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#9 not yet identified, and my guess is that it won't be.

It's an interesting guy, one I like a lot. I went back to lay an ear on this again after reading my comments. It was REALLY familiar. I was thinking Sleep Walker, so I went to the iTunes drive and started mining. Suddenly, as I was scrolling and listening, it hit me. It's this. Love his work on Andrew Hill's Lift Every Voice. Correct. Very very interesting guy.

It's an interesting guy, one I like a lot.

Just what we need, Self Portrait Mark 2, 45 years later.

I recently placed an order with Ernie B's Reggae (ebreggae.com) in El Dorado Hills, California, who are a fabulous source for a lot of UK labes of all musical types (I am not a reggae guy). Good prices, fabulous service and shipping rates ($11.90 shipping for multiple sets that totaled 68 CD's), and they threw a lot of very cool catalogs into the box for me as a bonus. Pne of them is a complete Bear Family 2011 Catalog, 656 pages. That label is waaaay is too rich for my blood, but the catalog is a thing of beauty. If someone in the USA wants it, I'll send it media rate for free. If someone overseas wants it, I'll send it if you just reimburse my postage cost. Let me know.

Thanks, that was exactly my hope for the BFT.

Now this intrigues me. You've compared one of my favourite ever singers to someone I don't know, Gene McDaniels. What early 70s Gene McDaniels should I try and hear? thanks Start with Boby Hutcherson's "Now" album, for the great "Slow Change" and "Hello To The Wind". Also, McDaniels had a huge pop hit in the early 60's with "A Hundred Pounds of Clay", though that has nothing to do with his subsequent work. He wrote some hits for Roberta Flack if I remember correctly.

Alex, DL please. I fit into: 4 - I've seen that Ken Burns thing, and I was annoyed they stopped when the good stuff started happening! so I'll be pretty useless, guessingwise!

Damn! I knew not to sit on the sidelines too long for those discs. Enjoy! I suspect David will have multiple copies of those titles available.

PM sent on the Moncur and the two Bartz live@Jazz Standard CD's

This album was my entryway into the whole world of jazz. Pulled it off a browser in the college library in the fall of 1972 because I had heard Coltrane's name mentioned as an impact on the Byrds and the Jefferson Airplane, put it on the turntable in the library, listened through headphones while I cranked out a paper for English Comp 101, and was hooked for life as soon as I heard Elvin Jones enter in following the opening fanfare.

I came to that album through the same path. It came out last year on Japanese CD. Got mine for about $20 on ebay - it's much more expensive on Amazon.

Which reminds me of the time I saw Jackie and asked him about his old Blue Note recordings and if he was still making money off of them. His rather bitter answer was that he never made any money off of them. He sounded pretty peeved and he wasn't joking. I was very surprised when I saw those latter day Blue Notes after talking to him about it. Of course, none of this explains that date he did with McCoy Tyner ("It's About Time") for Blue Note. Maybe they paid him enough to make it worth his while? Other people know this better than I do, but wasn't the practice to pay an advance, which was offset against earnings, and also charge all studio costs, also offset, and perhaps also the fixed fees paid to the other musicians, with the result that there were usually never any net earnings beyond the initial advance? I thought the leaders got double scale but no royalties for those Blue Notes. Chuck would know for sure.

Milestone Bartz. Ah! "Perihelion And Aphelion" from Another Earth. I keep forgetting that that record has a Side 2...reminder both needed and appreciated. Glad to be of service . Now , if we could just get someone to issue 'Home' on CD...

Or five and a half...

I just ordered the EWF, and it come to 28.08 pounds including shipping to USA. Thanks for the tip!

Depending on where you order from, aDE's 35€ might be the better offer: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00IOQSW7A/ I've eyed this, but I really know sh*t about the music it contains ... would it be of interest to someone (uhm, me) who prefers soul the raw southern (Stax) way? NO............ It is great stuff, but it is the antithesis of raw & southern.

Those Blue Note hard bop albums, "Capuchin Swing", "Bluesnik", "Jackie's Bag" and the like, were wonderful.

Just enjoy! Hope you discover some new music you like.

"Appointment in Ghana", followed by "Melody for Melanie".

I second that emotion. The title track is a landmark, and "Empty Faces" is on this album.

I saw Klemmer open for Weather Report ca. 1975-1976. He wasn't bad, not goofy like in Bill's story. But he seemed to really be going somewhere with those Chess and Impulse recordings, then really went off the rails. I love the track "Touch" and like that album and 'Barefoot Ballet' OK, but their success seems to have ruined him. 'Course, he has always seemed to march to a different drummer, so it may have been inevitable.

Actually, I'm not very surprised. I always liked Mendes and have been exploring Latin music a lot lately and intending to get properly into him soon. This will encourage me to do that sooner, rather than later. Thanks. MG This is a good starting place. 48 cuts, all from the prime A&M era, including the one from this BFT.