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Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - Cosmic Transitions (2021) A but of a mishmosh of things from the past that are currently fashionable, even down to the vintage Impulse! era font choice. Still, I'll take this over the overhyped jazz kids of my 1990s youth. Just finished this impossible masterpiece: Infinite Search (Embryo, 1969) by Miroslav Vitous To my utter embarrassment, until today I had believed that this was a different album to Mountain in the Clouds, and had even held forth to a friend regarding how Infinite Search was the slightly superior album. They are, it turns out, the same record.

I forgot that was his nickname.

Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith (Elektra Nonesuch, 1993) From that era when Don Byron really was a name worth following.

Very sad news.

I'm pretty much with you. It was my second listen, and I was not more interested than the first time. Nothing to told it together.

David Murray / Mal Waldron - Silence (Justin Time, 2008) Nice to return to this one. Good and gutsy.

Oluyemi Thomas and Gino Robair - Unity in Multiplicity (Rastascan, 1996)

Plus hard to think of anyone who could have made this bunch pop quite like Charli Persip.

In the mood for a bit of that. I'm going to line up In Greece next.

I felt the same. I got a better noir hit off the Mundell Lowe record. I'm currently on Lester Bowie's New York Organ Ensemble - The Organizer (DIW, 1991)

Pyramids - Lalibela (1973) Trying this one again, given the heavy retrospective hype Pyramids seems to be receiving from the Spiritual Jazz Inc. Marketing machine. I'm still not convinced.

Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet - Polish Jazz Vol 4 (PNM, 1965)

Mike Westbrook's Concert Band - Marching Song Vol 1 (Deram, 1969) My first time with this one, and I find it very impressive.

Randy Weston - Berkshire Blues (Freedom, 1977; rec. 1965)

It's got a great cover, although I wonder whether I prefer Gardens and Ketchoua by quite a way.

Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch (Blue Note, 1964)

Sad to hear the news but it sounds like Larry Harlow has passed away.

Heath! You can't argue with both the MJQ and the Heath Brothers (both before and after the formal "band"). Okay: Bob Dylan or Hank Williams?

Thanks. I notice that Musson has also played with Alexander Hawkins. I will follow up

I wonder. Perhaps a mix of Eicher's clammy touch with the effect of age and becoming an older statesman - something that normally doesn't affect jazz as much as other genres, but does seem to have gotten to Iyer. I don't know these two. Would you start here or elsewhere?

Vijay Iyer - Panoptic Modes (Red Giant, 2001) Listening to this early Iyer I am struck by how much more enjoyable his playing used to be. Whilst I am almost always impressed by Iyer's records, I am not sure that I have found them "enjoyable" for a while. They seem to be getting weightier with each year.

How about: John Gilmore or Jimmy Lyons?

Oh no. I hope it's okay.

There's always time. I'm really enjoying it. A great example of underappreciated and unrecognised 70s bop.

Ouch!