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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;

Picture 1 (clockwise from top left)

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)

Picture 1 (Clockwise from top left)

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.

Sincere and heartfelt thanks to the members of this subreddit for the recommendations once again.

The top three arrived today, ordered after seeing them in other posts.

Included a few of my other Nimbus West records. Curtis Clark’s Amsterdam Sunshine is an unexpected heater.

And I’m still on the hunt for Vol. 1 and 5 of the Tapscott Sessions!

What other records from the catalogue do I need? (Adele Sebastian and Tapscott’s Live at IUCC I’d definitely consider part of the family, and all-time bangers!)

Just sharing a pic of my humble bedroom setup.

Took a lot of willpower to NOT go record hunting today. (There’s always tomorrow though, amirite?)

Instead I went digging into the Expedits. (Kallax for the youngsters)

These are some of the jams that soundtracked a lazy Saturday.

Another heavy mail day here, mostly contemporary stuff today. All discovered with the help of this subreddit and by following the tributaries and small creeks that branch off the beaten path.

Audrey the dog gazes on. (Named after the Brubeck tune.)

Clockwise from top left;

Jasmine Myra - Rising

Ancient Infinity Orchestra - River of Light

Ndikho Xaba and the Natives

Wamono Groove - Shakuhachi & Koto Jazz Funk ‘76

Alabaster DePlume - Come with Fierce Grace

Asher Gamedze - Dialectic Soul

Mixed bag from Japan today.

A lot of my recent posts have been focused on spiritual jazz, but I do still like to dig jams from across the whole spectrum.

Current favourites are the Chico Hamilton joint, the Kohsuke Mine (pure fusion banger!) and the Baden Powell (featuring Eberhard on bass!)

Clockwise from top left:

Albert Ayler - Bells

Kohsuke Mine - Sunshower

Jimmy Giuffre - Western Suite

Baden Powell - Poema on Guitar

The Chico Hamilton Quintet - Blue Sands

Gabor Szabo - Macho

Nat Adderley - You, Baby