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Re Brothers 4 on CD, to my ears it's surprisingly straight-ahead for '69 and the Varitone/other device is barely noticeable (I think we had this discussion or one very like it on my blindfold test long ago).  Grant did a bunch of sideman session for Prestige at the start of his comeback and would have signed with them, but they couldn't/wouldn't match BN's $1,500 up front per leader date.  In the late sixties, an organ date could be more or less straight ahead, old school greasy shuffles, or new school funky, or a mix.  GG had also done a few dates for Prestige with McDuff etc. early on.  I have most but not all of GG's sideman dates and all the leader dates, except Funk in France and the other one that came out at the same time (I have heard them, the're not terrible but...).  Sonny Stitt is one of those guys who recorded so much and mostly in more or less similar bags that I don't feel compelled to have it all or even anywhere near.  But I do enjoy what I have and would by that rejected date with Dexter in a flash.  Some may feel that there's no need to have everything by Grant, or even near, but they would be wrong.  I thought the clash with Alfred was more about choice of material and casual approach to recording - but I find the accounts of him running into the studio literally pulling his hair out a little hard to credit given that they got a full album's worth done that day.  Makes a great story tho'.

Answering myself, though it’s been a decade since I’ve read it — I especially recall Szwed’s Miles bio as being really wonderfully written. Been as many or more years since I’ve read his Sun Ra bio too — but I specifically remembering coming away from reading So What thinking just was a truly great example of writing it was (a joy to read, iirc, its use of language, etc. — not necessarily overly flowery or anything, but it was just a really well-told story, in addition to however good the content was).  And also, how it seemed to cover areas of Miles’ life that I hadn’t read about as often as I had in the 3 or 4 (or 5?) other Miles bios I’d read prior.