Rabshakeh

It has a few duff tracks and some superb tracks. When I first heard it, it really blew me away but with time I think I rate it less highly.

Sorry! I haven't always been posting I have loved following up what you've been posting. It goes far beyond other resources out there!

Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands

Nice stuff!

Pass it on. It is like the Ring virus. It is the only way to save yourself.

Not usually one for this thread, but this is Christmas dinner: Starter is a northern Rhone wine. Main is a 2016 St Emilion, courtesy of an error in pricing that meant that we are getting £73 per bottle for the price of £17 (sadly not repeatable, God knows we have tried). Now onto this: a port from the 1970s that was bought the day I was born. Label lost in a flood a few years back.

Oh. I didn't know that. I thought it was later. That clears that up too, then.

It is a sample! Of Ron Carter! Not Bootsy Collins at all! And it is from the Herbie Hancock soundtrack to Blow-Up!. I feel like my whole life up to now has been a lie. It does raise the big question though how something from a 1966 jazz album, coming years before James Brown or Miles' 'invention' of fusion, manages to be so impossibly, Bristol-student-union-in-1995 level funky.

This is my Christmas jazz.

Me too. A disaster all round.

Yeah, thanks... I fear it will be a Metal Easter too.

Budd Johnson and Buddy Johnson gets me a lot. In fact I find it very easy to confuse Budd Johnson with a host of other musicians.

After all that jazz education, the six year old asked Father Christmas for an Iron Maiden record for Christmas. Probably the first time my mother in law has been pleased to be deaf

How old is he? I love this kind of stuff.

I've only just learned that it is only British English. (Presumably South African too.)

As in, fixing issues identified later on. Used in the construction context. The Internet tells me that this is British English

A very good family friend is a South African architect and interior designer. He once helped to build a modernist house on a cliff overlooking Cape Town for an older man from Yorkshire who had made his money and was retiring. The house was modernist in style, in the shape of an L, reversed and on its side. The living quarters were on the right, on two floors, the garage was exposed on the ground on the left. Above that of the left was a lateral room, overlooking the beach and the sea: one of the finest views in Cape Town. This was the only room that was left undecorated on the plans and without specific purpose. When our friend asked what the room would be used for, he received only evasive responses, so the friend, who as a man of the world understood exactly what the room would no doubt be for, tactfully let the subject drop. Two years after the house was finished, he was called in to deal with some snagging issues, and took the opportunity to go up and see what had been done with the room. It turned out it was not a bondage dungeon, as he had naturally assumed, but was instead given over entirely to the Yorkshireman's model train set.

Do you have a summer set too?

Oh wow. Is this yours?

Jay MacShann – Kansas City Memories (1973) I need to buy more Black & Blue records. They make me feel happy.

Another one: Steve Reid, the Loft era free jazz drummer, and Steve Reid, the 1980s commercial jazz drummer who was in mall jazz legends The Rippingtons. Wikipedia gets them confused. I highly doubt that the first Steve Reid played with David Koz.

I knew there was! Sorry Although I guess there is room for something a bit more targeted to best of new releases. This is interesting. Just streaming Cadair Idris now.

Seikatsu Kojo Iinkai – Live In Masuda

I like Shipp live but he has had a tendency to over record in the last decade or so.