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Julius Hemphill – Raw Materials And Residuals Actually, the fact that my mother in law is allergic to grandchildren is meaning that I'm getting in lots of listening this weekend whilst childminding.

Jackie Gleason – The Now Sound... For Today's Lovers

Exactly as you say. It is one of my favourite records. Shame about the cover...

Taking advantage of the deafness, as advised.

Khan Jamal Creative Art Ensemble – Drum Dance To The Motherland

Dave Holland and Sam Rivers

I asked him whether he enjoyed the record and he said it was brilliant because it was like when he plays guitar himself. Which i guess is fair. I'm afraid to say it was more about battling lego men than building. Those are such great records. Last one of the session: Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones End of session sadly. My deaf mother in law is with us for a week so opportunities to play music are pretty slim.

Derek Bailey - Aida

Don Cherry - Brown Rice Playing Lego with my eldest this morning. This was his choice.

Joseph Jarman - Song For

Sorry to ask an idiotic question but is "Muzak" the same company as the piped music company of historic fame?

Moyshe McStiff?

They're all a bit ridiculous. This is the only one that I have hung on to

Archie Shepp - Devil Blues

Incredible String Band – The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter I'm reliably informed that this is the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams's favourite album.

Bill English - S/T First time listen to this one. Some nifty mod stompers.

This was their other decent record: No entirely disco.

Charged G.B.H – City Baby Attacked By Rats

Langston Hughes, Charles Mingus And Leonard Feather – Weary Blues

Abdullah Ibraham - Mannenberg Basil Coetzee playing out three months of work insanity, and allowing for what I hope is a bit of respite.

Sarathy Korwar – More Arriving Saw it in Rough Trade yesterday and realised I had never actually listened to this record, which is now 5 years old.

This recent prompt reminds me that a lot of what I was saying about about Ramsey Lewis actually applies only to 1960s Ramsey Lewis records like The In Crowd. In London at least his 1970s records are comparatively well known. I think that's an effect of the rare groove and acid jazz scenes, and it reflects the fact that a record like Sun Goddess very much does lie on the line of enquiry for those kinds of music. I am not sure why I didn't make that clear above.

Michel Portal · Léon Francioli · Pierre Favre – Arrivederci Le Chouartse Having just finished: The Ramsey Lewis Trio – Never On Sunday Some great playing with some horrible song choices. This one is my favourite of the Stepney's.

Good point. As mentioned above, it was record shops that alerted me to these names. Not canons. But we are all deep in. 99.9% of jazz fans are not.

I think that classic R&B and Jump Blues are maybe in a different category, which is more similar to the difficulties in accessing classic trad jazz or Dixieland. These genres are sufficiently different to "Jazz" as your average non jazz fan now pictures it that they are not really natural entry points for a first timer. But if you do specifically want to explore those genres, the more well known names are quite accessible. Beyond the Louis Jordans and Big Jay McNeelys, you maybe hit the problem that is frequent with Jukebox Genres in general where the focus is on occasional hit singles and careers are short and disposable by design.