Personnel includes Rufus Harley.

Jazz tapers! This has a tape-flip cut in one song so you know it’s legit! Apparently had a real reissue on Japanese label Solid last year.

Also, note to self, why have you been sleeping on Woody Shaw?

The lads in their Northeastern university show era.

Vesuvius denialism getting its day - Big Lava doesn’t want you to know the truth!

D’oh - I’m trying to ascertain the accuracy of a 30-year-old cassette batch which probably has lots of mislabeling and then I mistype in my Googling! (Anyone want them?).

Will freely admit the band name had me a little unsure what to expect but this is good! Kind of a Tall Dwarfs feel.

I generally regard Braxton as fairly cerebral - he really shreds on a lot of this.

Would have been great if I found about this when it came out, instead of 15 years later - at the 40+ mark, still fascinating.

Tempting to use some cliché like “this flew under the radar” - not even sure what radar we’d be talking about. Anyway it’s from 2021 and it’s good!

William S. Fischer - “enigmatic” is easy to overuse but he’s been on 200 albums with no easy career summary. Lived in Europe for a year or so mid-60s but I’m not sure how this Basque folk song-inspired 1972 LP (with almost no credits) fits in. Library music vibe. Also NYC Public school teacher!

Kuupuu - Yökehrä (Dekorder, 2006)

LP compilation drawn from some of Jonna Karanka’s many self-released CDrs - beautifully abstract home made electronic sound.

"Spider" John Koerner & Willie Murphy - Running, Jumping, Standing Still (Elektra, 1969)

Elektra edging into the “anything goes” era on the strength of the Doors income. I’ve always thought of Koerner as sort of a midwestern Peter Stampfel - steeped in the folk revival but with a lot of twists.

Music to cook mushroom risotto to:

Have spent little time with Yule V.U. - has its moments but distractedly listening on headphones at the grocery checkout this evening, I had a moment of “wait, am I listening to Leon Russell?”

Always intrigued by bands whose members have no Discogs credits besides their sole LP, in this case Philadelphia's Thunder And Roses. The closing track on their 1969 LP "King Of The Black Sunrise" is top-notch Jimi worship.

1970 sessions not released until 1974 and then the late 90s CD added three tracks with mostly different personnel - Andrew White switches to oboe, Hubert Laws and Gary Bartz step in on flute and sax - overall brilliant, a bit orchestral at moments with all the winds.