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Any recommendations for record shopping in Brighton? I'll be there tomorrow.

What is the organisation that posted this? Jazz in Pop Culture?

Miroslav Vitous – Majesty Music A bit like Bobby McFerrin and D'Angelo, this record is fascinating when viewed as a clear bridge between the fusion and jazz funk of the early 70s and the chill out music of the 1990s and early 2000s. Impossible not to hear the latter from a 2024 viewpoint. It's a great record. Bluiett playing the way I always wish he would.

Hamiet Bluiett, Marcello Melis and Don Moye – Bars

So good.

Kaoru Abe Trio 1970.3.15 Shinjuku

Interesting take. I always thought that the Jazz 101 idea that Lester Young is "cool" versus Hawkins being hot didn't stand up to three minutes actual listening to pre-war Basie. But is Charlie Parker in the Black Lester influence camp or the White Lester influence camp?

Yeah. The Kaitaiteki Kokan one I mentioned is actually early for him and for Abe.

Same. Takayanagi was a huge part of my musical development. I sent a friend who was going to Japan to buy me Kaoru Abe CDs and he came back with a bunch of Takayanagi, including Deconstructive Sympathy / Kaitaiteki Kokan, which was the least musical thing I had heard up to that point, and really put the Abe solo stuff in its place. I have no real feel for Takayanagi's timeline though.

Is that pre-bookable? Very happy to do so, if so.

This is really sad news.

Sam Rivers – Black Africa! Villalago (Black Africa 1)

Will it be available to download? E.g. on Bandcamp? I don't have a CD player these days.

I'm the same. I know every note of this one.

It just becomes another asset class

Going by the back cover, that's a very flattering photograph of Harry Emmery.

Sorry, mate. Not on Blue Note.

Don Menza Sextet – Live At Carmelo's Jazz Club

Probably my favourite jazz subgenre.

Who is on this one? Is it from NY? I don't know of it.

I enjoyed him on Something by Steve Marcus.

Robin Eubanks - Karma

Total brain slip on my part.

Henri Texier and Daniel Humair is one.

Charles Brackeen Quartet – Attainment