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In my case, it was first - Miles various Prestige sessions with Rollins, Horace Silver,Kenny Clarke and others.  Also the 2 early Blue Note's. Then came the quintet with Trane, Garland, Chambers & Philly Joe. Though I enjoyed the Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, I preferred the previous Quintet. I bought "Bitches Brew" and did not like it. From that point on , I lost interest in Miles Davis recordings.  

Awesome!  The name needed to change, I love it.  It was a unanimous decision by the board too.  💪💕

I received and have read first 40 pages (covering his early life in Pensacola, first move to NYC, and second move to NYC and tenure with Horace Silver).  Easily recommended overall.  There are a few statements I'd take issue with or facts that I would have expressed differently (that "Nica's Dream" was first recorded by KB on K.B.'s Blues - yes, but if K.B. Blues wasn't even released until 1979 in Japan, shouldn't that be mentioned?)   The author is a saxophonist inspired by Cook.  His writing is decent though I think some paragraphs get a little ungainly.  He isn't deep into nitty gritty of the music though there are interesting discussions of how Cook compared to Mobley in Silver's band, and then Cook to JoeHen. Put it this way: musical commentary isn't offputting to this non-musician. What this is, so far, is a deeply researched compilation of contemporaneous commentary on Cook supplemented with interviews of people like Cuscuna and others. I am sure it will be the go-to source for those interested in Junior Cook as it brings it all together in one place and has new material as well.

Yes.  Static, muting, skips and seize up/crashes.  He may have perceived static as loss of sound stage.  There is no accounting for how degraded signal is perceived - it's subjective.  But the point is a significant amount of dirt does affect playback and sound quality. This was the way several disks from Wes Montgomery Riverside box - which I got at an amazing low price - looked.  That's not a couple missing bits.