Two ace LPs: Marion Brown Quartet on ESP in 1966, after Brown’s breaking through on   Ascension and Shepp’s Fire Music the previous year; and Juba-Lee, a septet recording out on Fontana in 1967.
With Wayne’s brother Alan Shorter in full effect on trumpet (and in the compositions), Bennie Maupin making a very early appearance, the great Grachan Moncur, Dave Burrell, Reggie Johnson, Ronnie Boykins, Rashied Ali and Beaver Harris.

Marion Brown’s family runs a loving Instagram account.

With Eric Dolphy.

Mumbles, taking a break from Ellingtonia for his first recording session as leader, in 1955. Killer band, including Horace Silver, Oscar Pettiford and Art Blakey; swinging arrangements by Quincy Jones. The title track is absolute first-degree murder. Don’t miss it.

With Monk.

Rock Fort Rock and China Town excursions.

The guitar pioneer with his groups the Bunnys and The Blue Jeans: hard surf to groovy 60s instrumentals, fuzz freak-outs to funk rock, from 1966-74.

‘The geomungo is a six-string zither with sixteen frets. The resonating board is made of paulownia wood. Its origins trace back to the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo (37 BCE to 668 CE), which dominated the territory of present-day North Korea and a large part of Manchuria.
‘The geomungo makes dramatic sounds, through the friction created by the plectrum striking the strings, or the rustling created by subtle movements of the left hand over the strings.
‘Here Lee Jae-hwa performs the suites Geomungo Hoesang and Geomungo Sanjo, in the respective styles of the south and north of the Korean peninsula: distinct forms, techniques and rhythms, with a shared subtlety, sensitivity and emotional power.’

The two dubstep pioneers at the top of their game. Truly an album, the music is multi-levelled — dark as anything at times, but engrossingly varied and emotionally shaded, always on the move.

Extra to the LP, with a magnificent, epic, head-scrambling remix, more spaced and spooked than the original. Shackleton’s dream liturgy fully unfolds — an eerie, garbled sublimity, a kind of black-magic plainsong.

With Ekoplekz and Andres mixes.