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The only time I saw Sonny Fortune live was in duo with Rashied Ali. Intense stuff, and totally captivating. They were second act after Airto solo concert, and I remember Ali visibly and audibly dissatisfied with the state their shared drum set was after the opener when he got to tune up. I like Airto and all, but Fortune and Ali is what I remember that night for. Coincidentally, a little bit into the Fortune/Ali set, about third of the audience decided to stand up and storm out the concert hall, most of them women (don't women like real music?) The musical maelstrom of those two was apparently too much for many that night. Been listening to quite a lot of Sonny Fortune lately, did listen to Aghartha/Pangaea show through headphones in my Osaka hotel room, lights out and drinking whiskey, thinking how this mighty display of collective genius happened just a mile from where I was at the moment. RIP, Sonny Fortune.

I have this, it's good. Must buy if you like vintage Gary Burton bands (and I do). The 2nd concert as a bonus disc 3 is an overkill, though, IMHO. Just the Belfast concert would have done nicely, sound quality is much better as well. But even better recent Michael Gibbs Orchestra disc is Birmingham 1991 with John Scofield. Go for it! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphony-Hall-Birmingham-1991-Gibbs/dp/B07CQKKFKD/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540007863&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=michael+gibbs+manchester

OK, this is a CD madness, but a true madness all the same. https://www.ebay.com/itm/JEAN-LUC-PONTY-Enigmatic-Ocean-JAPAN-CD-WPCR-16328-2015/253910157201?hash=item3b1e398791:g:FiwAAOSwXW9bsurr:rk:1:pf:0 Jean-Luc Ponty Enigmatic Ocean Japanese CD from 2015, without OBI. US$ 20,000. You can see this seller has other (probably) equally unrare things for equally insane prices available. I can kind of understand Amazon sellers asking outlandish money for not-so-rare things (like: I have it, I'm not particularly interested in selling, but for a thousand bucks I can part with it), but this it just ridiculous. If I'm not wrong eBay takes percentage of every listing, even if it does not sell, in this case it must be heavy. Probably more than this CD is worth in Shibuya Recofan.

Thanks, that settles it.

I've long looked for this album's Japanese version without success. Now it has come to my attention that it was released as "Henderson's Habiliment" by Victor Japan (SMJX-10123) but tracklisting and lenght does not quite match. "Joe Henderson in Japan" is Round Midnight / Out'n'In / Blue Bossa / Junk Blues and "Henderson's Habiliment" is Junk Blues / Round Midnight / Blue Bossa / Black Narcissus. Total timings are 45:01 and approx. 51 min respectively. I don't have the Japanese version, so, is this different from US version? Out'n'In vs. Black Narcissus? Wonder why it was never (probably) released with both of those tracks. The 8CD complete Milestone box would have been proper place, but even the Japanese have not picked this up, not even a single Japanese CD reissue afaik which is weird considering how special this must have been for them. It's their boys sitting in with mighty Joe Henderson on this one!

Talking about The Trio side projects, picked this one up few weeks ago in a used CD shop in Tokyo: Been digging greedily into ECM back catalogue for almost 30 years by now and still, this one was new to me. Bought it because it seems to be out of print again, and glad I am I did. Basically The Trio + electronics + John Abercrombie on 1 track.

Love Mumps, great album, one of my favourites of all time. Wild Goose is a one in a kind record, I haven't heard anything else that mixes (English?) folk music and free jazz. I guess stuff like that could only be done in a brief time window in the late 60s and early 70s. I don't listen to this album too often but I like to put it on once in a while to amaze at the whackiness of the concept. Trombone workshop certainly has its moments, even it is very much a product of its time. I like the sound of trombones soloing over fender rhodes electric piano quite a bit. Recording could be much better, though. It's kind of muddy and distorted.

I ordered from hmv.co.jp and the order is still valid. One thing though, they have shown no cover art for this reissue. Dustygroove and some other sites have shown 2nd edition cover art, which is real ugly one, generic standardized cheapo version. Should have done right and picked the original 1st issue cover art. The cover art according to dustygroove. This is a Far East label series of reissues. Original: Kind of like Sony would finally do a long overdue remastered versions of Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Vision of Emerald Beyond" or "Apocalypse" and released them with old ugly Contemporary Jazz Masters booklets. Which is of course, a moot point if indeed it will be cancelled.

But you can if you want to.

I grew up listening to younger cats, Metheny, Stern, Frisell, Scofield, did not really think much of Jim Hall. Then I heard Art Farmer's "To Sweden With Love." Jim Hall is so perfect on this record. Every note is pure gold.

Side 2 is very Circle-ish, Side 1 is heavy free bop with electric Milesian moments. Steve Grossman, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, and someone called Steve Jackson playing "miscellaneous instruments."

Received the vinyl version today. Can't listen, though. Don't have a turntable.

The record's name is Columbia years 1968-1969, yet the description only covers the 1969 sessions (first half of the album, by the sound of it?) Don't really hear keyboards or saxophone there. What's the 1968 session, then, with big band and strings? Edit: oh yes, the Light in the Attic website says it's Hugh Masekela and The Jazz Crusaders.

Lost classic probably not but its historical value is tremendous. With personnel and vintage like that I'd buy if it would be entirely belching and yodelling.

Yes, I have this Politician Man mp3 from years ago, no Wayne Shorter on this one. Very nice song with Miles' raspy voice commenting at the end.

Not necessarily a mistake. Hmv has it for 216,000 yen. (same price plus 8% tax ?)

The FMR CD is supposedly unauthorized, thus the fuss about this new release. I have the new one. Digipack, which is a bummer (they usually come from amazon banged up. always prefer jewel cases.) Sound is a bit improved I guess, hard to tell, might be just louder. I'm content, as I'm too lazy to do the normalizing myself, anyways.

Picked up a copy last week at Tower Records Shibuya. It was a tad pricy but I thought why not, at least I get nice Bill Evans postcard + OBI and extra booklet in Japanese. Plus don't have to worry about the digipack getting smashed up in mail.

I wager it's not legit. The sound is darn excellent though, only a little tape hiss in quieter parts and radio announcements. It's from Canadian radio broadcast.

What a sad way to go. My only acquitance with Terry Plumeri comes via the 1971 album "He Who Lives In Many Places," which is a very interesting early Weather Report type affair with Herbie Hancock, John Abercrombie, Eric Gravatt and Michael Smith. Listening right now in memory of Terry Plumeri.

Discontinued. The Michael Naura album too, probably all the others from this batch as well.

Only one of interest to me is the Bob Berg album. But this too has been released on CD in France and Japan.

It certainly seems exciting.

Would be awesome if some label like Cuneiform released this as 2CD + 1DVD set, in addition of the concert audio there's a 30 minute tv broadcast of rehearsals. That would be something.

It would not be much better than downloading the whole available catalogue from iTunes or such. All the same, the feeling of album as an artefact is lost.