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REISSUED Spacey improvisational ECM PIPE ORGAN music!

I love the conception of the title track on "Free Form". He had quite a career.

Spacey improvisational PIPE ORGAN music!

Understand that there is zero "jazz" content to this release. If Jarrett the classical guy is appealing to you, go for it.

If we're changein the rules to include live cuts, then Billy Harper's 31 minutes of "Cry of Hunger". And Lee Morgan "Absolutions" from 'Live at the Lighthouse'.

Muhal Richard Abrams - Young at Heart (29:20).

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I don't argue that, but who are we around here to smirk about "very narrow and specific genres"? I bet they soundly outsold someone like Randy Weston both back in the day and on reissue. And it really is spectacular stuff for that genre (which I happen to really like).

Me too.

The classic of the genre. Not to be missed if you have any interest at all.

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Another I remembered: Lee Morgan - Capra Black (the premier recording of the Billy Harper classic).

Charles Sullivan - Genesis (17'') http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pp4MGxkXrg

And who were no doubt the inspiration for "Loving You Lots and Lots" by the Norm Wooster Singers from the 'That Thing You Do' soundtrack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAFhl8IXzY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxKVTGCrreE

I'd be interested, but not at $125.

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PM sent on the Ammons/Stitt and the Getz

Two reasons for me. 1. Pharoah Sanders 2. The Jimmy Garrison bass solos. I tend to just hit "eject" when the Coltrane solos are done on that album. I do fine with the Sanders-led albums on Impulse (even like 'Tauhid' quite a bit), but what he was doing with Coltrane on a lot of that stuff, ('Meditations' being the one exception I can think of), especially the live albums, is just incomprehensible to me. Boy, did poor McCoy Tyner sound spoofed by it all on "Live in Seattle". And don't get me started (again) on 'Om'.

Looking at the Hoffman board discussion, I think I'm with you on this. Sun Ship is, to me, the fulcrum point of the Coltrane discography, where he stood for the last time on the diving board, just before he dove off into the ether. But I don't think I will pay $25 for rejected takes and studio chatter.

OK, Old Wooden-Ears will start it off for everyone's amusement: BFT 107 1 - "Darn That Dream" - Tal Farlow, I think. Love that whole style of guitar playing, Tal Farlow, Herb Ellis, etc. Lovely performance. 2- "My One And Only Love". I'm going to guess that flute is not the primary instrument for the flautist on this. He does not sound as sure of himself as the rhythm section does of themselves. Of course, these are the kind of statements that oftem make me sound like an idiot when the answers are revealed. But I am not very impressed with the flute on this, though I dig the rhythm section. 3 - Same song, different flute player, this one sounds much more sure of himself. Beautiful cut, though it feels like the guitarist is sort of coasting on his solo (love what he does the rest of the cut). 4 - "Giant Steps". Short and sweet, really like both the organist and the guitarist. 5 - "The Gambler". By a non-singer, but I sure prefer this to Kenny Rogers :-) 6 - This is the part of the blindfold test where I always guess someone else and it turns out to be Sonny Stitt, so I'll guess Sonny Stitt (and it will turn out to be someone else). But really, how can you possibly not like this cut? 7. - One of those older master players I should be able to differentiate but can't. I'll go out on a limb and guess that this is a late-career recording with a European rhythm section. 8 - Joe Henderson's "Recorda-Me" but I am not placing this performance, though it's a very strong one. Trombone player is very very good, is it Conrad Herwig? Trumpet player does well, as does pianist and tenor player. I know Henderson recorded his own big band version of this for Verve late in his career (and it's the only one of the Verve albums that I really am all that crazy about, though they're all OK), but I don't think this is the version from that album. Whatever it is, it works big-time for me, and I will want to pick it up if I don't already have it. 9 - Well, I should be able to name both the song and the pianist, but I can't name either, though the song is very Ellingtonish. But I really like it. 10 - One of those things I probably should like more than I do. Again very neo-Ellingtonish, but I don't really think that it's Johnny Hodges or any other Ellington players. Not something I would buy or listen to on my own. I could see it being someone like Lee Konitz. 11 - The first thing that comes to mind, so I'll stick with it, is Attila Zollar with Don Friedman, though the bass player's conception seems too modern for that. Whatever it is, it definitely works big-time for my ears, and I'm very interested to know waht it is. BTW, Don Friedman is phenomenal as both a pianist and a composer, and I don't understand why he hasn't been much much better known and appreciated. 12 - Huh? My mind goes immediately to "El Paso" by Marty Robbins and "Come a Little Bit Closer" by Jay & The Americans. Anyways, this one has totally and utterly lost me in every regard. Could be anything from Astor Piazzolla to Henry Threadgill to Airto to infinity and beyond for all I know. 13 - Old school. I can't place the singer, but she's not the type of singer I listen to. Wouldn't surprise me if it was the tenor player's session rather than the singer's, and I feel like he's someone I should know. I find this sort of static rhythm makes me very antsy. 14 - Second part is "Goin' Out of My Head" of course. Three separate guitar parts going on here, be it three different players or, very possibly, overdubbing. They have heard the Wes Montgomery version of this, and the acoustic player has listned to how Gabor Szabo tuned his guitar, but I can't really place this.

Yep. I was at the dreaded King of Prussia Mall over the weekend with my wife. 400+ stores, and not a single CD store or book store among those.

Not familiar with Winkler, and am happy he recognizes Nyro's genius, but will take this opportunity to express that my wife and I have, for decades, lamented that Nyro's own versions of her songs are not as well known as the "famous" covers, which invariably homogenize them. Three Dog Night's "Eli's Coming" is a fine record until you hear Nyro's own version, the same with the Fifth Dimension's "Wedding Bell Blues", "Save The Country", "Sweet Blindness", and "Stoned Soul Picnic", Barbra Streisand's "Stoney End", BST's "And When I Die", etc. And these songs are accompanied by other stunning performances on her albums. And she did maybe the greatest cover album of all-time in 'Gonna Take A Miracle", and album that has literally brought tears to my eyes at times, her singing is so beautiful and the song selection so perfect. She was a great writer, but also (maybe even moreso) a PHENOMENAL singer in her prime, and so relatively few really appreciate that. Thanks for bearing with me.

And sold out. Already a bit cheaper from some of the Amazon resellers, and my current usual best price resellers (importcds and moviemars) haven't even listed it yet.

BFrank, totally with you on the McBee, what a great album. Was so impressed with Chico Freeman in those days, so disillusioned since then. That Jackie McLean desecration caused Bob Rusch to explode into the greatest record review in the history of Cadence magazine. If my memory serves me correctly, the entire review was in bold capitol letters, and basically told the record industry to go ahead and ruin all the young players they want (I believe they named Azar Lawrence, who had just put out the horrid 'People Moving" sellout on Prestige), but that Jackie McLean was an institution, a national treasure, and they had no right to mess with him. Anyone else remember that review?

not available at my local Big Lots. If any other board member is willing to pick one up for me, I'll gladly pay the purchase and postage prices, thx.