Rabshakeh

I love your written summaries.

Okay. Its Monday morning today, so I'll have to save it up for next week, I guess.

Is this good? I liked that NYC 5 record but I don't think I know him otherwise.

Richard Dunbar – Dancing To The Light

I can see this as a valid argument, but in my opinion the quality tails off hard after episode three or so. What's left is still very good until the second series but it isn't anything like the level of the first episodes. My opinion only, obviously. I still wonder whether even with that tail off it isn't his Great Work.

Roswell Rudd - Steve Lacy - Sheila Jordan – Blown Bone

This is essentially my view too. Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet are the beginning to end masterpieces. The first few episodes of series one of Twin Peaks are even better but then tail off hard. The rest is a bit of a mixture really. Lost Highway, despite being so so, has the second greatest film depiction of oily white boy saxophone in American cinema (the greatest is of course Tim Capello in Lost Boys) and had a soundtrack that radicalised a generation, myself included. But overall he achieved one of the greatest things that I think an artist can, which is to re-invent the world, such that it is different for having him in it, and people recognise it differently.

They also don't seem to have the same sort of "clout" for whatever reason, which might explain why they aren't getting the international reissued. You don't see them being posted on Instagram that much, for example, even by Japanese accounts. Again, not just Japan but continental Europe is the similar. Conversely, in the last few years the Japanese stuff from after 1968 has become as Insta-prominent as anything on Black Jazz or Strata-East, much more than the British stuff.

I've just listened to this for the first time on the basis of your post. Really an excellent record.

I have just seen that there is a jazz drummer named John Lewis, who among other things co-led a Strata-East record under the group name The Cosmic Twins. Obviously not the same man as the MJQ pianist John Lewis.

Her new record is pretty bland. I gave it a listen out of interest but didn't plan on revisiting.

I'm looking forward. I have never seen them together, and have only seen Parker in 'Sunday night pick up' setting, so I am hoping he is kept on his toes.

I am yes. This is the warm up. I am one ticket too many too.

Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio – Pakistani Pomade

Joseph Jarman and Don Moye - Black Paladins

Maybe the first time streamable for a few of them and the first time available as a paid download for the others. I think that's it, really. Non-news, sorry. I get excited because it is probably my favourite label, pound for pound.

I think it is oldish news. They have been gradually going up on Bandcamp for the last year. I'm not sure whether or not that constitutes a false alarm.

It looks like Black Saint and Soul Note are getting some sort of reissue programme.

Racer X with Paul Gilbert – Street Lethal Onyx - Bacdafucup This was big stupid fun back in the day.

Just a superb piece of music. One of the first major pieces I would play to anyone to illustrate how wonderful modernist music was. Without wanting to bring the tone down, I may be guilty of having fallen in love with Boulez after buying the Zappa record that he conducted as a teenager. That is a terrible, contemptuous, record (no more than Zappa's greatly overrated "serious" music deserved in my view, although I am still a big Zappa guy) and nobody comes out of it looking good, but it lodged the name in my head at a young age.

I read that. I was pleased to see it in the Guardian, which increasingly doesn't acknowledge this kind of music. One of the great masters of the 20th century, to my mind.

Interesting...

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely look out for him when he tours. It slots in nicely with the likes of Scofield or Metheny without sounding at all like them.

Nir Felder - III A nice example of amiable populist guitar jazz that is pretty creative, recommended by someone on the board last night. Felder has some unique ideas. It feels a bit out of its own time, sadly.

Is it good?