So, a quick visit to Oxfam in Market Harborough yesterday, and I happened to stumble across this 2 CD album from 21st century...

Now this was a bargain. Brand new, still sealed, £2 on a market stall. It's Joni's 1979 tribute to jazz legend Charles Mingus, recorded...

Another 'quid at the boot fair' acquisition from the weekend. I'd enjoyed Protection and Mezzanine a decade earlier, but subsequent...

Now this is definitely going to need more than one listen. One of yesterday's boot fair purchases was this 2009 re-release of Coltrane's...

The final recent acquisition from scrolling through eBay after a few drinks, and If I'd been looking for a 1977 album, I wouldn't have...

Earlier in the year, I dragged our Bragg's Brewing Up With Billy Bragg and expressed surprise that I didn't already have this album....

Once again, this is a recent eBay purchase for a couple of quid. It's the second of Eno's Ambient series, this one a collaboration with...

Malka Spiegel is a former member os Israeli / Belgian band Minimal Compact, and is married to Wire's Colin Newman, who has co-writing...

I spent a lot of time in Sheffield in the late 1970s, and was at the university there in 1980-81, just at the time of the Human League...

That young scamp, Peter Gabriel caused much hilarity and confusion by naming his first four solo albums Peter Gabriel. This recent EBay...

After the surprise success of 1977's New Boots And Panties, this follow up was long awaited, and as I remember, receive with mixed...

In these days of Amazon and everything being available on line, delivered tomorrow, there for streaming and fully documented, an old fart...

Downtempo, experimental and ambient, says the blurb in Discogs, and who am I to argue? No idea where I picked this up, and I don't...

I'm cheating a bit by including the image (which, incidentally, Discogs declines to show because it's a bit rude), because my CD version...

Another quid at a boot fair (from a mate who was selling a few CDs for a charity stall), and a massive bargain. This is an odd one...

S Ryuichi Sakamoto - Discord (1997)   Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (1971)   Santana - Abraxas (1970)   Sauna Youth – Distractions (2015) The...

H Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte (1975)   Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch! (1978)   Half Man Half Biscuit - McIntyre, Treadmore...

A lot of people sneered at and derided Paul Weller's first post-Jam project, but I enjoyed the laid back, jazz influenced band that he...

Time for the third part of the Radio Gnome Trilogy, another album which I've known for almost 50 years. I first bought a copy of this...

This album was my introduction to Richard Dawson, when it was the featured album on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC Radio 6Music. And...