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Good cover photo.

Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra – The Reason Why Vol. 2 I don't like all of these records but this one has some good stuff on it. Essentially an electric big band fro. Sweden tackling classics of non-western pop, here mostly folk rock from Turkey. It is self-consciously retro but quite unique in its own way. I only know Kajfes from Angles 9 and Fire!. This is pretty different although it breathes a similar air to Fire! in its mix of retro and up to date.

John Zorn - In Lambeth Anthony Braxton - Taylor Ho Bynum, Nels Cline, Greg Saunier – Quartet (New Haven) 2014

Gerald Albright - Giving Myself to You

Liam Noble Trio – Brubeck . I didn't expect to enjoy this record as much as I do.

This really is one of the greats. I can remember exactly the evening that I first heard this music.

Second listen now. I'd be interested to know what others think of it. So far it seems like one of the weaker entries in the series.

The New Herd and Masahiko Togashi – Canto Of Aries

Mats Gustafsson – Impropositions. Solo Saxophone (1997)

What is this? Looks interesting.

Derek Bailey – Carpal Tunnel I remember this one being released so vividly. I was just getting into this music then, and the name Derek Bailey was becoming familiar.

François Tusques – Piano Dazibao First listen to this one. It's very good.

Pure classic. And the flip side is good too.

For context, I was typing with one thumb whilst trying to get my three year old daughter to go to sleep.

It is good. A little sleepy. Braxton plays well.

Love this one.

I'm surprised at how little love for this record there is upthread. I found everything about it fascinating. Obviously, it isn't the world's best music, but it's interesting to hear the navy band. Coltrane is still recognisable even if he sounds nothing like himself. And they're playing Bird and Tadd Dameron tunes even at that very early stage. And then for the later session, you get to hear Coltrane playing for dancers, including the R&B tenor on Castle Rock.

Cecil Taylor Ensemble – Always A Pleasure

Will Glaser, Matthew Herd, Liam Noble – Climbing In Circles Has anyone else listened to this one? Quite interesting stuff. Not my favourite, necessarily.

JOHN COLTRANE - FIRST GIANT STEPS This one really is interesting. Hearing Coltrane play like Johnny Hodges in the Navy, and then heading Coltrane playing some honking R&B with Hodges himself ten years later.

Massacre - Listening Time

Anthony Braxton / Richard Teitelbaum – Open Aspects '82

Thanks for the suggestions so far. The West Liners is a name that I come across sometimes. Any suggestions for their records or adjacent? Rereading that post, it was an absurd overstatement, and not what I had really intended to say. I have gone back amended.

Satoh and Togashi sometimes. I don't mean that Japanese jazz was more dependent. More that the distancing from American models in the non-avant space might have come by way of investigating them thoroughly for other avenues, rather than seeking to avoid them. I think there are quite a few records from the early 70s in Japan that really dig into the unexplored possibilities of the acoustic Second Quintet and In A Silent Way, often one on one side and one on the other, in a way that you see less in Europe, where electricity so often equals rock rhythms. You are right that we shouldn't generalise though. I can think of plenty of examples of Japanese musicians going the other way. "Non-avant" really is not a sensible category. This guy is someone I also see referenced, particularly by the nickname. Do you know the records with which to start?

I think this is true. Much as I enjoy Tubby Hayes etc. the same is true of them. In both cases, the advent of modal and free ideas and electrification opened up jazz. I think the Japanese version of "creative and distinctively different" post 1968 is quite different to the European. Leaving aside the free-er perimeter, I tend to think that at least some of the Japanese records of that post 1968 period can be derived from deeper exploration of paths untaken in the US (and particularly In A Silent Way, which is used as a model in Japan in a way that it never was in the US), whereas the Europeans seem to be straining to try to find models outside of the the US records. [Edited to remove absurd half-written statement.] Two great records that I do know. Sakura Sakura is a good example of what I was referring to.