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Yeah, Jacknife is the one I go to after the Moncur/Hutcherson groups. It's very early for DeJohnette, but his playing animates what might have otherwise been a routine session.  I like the "Is" Sessions double CD, too. The music seems to occupy a midway point between the Lost Quintet and Circle. The energy is off the charts, even if the improvisations can feel a little incoherent at times. IMO the real knock on the recording is that the music lacks a guiding voice - there's no Miles to editorialize the rambling or a Cecil or Braxton to give the freedom explicit direction. It's a transitional moment for virtually everyone involved. 

I have been listening to the original version of Eddie Harris’s “Freedom Jazz Dance” (from The In Sound) and am struck by how much its popularity in more avant-garde circles was already baked in to the original.  Yes the beat is very “soul jazz”, but the melody is pretty angular and syncopated, not your stereotypical populist pitch. I think of the Davis version and its offspring as just taking what’s implied in the original and taking it to its obvious conclusion. Did anybody ever record a version that combines an avant-garde vibe with the soul jazz (or even funk/rock) rhythmic approach?

I put together a simplified mini-discography of Stitt's recordings with organ—both leader and sideman dates, studio and live. Here's what I came up with. Please post corrections/additions. (1961-1971 is a guidepost. There might be sessions outside this decade.) Thanks!   Sonny Stitt Organ Dates 1961-1971 1.                  At The DJ Lounge                  6/--/61         Argo 2.                 ‘Nuther Fu’ther                      2/16/62         Prestige 3.                 Boss Tenors In Orbit!            2/18/62         Verve 4.                 Soul Summit                          2/19/62         Prestige 5.                 Low Flame                              4/4/62         Jazzland 6.                 Feelin’s                                   4/--/62         Roost 7.                  My Mother’s Eyes                  5/--/63         Pacific Jazz 8.                 Move On Over                        6/17/63         Argo 9.                 Soul Shack                             9/17/63         Prestige 10.               My Main Man                         3/10/64         Argo 11.                Shangri-La                             3/19/64         Prestige 12.               Soul People                            8/25/64        Prestige 13.               Night Crawler                         9/21/65         Prestige 14.               Made For Each Other            7/13/68          Delmark 15.               The Boss Men                      12/28/65         Prestige 16.               Soul In The Night                  4/15/66          Cadet 17.                Deuces Wild                           9/11/66         Atlantic 18.               What’s New!!!                             1966          Roulette 19.               Parallel-A-Stitt                            1967          Roulette 20.              Soul Electricity!                      9/23/68         Prestige 21.               Funk You!                               9/24/68         Prestige 22.              Donny Brook                          9/15/69          Prestige 23.              Brothers-4                              9/15/69         Prestige 24.              Night Letter                          10/27/69         Prestige 25.              It’s Magic                                1969              Delmark 26.              Turn It On!                             1/4/71              Prestige 27.               You Talk That Talk!               2/8/71             Prestige 28.              Just The Way It Was              3/21/71           Label M 29.              Black Vibrations                    7/9/71             Prestige   'Nuther Fu'ther was originally titled Stitt Meets Brother Jack. I left out Patterson's People because (if I'm not mistaken) the two tracks with Stitt are actually part of the Shangri-La session. Lastly, what are your favorites from this bunch? 

Milestones' post reminds me... Jan Garbarek

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