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It's Bob Florence. An early stereosploitation record. But a really good one. Very exciting and creative within the constraints of a ridiculous and compromised genre.

Different vibe, but worth trying an earlier record too: Band Bongos, Reeds, Brass. One of the best "studio" big band records.

Lee Konitz & The Gerry Mulligan Quartet – Konitz Meets Mulligan

As you say, the bigger issue with making Machine Gun today would be that it would be drowned out by everything else.

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

Do you know The Mysterious Corona? Another excellent one from the same period and in a similar vein.

Trio Pim Jacobs featuring Ruud Brink – Just Friends

Chameleon - Chameleon

Is Christian Vander the Magma guy?

T. K. Ramamoorthy – Fabulous Notes And Beats Of The Indian Carnatic-Jazz

I do wonder whether in 30 years time we are all going to be telling people the same thing about Najee and Kirk Whalum.

Roy Harte & Milt Holland – Perfect Percussion: The 44 Instruments Of Roy Harte And Milt Holland

What do you mean by the coding bit? I'm familiar with "coded" as in "rock is white-coded" or "XYZ political position is [right / left] coded. But not this usage.

I sort of agree. The truth is that the process of forgetting and remembering isn’t natural. But it is rarely the outcome of a single factor, as these books often make out. UnIike you, I am a nineties kid. I did not experience anything firsthand. I grew into jazz during the great age of CD reissues. Questions of who was remembered and who was forgotten dictated who I liked for the first fifteen years of being a fan of this music. It took me over a decade to even hear the names of the A listers who ended up on the wrong side of the culture industry. Names like Ramsey Lewis, Lee Konitz, Gene Ammons, Eddie Harris and Roscoe Mitchell. But it is not some great conspiracy. Just changing tastes and, more than anything, the luck of being on the label that retrospectively promotes its legacy artists, rather than the ones that don’t. Jazz in the current era is a minority pursuit. Unlike rock or hip hop there isn’t a mass of older fans and friendly uncles to ensure that awareness of major artists survives their period of fame. So questions of retrospective visibility are important.

Creed Taylor Orchestra – Shock Music In Hi-Fi Superb. I'm going to spin this tonight. Thanks for the suggestion.

Cecil Taylor - Garden

Lesiman – Here And Now Vol. 1

I mean, add people who used to be in the Ellington band and you basically have it.

Oh. I think I have read that one. A useful book although I think I sold it on after reading.

What is the Soul Jazz book to which people are referring? Is that recommended. I'd also love a book on the Mainstream Swing side of things. Who is the author of this new one? Has he written anything else?

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey And His Inter-Reformers Band

It gives it a nicely Ornetteish edge.

I bought my four year old some sort of toy shawm on the weekend, because I enjoy misery. The six year old picked it up this morning and started to play "you know, the song that Roscoe Mitchell played again and again in front of those people". I have no memory of telling him that story but I presume that I did last time I spun it, back when I posted this record and, of all the things, it seems to have sunk in. Not sure why the three times table isn't... All grist for the therapist in later life.

Bebop or free or even swing. Basically an extended jazz quality solo, produced by puckered human lips.

Are there any examples of bebop whistling solos? I mean mouth whistling, not a penny whistle or slide whistle etc. Seems like the kind of thing that Slim Gaillard or the AEC might have done. But I can't think of any examples. Specifically solos.