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John Lindberg Trio - Give and Take (Black Saint, 1982) Forgot just how meaty and bouncy this one is. For once, it's not just down to George Lewis. A real trio record.

Supposedly he picked something by the group on his Desert Island Discs appearance. He also makes an appearance as a talking head on that Jazz Britannia programme at some point. Great taste in jazz; even greater taste in footwear.

I need to check this one out.

Earth Beams is an absolute classic. I think I heard somewhere that former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke is a big fan of the album. Which is weird, but at least everyone can agree that he's right on the one thing. I think I'm most interested in exploring some of the David Newman records that you mention. I don't know his post-70s work, and some of the lineups look like dream team sessions.

Tome is the Graham Rd one. I'll check out the others. I hadn't realised that VDS was the name of the Idle Moments one.

Interested to know the other ones. There's one close by on Graham Rd, but it's not much. Old school feel but very modern price and so so stock. The new one that I love is Idle Moments on Columbia Road, which is a joint venture between a wine shop and a tokyo record shop. Lots of Japanese jazz and fusion and US / European stuff that went well in the Tokyo market, plus Japanese pressings. Price is normal - not massive. Sadly not a shop to visit on a Sunday, given what the flower market has become.

It really has the old crate digging feel. Random but good stock and not expensive (£18 for the two, both in excellent condition, which is good for East these days). I'd never been there but a non-jazz DJ friend was raving about it, and it's really not far from me.

Went to Atlantis in Hackney Central. I picked up Smack Up by Art Pepper and Give and Take by John Lindberg. Very good prices - like ten years ago. Lots of good FMP stuff in there at the moment (Globe Unity etc.) for any London based forum members.

I guess house is derived from the same place as disco and funk, just taken to a further place? A nephew/niece? Part of the same family as jazz certainly, in the same way that those other 1970s musics were. I've always enjoyed house music, but I do find the beat locked in, which I find increasingly distracting in a way I didn't when I was younger. Hip hop beatmakers are increasingly avoiding the old 120bpm loop feeling, so that beats breathe more (or at least repeat over a longer cycle so that the ear doesn't pick up on it so much), and I'd like it if house producers adopted a similar approach. Then again, maybe they are and I've just missed it. I haven't been anywhere where house was playing for the last three years.

Roscoe Mitchell - L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples (Nessa, 1978) My wife slept in this morning so I took the opportunity to introduce the kids to one of the classics. Findings: Still a great record. The toddler loves a boogie so much that she can find the rhythm in literally anything. How you can shake your thing to Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell and George Lewis playing with no discernable time structure at all bewilders me, but she managed to find the beat somehow. The 3 year old has so little interest in music that he thought this was a Lenny White record that I had played the day before. Austere jazz-linked composition does just as well as any other kind of music.

Yes and no. Hot Patootie did the one and the Jim S tunes did the other.

Was he really so low profile in the late 1970s? I think I had heard of Chet Baker before I heard of Miles Davis, just from seeing his iconic album covers. As a child of 90s, he was among the most high profile of all jazz musicians. For some reason I and my friends had picked up a completely skewed version of Chet Baker's life story, where he was a lightweight / hearththrob record company creation whose sexuality the 1950s studios were desperate to keep hidden, and who died tragically young and beautiful. I have no idea where we got that from - obviously the story is James Dean's but why we transferred it to Baker I don't know. I was around 28 when I first realised the much weirder reality.

My only problem with Winter Moon is the solo on "That's Love".

I find I either like Vick or it don't, with quite a strong irrational per record reaction.

Great cover. I haven't heard it. Is it good?

Phronesis - Green Delay (Loop, 2009) Bassist Jaspar Hoidy very good on this catchy piano trio record. Got the toddler moving.

Has anyone read his autobiography The Traveller? Edit: Mental note - check the thread before you post...

One of the best interviews I've read in years. Actually interesting.

The Bridge has a nice backstory. I can see why it's so popular among some sorts of jazz fan. Something to talk to people about. It also has no calypso tunes on, which I think a lot of people don't like. I agree with your view that those intervening RCAs are probably the 'other' consistent high plateau of Rollins' always mountainous career, after the pre-Bridge run.

Barry Guy / Maya Homburger / Zlatko Kaučič - Without Borders... (Fundacja Słuchaj, 2017)

I have mostly listened to the early 70s ones, which are a mix of big band, funk and electric keyboards. Tsuchi no Ne and New Herd are my favourites I think. The first of those is streamable I think (土の音).

A lot of fun, that one. I don't think I've heard a record by them that I haven't liked.

I haven't been keeping up, although I do like those 90s records. Is it all acoustic?

Thank you. I've seen a few mentions on social media already and was planning to check this out.

Houston Person - Blue Odyssey (Prestige, 1968) The cover art to this one really gets to me. There's something about Prestige's artwork of this era that manages to be raw but eye popping. You'd never confuse it with a Blue Note release.