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  1. Rabshakeh
    Baikida Carroll - Orange Fish Tears (1974). On Jef Gilson's Palm label.
  2. Rabshakeh
    I think there's something in the nature of a list like this. If you are asked to pick the "Ten most worthy jazz releases of the decade" for an audience of mid-level enthusiasts, everyone would naturally pick those releases that they feel are capital-I Important and closest to the mainstream definition of the genre (in this case, US and "jazz" with no adjective in front of it). I'm sure if there were more slots, or if there was a further sub-list of "Records you also dug" or something to that effect you would start to get a more interesting and wider selection. It's true of any end of year or decade list - the good stuff in a top 100 list is always in the 100-70 category. By the time you get to the top ten it's just the same old starchy dribble. P.S., Glad to see this thread back.
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    I'm a great believer in just cutting your losses and not substituting. It never tastes as good, and there are a lot of other good things to eat out there that do.
  4. Rabshakeh
    This looks like a fun bunch of players. I have learned never to turn away from any with Roberto Miranda’s name attached to it.
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    I have to say that I agree. I listened to this for the first time on LP in my university library many years ago, and it sounded fantastic. Whatever is available on CD is just lifeless in comparison.
  6. Rabshakeh
    I cannot guarantee anything. Time heals most wounds, but in my case, not Scatman John. That takes 40 years of Jungian therapy and some pricey Ayahuasca minibreaks.
  7. Rabshakeh
    It was a playground favourite in the 1990s in the UK, to the extent that people in their 30s and 40s still shout the chorus at you if you say you enjoy jazz even now.
  8. Rabshakeh
    I am not 12, so I am not going to post Scatman John. But know that it took some self restraint.
  9. Rabshakeh
    Pharaoh Sanders - Africa (Timeless, 1987) John Hicks playing out my weekend.
  10. Rabshakeh
    My poor family have to listen to an awful lot of Sabu.
  11. Rabshakeh
    I only know Breuker in the context of the ICP and Kollektief, which I guess is on the more "avant" side. Great group / great records, obviously. Yeah. As mentioned at the start, groups like the Kollektief loom pretty large in histories of Dutch and European jazz. I selected the date range to try to scratch at what went before a little bit.
  12. Rabshakeh
    Thanks! How much dialogue was there between the East German scene and the West German? Did information cross easily and were there frequent tours?
  13. Rabshakeh
    That's interesting. What is the Fascination Jazz book? Was it a government published book on the East German jazz scene? Does it highlight any other records of note?
  14. Rabshakeh
    One point occured to me this morning: what about Denmark? One of the few European scenes from which I'm pretty sure every board member could name players, although most of them are rhythm section players hailing from Ye Era of the American Exile (which I deliberately tried to avoid in the dating of this thread, since that's when everything clearly changes significantly for the European scenes). Did anything significant come before the NHOPs and Tchicais?
  15. Rabshakeh
    Klaus Doldinger - Live at the Blue Note Berlin There was life before Passport, it turns out.
  16. Rabshakeh
    Now playing: Valarie Ponomarev - Means of Identification (Reservoir, 1987) Having just finished: Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet - Folk Mond & Flower Dream One of the recommendations from the recent Jazz Modernism in Europe & Japan thread.
  17. Rabshakeh
    I have to say I'm really impressed by it. I listened to it twice in one go. It has a unique language, which is surprisingly rare when writing for this scale. Mr. Mitchell is probably my favourite artist and it's amazing to see how he is continuing to grow at every stage of his career.
  18. Rabshakeh
    Now playing Roscoe Mitchell - Splatter (2020) Roscoe Mitchell with Strings.
  19. Rabshakeh
    Taking a break from an afternoon's increasingly frantic googling of 1950s Western European jazz men to listen to this favourite: Andrew Cyrille's X Man (Soul Note, 1944) with James Newton and especially Anthony Cox in very fine form.
  20. Rabshakeh
    I haven't listened to Riot since I upgraded my system. That's something to look forward to tomorrow.
  21. Rabshakeh
    I've spent much of this afternoon trying to track down the records in this thread and piece it all together. Some of these records are... obscure. Even Discogs is struggling. Which in itself is a really tribute to the knowledge of some of the people on this board.
  22. Rabshakeh
    Ha ha ha. Indeed!
  23. Rabshakeh
    I download on my phone and then shrink to 10% with an app called Lightroom.
  24. Rabshakeh
    An incredible post. Thank you!
  25. Rabshakeh
    Are there particular soundtracks for which they are known?
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