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Now spinning this LP:

When asked about how limited these reissues would be, Zev Feldman stated on Instagram: "extremely limited. The series is designed to be pressed conservatively low and ship sold out." Interesting... Maybe CD editions to follow if these sell well?

Walter Bishop, Jr.: What's New. DIW Records DIW-605 {Japan 1991]

Well there is more: Shaws Love Dance and In the Beginning, Carlos Garnetts Black Love and Cosmos Nucleus. Catalysts Unity and Richard Davis’ Dealin. Joe Chambers’ The Almavorid etc. Of course it’s not like Strata East whose catalogue is also significantly smaller but still there’s definitely some in demand titles. One of their starters (The Free Slave) is among them. I am also curious to how those reissues will sound. It’s mentioned here before but I have never been impressed soundwise by a Muse record.

I remember that article -- hilarious!

Those are about the only ones. Otherwise, not that expensive. Saying that a record would have cost you $6 years ago (I hate the expression “back in the day” — what day?) is true but irrelevant because that’s not what the price of new vinyl is anymore. Many things were less expensive years ago. My first new car in 1973 was $2,500 but those days are long gone.

Yeah, I wasn't counting cutout bins. My local Treasure City had one that was 3 for 99 cents! I think I got that Joe Daley RCA record out of that one. You are correct sir!

Yes, it's Muses for Richard Davis. But I think Jim was referring to the first of the LPs pictured above; that is, Epistrophy & Now's the Time. (Not Davis' first LP.) Or at least that's how I read it.

I believe so. Muses For Richard Davis, right? And I need $30.00 worth of groceries a helluva lot more than I need a $30.00 record.

https://raggywaltz.com/2018/04/02/long-lost-blue-note-album-1553-to-be-released/

One of the four tunes from 2/18/66.

Wasn't the first Richard Davis LP as a leader (not the co-led date with Elvin) on MPS?

1. drums and unison clarinets yield to a baritone. Jimmy Giuffre? 2. live version of a Miles Davis composition, not Walkin' or So What, but very well known and familiar. Is it Milestones? I would be guessing Miles if that weren't an alto sax. Chet Baker? 3. vocalist, perhaps brazilian. The only CD's I have fitting that description are by Flora Purim. Could this be Luciana Souza? 4, 5. couple of views of the same Bird tune. Is it Birdland Suite? 4. Very low register for a trumpet - could it be Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone? 5. Hampton Hawes? 6. gotta be Bela Fleck 7. modern recording of piano trio. Mulgrew Miller? 8. add some acoustic guitar into the mix. Eric Klugh? 9. modern recording of piano trio this time with bowed bass solo. Bluesy. Cyrus Chestnut? 10. I don't know of any Konitz - Marsh dates that include piano and trombone, but that's what it sounds like to me. 11. Taking our piano downtempo and dropping out the drums. Kenny Drew and NHOP? 12. Gypsy guitar rave-up. Hmm, multiple guitars, live date. The Concord Jazz Great Guitars groups with Herb Ellis? 13. And the piano goes it alone. Barry Harris? 14. two altos bebopping? Sonny Stitt? 15. Back to the trio, midtempo relaxed. Eddie Higgins?

K.464 and K.499

Agreed on all points. And those Xanadu CD reissues were fantastic! And $30 would've bought you a basketful of groceries back in the day, also... The dollar doesn't go as far now, hence the reason why records cost $30.

Per an online inflation calculator, $5 in 1975 is equal in value to $29.88 today.

A lot more than that if you found a good cutout bin! I remember getting things like ABC/Riverside cutouts at Fields for 57 cents, getting Cobblestone titles for $1 at a store in Philly, etc.

Thanks for that. I hadn't heard that explanation before. It's a great shame

My copy suffers loose pages - the glue failed in the first few months,.

I had The Natives Are Restless on CD about 25 years ago — and I must have been pretty disappointed in it, because I apparently traded it off 10 years later before I moved to DC. I kinda remember Natives looking INCREDIBLE on paper — but it never really clicking for me (like maybe it frustrated me SO much how it didn’t click for me, that I finally gave up on it). At least that’s my vague memory of it. You say the entire Feb 18, 1966 Half Note recording is much better?? I may have to investigate. BTW, I’ve only listened once to this first track from Silver in Seattle — and I have to say I’m a little nonplussed about it. Seems like a lotta smoke, but maybe not much fire. Joe and Woody are blowing hard, but (maybe?) not really saying much.