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  1. 1 hour ago, dougcrates said:

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    This is such a great album.  Should've been an OJC CD.  

    Yes, one of their few glaring oversights.  Others include Gary Bartz - 'Home' and Sonny Simmons 'Rumasuma'.  But it's amazing how much Fantasy did get out on CD before selling to Concord, who has basically mothballed those catalogs.

  2. 52 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

    That's sort of my impression from others. . . but I was living in Africa from '66 to '72 and then in rural Ohio from '72 to '80 and no jazz LPs of any kind were everywhere. I had to travel 30 to 45 minutes to record stores with limited jazz inventory. . .and I did, and bought a lot of good LPs, but few Pablos. Those were cd purchases for me in the days when OJC was a great choice nearly everywhere.

    I also have picked up a lot more of them on CD than on LP.  My limited LP money in the 70's was spent more on building library of Coltrane, Tyner, Blakey/Jazz Messengers, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, etc.  But I did have some Pablo's that I got at good prices, especially a lot of the 1975 Montreux recordings (they also recorded there in 1977).

  3. 48 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    They must have done pretty well though. They're everywhere.

    That's my memory of them in the 70's.  Pablo didn't have "hits", but their releases were solid and dependable.  You knew you were getting a good album by master musicians with long playing time (45-50 minutes) and beautiful artwork.  No compromises on quality in any regard for great mainstream artists who had often been treated shamefully on record in the  previous decade. 

  4. Finishing this up.  Here's your likely best album release of the year for 2024.  Shocking that something this magnificent would see the light of day this late in the game (I know there was a bootleg of one track from it some years ago).  Don't understand why Impulse didn't put this out  back in the early 70's, it would have sold as well as a lot of what they were releasing, and would have been a cultural landmark.  This CD release would have fit on one disc instead of two (though barely), and the sound isn't the best (though perfectly acceptable, better than several of the John Coltrane archival releases), but otherwise, this is a gem.

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  5. And if the interpreter is taking the bullet to cover for Ohtani's gambling, does he realize he's likely headed to jail with the way the public story currently stands?  Gets interesting here with a shame/honor culture slamming up against a truth/facts culture.   Wonder how the Dodgers are feeling about their billion dollars worth of FA signings (Ohtani and Yoshinobu) at the moment?  So much more to come on all of this yet.

  6. 1 hour ago, T.D. said:

    This just appeared. Don't know if it counts as jazz, maybe "jazz-rock". I'd be tempted, but have recently spent too much on other things.

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    Blurb courtesy DG (which one might have guessed 😉 )

    A landmark batch of work from the British jazz scene – the complete early run of recordings from Colosseum, maybe the greatest jazz-rock group of their time! The combo grew out of earlier work in the beat group generation – informed strongly by American jazz and R&B, but already on the forefront of the new prog generation – driven by the mighty drums of Jon Hiseman and topped with the sax and reed work of Dick Heckstall-Smith – both fantastic players who really gave the group their grounding! The lineup shifts a bit throughout this set, and maybe gets even better as the records go on – with later work from Chris Farlowe on vocals, whose soulful style is a perfect match to the groove-heavy sound of the group. Back in the days when we didn't like prog at all, and were more focused on jazz and funk, we still had a very soft spot for Colosseum – and it's no surprise that some of these records are always found in the collections of funk fanatics around the world. The 6CD set features the full albums Those About To Die Salute You, Valentyne Suite, Grass Is Greener, Daughter Of Time, and Colosseum Live – almost all of which are presented here with bonus tracks – alongside a full bonus CD of rare studio and live recordings too! There's also a huge booklet of notes – and this package is the comprehensive take on this legendary group.

    This has all been out many times previously on CD, including good-sounding versions with many bonus cuts on Esoteric (the same Cherry Red family label doing the box set here).  This box just bundles those Esoteric releases, which I already own, but I may well spring for it anyways, as the boxes they do have beautiful presentation and very generous pricing.  Great music.

  7. 1 hour ago, Joe said:

    @felser The theme of this BFT is sax players Joe can’t pick out of a crowd. Woody Shaw vibes once the full band arrives. It’s the darkness in the chord progression I suppose, the quartal harmony stuff all over. Sounds more like Charles Tolliver than Woody though. Is this the drummer’s date? They’re playing like it under the trombone solo. Maybe it’s the sax player’s date - quite an entrance! This almost sounds like John Gilmore, but I don’t think it is. Is the ending to that solo anticlimactic, though? I don’t think so - I just think this is a player who swerves a lot. Nope; it’s the drummer’s record for sure.

    Thoroughly enjoyed this and looking forward to learning who's playing what!

    Not the drummer's date, but he makes a "special guest appearance" on this cut,and is very esteemed, so he is certainly "featured".  Not Shaw or Tolliver, but I get where you're coming from, and agree the vibe leans more Tolliver than Shaw. Tenor player is not Gilmore, but is actually one of the few I can pick out of a crowd (in general, you are much better at ID's than I am).  And yes, he swerves a lot!  This cut has been ID'd, and makes plenty of sense coming from me following the ID.

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