Reaching solo-piano explorations in blues, jazz and classical music by the Free Jazz pioneer, in 1970; inspired by the revolutionary spirit of the times, and — opening with a dedication to Don Cherry — the New Thing.

1983 runnings, kicking off with the killer seven-minute version of Chicago.

Joyful rug-cutters and sweet soul-uplifters from the town of Morogoro, in early-1960s Tanzania: muziki wa dansi, inspired by Cuban 78s, and dance crazes like the twist and cha cha cha, but making them its own. Here is the cream of over a hundred recordings by Salum, mostly for Mzuri Records of Kenya; pretty much lost till now.
In an old-school tip-on cover, with lyrics in Swahili and English on the inner sleeve.
Lovely stuff.

Spiritual jazz fusion from San Francisco, impossible to find soon after it was privately pressed in a tiny run back in 1983, and highly collectible nowadays. ‘If you like John Heartsman, Aposento Alto or Minority Band, don’t miss a true killer record.’

Recorded during a 1983 stint teaching at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, northern Nigeria. ‘Lateef leads a nonet of African musicians in seven compositions that fuse his deep blues and jazz roots with native Nigerian instruments, drums and chants. The sounds stretch from meditative and melancholic to urgent and unrelenting.’
Warmly recommended.

Deep, mesmerizing, outer-spaceways jazz, with deft, dubwise dashes of electronics.
Check the grooving Messimalism — with its titular statement of intent, to keep things minimal but not sanitised or tidy — featuring trombone by Arthur Russell collaborator Peter Zummo; and the beautiful, oneiric, side-long Pathways To Presence, with tabla by Sarathy Korwar.

‘AMM (John Tilbury & Eddie Prevost) together with Lebanese electro-acoustic-free-jazz outfit A-Trio (Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui & Raed Yassin) in 2015, ‘dancing slowly along a very thin line of fine-tuned, both clear and crackling improvised sounds. Harsh at times with magical mellow moments of intense, fragile, broken noises. No overdubs, no use of electronics. In a fine-art pantone-printed sleeve.’