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Pleased about the Evans, but the Monk seems unnecessary since All Monk seems to have dealt with that material I think "All Monk" may not have all the outtakes, though I don't know for sure.

up with edit, removed Complete Fantasy set due to Universal IT reissue.

Great, find out about the Evans less than 24 hours after I post mine for sale. Nice set, I'll keep mine then. Still hoping for the Roland Kirk box to be issued in this series.

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'Stand Up' and 'Benefit' are the two best albums they ever did. 'This Was' probably makes their top five, along with 'Aqualung' and 'Thick As A Brick'.

Thanks for the notice - some of these sound fascinating!

I like the GRP acoustic stuff OK but find the electric stuff unlistenable, even though I liked the 70's RTF recordings.

I have 11 minutes for #3. Bet you don't do Keith Jarrett solo stuff!

Thanks for the info!

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I don't see how they could be the 40th anniversary issues, which were done by an independent company, nor the Wounded Bird issues. I would expect them to be the early 90's masters that came out on Columbia/Legacy. But they were all on Sony Masterworks, so isn't that kind of tied into the Legacy banner? For me the CTI 40th Anniversary series is the best series of domestic CTI discs I ever heard, some like "Red Clay" and "Straight Life" were greatly improved, others not as big, but I really enjoyed that series, others like "Don't Mess With Mr. T" sounded very close to the original vinyl. Hope you're right, but I thought they were independently produced with some sort of licensing deal. But I may well be wrong.

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2-1 Classic Hammond organ blues style which could have been recorded any time between 1960 and today. I lean later due to the guitar tone, but could well be wrong. Good stuff for sure. 2-2 “Moanin’” done at a very rapid pace. Guitarist has a gorgeous tone. While all subsequent jazz organists are impacted by Jimmy Smith, if this isn’t Smith himself, this guy REALLY is. 2-3 Monk’s “Well, You Needn’t” given the Hammond boogaloo treatment. The drum style and guitar tone would seem to give this a later recording date. I find the drumming too static and overbearing for my taste, which ultimately spoils the whole track for me. Sorta sounds like Medeski, Martin, and Wood. 2-4 Right up my alley, now this is how to do the boogaloo thing. Likely a post-Sidewinder Cannonball Adderley 60’s track on Capitol, or something like that. The saxophonist was born to play this sort of thing. If it’s not Cannonball, I’m sure he’s someone I know. Stanley Turrentine or Fathead Newman or someone along those lines. I’d be shocked if I don’t own this already, and really should be able to ID it better. Sounds like Nat and Zawinul, but I may be wrong. If for some reason I don’t own this, I’ll look to rectify that at my first opportunity. 2-5 Very well played, but a little dry for my taste. Influenced by late 60’s Miles, but not that group, and of later vintage. Very possibly European, has a little ECM mixed in. 2-6 Vinyl rip. Trumpeter reminds me of my man Charles Tolliver, but I don’t think it’s him. I’m sure the players are well-known. Nice modal thing going on with the pianist. Bass player doesn’t do it for me, at least on this cut. Curious on this cut. 50/50 I own it, better than that I’m familiar with it. 2-7 Gotta be Gene Harris, right? Interesting little interview, glad you included it. 2-8 Poetically, you’d have to do a Gene Harris cut next, right? So I’d guess this is “Summertime” by him. 2-9 Maybe Art Tatum or Earl Hines or somebody. Has a skip in it. Stylistically prior to my active radar. 2-10 Also from the Gene Harris family of pianists. On most BFT’s, the safest default guess seems to be “Sonny Stitt”, but on your’s it is, of course “Gene Harris”. 2-11 Gene Harris. Yeah, just default guessing.

I don't see how they could be the 40th anniversary issues, which were done by an independent company, nor the Wounded Bird issues. I would expect them to be the early 90's masters that came out on Columbia/Legacy.

Hey, I can I.D. two of them! Wonders never cease! 1-1 After the manner of Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams, right down to the Lex Humphries-ish drummer, though it’s not them. Loving the walking bass/splashy cymbals rhythm. The bari wins solo honors for me. I own so very much of this sort of thing on Blue Note/Prestige/Riverside, etc. 1-2 Vinyl rip. One of those so-tasteful Kenny Burrell type guitar players. 1-3 Like this a lot. Reminds me some of the McCoy Tyner “Echoes of a Friend” solo album , which I’ve always loved, though this feels a little more academic, and also some of the Keith Jarrett solo stuff, but less abstract. Muhal Abrams has done some things like this, including the incredible “Young at Heart”. Would like to pick this up if I don’t already own it. 1-4 “Jumpin’ at Woodside” and that certainly sounds like Coleman Hawkins or someone greatly indebted to him. Have to enjoy the pianist. 1-5 A Gene Harris-ish blues. 1-6 A non- Gene Harris-ish blues. 1-7 “You Can’t Sit Down”, Phil Upchurch 1961. Reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. You wander into 60’s pop music, you risk me actually correctly ID’ing stuff, rather than my usual “sounds sorta like” shtick. 1-8 On the other hand, if you then wander into 40’s-50’s jump blues, I’m back to “sounds sorta like” at best. Sounds sorta like Louis Prima, but not him. 1-9 “It Should Have Been Me”. I know this song by Ray Charles, and like this version quite a bit. Sounds sorta like Frankie Lymon. 1-10 “Sister Sadie” Horace Silver Quintet from ‘Blowin The Blues Away’. Great stuff, of course.

The latest Japanese CTI Blu-spec CDs sound best of all. They are cheap and two of the five Farrell titles are included. Outback Penny Arcade Also great sounding is Idris Muhammad's Power Of Soul Not loud and compressed, no hot treble. The Muhammad sounds so nice you keep hitting the replay button. But, of course, you don't get them for $4 a CD, as you do the OAS!

Us old, half-deaf, wooden ear guys like the new remasterings.

Has anyone heard these and can comment on how they sound compared to the Wounded Bird reissues? Those Sony OAC and WEA OAS sets have never had new remasters, they are pure budget sets. The Sony's at least tend to have any previously released bonus cuts, where the WEA's are the original album content only. Pretty encouraging to see that Farrell set, though, both for what it is itself and for what it portends on the possibility of other CTI sets.

That's a nice set.

Bunch of Philly guys on 11, I need to go relisten. McKenna is a little-known master. I've been a fan of Simmons since his days with the Grubbs brothers in the early 70's. I've seen all of these musicians locally through the years, Barnes/Simmons/Boone/Landham was the house band for the Mill Creek Jazz Society on Haverford Avenue in West Philly at one point. Page, very impressive performance on your part!

with you on that.

Got mine, should keep me happily busy for awhile !

D/L courtesy of Thom Keith's server, please.

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