Andy’s albums with Sphere are particularly worth hunting out (vinyl only, I’m afraid). There are only two of them, sadly.
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“Espen Eriksen”
Dave
Almost.
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Perfectly Unhappy is another Andy Sheppard favourite. I have many of these as High Res downloads, which frustratingly I can’t play effectively right now. After the old iMac died, I’m waiting for my streamer to arrive.
Guess I’m privileged to live just outside Andy’s home city of Bristol, so I have seen him play a few times. One of the most magical was watching him duetting with a very accomplished French Harmonium (squeezebox) player in a small hall. No other instruments, yet one of the most magical gigs I have ever witnessed. No recordings exist 
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His best album? My favourite anyway. One of those albums I’ve regularly listened to since it was first released.
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Just arrived from Discogs. Less than a fiver delivered.
Boogieing with the vacuum cleaner.
Joyful.
On Qobuz if you want a lift to your household chores.
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Finally getting the time to listen to this album properly. WOW!!
Top recommendation!
Track 3 - ‘Spiritual’ is really something. The sax part had the hairs standing up on the back of my neck
I’m heading towards ‘Deep River’ now…
Then its on to ‘Learning to Wave’
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These are the two Sphere albums I mentioned above. Sphere was really Geoff Williams’s band, but it launched Andy Sheppard. These lean more to the avant-garde than hard bop, so I find them immensely enjoyable. They occasionally come up on Discogs and eBay, but vinyl only.
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Hi Andy,
As your enjoying One Flight Up check out the CD or stream of the album that includes the piece Kong Neptune.
This is a lovely album.
On the track Funkallero you can just hear how into it they are, and working off each other.
Brilliant.
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Fabulous Pure Pleasure vinyl reissue.
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Hey @narcom
I played this album three times in a row. It’s a jewel.
To be honest, I never heart of Vigleik Storaas but they are amazing. Currently listening to some of their other albums which I like as well. This thread is fantastic. I discovered so much wonderful music already
Thanks for the recommendation !
Iver
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More last century happy music.
All of these wonderful Vanguards are now on Qobuz.
They make it sound so easy and such fun.
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Hi @Nick1940 ;ittle off record but I used Roon to find Mel Powell and struggled quite a bit. I have Roon hooked up to Qobuz and Tidal. Just searching in Roon for Mel Powell didn’t work at all. I had to use a combination of an album title with his name before I finally found and album. If I go to my Qobuz app I do find everything you mention quite easily.
Not sure if you are a Roon user but have you or the others here experienced similar?
Iver