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Is there cricket at Old Trafford too?

I'm the opposing side. I am an anti-Otomoist. I always found him to be dilettenteish. I saw him play once in Exeter and he was a total smug waste of time. That normally includes his jazz output too for me (including the Out To Lunch concept record), but this one I do really like. It has quite a unique interplay.

Now streaming: Sue Kaspar's fusion soundtrack to the video game Sim City 2000 https://youtu.be/q4gkAcj7GhU?si=wrNtQq47sJ5X_bsa

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet / ONJQ - Live In Lisbon

One of the most unique guitar styles out there.

Grover Washington - Wine Light

Travis Reuter - Quintet Music

Jonah Jones - Jonah's Wail A super comp with sides recorded with Bechet. Good lusty stuff.

Tino Tracanna and Paolino Dalla Porta – Nudes

I think the Sanders ones are much better but I never listen to them. I think this is precisely what I am raising issues about. There are points on that record when the line does appear to collapse to my ear. It is like if i am reading aloud and I run out of breath mid word or falter, and need to rally before proceeding.

I’m not a musician but it doesn’t always sound controlled or intentional to my ears. I mentioned above that one that which is particularly creaky.

Archie Shepp - Blue Ballads I really struggle with this period of Shepp. He seems to run out of breath quite a lot and there's a samba version of "If I Should Lose You" where he doesn't seem to be able to control his horn. Maybe it is on purpose.

My daughter is currently requiring that this one be put on a lot at the moment:

Suffocation – Effigy Of The Forgotten

Julius Hemphill - Coon Bidness Thanks again go to @mjazzg for this one.

Sam Rivers - Streams

Chris Cheek – A Girl Named Joe

December Band (Kid Thomas Valentine, Big Jim Robinson, Captain John Handy and Sammy Penn) - Volume 2: Connecticut Traditional Jazz Moose Lodge Hall Friday, Dec. 1965

A lot of the earlier records sound pretty @Teasing the Korean approximate: After Hours: Middle East and How To Strip For Your Husband: Music To Make Marriage Merrier are two examples. I like that website a lot.

I mean, the Groove Merchants look great and they often sound great. As a label, it has a high hit rate in my view in terms of quality. The cover art is often so good that you wonder why they haven't been picked up by the Insta-clout crowd, and the music is in that soul jazz sweet spot such that you would have assumed acid jazz and rare groove fans would be all over them. Leaving aside Kudu, the similar Mainstream label has far less attractive cover art and generally weaker records, but it has a far larger presence.

Two record labels that were founded by Sonny Lester and covered one of jazz' commercially / critically tougher periods, working a commercially minded soul jazz vein after its original popularity has ceased. I'm quite partial to the former label's work in particular, and I have never understood it's comparatively low profile among fans of soul jazz. Did Sonny Lester have a bad reputation? Or is it just that the distribution etc was not enough to keep up with the likes of Kudu?

Air - Air Time

I was at the second night. A genuinely great gig. SN was at his absolute best and JA was a fantastic foil to PB.

Alan Skidmore + Radio-Philharmonie Hannover Des NDR + Colin Towns Mask Symphonic - After The Rain: A Collection Of Ballads

Steve Coleman And Five Elements – Weaving Symbolics