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Earlier today; One cut with a nice spot by Gene Ammons(!) plus the entire "Little Pony" big band session. Definitely a good set to have!

I'm in!

You could fill a whole sub-forum with duscussion on that...

Thank you!

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The live music of this time as a whole occupies a weird space in Miles' recorded chronology. He had spent the first part of the 1960s releasing one live album after another. The repertoire had been set. So ..Miles gets not just a new band, but a new band that writes new material. That understandably took precedence. Who wanted to hear yet another live album with yet another version of "All Blues"? Besides, Miles was not in top form, his chops were down And once Butches Brew happened, Definitely who wanted to hear that old shit, regardless of how atomized it actually was? And then Mike's "retired". America was busy doing fusion and such, as was a lot of the world. But Japan,hey, Japan saw the value in this music and put it out, And from there it became a sort of cult classic. So what finally broke it into America to begin The Second Great Quintet? Perversely enough, Wynton, whose earliest records were ALL about a formalized study of this ban, this music, and quite a bit of the Plugged Nickel records. So in a way, this music was old and new at the same time. It's still standards though But it is also a more thorough delineation of the rhythm section than the studio albums. And Wayne is just NUTS!!1 And a weird thing happened during this vacuum -there began this fossilization of what "real jazz" should sound like, and for standards this was not that. And then there's the Lost Quintet, who picked up where the Plugged Nickel band left of and carried it over to the other side. But that's another story... All these Columbia records are helpful, but to hear the natural evolutions of the music, the bootlegs do that. The Bootleg series is helpful up to a point. That's funny, but...a major local newspapers "pop music critic" did a column about "the most overrated musicians of all time". The two I still remember two are Otis Redding and Charlie Parker, of whom it was said that if he sounds like he's just making it up as he goes along, that's because he is. So ..yeah

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Not really a box, but I think of these three CDs as a box.

Dvorak Symphony No.4. Suitner / Staastkapelle Berlin

OJC reissue

Bobby Hutcherson - Conception: The Gift of Love (Columbia). Part of the Columbia 2 CD set.

Good point... all set

Since I was spinning LPs and had pulled some more Barry Harris ones out of the shelves I spun “Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron” Xanadu LP and then Barry Harris “The Bird of Red and Gold” Xanadu LP

I'm with you on both counts.

I play this material often enough. . . I DO enjoy Miles here, and there's lots of Herbie to like as well. An interesting point in time for the Quintet.

Slight, unimportant nitpick: is this topic better placed under “Reissues”?

I'm spinning disc 2b of this set right now. I agree that the drums and especially the bass are a bit recessed. The clapping is very loud, which leads me to believe that the microphones were placed in front of the audience, which would be a probable reason for the horns being more prominent as they are usually at the front of the stage I always appreciated these discs more for Wayne's playing rather than Miles' playing. If you can believe the stories, you can almost hear Miles trying to play these tunes straight and the rest of the guys saying, "Screw that". I just don't find myself playing this often enough to buy this set on vinyl. I think I'm still good with this old CD set.

thanks for sharing!