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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.

I don't think we have a favourite releases of the year thread yet. (If we do, by all means shut me up and point me in the correct direction.) Anyway, for anyone who wants to, please post your favourite records released during the last 14 months or so. Starting with me, I think that the records that I have enjoyed most have been: - The Fay Victor vocal Herbie Nichols record seemed to me to be in the spirit of classic vocalists like Betty Carter without being derivative. - Matthew Shipp - New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz - This strikes me as one of the first Shipp records in a while that has something fresh to say. I really enjoyed the very gutsy chord work. Nice to hear it because I had given up on recorded Shipp. - The Ahmed box was a lot of fun, if overall quite uneven. I enjoyed the Monk/Rouse dynamic, which didn't get boring despite the extremely long tracks. Other than that, I'm not sure there's much I'd rush back to immediately.

I bought it ages ago on a tip from a bloke I knew on twitter. It was still impressively underpriced for such a good record.

Has it been reissued?

Dick Hyman, Dick Wellstood – Stridemonster! The Duo Pianos Of Dick Hyman / Dick Wellstood (1985)

JAMAHA!! – Extended Nose (1986) Steve Reid – Odyssey Of The Oblong Square (1977) Listened to both of these records for the first time.

Thanks

I really love that one. Great stuff.