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It seems to be the time for it, what with "spiritual jazz" and Strata-East both being hot property. I'd be interested to know what they do with the sound. The original had quite a raw and earthy mix, to be polite about it.

There's some potent evil stored in those shelves... Basically, since the record player is mostly played whilst people are socialising or eating, my wife (who enjoys good music but doesn't really remember names) needs to know that she can pick something out that looks nice and for it not to have any Arthur Doyle on it.

Thanks! A surprisingly open minded selection: Petrowsky on FMP right next to "The Janaer Old Timers' mit Banjo und Tuba, which I am willing to bet would have sat oddly with Mr. J Gebers.

I'm always interested to see how many other people have vinyl dens / man caves. I have always had my collection in a main room (currently in a glass backed cocktail bar in our dining room / kitchen that my wife designed for the records on a whim without telling me). It means that the number of records has to be kept down, and the records have to be sociable (although I have a "dark corner"), so it has never been a serious long term solution to anything, but at least that helps reign in my worst instincts.

Faith in the ingenuity of humanity: restored. Thanks for posting.

How does the music escape from the record room to the music room? Or is the record room the storage area from which records are carried to the music room? I am aware from past posts that you migrate along with the natural yearly cocktail cycle, much like our ancestors have done since time immemorial.

Are these records you treasure too much to play? Or do you sometimes take them down and out of the frames?

Konkan Dance (rec. ,1972) by Amancio D'Silva It is a shame that jazz with tablas outside of a self-conscious fusion setting did not become more commonplace, because it really works here. I love the bass lines too.

Good summary. I agree that the actual trumpet playing has aged quite well. Never heard Miles' Viene. Something exciting for this evening. I also need to revisit Henriksen. It's been a while. Meanwhile, I'm finishing up: The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Fanfare for the Warriors (Atlantic, 1973) A good period of the AEC, between Paris and ECM, that I don't revisit enough. Nice to hear them with Abrams on piano. "What's To Say" is a great tune.

Give it another spin. I'm interested to know how you think. It is very Jazz Cafe in the 1990s. I can smell the frizzly white dreads.

I really like how raw the synths sound.

Now on: Nils Petter Molvær's Khmer (ECM, 1997). Nothing dates worse than yesterday's hip attempt at crossover. Now cleansing the ears with the real deal. Blue Note have just released a range of tee shirts. For whatever reason, one of the initial launch is the cover of The Prophetic.... It is prominently featured in promotional photographs. It's a great image, but I'm surprised that whichever set of ghouls currently inhabits the facade of Blue Note thought that this image was the one to use, or that they were even aware that the Blue Note Legacy Back catalogue Monetisation Pool (TM) includes an artist named Herbie Nichols. Edit: It is a tie in with Uniqlo. https://www.bluenote.com/blue-note-uniqlo-ut-t-shirt-collection/ I think this explains it: presumably the designers got first say and went for designs that might shift tee shirts. Hence a tendancy towards the abstract artworks of the earlier releases and not the more famous Reid Miles designs.

I'm a strong believer in avoiding meat and diary when cooking and allowing onions, celery, garlic and spices some time in the sun. It's amazing how much fun you can have with those flavours when you cut the other flavours out. Also, what Leonard Cohen said.

Gyorgy Szabados - Az Esküvö (1974) Now on: Exodus to Jazz by Eddie Harris (Vee-Jay, 1961).

Interested I views on the nonet albums and their respective merits. I had some good fun with Yes Yes, Nonet yesterday evening, although at times it is like listening to a piano trio with a rotating cast of saxophones sitting in.

It caught my attention too for the exact.same reason. They're two musicians who you never turn down. The two of them together... I'd have liked Hicks a bit higher in the mix, is my only comment. It feels like a sax/drums duo at times.

It is one of my all time most kick-yourself-for-missing-it-est gigs.

Angles - Every Woman Is A Tree (Clean Feed, 2008)

Seriously good.

Do you reckon those were really his choices? Or was the Village Vanguard taking the piss?

By the way, who was Senator Jesse Helms? Looking at his choices for best jazz albums of the 1980s, I assume this was a satirical bit.

Let's see.

I thought it was great! I found lots of good stuff there that I had never heard of before.

I actually dreamt it had been reissued last night and that is why I listened to it. Maybe Abdul Wadud's By Myself first though.

I should add that I was already aware of the VV's list that @HutchFan posted, having discovered it a few years ago. For all its obvious flaws, when I first encountered it, it was extremely useful to me. The fact is that jazz since the start of the 1980s is pretty much unmapped territory. Those who were there and listening know, but if you weren't (or if you were more into nursery rhymes at the time, as I was) there's hardly any way in. Most older jazz fans whom I know in real life's tastes had stopped moving around 1968, so there were no recommendations from those quarters, and such information as is available online might as well have been stamped "Columbia Records Marketing Department Press Release". The result is that it took me around 15 years of heavy listening before I moved in any serious way into 1980s jazz, other than the obligatory disappointing Marsalis purchase. Discovering that VV list really opened up a lot of listening that would otherwise have not been available at all. I think it was the first time I had seen Special Edition mentioned, if that gives you an idea of the sort of information vacuum I am talking about. I think that any sort of online list relating to the period post-1969 is valuable, and what is particularly useful about the VV one is that it presents a multiplicity of viewpoints, even if they are myopically focused on "jazz" as perceived by NY critics. On a related note, I greatly enjoy the site "rate your music". The basic "rating" functionality of the site is not particularly great, but it has a very large number of user generated lists, which stretch into areas that are otherwise no much covered, even on the internet. It is one of the best resources I know of for exploring these areas.