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Straight ahead but highly enjoyable session by a swinging band. Hutch was young but already in great shape.

Perfect!

How is that? Never heard

The Prestige/Riverside/Milestone twofers were my introduction to jazz back in the late seventies/early eighties. Two records for price of a single album. Most of that albums were OOP or simply impossible to get in the domestic market in Italy. Imports only. The BN catalog was poor, so the Impulse’s. The only Italian pressings widely available were the CBS/Columbia. It’s all there in the Mingus’ Debut box set, with and without overdubbing.

I think LoneHill has gone the way of the dodo. Second-hand is the only route theses days, I think!

More recently, there was also the wonderful Impulse 2-on-1 series. https://www.discogs.com/label/292976-Impulse!-2-On-1?srsltid=AfmBOopfD-q2nbzgGozA99_hfDaOm4YTbukXgT7w_tnIbkeHYG9K-38G

That Prestige (Milestone was reserved for riverside material) twofer is still, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive packaging of that great night. Although it is missing Max's "Drum Conversation"....

If you go the LoneHill route, make sure to buy it second-hand. That way their bogus-ass ways don't get a profit!

Yeah, truth to tell, I was not big a fan of the OJC series. The original notes were often very basic.

Looks like 3 per discogs, with Lone Hill putting out a double CD of all 3 in 2005. That's now on my radar.

That was a good band. I forget how many records they made for Mainstream...2 or 3.

Lol. Funny bc it's true.

It's possible. After looking it over I think this was a DJ or radio LP. Boogaloo-ish track Blind Man Blind Man is almost unplayable. Glad I got this for el cheapo. Would definitely upgrade this bc the music is worth it.

Now spinning on my turntable: Mickey Newbury - Live at Montezuma Hall / Looks Like Rain (Elektra, 1973)

King Pop-Pop - Poppin'!!!

Baden Powell - Baden Powell (Barclay, 1971)

Gene Ammons “Legends of Acid Jazz” Prestige cd

The Monk Palo Alto record on impulse! that almost got cancelled because Zevvers didn't secure all the necessary rights before bloviating about his major new find. That was very careless and almost torpedoed what did indeed torn out to be a major release. Some of the best, maybe the best, later Monk on record. It was just a few years ago, surely you remember? It was getting hot up in here for a minute! The guy is aggressively positioning himself as the new king of reissues, presumably in the wake of Michael Cuscuna, but Cuscuna (who would occasionally screw up, sure) was publicly humble about his work and his importance and seldom made the type of basic fuckups that this Feldman guy has made. I mean, how do you NOT HEAR a tenor player who obviously NOT Sonny Stitt on a Sonny Stitt record? You have to either be deaf or just not give a damn.

What was this? Doesn't take keen deductive skills to realize that there's a market for an unissued session from the heydey of BN. And I agree, it's not an album that adds much of anything other than bulk. Much less heralded but much more rewarding is the Donald Byrd 1970's Montreux historical issue, which tells a whole musical story we did not really know (Nathan Davis, Henry Franklin and the Mizell Brothers all on the same recording).

Same here. One of the first jazz albums I ever bought, thanks to the in-store tutelage of a kind and knowledgeable Franklin Music employee.

Bob James: Hands Down. CBS 85848 [Holland 1982]

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