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Tyft – Meg Nem Sa (Skirl, 2006)

I like this one.

It's more records - In 2019, she was on so many records, in various styles, and they were all blinders. She seemed to be widely feted as the leading younger player (at least that's how she seemed to me). Then over 2020 and 2021, there seems to have been more and more interest in "modern / avant jazz", but no more mentions of her name. She seems to have dropped out whilst others, who I don't always rate as much, took her place. This might reflect the move that this music has taken from obscurity back into popular favour in recent years. Growing audience and changing tastes. However, I'm still ready for Ms Reid to re-emerge from hiding and take her place.

I'm a devotee of European Episode on Campi. In terms of just a track, rather than the whole record, their version of Just Friends on Satori is really up there for me.

That's one of 'em! I love it.

Currently on: Tjader Plays Mambo (Fantasy, 1954) Not my favourite Tjader Fantasy, but good enough. I love the simplicity of the cover.

A mix. I love Solal with Konitz (really love - some of my favourite tunes and albums) but I am otherwise allergic to him.

I need to try it again. I wasn't that into it the first time I heard it.

I didn't mean my post to sound cynical. I really like Tomeika Reid.

Who knows. If you watch the YouTube playlist, it has a much enhanced quality of animation to the other tracks. Dunno. Weird.

I think that The Wretched are for some reason the marquee act. Personally, I thought the same thing as you.

A change of discussion, but what has happened to Tomeka Reid recently? She seems to be no longer much talked about. I think that there was one Artifacts record, but other than that she seems to have been very quiet for the last two years, after having been very prolific and feted.

Love that track. I wish that album was more consistent. Same for all Lewis records, really. Here's another Mbira classic: As sampled, at length in:

I found the Brownswood SA comp mentioned above pretty uneven but the good bits are good. Similar to the London one from a few years ago. It's worth listening to for a who's who of the younger South Africa scene, which is currently in florid health. They've put it all on YT, with Animations etc.

Marilyn Crispell and Stefano Maltese - Blue (Black Saint, 1999) This one sure does still hold up.

I concur. I just meant that this is a jazz record in the same way that Nirvana Unplugged is a 'folk' record. I agree that GoGo Penguin is actually okay. Too heavy on the repetitive cinematic piano and 'real instruments' hip-hop loops tropes, but the bits where the bass gets in there are pretty good. I like how Manchester seems to be positioning itself as a sort of jazz scene equivalent to 1990s Bristol.

GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star (Blue Note 2018) This really is "jazz" as brand name rather than genre. Some good stuff pokes through occasionally, but that's it.

Willis Jackson - Please Mr Jackson (Prestige, 1959)

Troyka - Ornithophobia (2015) Semi recent fusion record. My first time with this and really enjoying it. Quite a Brainfeeder type feel but a bit less processed. It has a weird spoken word section on track five about quarantines and lock downs caused by a mysterious avian flu which is bizarre given that it is released long ago, back in The Before.

Thanks!

Is this good? I don't know it. A wee bit Hellraiser.

Oh yeah. Got overexcited when I saw it was his birthday.

John McLaughlin as of today...

The Braxtonian Paradox. I'm definitely in the other camp. I like thinking that I am listening to a well-honed statement that exists as an important aesthetic moment. I feel lost in overdense and underdifferentiated discographies.

Nice one. A while since I listened to it. It's such a fun cover.