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Been laying low a bit, but thought I’d share a few of my favourite recent grabs.

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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Impressions
I recently stumbled across Kahil El’Zabar and am now obsessed with kalimba. An excellent reissue on Italy’s Red Record.

Shabaka and the Ancestors - We are Sent Here by History
I really love his other Ancestors record (Wisdom of Elders) and found this in a local store at a reasonable price. That was incentive enough for me! Similar vibes to the other one, and to me probably preferred over his other Impulse releases.

Claude Williamson - New Departure
Bought blind for small money based on the Sam Jones and Roy Haynes rhythm section. Nice and fun classic piano trio record. Very happy to have discovered this!

Southern University Jazz Ensemble - Goes to Africa With Love
Another banger of a BBE reissue. Great soul-jazz vibes with some modal stuff thrown in. This double LP thankfully includes the instrumental versions too.

Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
Has been in the list for a minute, and found one in the wild over the weekend. Probably my favourite Cowell record. Pairs really well with Marion Brown’s Vista.

Green Cosmos - Morgenmusiken
This, plus their earlier Abendmusiken, have been revelatory records for me. Some may question their “jazz” credentials, but if we’re going to include some of Don Cherry and Pharoah’s more philosophical ambient stuff under the broad banner, this deserves to be there too. Pretty fascinating story behind the band too.

Recently stumbled across a little label based out of Melbourne that puts out contemporary spiritual/free jazz from local artists: Awake Nu. (Taken from the Don Cherry tune of the same name.)

Was lucky enough to connect with the main guy, trumpeter Marley Del Prete. Great young bloke who’s in it for the love of the game.

Grabbed his latest release from him. Limited run of 200 copies. Beautiful hand-stamped cover.

https://marleydelprete.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-heart-sama-featuring-nat-birchall

What was supposed to be a fiscally responsible week for records ended up like this. Heading into the weekend fully loaded.

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Misha Panfilov Septet - Live in Stockholm and Tallinn (Funk Night Records)

Misha Panfilov Septet - Skyways (Funk Night Records)

Robin Kenyatta - Gypsy Man (Atlantic)

Carlos Garnett - Journey to Enlightenment (Muse)

Marvin (Hannibal) Peterson - Hannibal in Antibes (Enja)

Chico Freeman - Beyond the Rain (Contemporary)

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Don Cherry - Relativity Suite (Klimt)

Nana Vasconcelos - Saudades (ECM)

Muhal Richard Abrams - Sightsong (Black Saint)

John Hicks - Some Other Time (Theresa)

Enjoying this one! Lo-fi, wonky stuff. (Apparently the source tapes were pretty beaten up, so don’t expect an audiophile experience!)

Really cool, loose versions of Maiden Voyage, Say a Little Prayer and People Make the World go Round.

Bit of a mixed bag this week. A couple of highlights and some mid-tier stuff. (They can’t all be heaters!)

Check the line-up on the Elvin Jones/McCoy Tyner jam:
Elvin Jones
McCoy Tyner
Pharoah Sanders
Richard Davis
Jean-Paul Bourelly

Also been on a bit of a Marvin Peterson tear lately, so happy to add these ones!

Came across Kahil El’Zabar recently via Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.

This record arrived during the week and was stoked to find that he’s actually in town doing shows right now!

Managed to snare a ticket to an intimate club show tomorrow night. Pumped!

Instant favourite for me and very happy to add to the collection.

BBE really do a good job with their reissues!

This one is 45RPM from 2019 in association with Aketa’s Disk.

Not specifically IA, but thought perhaps some folk here may appreciate.
Dug these out of the shelves today.
Hard to believe this was 30 years ago!

Remixes from the likes of UNKLE, Luke Vibert…

Continuing my contradictory search for existential meaning by balancing 70’s spiritualism with twenty-first century capitalism, a couple of highly recommended acquisitions for y’all.

The first is an excellent 4LP Box Set from the fine folk at Strut that celebrates The Pyramids. Contains their first 4 records, which, for me, made perfect economic sense rather than hunting down the individual releases. Beautiful, forward thinking music that traverses the best bits of avant-garde, free, spiritual jazz, underpinned with hypnotic groove.

The second is the P-Vine reissue of the Strata East classic The Ensemble Al-Salaam “The Sojourner”.

Big haul from Aguirre, Belgium.

Ordered this stuff a couple of months ago, but arrived today. The African Skies was a pre-order, which held up the order.

A lot of this stuff was introduced to me via this sub 🙏🏻

It’s going to be a great few days of listening!

I first “heard” Marion Brown many years ago when I listened to Harold Budd’s brilliant “Pavilion of Dreams”, although at the time I didn’t know who he was.

Then, in a former life as a house DJ, I had a couple of 12’s by his son, Djinji.

