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Pretty obscure. I found it on a blog back in the day. Worth hearing.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

I think that's what threw me. Plenty of other jazz guys had very successful disco careers at the time so it made sense to me, save that I couldn't understand why GB had so few leader dates if he was such a feature of the disco scene.

Bohannon – Summertime Groove Wrong Bohan(n)on, it turns out, but I'm committed now and its not the kind of record you turn off.

Oh no. RIP.

I hadn't realised until today that George Bohanon was not The same person as disco hitmaker Bohannon. I had always struggled to understand why his discography was comparatively meagre.

Is this the only record he was on? As @JSngry says, he is fantastic on this record.

It does have good stuff that other places don't have. But not exactly a joyful experience. Now spinning: Von Freeman - Have No Fear

It's half of the lower floor of a Rag & Bone in Beak Street. No music, just three shelves, ultra corporate, smug and unhelpful staff. Apparently the aim is to replenish from the warehouse every week. The stock is actually decent (although hardly liberal) and not overpriced. There was a Wildflowers comp in there that I would have purchased if I had space for it.

Henry Cow - Leg End The one year old pulled this one out of the racks (and growing issue) and I figured it was time to give it a spin.

Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges – Side By Side I don't really like Back to Back (too relaxed and bluesy) so I had never bothered to listen to this one until today. Glad that I did because it is a completely different record!

I suspect that it was a post about it that you did two or three years ago that alerted me to it in the first place, so many thanks!

A big hit with the family. First time in years that when a record has finished I have just flipped it over and played it again.

Sonny Stitt at the DJ Lounge Bought this magnificent record today from the rather depressing new Rough Trade Soho.

This one is good. Enjoying it. Very funny lyrics.

Baikida Carroll - Orange Fish Tears "Appreciate" is what I would say too. Some great playing start and finish but altogether too much dicking around on melodica in the middle for my tastes. Leave the children's toys to Mr. Pablo.

Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell - Mu Thanks. I'll sniff it out.

I am anti coffee tables and coffee table books too. But I would like to know if there were any LPs featured that I am missing.

Oh that does look good. I'm always interested in these records. The Japanese and European analogues of Britain's Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriott or Dick Morrissey. Like Britain perhaps the more creative stuff came after 1968, but the Europeans and Japanese modernists who came before that point don't seem to have received the same retrospective reissues as the Brits.

What album is this? I can't see a thing on GNP or with that title on Wikipedia or discogs.

I was wondering the same as a not American. What are Pittsburgh's big pull factors?

I do think stuff periodically too. Just three or four days on an all Bert Kaempfert or all Jackie Gleason diet, or something. You do find things out.

Thanks!

Does anyone have access to a list of the albums featured in Tony Higgins’ & Mike Peden’s coffee table book J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988?