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For the name, it is surprisingly straight jazz. I was expecting a calypso thing. I hear a lot of Ramsey Lewis, although the soloing is more concentrated than one tends to find on a Ramsey Lewis record. The calypso is there but more as a sort of rhythmic edge. It's not like he's playing "St. Thomas". Its a bit like when 60s South African musicians play completely straight non-Cape jazz, but the marabi ends up creeping in anyway in the decision-making. Streaming is amazing for this sort of thing. I'd have never heard of a record like this otherwise. On a different note, I strongly recommend the Francophone Caribbean jazz and fusion world of the time, especially musicians from Guadaloupe. That's a really interesting mix of musics. Also very easily accessible in the world of streaming. French Caribbean fusion and gwo-ka music is a recent discovery for me. Really amazing stuff.

As you say, it is basically an Andy Bey record. Clive Zanda – Clive Zanda Is Here With "Dat KInda Ting": Calypsojazz Innovations (1975)

He might just have remade it to be a dick.

Sten Sandell and Lisa Ullén – Double Music (Clean Feed, 2021) First listen to this. A piano duo on Clean Feed. Very modern classical in style, drawing on French modernism, to my ears. I think I'd rather hear more developed compositions played expertly by one pianist than this. I'm just not that sure what the improvisatory duo adds.

Black / Note – L.A. Underground

Jason Moran - Same Mother Since Ten, I've been finding Moran a little po faced for my tastes, but that original run in the 00s was just incredible. Moran made all those other 90s/00s piano guys look like also-rans. I hear a lot of Don Pullen on this one. More in the way concepts move into each other and high and low combine than in terms of direct influence.

Is this real? Its a Spotify playlist?

Steve Turre – Rhythm Within The Betty Carter Album This record really was ahead of its time.

I quit enjoyed it. A bit Clean Feedy.

It was uncanny.

My then-girlfriend (now wife) had bought me a copy of Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis as a holder birthday gift for something else. After I had got over the shock and realized that I was not meant to read anything into the gift, I was trying to play it to my father to show him the repaired record player. My dad was 70 at that point and is midway between being weirded out by the (then-incipient) vinyl revival, and kicking himself for having given away his vinyl collection, which he could otherwise have handed on. Then the smoke and the puff of fire.

The Antripodean Collective - Funcalls (Extreme, 2008)

Jason Palmer – Con Alma I like this one a lot.

Jo Ann Daugherty - Range of Motion

Also legs, hopefully.

I've gone for the Africa and the Blues one first. Will try the Jazz Transatlantic one after. I've always been interested in a good book on these two subjects. Most books are pretty terrible. The crits and write ups of this sound great.

It was probably a write off before that. But it wasn't a great repairs experience. The shop itself is great though.

Dewey Redman – The Ear Of The Behearer

No. I gave up. It was also time to get a proper record player.

It did, although not very dramatic. Acrid smoke and a little puff of fire.

I used Audio Gold for a portable record player about a decade and a half ago. It took them ages and when they'd finished it immediately burst into flame. Nice place though. It felt like a group of men living their ideal lives, surrounded by bits of old machinery.

Same here. Gravity's Rainbow is also very good. Not an original point of view, but it is. Really it is very similar to Mason & Dixon, notwithstanding that it is not written in mock 18th century prose.

I see that he has a book called Jazz Transatlantic. Is that the one to which to go?