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Now that album cover I recognize! Good one!

My Sun Ra collection has taken over a good part of my music room so I am thinning the Sun Ra cosmos at my house and offering the following 4 Sun Ra lps (and one is 2lp) for one low price of $98 (+ $8 shipping). All are NM/NM Stray Voltage 2 LP, Modern Harmonic, 2025. RSD 2025. Color (orange frosted) vinyl. Although a few Arkestra members appear on a few tracks, this is mainly just Sun Ra on a variety of electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Excelsior Mill Modern Harmonic, 2024. Color (violet) vinyl. Another Sun Ra electronic keyboard and synthesizer workout. Cosmos Inner City, recent (perhaps 2010 or so) 180gram reissue Sun Embassy Roaratorio, 2018 $98 (+ $8 media mail shipping) U.S. shipping only I can only ship on the weekend Payment by pay pal friends/family

If one just follows the notes, one will always hear some surprise notes that seem to go out of their way not to sound like surprises. Same thing with most of his writing. On an otherwise dispiriting record, this happens: Oliver Nelson was a very stealth guy

Time to play holiday music! 🎄

Hmmm. Maybe I should qualify "inventive" within Nelson's own parameters. Nelson's stretching past what he usually does (in his "Shadow" solo), and stretches even further during his "Elegy For A Duck" solo. Parts of his soprano playing remind me of what Wayne Shorter would sound like about two years later. I wonder if Shorter was aware of Nelson's playing, particularly on soprano.

Agreed. I wonder if Byrd ever was present (in the audience) for a Miles show at Paul's Mall or other venues of the period.

Bill Carlsen “Devine’s Wisconsin Roof Orchestra 1926-1928, Bill Carlsen And His Orchestra 1929-1931” Jazz Oracle Hot dance stuff. I think I own every Jazz Oracle release and should continue listening to them again. 580×580 113 KB

Continuing my re-visit of the second half of Yes’ career. . .“The Ladder” Eagle cd . . . .

GRP was a weird label. You never knew if you were getting smooth jazz or just plain jazz, even if the artists involved were skewered one way or the other. This looks like a good one though.

I wasn't sure where to put this, but The Times had an article on him which was probably taken from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Byrd Phil Woods even recorded one of his songs.

Another live one from Evans' trio with Gomez & Morell:

That looks like a nice one. Found a cheap copy on discogs and ordered.

Classical Jazz Quartet - Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (Vertical Jazz). Stefon Harris (vibes), Kenny Barron (piano), Ron Carter (bass) & Lewis Nash (drums). Very well done.

I particularly like some of Kenny Kirkland's piano on this one.

Kaitlin Butts: Roadrunner!

Anybody in the Los Angeles area looking for the big 21-LP box set? Record Surplus has it for sale. Booklet and OBI, it's a Japanese import Chris wanted to sell if $50

No idea what the science is, but I have corrected innumerable glitchy CDr s (and regular CDs) simply by ripping them on my PC. Not always, but mostly Where you hit a wall is if there's any irregularity, even a pinhole, in the reflective surface on the top of the disc. That's game over. Aftermarket self-applied labels are especially insidious that way. Avoid at all costs!

Grooves harder than the Mizell-produced studio albums.

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