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Real Gone Music did the most recent (and best) CD reissues of the Black Jazz catalog, and now have many of the titles on sale for $4.99 https://realgonemusic.com/collections/sale

This is a really unusual one that I rediscovered recently - a Kalaparusha record w/Karl and Ingrid Berger, Jumma Santos, and Tom Schmidt (the latter of whom I am not familiar with): It's great to hear DeJohnette in this sort of rambling free jazz context. It lacks the precision of something like Special Edition, but it serves as nice connective tissue to the AACM music made in Paris in the '60s and NY in the '70s.

5 Quatuors pour clavecin, violon, hautbois & violoncelle / Sans Souci Ensemble

Aaron Bridgers, Billy Strayhorn, Billie Holiday.

Though I have not checked every single track on the four CDs, it looks to me as if all the tracks are exclusive to this 4 CD set.

Dick Oatts, the band's lead alto player for fifty years, played his final gig with the Band last night, and retired.

SFJazz Collective “Live 2009: 6th Annual Concert Tour – The Works of McCoy Tyner Plus New Compositions” disc 2 294×300 8.12 KB

Now listening to JoeHen's Power to the People from the same box set. More DeJohnette.

Now I'm beginning to understand what the OP meant by "playing versions".

Jack has a truly AMAZING discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_DeJohnette_discography So, so many favorites -- both as a leader & sideman.

His work is astounding on that Tyner-Henderson archival set that came out on Blue Note last year.

Oh yes that one’s magnificent

I just checked my collection where he plays and just a few examples: Alice Coltranes Universal Consciousness Anouar Brahems Blue Maqams Freddie Hubbards First Light Jackie McLeans Demons Dance Joe Hendersons Power to the People Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Paul Desmond’s Skylark plus many more but his ability to shine one these very different kind of records in such a great way says a lot about his qualities as a drummer

There is some fantastic music on the box but I still prefer it in very small doses. What gets to me is not the fact that it is jams but somewhat the contrary: some of the box is largely the same musicians playing the same blues and standards night after night, not always with enthusiasm and with strong encouragement to bring their solos to crescendos with lots of tooting and honking to get the crowd excited. That can get a bit tiring after a while. But small doses can be quite rewarding as at least one or two of the masters will usually play something special.

Eric Gales, Tribute to LJK/Little Jimmy King

Never heard of this one and wow!! One of only 44 copies produced!?!? That's one rare box set. Are any of the tracks exclusive to this box?

Re-listening to disc 2 of 800×800 62.1 KB 640×640 48.9 KB Followed by Disc VII of “The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings”

Disc 1 of the 4 CD set. Featuring Harold Mabern Cedar Walton & Bruce Barth

Band is not Direct Journey. It's the name of the album. The band is BJQ. https://www.discogs.com/release/25655938-BjQ-Direct-Journey It seems fairly rare and there's only one CD available on discogs.com, so if you want it, I'd order that one ASAP. By the way, BJQ is short for Baroque Jazz Quartet. @arantxa I moved this to the Discography forum.

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas No, 8, 17, 21 - Andor Foldes

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