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Eraldo Volonté – Eraldo Volonté Presenta Jazz (Now) In Italy

Daunik Lazro - The Entrance Gates Of Tshee Park

Gato Barbieri - Latin America, Chapter IV

Bobby Wellins Quartet – Live... Jubilation

Definitely interesting to listen in 2024. Instructive in various ways. The musical second side is good too I was just streaming. I don't really know the background.

Carl B. Stokes, Oliver Nelson – The Mayor And The People – A Black Suite For String Quartet And Jazz Orchestra

I reckon you would be going for the audiophile and pure jazz fan market though. When it comes to the hipsters posting on Instagram, Steeplechase is about as hip as Pablo. Not enough sunglasses.

I don't mean "play" in any technical sense. Just that hipster jazz fans do not care about Steeplechase. Unlike the likes of Black Jazz, Blue Note, Strata East or Palm, I don't think people would buy them. We might, but very few others.

With some of the tightest arrangements in all jazz.

Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

The Mothers of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh

David Murray Octet - Ming

I wonder how much of the jazz reissue crowd would buy Steeplechase on vinyl. It doesn't seem to play well on Instagram.

Deodato – Night Cruiser

Dave Grusin Presents GRP All-Star Big Band Live!

Jack deJohnette - Special Edition

Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman

Obviously more on the blues side, but I've always loved the fact that Champion Jack Dupree left America and lived for almost ten years in the West Yorkshire mill town of Halifax. What must that move to Halifax have been like in the mid-1970s? It boggles the mind.

Level 42 - - The Pursuit of Accidents Surprisingly good jazz dance record from the early 1980s.

Lucky Thompson - Lucky Strikes

It is certainly a matter of personal taste, only. I like blues a lot but I don't really enjoy some styles. In particular, I don't normally like urban blues from the 1930s onwards that has AAB lyrics and an obvious 12 bar blues structure. Not always bad, but sometimes I find it slow going waiting for the lyrics to repeat, or for the inevitable resolution. I don't want to overstate the point, because there is lots of that music that I do like (Kokomo Arnold and Roosevelt Sykes are favourites), but it isn't my natural "sweet spot". 1940s / 1950s R&B is obviously part of the urban blues continuum, and there's a lot of AAB / 12 bar moments in any comp. The trade off as far as I am concerned is that R&B is often far more rhythmic, raucous and less elegant than the older styles, so the style can be entertaining and powerful, even if you are stuck listening to the lyrics over and over. A song like "Fannie Brown Got Married" by Roy Brown is always going to be a burner. But I often don't like the slower tunes or mid tempo tunes that don't also have some sort of "spark" or phrasing that sets it apart. As a result, I find that the "hit" rate for R&B comps of songs I love to those that I don't like is pretty low. But it's still worth the trawl. They don't seem to be on Spotify. I want to find them as they look really good.

A huge thank you for these detailed answers. I have a lot of homework to do here. Over my lunch break I greatly enjoyed a brief listen to the Savage Kick compilations. Quite a surprise to hear African American Rock'n'Roll of this sort. In many cases the performers appear to my ears to adopt a "white" style of vocal delivery (or white-coded vocal delivery), particularly by eschewing the bass falsetto(?) that is in my mind so prominent in blues and R&B. Not dissimilar of course to what Chuck Berry does on his records, but Chuck Berry is an established "thing" for me and perhaps I never noticed him doing it. Whereas on these comps it is very noticable.

Ah. The 1970s.

Roscoe Mitchell - The Flow of Things

Joe McPhee - Tenor Apparently a new issue. OTO had a couple of early McPhees, so I picked up this favourite. I don't know whether it is the start of a wider vinyl reissue series at legacy Hat.