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On the Blythe, I love the mix of tuba and cello. Those are two of my favourite Hills too.

Warne Marsh - A Ballad Album (Criss Cross, 1984) Now playing: Arthur Blythe - Metamorphosis (India Navigation, 1979).

Serious stuff.

He always seemed like an arsehole in interviews, so I'm not surprised.

I am no longer able to explain it to you. It made sense to me at the time.

I wish they did downloads. I would buy it all.

I think that's my favourite Metheny.

Got confused. I meant the King's Cross one, which has had a slight restock of its used selection since December and is worth a visit I think. West has got more interesting reissues and modern jazz at the moment than it used to have, but still pretty much all new.

It was a new one for me which I bought on Sunday on a whim at HJs West (record shopping's back!). I knew the other early Berne's but not that one. I am really happy with it.

Time Berne's Sanctified Dreams (Columbia, 1988)

Lester Bowie - Rope-A-Dope (Muse, 1976) Stanley Turrentine - Never Let Me Go (Blue Note, 1963) I really think that this is an underrated gem even within Turrentine's and Scott's catalogues. It has such a heavy hit of gospel and blues to it, but, over and above that, the timing is so stretched out. It's amazing.

What are they?

I had that photo on my wall as a young youth.

Brilliant one.

[Ahmed]'s Nights on Saturn (Communication) from early this year on Astral Spirits. Really enjoying this one. Pat Thomas on piano, Seymour Wright (who I don't know) on alto, Joel Grip on bass and Antonin Gerbal on drums.

That may just be an advert. I think that the Japanese just says something like "recommended products for this topic:".

Thank you for these. I actually hadn't picked it up until recently. I don't recall quite why I noted the name but it is pretty likely that I did so because I saw it on your 70s blog, so a big thank you for that too.

The rare good article from the increasingly dreadful Pitchfork media: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonny-sharrock-ask-the-ages/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I know nothing about it, and had no expectations. Did he do anything else comparable?

It's gone by incredibly quickly. I've enjoyed trading it throughout.

Eddie Louiss- Our Kind of Sabi (MPS, 1970)

A great one.

There’s always more Steve Lacy to investigate. Now playing: Ornette Coleman’s Of Human Feelings (Island/Antilles, 1982). There was some recent talk about Prime Time-era Ornette on this forum, which has sent me on a listening splurge. I haven’t really listened to them since my student days, when I was weirdly fascinated by Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Amazing how great, yet how comparatively undersung, this music still is. It reminds me of the low appreciation of Mwandishi-era Hancock only a few years ago. Presumably someone will write a book or do a documentary about Ornette’s electric period sometime soon, and the recognition and price of these records will skyrocket, but I’m enjoying picking them up for comparatively cheap for now.

What a great thread this is.

Thanks both. Always interested in anything Jerome Richardson.