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Next up: John Lewis - P.O.V. (Columbia, 1975)

I loved all of those 2-fers. I think the Blue Note Reissue Series was by far the best. Had a lot of those!

Very enjoyable! Especially enjoyed the performance of "Evidence"!

For many years, that was the only Roulette LP I had by Big T. I remember bugging Cuscuna constantly for the eventually issued (and much loved by me!) Mosaic set! Listening to this bit of late Bud Shank

I'm still "Processing." Something to look forward to!

Ditto, though my corner of Oregon is a little more populated! That De Franco/Clark set is very good.

ts-find, woww ... have to listen a few times before i do bold statements, but for now; exceptional, very precise and detailed, powerfull recording. I have to compare this recording with Kertesz's performance.

I found the cd for a euro at a thriftstore and it's now playing ...

That whole BN Montreux series has been a mystery for five decades. I know I only ever saw them as cutouts at Third Street Jazz in Philly (Jerry Gordon's store years before he founded Evidence Records), and there is question if those albums were actually released at the time. The CD issues later on were good to have. If course, the Marlena Shaw sample was the retrospectively famous moment, and I assume that and the Norah Jones windfall made their release more viable.

Sonora Ponceña - Sabor Sureño (Inca, 1974) Craft reissue LP

Thanks, looks like we can make it!

A new one by Mira Melford ('s trio). Guess I'll just post the review since it sums it up pretty nicely: https://www.freejazzblog.org/2025/08/myra-melford-splash-intakt-2025.html Increasingly, I find myself liking large portions of Intakt's output. This one is not an exception. Free yet quite "bouncy", as the reviewer puts it.

Eliane Elias “Illusions” Denon cd Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Stanley Clarke (2 tracks) Bass – Eddie Gomez Drums – Al Foster or Lenny White or Steve Gadd Harmonica – Toots Thielemans (2 tracks) Piano, Producer – Eliane Elias Recorded at R.P.M. Studios, N.Y.C. on Oct. 22, 23, 24, 1986

Oh yes, definitely having read that. Enjoy it if you can get to it

Miles Davis, Quiet Nights Stan Getz, Greatest Hits

Blue Note released several LPs from that concert (Bobby Hutcherson, Bobbi Humphrey, Marlena Shaw & Ronnie Foster), so they more than made up for any recording costs. The fact that Byrd's performance was the only one not released at the time speaks to the label listening to the artists even back then. It's not like them keeping it in the can was good for Byrd's wallet. Here's what Michael Cuscuna said to me about this when someone on the Steve Hoffman forums questioned why he didn't release it himself: MC: Reality check: This was the only Montreux performance from that Blue Note night on July 5, 1973 to remain unissued in all territories. I asked Donald why and he said that like other live recordings he tried in the States, the results never reached the level of production and perfection that the original studio tracks did. He said it wasn’t successful and did not want it out. In those days, getting studio time to mix down multi track tapes – especially on speculation – was rarely approved. Fast forward to Don Was’s era as Blue Note president. From his vantage point, there isn’t much unreleased, but he liked to find whatever he can. The Byrd Montreux tape was a revelation – not as slick or perfect as a Mizell Bros. production, but cookin’ in a great groove nonetheless. So Don released it and we’re all happy about that. Why this is some indictment of me and the assumption is that this album would have sold hundreds of thousands more copies than anything else at that time are fictions that I can’t grasp.

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/83424-john-coltrane-impulse-masters-destroyed/

I thought it was Atlantic.

It's time for Creation.

I imagine Ravi has been consulted re: any tapes he may have still unreleased.