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![Soft Machine - Third (1970) [Japan DSD Mastering, 2005]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/8a/34/0037348a_medium.jpeg)
Third is a 1970 double LP by Soft Machine, with each side of the original vinyl consisting of a single, long composition. Its music explores the emerging jazz fusion of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which was released just a few months earlier. Long considered one of the most innovative classics of jazz/rock of any era, Third was the first album to feature saxophonist Elton Dean, who passed away unexpectedly in 2006. In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock (2005), the album came #20 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".
![Jordi Savall & Hesperion XXI - Francisco Javier - La Ruta de Oriente (2007) [2CD] {Alia Vox}](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/53/33/00373353_medium.jpeg)
The subject of Jordi Savall's latest historical exploration is the life of the 16th-century missionary Francisco Javier, better known outside the Spanish-speaking world as St Francis Xavier. He was one of the founders of the Jesuits, and travelled widely through the east, eventually reaching Japan and the islands of China, where he died. Savall's compilation uses the historical staging posts of Javier's life and times, from his birth in Navarre to the start of his missionary travels as the scaffolding for a typically imaginative and exotic sequence of musics, which begins in the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella and ends with the traditions of Japan and China. Like its predecessors, which were centred upon Christopher Columbus and Don Quixote, the musical performances by Savall's ensemble Hesperion XXI and his usual lineup of soloists, complemented here by Japanese performers, is packaged lavishly within the covers of a glossily illustrated 264-page book with texts in five languages. The multilingual presentation doesn't make it easy to find one's way around, but the discs themselves are vividly performed, and their variety is beguiling.
"..Jacob Fischers ”In New York City” is a well worked-out and actually also somewhat different album, well worth to discover and include even in the most selective of record collections. Jacob is without a doubt one of our "great" scandinavian jazmusicians"
