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Thanks. I'll give it a go.

Bob James – 12 Good? Bad? Solid? My tolerance for 21st century klezmer is quite low but I always live in hope.

Anthony Braxton - György Szabados - Vladimir Tarasov – Triotone First listen to this one, which I find quite underwhelming.

That's hilarious. What are the most well known records that he did?

Confirmed that Crocojazz is no more.

For older jazz vinyl stock, Paris Jazz Corner in the Latin Quarter. In the tenth arr., Superfly, which has perhaps less traditional stock. Both very good. I was there in April and they were by far the best. I think from what you say, the former is the one you should go for.

Vanessa Rossetto - The Actress I have a low tolerance for Erstwhile and its EAI releases (largely because I hate being bored) but this one really is as good as everyone says it is.

Thank you

I'll give this a listen as I love Lee Wiley. I don't know that much about her beyond Night in Manhattan, and if you have any other favourites I should love to hear them.

Worth a listen, as the record is very good. Easily streamable. It is very different to Pauer or Montoliu, and much more deferential to American models, but the rhythm section is as good as they come and Arvanitas has he advantage of being unusually loose and supple for a European player of the era, so in his own way he has an advantage over his peers. They are British players from the mid 1970s. I think that they fall between two eras: too young to be part of the original late 60s / early 70s flowering of British jazz, but too old to be part of the early 80s movement. The record is good. As I noted above, Red Clay is an obvious reference point.

Trevor Watts Moire Music Sextet – Saalfelden Encore

Just come back to this great summary of Spiritual Jazz (TM). The word "mossy" has really stuck in my head, for some reason.

Roy Meriwether Trio – Nubian Lady First listen to this. I'd assumed from the title and cover that it would be the usual post-Coltrane spiritual jazz. It's a bluesey R&B gospel stomper that scratches a Gene Harris / Ramsey Lewis itch.

Georges Arvanitas Trio – 3 Am It's okay. There's four tracks, including some solid composition for solo piano, a sample-heavy opening track that struck me as redundant, and a strong take on Shadowgraph. So, worth a stream, now that we can, but not something I'd necessarily recommend. I love George Lewis' playing and composition in the 70s and 80s, but I am not sure whether I have heard anything of his that I've thought was up to scratch since then. I thought it was telling that the version of Shadowgraph on here is by far and away the strongest moment. Now on to: Joy Jazz history is full of paths not taken and potential models underused. At times this one really calls to mind Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay, which I don't think has been mined for its mineral content nearly enough.

George Lewis – Endless Shout

I saw you two there, and it was excellent, so I'm very excited about this. I've bought the digital album.

Kawashima Makoto - Homo Sacer

Wallace Roney – Village Definitely a follower not a leader, but this is a good record.

With the other Avishai Cohen you also get sister Anat Cohen thrown in, whose work I enjoy.

I quite enjoy this one. He's a figure who looms very large in modern jazz, but appears very rarely on this forum, presumably this sort of stuff isn't really to most members' tastes. It took me years to work out that there were two Avishai Cohens.

"A" Trio – Music To Our Ears

I read somewhere that the hardest musical genre to sell on the second hand market is vocal jazz.

It’s a really great record. He had a lot of them, and, as you say, many a bit too similar.

Henri Texier – "Mad Nomad(s)"