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Looking forward to reports from you both!

R.I.P. Melanie (1947-2024). Unfortunately, she is best remembered for the cloying novelty tune "Brand New Key", but there was much more to her than that. Not a major artist, but at times a very compelling minor one. Her work included one truly memorable woodstock anthem and a lot of other good recordings:

BN ran a lot of CD's out of print in 1987-1988, which is what prompted me to finally get a CD player. I bought a big bunch of those CD's at Tower Records on South Street in Philly, thinking I'd never see them again, then bought a CD player the next day. Turns out that the running them out of print was just to reset the catalog numbers IIRC, and they were very shortly all available again. 'The Prisoner' is a great album, I especially have a soft spot "I Have a Dream" and "He Who Lives in Fear", which I first encountered on that Best of Herbie Hancock 2LP set you mentioned. That set and Lee Morgan 'Live at the Lighthouse' were my first jazz purchase, bought together at Franklin Records in late 1972 or early 1973, my first year of college.

I also like that one. Actually loved Wynton's early sideman work. Blakey, this one, etc.

Up with edits showing what is currently left. Over 110 sold since last week, thanks!

The Headhunters records grew on me over the decades as I was more able to embrace them for what they were rather than keeping them at arm's length for what they weren't. The BN's and Mwandishi stuff still knocks me out, and I do like the VSOP recordings a lot. the nightmare to me was/is the 80's funk stuff with the vocoder vocals etc. Hope I never hear "Rockit" again, though it sits on my shelf in the big Complete Columbia box.

Blessings, Larry, glad you're back and hope the issues work out for you.

I'd also buy it. There's albums on there I've never heard of! And anything to get Max Roach titles from that era on CD.

I expect to post an update tomorrow once sales traffic quiets down. Needs to be a cadence to updates, I can't do them in real time. I do keep spreadsheet up to date in real time once items are paid for, I am glad to send that out, but it will not reflect that items are temporarily "on hold" (about 20 at this point).

I'll take my preferred Sonny Rollins 50's style (though I like his work into the early-70's fine and own it), and my preferred Max Roach is 'Members, Don't Get Weary' and all those great 70's quartet recordings with Billy Harper which are so difficult/impossible to find. I guess that makes me a schizophrenic old semi-fart or something! 🙂

When I begin to sort E-J CD's to sell (all jumbled in one bookcase), I can keep an eye out to see if I have any duplicate Harper's on there. I won't actually be purging any Harper from my collection!

Those are also my two favorites! Haven't thought about rankings beyond that, but I also, and I think most people, do prefer his 50's work.

RIP, and that's called...sad. I was a fan as a pre-teen when they were in their mid-60's glory. Mary Weiss's attitude came through loud and clear. Here was one of my favorites, truly cinematic in scope: "Give Him a Great Big Kiss" introduced the principle of being "good-bad but not evil" to our young minds, and my wife and I still use that phrase!

I've never seen any of the Vault material on Rhino that I can recall. The Chambers Bros. CD's came out on One Way and then Collector's Choice (and I do miss both of those labels, they did good work).

The gems of the Vault vault to me are the three Chambers Brothers albums. Reissued several times on LP and CD, well worth picking up. Does not have the psychedelic touches of their later Columbia recordings, but exceptional R&B/R&R. Also interesting material by the Peanut Butter Conspiracy from their vaults, later released on CD. And a bunch of rock curios I wouldn't mind hearing. BTW, the Owens sounds good to me, will look to pick it up eventually. And I have that Rich - all of his Pacific Jazz albums were winners, my favorite period of his! Or another round of sleazy reissues of them. Fresh Sound did some good reissues of them, as did Collectables to a lesser extent. But for the most part, that catalog has been poorly served.

Anyone familiar with that Charles Owens disc. The Jack Wilson is really good music, and Kawaida is a classic session, seemingly never properly respected. Have never heard the Hawes, but hard for me to garner excitement about it. It's also available on a Fresh Sound CD, and they do a great job.

They claim to hold the licensing, though they don't inspire confidence in me.

I'm not a big fan of her music (though it's not bad), but forever grateful for how 'Come Away With Me' and the next couple albums put lots of money in the Blue Note coffers, funding all those great classic BN reissues.

That's not mine (wish it was), this is, September 2023 release (no listing in Discogs). Details as I stated):

I picked up their CD reissue of the 'Kawaida' session (Tootie Heath, Mtume, Hancock, Cherry, Jimmy Heath, etc.) and it was shameful. No personnel listings, recording dates, notes, anything. Just song titles on tray card. Sound was OK, not great, but that session has never had good sonics (or a quality release that I've come across. I had the Trip LP back in the day, a sleazy CD listing it as a Herbie Hancock session, and this). There's a 1991 Fresh Sound CD reissue of the Wilson, which is fine. Go for that. I need to research the Owens, not familiar with it!

I have dozens of reissues by the umbrella company (Cherry Red Records, they have a number of specialty labels), and they are totally legit. Also beautifully done and kindly priced. Their website gives a March 29 estimated release date on this, though their dates do slip sometimes. Import CD's is especially good on pricing this label. They have this 8 CD set on pre-order for $40.50. I definitely plan on picking this one up (can then sell/trade off a bunch of individual CD's), and already own the Philips and RCA boxes and the lone CTI release, so I'm set Nina-wise. https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/nina-simone-blackbird-the-colpix-recordings-1959-1963-8cd-box-set/

Which is a 50% better chance than that of Dan liking my cut!

Will do.