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It's never ending! But I always appreciate people like yourself putting recommendations out there, I feel like the exploration and discovery will be a life long pursuit.

Great list, there's some stuff for me to get stuck in to here. I've been having good rummage around piano-lead jazz lately and I would add Tommy Flanagan - Eclypso and/or Overseas (bonus of a classic visual pun for a cover)

And with that you are soundtracking my morning at work. One of the things I love about this forum, I often find myself settling in with something recommended, or simply mentioned, around here.

I've found Bud Powell to be a fantastic and highly addictive gateway drug on the way to really getting Monk. The way they can kind of dance and stagger all over and around a melody, without necessarily stating it straight out. Monk would certainly push it further out and no doubt influenced...

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These kind of albums can have such a lasting impact. There is something so powerful in music and healing. The National's High Violet played a similar role for me and when I listen to it now there is an emotional time travel thing that happens but it's not a negative one, it's all about how the...

Yes mine has gone from ships with your next record of the month (last month) to shipping in early July, to shipped (is included in my shipping email for this month, my package hasn't arrived yet but I'm not hopeful), to disappeared from my orders page. I will give the advice that @Enoch has...

Ohh Anima is gorgeous. I've held off ordering until I could listen but I'm going in on the deluxe. Lovely weird, glitchy, textural meanderings with deep caverns of exquisite beauty. Has a strong sense of a single piece composed of movements that connect and intertwine. Very nice and I feel like...

Haha welcome back! But no, I am not your waking up buddy. For one, you may recall I'm simply no good at it. I'm getting old. Furthermore, I'm not making a big thing of it but I'm bailing out of vmp for now at least. The last two months have been swap months for me, and not easy to find swaps...

Yeah and leave alcohol out of the equation 🤦‍♂️

I just adore Crescent. It's a such a beautiful, dark, creeping album. Wise One is sublime, Drum Thing is exquisitely dark and delicate to close the album. Bessie's Blues I find a bit baffling, it jars so much with the flow of the album, but that jarring, carefree interlude has grown on me, it's...

Got my tickets for the Brisbane show, was all hyped up to get really good seats, had a price ceiling in mind etc, turns out it's a general admission show. I don't mind, that seems right to me in many ways, but as I get a little older man do I love a seat!

FWIW, and I realise that may not be much, but I do recall from storf's AMA that there would be zero crossover with the BN80 releases. Now BN81? That's a different story.

Very cool! Congrats

Wow. Honestly, do you reckon they just forgot to ship the booklet with the last two records and made up the excuse that it's so everything arrives safely? I'm coming back to my earlier speculation that this whole shamozzle actually immerses us in the jazz experience by making us all a part of a...

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - The Ellington Suites Every now and then I'll buy an album because I need to be able to play one particular song. It doesn't mean the others are no good but I would literally pay the same price if it was a 12" single or an album full of otherwise awful music...

I love the first part of this sentence and completely agree but I have been reading the same conversation and I really think @Enoch was simply sharing information. How we choose to receive the information, or how he "comes across" is more about our own viewpoint than his. I appreciate the...

Ohhhh good find! I picked these two up at 2nd Avenue Records in Portland, Oregon while traveling. I love the connection to an experience that finding something like this preserves, and the joys of old school record store hunting

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Damn. Julien Baker covering Frightened Rabbit is a perfect storm of melancholia.