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It does, actually

Pony Pointdexter - Pony's Express (Epic, 1963)

Thanks!

Great cover.

Glad I started something.

I think she just associates him with Time Out.

Done!

Dreams And Explorations by Don Friedman Quartet (Riverside, 1965) Pairs nicely with aching joints and fever dreams.

Getting kicked in the gutter today by the second jab. Cheering myself up with: Maceo Parker - Roots Revisited (1990).

Graciela, Mario Bauza and Friends - Afro-Cuban Jazz Delivers the goods.

I might make it five. You'll have to drop that "5 other collections" pop sell out, and find some real underground music.

I recently bought one of the live Fantasys whilst away on a seaside jaunt to Sussex. My wife was in hysterics on the drive home at the idea of me having bought a Dave Brubeck album, and was mockingly humming Blue Rondo. I waited two days and then put it on over supper, and quietly went back to feeding the infant. Midway through Desmond's solo on the second track, she said "What is this? It's incredible."

It might also be a factor of availability. Dexter Gordon's return was an event. Whereas I assume New Yorkers had been looking at listings for a decade at that point and going "Sonny Stitt? No we have plans that night. Maybe next time".

I know the list. It just seems like an odd concept for Finder Keepers, in this age of YouTube. Also, aren't Association P.C. Dutch?

What is the concept of this one? Is it a track for each group on the list, arranged by nationality?

Five years ago, I was a four-stone apology. Today, I am two separate gorillas. Re the Firesign Theatre, was there any relationship at all with the Holy Modal Rounders? The skits on HMR records sound a lot like they could be FST.

I've never listened to any Webber (I think). Is Clockwise where you'd start?

I was listening to Blows The Blues last night off the back of this thread, and I was struck at what a master he was. Aside from the copycat thing, perhaps it was his reputation as a blues based player (all the Gene Ammons records)? I wasn’t there, but I don’t get the sense that the jazz critical establishment in NY at the time really prized that sort of playing. Maybe I am wrong. Those Cobblestones and Muses are great, but again perhaps there weren’t enough of them and they came too late to displace critical opinion of Stitt as a Bird copycat turned blues slogger?

How well known are the Bonzos in the States?

Just finished: Nisse Sandström - Home Cooking (Phontastic, 1981) Another new one to me, thanks to the recent threads. Lovely and warm record, with Tommy Flanagan on great form. I'm now on this classic: Warne Marsh Quarter - Music For Prancing (Mode, 1957)

Thanks! I'm always up for stuff like this.

I'm going to order it too.

Perhaps a bit too whiplash. Currently streaming Friedhelm Schönfeld's self titled record from 1978 on Amiga, which I think was mentioned upthread. I have never heard it before and am really enjoying it.

That's basically it - a marketing tag. Exactly like Northern Soul. I understand the term to refer to a point in jazz - somewhere between soul jazz organ records and the more disco/funk oriented fusion - that were favoured by a set of DJs in the 90s, and which went down a treat with the audience's at that point. It's a marketing tag really. I'm slightly too young for it: I'm more Generation Spiritual Jazz. I'm actually not opposed to concepts like "rare groove" and "spiritual jazz". They do help new audiences connect with and rediscover records that are off the beaten narrative track. But that's only been possible because the Gilles Petersons of the world are such keen evangelists.

One that's passed all the tests and received expert level accreditation.