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I don't think we have a topic on this. What in your opinion are the indispensable Miles Davis live documents? All eras welcome. The two Plugged Nickel sets would seem to be obvious contenders.

I was kept up by the fireworks all night. I understand that people wanted to celebrate, but I thought that the worldwide 'Malibu to Bali' laser show relay was excessive in these times of scarcity.

Charles Earland - Leaving This Planet (Prestige, 1973) Nice bit of rare groove on a Monday.

Whilst this may not be jazz's greatest era, I find it frustrating the way that so much jazz music since 1982 gets collectively forgotten (or "memory holed" to use the internet term). Jazz didn't stop developing in this time - even these Young Lion records aren't just recreations of the past - and there've always been good records released. It feels like stuff gets released, people get excited by it, and then it just gets forgotten. Not so much because it's not excellent, but just because everything after 1982 seems to be regarded as ephemeral, and, whilst there were clear leaders, groups and trends, they don't get names or recognition. It is so much harder to find out about good records in the last four decades except for the ones that have just been released. It seems crazy that groups and records like the Pullen / Freeman quartet or Ralph Peterson's Fo'tet, aren't well known, just because they fall on the wrong side of a really arbitrary date line. I started listening to jazz only a few years after these groups were operational and the result was that they were already largely forgotten and it took me decades of listening to even hear about these groups. (I only learned about the Fo'tet here.) Maybe this will change - 20 years ago jazz history seemed to have ended in 1970. In the past few years the 1970s has been fully rediscovered and jazz from that era is now prized.

Thanks. I see he was in Association P.C. too. I should have recognised his name. Great pic on the Wikipedia entry: Like a mad sea captain.

Archie Shepp and pianist Jasper van 't Hof- Mama Rose (Steeplechase) I sometimes wonder what the backstory is behind this one. Who was van't Hof? I don't think I've ever heard of him apart from this record. Was Shepp looks for some sort of Richard Teitelbaum partner? Was it meant to be a more "modern" corrective to his recent traditionalist exercises? Added to that is the fact that Shepp at this period really sounds thin and on edge, as if the 1980s had hit him hard. In the film Imagine The Sound from the previous year, he looks and plays like he's in the middle of some sort of terrible collapse and on the verge of tears (although that's true of everyone in that film except for Bill Dixon).

That makes sense. It's a fun record. I recommend trying it, even just through streaming the opening Ornette tune. It's really quite something. Russell I think was always a bit of a curious player, I think. He's backed by Marshall Brown on trombone and a good rhythm section, who keep him steady. It really works.

Michael Garrick Sextet - Jazz Praises at St Paul's (Airborne, 1968) First listen to this. Didn't expect it to be this simple and enjoyable.

Thank you! I shall check those out.

I know Poo Sun and SilverWorld. Are any others recommended?

Milt Jackson - Olinga (CTI, 1974)

Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now

Sure. Anyway, Sullivan's music on that record would sound natural on a record from 1967. It must have stood out in 1957. That's a bit different to e.g. Gryce or Hawes.

Why are the Beatles and Ennio Morricone international jet set aesthetic?

I'd pay for that. Lol This could be a Neil Hamburger song.

That's an interesting point. Lots of great musicians do seem to get lost in the shuffle at precisely that point in time - Gigi Gryce is one who pops into mind.

Paul Plimley and Barry Guy - Sensology (Maya, 1997)

A nice write up. Always good to see evangelising for the quartet.

Is this the only thread that we have on Zenon? He's had an hell of a decade and a half. I'd be interested to know whether the slightly lukewarm views of his playing have changed since 2008 when this thread was active.

I was listening to Red Rodney's Savoy record 1957 (AKA Fiery, AKA The Red Arrow), off the back of a recent post by @Chuck Nessa of that record on the now playing thread. I'm struck by how advanced Sullivan's playing is on that record. It's crazy to think that it came out in 1957. What did that music sound like to an audience back then? Or to the other players, Rodney included?

Lee Morgan - Caramba! (Blue Note, 1968) . Not sure why but this has been showing up in social media a lot recently, which prompted me to listen to it again. I forgot how enjoyable it is. The title track has some strong similarities to "Listen Here" to my ears, although the playing is so different.

Jason Moran - All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller (Blue Note, 2014) My first listen. Slightly hokey at points but overall pretty successful at mixing old and new, I think. Crucially, good solos.

Hubert Laws - The Rite of Spring (CTI, 1971) I was in the mood for the lushest music I could think of.

Maria Dunietz - Free The Dolphin (2021)

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