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It is the first time I had heard it. I think I picked it up because of @Teasing the Korean's recommendation, but it took me a while to listen to it because I had an idea it would be just like the Shelley Manne album Peter Gunn, but with more Herbie Mann, which didn't sell it to me. Thanks. I am one of the breed of human who fetishes the "original" LP playing experience sequence. I like to listen to what was heard by listeners at the time and in 30/40 minute chunks, maximum. Bonus tracks and luxury double vinyl reissues send me into paroxysms of indignant fury. Box sets leave me cold. I can just about handle a Live At Dreher but in all other cases I prefer to track down or experience the original LPs. Thanks for these!

Thanks!

Is this a compilation? I've been trying to figure out which LPs it is taken from, but discogs isn't much help.

Even after reading this, I looked at the cover and thought, 'what the hell'? Definitely not a 1957 look.

I'm intrigued to know which higher plane of transcendence you'll have reached by Friday afternoon.

Thanks! These look interesting and I can see why they might be different to the Lowe (going by their covers).

I'm a big fan of clarinetist Tony Scott's work on Mundell Lowe's TV Action Jazz. I'm interested to know where next to go. Any recommendations?

It's one of my favourite live jazz albums ever, along with Vol. 2. I don't know Last From Lennie's but will take your advice on it.

Great. I wasn't sure about the "you". Sorry for the misunderstanding.

With the Tenors of Our Time by The Roy Hargrove Quintet (Verve, 1994) This album has aged a hell of a lot better than most major label jazz records of its time. Just finished this absolute beast: Jaki Byard Quartet - Live! Vol. 1

To be clear, I do not like oyster crackers or understand what they are for, and it has not at any point crossed my mind that pasta might be a side or that any particular pasta might be substituted for rice.

I can't believe noone has mentioned the oyster crackers. I once saw a picture of some Cincinnati chilli that has stuck in my head as the worst picture of food I've ever seen. The photograph showed a mess of chilli, processed grated cheese, spaghetti and oyster crackers. Everything about it was unaesthetic and it was obviously going to be flavourless, ersatz and generally grim when eaten. It was the rogue oyster crackers that really made it the Mona Lisa of bad food photography. The recipe above really reminds me of that photo. Sorry to ask a stupid question, but is the Great Beans Debate a regional thing or a reflection on the foods adoption in American culture? In other words, was there really one "O.G. chilli", derivations from which are merely so many pineapple and ham pizzas? or were there multiple O.G. chillis, with wide variations, some with beans and some without? I am asking as an ignorant Londoner who has never been to either Mexico or the South Western US. Either way, I'm definitely Team Bean. I'll take them in the chilli and also as a side dish, please. I would eat beans three meals a day. I think I read somewhere that this sort of "chilli" actually comes from Greek pasta recipes, rather than from Mexico or Italy.

Suet an inch high? I’m with Porcy62.

This looks great. Similar to the recent British comp and the older GP one in that it gives a good overview of the more famous names. Something to dig into.

Rudi Brink - Teach Me Tonight (CNR, 1973) First listen to this. Very smoochy stuff and no sharp edges.

Dogon A.D. by Julius Hemphill (Mbari, 1972)

George Lewis (the other George Lewis) and Douglas Ewart - Jila-save! Mon.-the Imaginary Suite (Black Saint, 1979) A long time favourite of mine that seems to belong to a musical genre all of its own.

Just finishing revisiting this: Nice Guys by The Art Ensemble of Chicago, on ECM. Not my favourite AEC by a long way, but the Jarman tracks in particular are still great. I still don't understand how it sold like it did, given the sometimes ferocious contents.

Lars Gullin - The Artistry of Lars Gullin (Sonet, 1958)

Saturday Celeste.

Sabu - Jazz Espagnole Sah-boooo!

Damon Lock's Black Monument Ensemble - Now (International Anthem, 2021)

Just finished with the Creative Construction Company's Muhal (as it is called on my version). Despite being a huge fan of everyone involved, I'm never sure whether I am in love with this one. In my opinion, it is a bit transitional for everyone involved.

A lot of good music on that one. I'm a bit obsessed with Shirley Collins, a great English folk singer who was Alan Lomax's girlfriend at the time of his next trip on from this one. She occasionally tours giving talks, mostly focused on her trips with Lomax. If you ever get a chance to see one it's highly recommended. She's a very serious figure in the English folk world in her own right too.

That’s a classic scene.