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And this is pure coincidence. But today I grabbed this out and am now terribly impressed with Us Three, the track. This is the first Parlan trio properly. I feel I like Parlan more now than when I got it. I should be listening to this more than I do. Or Headin South, for that matter. The Parlan trio backed by Ray Barretto:

Freshsound have a double CD containing 3 albums by Booker Ervin, called Texas Tenor: the Book, Cookin and That's it.

Before I really like the mid nineties series of Impulse reissues. They stand against time pretty well. Even sonically. And now:

Another excellent comp from Strut. This time focusing on the funky Black Rio bands from the 70s. And here's another excellent comp from the Spanish label Vampi Soul. Sometimes it's a strange marriage between cumbia and surf:

I have another excellent record from this same group but with a different bass player: Broken Wing from the JiP series. It has a lovely Shorter song, Beatiful Eyes.

Yes I'm sure there're many surplus James Last albums

Nice! With a cover shot by Francis Wolf, I assume, that was also used as the cover for, if I remember correctly, Lewis Porter's book The Birth of the Cool.

Thanks for the answer: I heard references to a garden but maybe didn't pay too much attention to the lyrics. I too have a green thumb.

Grand! But pot song?

First And now I have a faible for Valle, I must admit it. But while the first is really Brazilian, the second is clearly tailored for the US market. On Verve and with English lyrics. Something I deeply dislike in my Brazilian music.

I've got that one as a CD. Very good.

A wonderful disc. With Joseph Reinhardt et son ensemble playing a wonderful version of Sweet Georgia Brown titled Douce Georgette. I read in the liners that under the nazis Jewish and American songs were forbidden, but they put a slight veil on them, a different title and played them anyway. To much success. They also point out that during the war the musicians had a lot of work. Something that seems contradictious.

Reading this in the home page summary I thought you were speaking about the Stones' Beggars banquet. That was the cover after censorship.

A mention in another thread here made me want to pull out this. A wonderful surprise.

That's true: I don't have these two, but do have the Django, which is great. It contains the Ultraphone sessions, some of the earliest recorded Django and a lot of airchecks with the Air Transport Command Band, some of the material of the US tour with Ellington and a lot of sessions with the Quintette du Hot Club de France. And the presentation is also great.

That one must be great. I read that one in 2014, with the anniveresary of WW1. It's called The Sleepwalkers. How Europe entered WW1. But what I wanted to comment is that, after having it for a while, I'm reading Don Winslow's The Border (I like Winslow novels a lot and have many of them. My favourites are The kings of cool and Savages, which was made into a film.), which feels as a sort of continuation of The Cartel. It picks up where that novel left off. But I think it's more concerned with the new heroin epidemic that has hit the US and Europe too since 2016-17. In the eyes of Winslow that is because the Sinaloa cartel decided consciously to move back to their origins in the 70s. In the case of Europe, which is served through Afghanistan I think it's because of the bumper crops they are achieving lately.

. From the LPR series. But I have it as a digipack. I think they changed from mini-LPs to digipacks in the mid 2000s.

Thanks, Sidewinder. And thanks also to Simon, who I assume is Simon Spillett, for his very helpful comments.

What do you mean? The sound? The album's excellent.

Oh, I want that. Plus there will be very little duplication as I only have Mexican Green in its Impressed/Repressed edition.