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Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die Live (International Anthem, 2021) This one felt like an instant classic when it came out. I still dig it. It feels like in the last two years several other International Anthems artists have tried their hands at bettering it but failed.

I randomly bumped an old friends parents today. The mum had heard that I was into more avant garde jazz and wanted to talk to me about Roland Kirk, who, along with Ornette Coleman, had obviously entranced her as a kid (were Atlantic artists particularly visible in 1960s Southgate?). It's got me back in a Kirk mood - an artist I have always enjoyed without ever quite cracking. The above is a great thread, with some excellent recommendations, but I would be interested to know which single record people think most shows Kirk at his best in soloing terms, as opposed to in overall concept / presentation.

Dizzy Gillespie - New Wave (Philips, 1963)

That's it. Although they missed a trick by not doing the face/spines thing.

Has Columbia done some sort of Miles box set with a complete run, with his face across the spines or something? You'd think it would have done.

I still do not understand this bit.

The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet (Debut, 1953) Robin Kenyatta – Gypsy Man (Atlantic, 1973) Two excellent records that I am listening to for the first time.

There's definitely a vinyl reissue of the real one. It's everywhere in shops here, and has been for a while. Film... I don't know.

It is currently easily available, at least over here.

Sonny Rollins - Reel Life (Milestone, 1982) My first listen to this one. Some good tunes. I'll be playing it again.

The Incredible String Band – The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (Elektra, 1968) I recently finished Joe Boyd's excellent book of recollections. I enjoyed the absolute pasting he gave the ISB. It reminded me to pull it out.

Thanks!

Thanks! What do you rub with?

Does anyone know how to clean the cleaner itself? Mine is now covered in dusty.

How’s this one?

Looks pretty intriguing… is he the same Yosvany Terry who did the excellent Today’s Opinion? Just re-read this thread. It covers a lot of ground. Some great Latin jazz recommendations, forward thinking Norteno accordion jams and southern rock horrors.

Guy Lafitte / Wild Bill Davis – Three Men On A Beat (Black and Blue, 1983) Having just finished: Joe Albany - The Right Combination (Riverside, 1957) Two of the best from that label.

No one tell Anthony Braxton about this thread.

I’m always interested to hear about this stuff. Does this reflect a distaste for fusion or is it dispersed within Modern and Avant Garde?

It's as good a line up as I have ever seen.

Great record. Close enough to European progressive rock from the time (particularly the German "krautrock") that I often recommend it to non-jazz friends. George Russell - Listen to the Silence (1973) My first ever listen to this rather odd one, a sort of jazz secular mass. Very much of the early 1970s, with references to Nixon, 'metanoia', Vietnam and everything else, including a Maoist / Nietzschean digression on the real message of the gospel being the rejection of "slave morality". Plus all the musicians were to achieve fame and remuneration mining the ECM vein. It is so of it's time that it makes Escalator over the Hill look like Oasis. Strangely enjoyable though.

Is it a Canadian film? We may have found another section. Back in my CD days, I used alphabetical, but my collection was too diffuse. It was seeing the black and orange Coltranes next to Company Flow and Converge that made me reorganise by genre.

I briefly got excited, but I assume that this is Henderson rather than Harris. Where is Big Band Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones filed?

What goes in a Zodiac section?

Eddie Harris - I Need Some Money (Atlantic, 1974)