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Marty Ehrlich – News On The Rail

Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary Halvorson – Searching For The Disappeared Hour Different Halvorson on this one.

What's the companion like? I really do like this one.

Dyani, Temiz, Feza – Music For Xaba

Definitely. Chuck in Pestilence and Cynic too.

Punkt.Vrt.Plastik – Zurich Concert

Always promising.

Henry Kaiser – Marrying For Money (1986) This belongs here, even if it is quite creative. Nothing like as avant garde as Kaiser normally is. It sounds quite a lot like F Zero shredding metal fusion at points, but it is really interesting.

Thanks. That looks interesting.

John Zorn - Jamie Saft Trio – Astaroth (Book Of Angels Volume 1) John Zorn - Erik Friedlander – Volac (Book Of Angels Volume 😎 Relistening to these now, probably the best of the bunch, in my view, particularly the Saft, which would stand on its own as a very good record. Saft is not a musician whom I know at all, outside of his work with Zorn.

Tia Fuller – Diamond Cut I've been trogging through a lot of 90s smooth jazz recently and assumed from the cover art and the reference to "diamonds" in the title that I'd added this to my to-listen list then. It is actually a reasonably advanced and perfectly enjoyable bop record, with Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette as rhythm section and Sam Yahel on organ. It is in Mack Avenue, not Warner Brothers, so I should really have clocked. She backed Beyonce and was apparently Geammy-nominated, so, a bit like Donny McCaslin, she seems to be more famous with those who are listening out for pop musician's backing bands.

Yeah. The weirdest thing is that it isn't that bad. But it is wafer thin. And there's lots that should not really have made it to record. E.g. the track that is just the group playing the same thing over and over on different synth settings.

Nmperign / Jason Lescalleet – Love Me Two Times

Flim & The BB's – Big Notes I'd never heard of this bunch until recently doing a run over historic jazz charts. Deservedly forgotten music. I guess that it is the 1980s version of those stereo test LPs sold in the early hi fi era.

Roy Eldridge – 1945-1947 This is obviously a comp, not an LP, but it is pretty incredible music, so I thought worthwhile flagging.

Paal Nilssen-Love / Ken Vandermark – Dual Pleasure

Fred Frith - Clearing

World Saxophone Quartet – Requiem For Julius How is this one?

The photo of Chet Baker on this cover always cracks me up.

Rez Abbasi – Snake Charmer First listen to this one, which I found a little dull.

Dinah Shore – Dinah Sings Some Blues With Red

The Antripodean Collective – The Massacre Of The Egos

Which is that?

Nice session. Nice to hear Christian Scott in this one. I don't always like his records, so it's nice when he is in a more mixed setting.

Guillermo Gregorio – Faktura (Hat, 2002)