Fast forward to not that long ago, I came across a reissue of “Vista”. I recognised one of the tracks, “Maimoun”, from the Heath Brothers classic “Marchin’ On”.

Since then, if I come across a Marion record I grab it. I think the final piece arrived today with “November Cotton Flower”.

Admittedly, some of it is a little too out there for my tastes; but all of it is interesting and creative and inspiring.

Have I missed any?

I don’t throw words like “Masterpiece” around lightly, but damn, this one has to come close!
Not the greatest condition (VG/VG) but still an immensely enjoyable listen.

When I was a teenager, my favourite thing ever was going to record fairs. Every couple of months there’d be a big one and I’d save my part time job money up for those events.
I’d usually walk away with some Pink Floyd or Sabbath, maybe a Metallica picture disc and a bootleg cassette of a Sonic Youth gig that sounded terrible.

These days there are smaller fairs in my city every weekend. I’ll go to one every couple of months, especially when they’re over my side of town.

Shopping at fairs is intense. It’s pretty rare that I’ll come across anything I’m actively searching for, but I’ll usually find a couple things that look interesting enough to roll the dice on.

These are today’s finds;

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David Schnitter - Goliath. (Muse)

Johnny Lytle - Everything Must Change (Muse)

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Country Preacher (Capitol)

Cecil Taylor - The Jazz Composers Orchestra (JCOA)

Albert Mangelsdorff, Wolfgang Dauner & Family of Percussion - Moon at Noon (Musikant)

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VA - Black Fire! New Spirits! (Soul Jazz)

Brother Jack McDuff - Magnetic Feel (Cadet)

Manfred Schoof Quintet - Scales (Japo)

Picked up this pair for free via FB Marketplace, along with an Onkyo CD player and some big floor standing speakers.

Interestingly, I already own an A-450, which I absolutely love! But it has a few lights blown and I was hoping this one had globes intact. No such luck! The exact same globes are blown!

ACQUIRED!!! ACQUIRED!!! FML.

Been on the hunt for this for a minute.
I’m a huge Joe fan, and rate his 70’s Milestone records amongst the best ever made.

This one is right at the top for me.

Delves into some Latin territory, likely an influence of Luis Gasca, who as well as dropping some killer horn handles the arrangement and conducting duties on the all-time killer “Tres Palabras”.

Other players include George Duke, Julian Priester, Hadley Caliman…

Paid too much. Don’t care.

Another ridiculous mail day at my place.

Some new/contemporary stuff I snared when Aguirre ran a sale through their Discogs page.

Some older Japanese stuff from Face Records in Shibuya.

Some re-issue action from some local (to me) stores, including a recommendation from all-round nice guy and S-Tier sub member FatPossumFucker 😉.

If you’re wondering how I’m able to afford these monster hauls…I really can’t. But I don’t take vacations, I don’t eat out, see movies/shows. I drive a 15 year old car. I don’t have shares/savings/crypto.

I buy records!

I’m financially defective.

I am a profligate (n. A person given to wildly extravagant and usually grossly self-indulgent expenditure.)

My “retirement” plan is to open a small record store to sell my collection for 25% of what I paid. That’s my investment plan.

In the meantime, I’ll be over here, listening to records.

Edit (Added release deets)

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Baikida Carroll / Orange Fish Tears

Alice Coltrane / Transcendence

Hal Singer / Blues and News

Brahja / Watermeloncholia

Mush Tone Ensemble / Walking on the Grass

Jeff Parker / Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy

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Cannonball Adderley Quintet / In San Francisco

Cannonball Adderley / In Chicago

Helen Merrill S/T

Terumasa Hino / Hi-nology

Madura / Madura II

McCoy Tyner / Trident

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Wendell Harrison / Dreams of a Love Supreme

Muriel Grossman / Universal Code

The Ancients S/T

Noel McGee and Space Spies S/T

Ambrose Akinmusire / Owl Song

Doug Hammond / Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen

Favourite find of the week.

Norman Williams - The One Mind Experience - The Bishop

2020 reissue on Theresa/Pure Pleasure

A solid album start to finish that traverses everything from modal/spiritual, post bop and jazz funk.

Forgive me, sub, for the frequent posts! I’m sick of me too! I promise, this’ll be the last one for a while.

Many of you would be familiar with Enrico Rava’s ECM output.

I was recently pretty pumped to see that his 1973 Katcharpari album on MPS was getting a reissue as it’s a record that’s been hard to come by, the last wax reissue was 40 years ago

Mine arrived today and it’s great! Put out by Free Flow Archive it has a thick cardboard gatefold sleeve. Sound quality is excellent.

Musically, it sits along side electric Miles and Headhunters, perhaps a little more guitar focused with Abercrombie absolutely shredding. A very solid funk/fusion workout, with occasional Eastern melodic themes.