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Amen. And he acknowledges that in many of his song titles. For instance, here is the track listing from 'The Believer': A Is It Not True, Simply Because You Cannot Believe It? B1 I Do Believe B2 Believe, For It Is True! IIRC, his father was a Baptist pastor.

Good enough album, but doesn't hold a candle to the one that followed it, 'Ugetsu'.

@felser I saw some talk about Billy Harper, so I'll guess it's him. He's doing his Coltrane/McCoy thing, but at least it's restrained. @mjzee I didn't realize that a Coltrane/McCoy thing was bad! Yes, it's Harper.

It is Billy, and I agree, high praise due, regardless of what @Dan Gould thinks! @felser Well an interesting Felser in that I didn't start hating it until that god-awful sax solo. No stars and NEXT! @Dan Gould That's my favorite musician in the history of the world, he is to me what Percy France is to you, so ouch! We DO have different tastes! 😀

Horo had some other releases in the same period. The Max Roach Loadstar is great, as is the Archie Shepp Jazz A Confronto 27. A huge regret that there have been so few CD releases of the Horo material: HDP series HDP 1-2 Irio De Paula orchestra Casinha Branca HDP 3-4 Sam Rivers trio Black Africa 1 HDP 5-6 Sam Rivers trio Black Africa 2 HDP 7-8 Ran Blake solo piano Open City HDP 9-10 Max Roach quartet The Loadstar HDP 11-12 Michael Smith duo Elvira Madigan HDP 13-14 Archie Shepp trio The Tradition HDP 15-16 M.E.V.: Lacy / Teitelbaum / List / Berger sextet United Patchwork HDP 17-18 Lee Konitz / Martial Solal Duo Duplicity HDP 19-20 Sun Ra Arkestra Unity HDP 21-22 Karl Berger duo Changing the Time HDP 23-24 Sun Ra Quartet featuring John Gilmore Other Voices, Other Blues HDP 25-26 Sun Ra Quartet featuring John Gilmore New Steps HDP 27-28 Burton Greene solo piano It's All One HDP 29-30 Lester Bowie African Children HDP 31-32 Gil Evans Orchestra Parabola HDP 33-34 Gunter Hampel / Jeannie Lee duo Oasis HDP 35-36 Bennink / Mengelberg / Rutherford / Schiano quartet A European Proposal HDP 37-38 Garrett List/ Lancaster/ Shahid, Etc. quartet American Images HDP 39-40 Wheeler / Rudd / Potts /Evan / Parker / Rjewski / Honsiger / Lacy / Lytton, etc. orchestra Laboratorio della Quercia HDP 41-42 Joe Venuti & Joe Albany quintet Joe Venuti & Joe Albany Complete HZ Series (12 single LPs) HZ 01: Archie Shepp – Mariamar HZ 02: Don Pullen – Five to Go HZ 03: George Adams / Don Pullen Quintet – Suite for Swingers HZ 04: Michael Smith –The Dualities of Man HZ 05: Steve Lacy – Threads HZ 06: Ran Blake – Crystal Trip HZ 07: Jean-François Jenny-Clark & Aldo Romano – Divieto di Santificazione HZ 08: Steve Lacy – The Catch HZ 09: David Murray– Sur-real Saxophone HZ 10: Archie Shepp – Body and Soul HZ 11: Steve Lacy – Eronel HZ 12: Roswell Rudd – The Definitive Roswell Rudd

I like and own this book by Ashley Kahn, have no need for the current book being discussed:

I sometimes hit several of those on a single BFT.

Cut 4 from this is what we are discussing then. I have never checked out that album - my bad I guess? Easily remedied on the used market.

Indeed. Not Tyner and not Milestone. ID'd by Jim.

Not the Cookers, but Harper and George Cables are present. My comment about the cut being a signature statement was a literal clue 🙂.

I used the Wetransfer preview files. Had to refresh often between cuts, or the audio would not play, but I got through it OK. @Dan Gould – I actually liked this one fine, nice charts. *** @DrJ – Nice to meet you (musically)! Nice cut. Not totally sold on the singer, but I like the composition. And love the piano solo. *** Felser – wanted to make my selection a signature statement, and this fills that bill. ***** @JSngry – Really good stuff by seasoned pros. **** @Joe – Also really good stuff by seasoned pros! **** @Ken Dryden – I know they know what they’re doing, but composition and format lost on me. * in a fully subjective rating. I’m sure some others will really dig this. @medjuk – Love the groove! **** @mikeweil – Sounds like they had quite a night when they were in Tunisia! Though it’s a little hard for me with the non-English lyrics. Fun cut. **** @mjzee – Well done big band chart. *** @tkeith – Makes me think of some of the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra recordings. If I have the group right, I’ll go back and try to figure out the song. Excellent stuff, for sure. My favorite cut on this BFT. **** Joe, 10 cuts is the full test. That's what I'm seeing also, that an entry for your file is on Thom's player, but the file itself isn't. Your file is available in the WeTransfer preview files.

Thanks Allen, always glad for the opportunity to support your work in this way. Tell us more about the documentary!

Lawson and Riley are outstanding on this great 1977 album:

+1

My favorite by him.

There may have been some nuance lost/added in English to German translation.

The song selection on this (3 Joe's, a Wayne, a Miles, a Bill Evans, a good Dave Samuels, and "Body and Soul") is outstanding, makes it a great listening disc:

My favorite Shepp album! Here' what I'm listening to:

CD, sorry.

CD is only way I'll buy them.