were there at the time. Also, an interesting looking late period Clifford Jordan, if it isn't presumptive to suggest that Jordan's career is capable of being classes into periods.

I have found that, in contrast to the 1970s run, I have greater familiarity with the choices that I have so far seen in the 1980s. This time though, other than the incredibly excellent Bimhuis, I don't know the other two. Looking forward to checking them out.

True words.