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I actually gave up and got the download files. They are clearly from the masters and sound great, so I really can't complain too much. I do have a nice playback setup (Raspberry Pi4 with Volumio) for my mp3 files in my main listening room, so I'm OK with it. I'm about to pay for the mp3 downloads of the Joey DeFrancesco holiday set for the same reason.

It is!

$22

Has Rick Wakeman said anything about the 4-disc boxset? His comments about Tales from Topographic are usually unfriendly.

No, that is not on this one. This one is from 1957 originally. I'm pretty sure "Enlightenment" debuted on "Sun Sound Pleasure". . . . I like Sun Ra's music best from the 'fifties to the late 'sixties. . . not as much after that.

That "A Cool Yuletide" by Urbie Green so far has eluded me. Apparently never ever reissued. At least not on tangible media. But there will be more Christmases (and buying occasions before that) to come.

Is that the album with the first recording of "Enlightment". I have Sun Ra record only from the midsixties on.

Instead of posting here, since I'm only around every couple of months to read up on what's new, I posted something about Guy on my microblog (it's the entry for December 5th, 2025, just in case you read this later on). deus62 | microblog Guy was a wonderful human being and became a friend.

Sun Ra and his Arkestra “Supersonic Jazz (Expanded Edition)” Cosmic Myth 2 cd set, disc 1 This new mastering sounds wonderful. 240×240 20.1 KB

Although I've listed many of these in other threads over the years, here are some more jazzy Christmas albums I've picked up over the years: Barbara Dannerlein - Christmas Soul Bobby Timmons - Holiday Soul Christian Sands - Christmas Stories Eddie Higgins - Christmas Songs (Venus) Jeff Hamilton - Merry & Bright Tim Warfield - Jazzy Christmas Tony d'Aveni - Winter Wonderland Urbie Green - A Cool Yuletide

A sedative indeed. Going to spin Kenton Christmas now, I think!

I have to admit, until I read his obituary, I was unaware at the breadth of his playing. I thought he was a straight-up jazz guitarist. What an incredible discography: https://www.discogs.com/artist/268217-Phil-Upchurch?superFilter=Instruments+%26+Performance. He played with so many artists across genres from jazz to blues, from funk to rock, from R&B to gospel... even multiple Christmas albums... he was there.

Decided to break out the 4 disc Steven Wilson revisit of Yes “Tales from Topographic Oceans” and listen to cd 3, the alternate version of the album using studio run-through and live material. Wow. A great experience with the stereo in it’s current form. Love this music!

Enrico Pieranunzi, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron: Deep Down. SoulNote SNGG001-2 [2016]

December 5 Enrico Pieranunzi - 1949

Full moon, bright and vivid. We went to bed early, I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep, a lot on my mind, and some clogged sinuses. Firing up the system to get some early morning sound. Re-visiting disc six of Bob Dylan "The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963" . . . . What a young force, real talent bursting out of him.

Ts-find, 1963 version

This looks real good. https://www.jazzfromdetroitfilm.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOfQ45leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR4Z8Il4cUx39-uarNcTBPXfsYg5XRt7ri1a9ElFgugpjHTgrSQ8JAla17GG2A_aem_O41UOsDWDxDQTsNT6dAkgA

Thanks.

It be a bad day for R&B and/or soul jazz guitarists; first Cropper, then Upchurch. RIP. The king of NY, Cornell Dupree and Melvin Sparks both passed in 2011. Seems like a fourteen year cycle.