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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.

What is this one's story? Pretty interesting name and line up A good one.

David Sanchez' Melaza (Columbia, 2000) Some very good playing on here by Miguel Zenon in particular.

Thanks

Baden Powell’s and Vincius de Moraes’ Os Afro Sambas (Forma, 1966)

Bought today from a tiny nook in the wall in Dartmouth.

Burton Greene - Presenting... (CBS, 1970). A really good album, which makes me want to dig further into Greene’s work. Very good Byard Lancaster performances too. Now onto: Idris Ackermoor & The Pyramids - Shaman (Strut, 2020). I think this is a solid late period record, without either the strengths or deficiencies of the Pyramids’ earlier records. None of the wildness in the playing. A bit of a pastiche of 70s styles through a 2020s lense at times, but overall, an enjoyable record. Great cover.

No way! Fourth is best, and the fifth and sixth are great too. it’s only with those three that they learned how to write a vocal line that was not identical to what the bass was playing. Also, no love for the Dio era? Those first two are great metal albums.

Not so much with clave, but this does describe quite a few of my favourite bossa records from the 1960s. There’s a rich tradition of ersatz bossa from all ends of the US jazz world.

I just had a bewildered couple of minutes before I realised there are two different Steve Jordans. One of whom does not play accordion.

With regards to the above discussion, I agree that “Latin jazz” is obviously not the music world’s best piece of terminology. I chose to use it for the thread because I hoped to hear about a wide range of music that I didn’t know about in the responses. The alternative would have been to have two separate threads for afro-cuban records and bossa/samba records (which I think are probably the two primary sources of what most people picking Grammy category award winners understand by the term) would be too restrictive and likely to lead to discussions on what qualified and what doesn’t. Hence “Latin jazz”. As to the diaspora point, there is a reason why samba and afro-cuban rhythms are what most people think about when they hear the term “latin jazz”, whereas mariachi is not. But, despite that, If anyone happens to know of some mariachi fusion or razor sharp Norteno accordion jazz, I would be interested to know about it too, to be honest

Inspired by the recent Your Favourite Jazz Records of the 1980s? thread and by some really excellent looking postings recently on the So, What Are You Listening To Now? thread... There's a fairly well-established and stable view on what constitutes the "canon" of Latin jazz (Afro-Cuban or Brazilian) records up to and including the salsa era. After that though, the path is less clear, despite plenty of superb releases every decade. I noticed that despite the number of very well informed fans of Latin music on this forum, we don't have a dedicated thread to Latin jazz from the period after the early 80s' "salsa drought". So, what Latin jazz records recorded since 1979 would you be most happy to see washing up in a crate on your desert island? It can be any kind of Latin jazz from the Americas (i.e., bossa, cuban, tango, folkloric, samba, cumbia, salsa, etc.; but for the purposes of this thread, Americas only; not e.g. flamenco). If you feel it makes the grade, Latin music with enough of a jazz influence also qualifies, provided that it is recorded after 1979. Latin jazz from US musicians is also allowed in the interests of being ecumenical. List as many albums as you want to. Images and descriptions welcome. To start things off, with some of my favourites: Jerry Gonzalez - Ya Yo Me Cure (1980) Poncho Sanchez - Papa Gato (1986) Miguel Zenon - Esta Plena (2009)