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Georgie Auld And His Orchestra – Dancing In The Land Of Hi-Fi

Bob Moses – Visit With The Great Spirit

Are any of these in particular ones that you'd recommend?

I read this in primary school and again three years ago. It's one of those books that just gets better.

GoGo Penguin – Fanfares Every song on this sounds like either a Radiohead B Side or like something that could play in the background of an advert for a bank.

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom – Glitter Wolf This one has a better and more dynamic sound than other Miller records I've heard. Some top quality artspeak in the liner notes. Nicholas Payton – Numbers I don't get Payton. This is an album of fairly tepid funky keyboard music. Good sense of groove but that's about it. Why does he do stuff like this?

Looking forward to reading.

Kirk Whalum – And You Know That!

Robert Wyatt - ..........For The Ghosts Within (2010) Always pleased that Robert Wyatt never had a social media presence.

I'm betting on it showing up in Honest Jon's or in OTO soon so I haven't ordered it. Souffle Inconnu stuff doesn't tend to sell out and they keep it in print for a while.

It's weird. It's got a bit of heart, this one. Currently streaming this: Maki Asakawa – One Starring Toshinori Kondo and Yosuke Yamashita.

Ketil Bjørnstad – Remembrance

I love these guys.

Alterations, David Toop, Peter Cusack, Steve Beresford, Terry Day – Untitled / Logos Improvisations

Pyramid – Pyramid (East, 1980) Australian fusion. No connection to Mr. Ackermoor.

Now that is interesting. Not something that I had picked up on at all.

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom – Otis Was A Polar Bear There are some nice ideas here, but a problem that I have with this kind of heavily scored modern jazz is that it sounds like the musicians are essentially playing to the sequencer / compositional IT that was used to write it. It just pure execution of ideas with no real interpretation. I realise that this makes me sound like an old man.

A lot of the material is on discogs. I would struggle to tell a computer from a lamp stand in technological terms, but I had a naive hope that it would be comparatively easy to harvest. Even just BN would be quite interesting*. *Interesting = Fun to look at.

That's what i mean. Very hard to disentangle. Are there records (live or comps) with early Coltrane playing with Bostic and with Gillespie? I have heard the comp The Champ but that's all. Was this pre-playing with Monk? George Russell is one I hadn't heard. Was that as a theorist?

It was listening to Golson that triggered me asking. He does and doesn't sound like Trane. Okay, great. That's it then. I do hear Gordon for sure. Getz an interesting one. I know of the famous Coltrane quote where he says something like "we all wish we could sound like Stan Getz", but I had assumed there was a hint of irony there. I certainly don't hear or feel much closeness there. Interesting to know that he said he was a favourite of his. This I have to see. Edit: He's on loads of Johnny Hodges?! I had no idea. I knew Bostic and Gillespie. Had no idea he played with Hodges...

Which are those?

Ezra Collective, the London based jazz group made up of drummer / leader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison, has just won the Mercury award for Where I'm Meant To Be. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/07/mercury-prize-2023-london-group-ezra-collective-secure-first-ever-jazz-win The prize has become quite a big deal recently (after having been the kiss of death of utter un-hipness for a decade or so), and I've noticed young people getting excited about it, so it is a nice deal for Ezra Collective. It is a category-free award and they are the first jazz act to win. Like a lot of these London scene records, the record is a mix of jazz with danceable diasporic and jazz-adjacent musics, and afrobeat in particular in this case. I think it's a better record than their previous by quite a long way. It is definitely not a rehash, but it should appeal to Fela fans on here.

Walt Dickerson and Richard Davis - Tenderness

Did Coltrane mention Gordon and Stitt? I can certainly hear the former. Parker I find it harder to hear in Coltrane, particularly their very different sense of when to place notes.

Quite aside from music, Epistrophy & Now's the Time is a competitor for my favourite of all Don Schlitten covers. I am sorry, but he just looks so damn cool.