Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Radu Malfatti, Nick Evans, Keith Tippett, Johnny Dyani, Harry Miller.

Duets with Alexander Hawkins.

Five Blokes: John Edwards, Louis Moholo, Alexander Hawkins, Jason Yarde, Shabaka Hutchings.

Louis Moholo, Dudu Pukwana, Johnny Dyani, Frank Wright.
With Chris McGregor delayed, the three Blue Notes were at a loose end in Eindhoven — till they heard Frank Wright was in town.
A previously-unissued live recording from 1969.

Outstanding modal set for Futura in 1971, with the superb French trio Georges Arvanitas, Jacky Samson, and Charles Saudrais, expertly proliferating Mingus and Trane.

Shot between 2007 and 2012, Hisham Mayet’s film is an exhilarating, hallucinatory, harrowing record of music, ritual, life, and landscape along the Niger River, as it winds through Mali and the Republic of Niger.

Aka Counceltation — pimped with a new sleeve and title straight out of the treacherous Hefner-Jazz nexus — featuring a hefty West Coast lineup: Jack Sheldon, Curtis Counce, Harold Land, Carl Perkins and Frank Butler.
Easy swinging and elastic, limpid and lyrical, with brilliant playing all round. Perkins is always a pleasure; Land another HJ legend, lethal in ballads; Butler bosses, as per.

‘Recorded at the height of their powers as the leading free jazz trio in Europe, including some of PB’s hottest and heaviest music, starting with an inflammatory, incandescent, 26-minute, live Just For Altena. Two contemporary studio recordings show an entirely different side of the trio, with delicate and harmonically intricate work by the Belgian pianist van Hove and typically wide ranging and mondo offerings from Bennink, at the time when the Dutch percussionist was using a huge, ragtag setup with metallic flotsam and jetsam augmenting his traditional kit.’

The Alabama-born saxophonist and clarinettist in 1966, with Sonny Sharrock, Byard Lancaster, Clifford Thornton, Karl Berger, Henry Grimes and co.

Scientist, Roots Radics.

Terrific big band music from 1970. What a lineup— built around a core of Tolliver, Stanley Cowell, Cecil McBee and Jimmy Hopps, but also featuring all-time greats like Clifford Jordan, Jimmy Heath and Curtis Fuller.

The first album in thirteen years by this great trumpeter (and founder of Strata East).
A quintet — with US veterans Jesse Davis, Keith Brown, Buster Williams and Lenny White — joined by Binker Moses on a couple of cuts.