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Jack McDuff - The Heatin' System (1972) Some medicine for a monster hangover. Take as needed for pain.

Thanks. I hadn't made the connection, but I like POD on the days when I have enough of an attention span. Is it exclusively about the Avant Garde, then, or does it cover fusion, straight ahead and soul jazz too?

What's this one like? Would you recommend it?

Ooh. I don't know this one. It looks like a lot of fun. One to check out. I'm a total sucker for these sort of match ups.

Agharta was one of the albums that first got me into jazz as a teenager. I couldn't believe what a racket it was but yet how it managed to feel so precise. We've grown apart during the years but it is time for a reunion.

Glad these got an outing

Well... in the last 24 hours. HJs Coal Drop, again, yes. They have a really impressive amount of stock for such a tiny shop.hya Black Paladins is one of my all time favourites of this era. I was pleased to find it in the wild, even in a slightly rough copy. i love that Elvin. One of the best covers of any jazz LP too. The late Steve Grossman tearing it up. The Yamamoto sounds interesting. I’ll nose that one out.

Joseph Jarman - Song For Joseph Jarman and Don Moye feat. Johnny Dyani - Black Paladins Hampton Hawes - For Real! Archie Shepp - The Way Ahead Roscoe Mitchell - L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples I was very pleased with this haul: some of.my favourite music.

I would be into this. Where do I sign up?

Great recommendation of something I'd really have never heard of otherwise. Thanks!

That's sad. I was listening to that first Marion Brown ESP yesterday afternoon. The bass parts really stand out.

Good work!

I definitely preferred that album. A step backwards in ambition but I just think it worked much better.

My two year old is a self professed Herbie Hancock fan. It can be done.

What can I say? The signs are there.

I like that one a lot. Probably my favourite of his non-Ra appearances along with Compulsion!!!! and Turkish Women.

I'm agreed. My view from listening to his last three albums is that he is a talented trumpeter in a more traditional vein, but that he gets let down by his ideas. I thought that the rapping and syrupy strings on Origami Harvest in particular were just embarrassing: stale and out of date, and seemingly aimed at the kind of music that a "cool aunt" is into. Guardian music pages / Mercury award stuff. It brought back bad memories of Soweto Kinch from my younger days. (and that's before you get into the rapper in question...). There's such a strong crop of younger jazz musicians with strong sounds and fresher ideas (whether of the sort that Steve Reynolds mentions, who I love and who really do have fresh ideas, or at the more mainstream end) at the moment that I don't really understand why he gets so much bandwidth.

I have to say that I have really enjoyed reading the blog. I've picked up a lot of records I'd never come across before. You're almost at the end of the decade. Any plans for what comes next?

Beaver Harris 360 Degrees Music Experience - Negcaumongus (Cadence, 1981) It's barely recorded at all, but I can't get enough of the duet between Don Pullen on piano and Francis Haynes on steel drums at the start of side two.

What comes next?

Sad news

The teenaged Zappa obsessive in me wants me to ask how this one is.

A big thanks for the Exultations and Fracture Mechanics recommendations. Really great, fascinating albums. They've been getting pretty constant play over the last few days.

Thanks. I liked The Mouser a whole lot, so I'll definitely check this out.

How is this one? He's got pretty prolific and I'm struggling to keep up, but a team up with Tomeka Reid is always worth looking up.