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It was one thing in the early days when the sets were until then unavailable on CD Blue Notes, such as the Jackie McLean, Andrew Hill, etc. It's another thing when the sets are things I would not have considered essential to my listening joy. They can still pump up the excitement in me when the material is right, like with the Mingus set, but most of what they come out with these days isn't anything I was dreaming of.

DL, thanks! And I like your guidelines. I have wooden ears, but lots of opinions!

What does Sonny Fortune sound like on that one?

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I eventually was able to get a new Clifford Brown set for just under $10/disc. Still looking for the right deal on the Montgomery and now this Vaughan.

I have the first couple of seasons at home. They have held up remarkably well, brilliant stuff.

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Sounds very cool. Best of luck on the project, and please let us know how it comes along.

Workig my way through the big "Jazz on Vogue" box, and ran into Buzz Gardner's bop trumpet playing on the Rene Thomas set (and other places in the box, I believe). Wondered if it was the same Buzz Gardner who played (along with his brother Bunk) with Frank Zappa in the late 60's and on Tim Buckley's unhinged "Starsailor" album (talk about your artistic suicide) . Sure enough. That's quite a well-rounded discography for a trumpeter.

Me too. My college library had the 3 LP set "the Great Jazz Concert of Charles Mingus", and I had never heard anything like that, and I became enamored of Dolphy and Jordan right then. I was 18, a freshman in college. That is still a magical recording for me, and I was thrilled when it finally came out on CD a few years ago.

I have a few CD's by her I have stumbled into over the years, and she is really good.

I have a more limited window of love on Jordan. To my ears, he really found his voice playing with Mingus in 64-65. And perfected it in the Magic Triangle group with Walton/Jones/Higgins. I really like both of the Strata-East albums, especially 'Glass Bead Games", and the Steeplechase albums, whether under his name or Walton's. The Muse albums (except for the live one) sound very underrehearsed to me, as so many on that label do. And I found his playing to be very inconsistent after the mid-70's. But I will always have room for and greatly appreciate his peak mid-60's to mid-70's work, and do own the albums he did before that, though I have not kept the ones he did after that.

Montreux may be my favorite of his also.

DL for ol' Wooden Ears.

I like it. I like almost everything Hutcherson did on Blue Note during that period, and I can't say that about any other artists signed to the label during that time. The Horace Silver ("Silver 'n" series), Lou Donaldson, and of course Donald Byrd stuff from then I find dreadful.

I own and am very pleased with the Abrams, Freeman - Morning Prayer, Sullivan, Bonner, Curson and both Dickerson titles. I'm also familiar with the Barron and Fortune, and they are also pretty good.

curious as to what that means. he was still in his 40s and playing his butt off! I haven't heard his Black Jazz recordings in a number of years, did revisit the Muse recordings recently, and they were underwhelming. I remember the Black Jazz sides being much better, but I don't remember them giving me any additional insights into Bishop - that's what I mean by late in the game - he was already pretty well-defined by his earlier recordings. By all means, if you really like Bishop's playing, go for the Black Jazz sides (indeed, every record ever released by that label has merit, and I owned every one of them at one point thanks to Third Street Jazz selling many of them as 99 cent cutouts). But they weren't landmarks the way those three Doug & Jean Carn albums were. I go under the assumption that people have a limited amount of $ to spend, and can't own every worthy album, especially at Japanese import prices. I know I can't.

Yes, both of those are great, as is 'Revelation' if that gets rereleased. Those three albums are the crown jewels of the Black Jazz catalog.

The Doug and Jean Carn is classic. That is the only "must have" title. I like the Awakening titles and the Rudolph Johnson, but those are for particular tastes only. Johnson is one of those guys like Von Freeman who you either like or he makes you crazy. The Awakening is very 70's spiritual content, not necessarily technically excellent. The Kellie Patterson is pretty weak, the Bishop pretty late in the game, the Russell pretty conservative.

Henry Threadgill on Black Saint. Really like the Air stuff, have no use for the other three titles.

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Posting without looking at Jim's post: 1 - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers for sure, and it sounds like an 80's version of the group. I'm going to guess Philip Harper on trumpet, though it could also be young Wynton. Guaranteed I have this one in my collection, but I generally listen to his 50’s-60’s groups or to his Bobby Watson groups when I am in a Blakey mood. 2 - Old obviously. No real guesses, as these sound to be horn players from before my era de preferance, but with a more modern rhythm section. So it may be something like on Prestige, where they did that sort of thing a lot in the late 50’s and early 60’s. Don’t like the piano solo. Though I’m not a sound snob, this is a case where the fidelity detracts from my enjoyment. 3 - John Coltrane “Impressions”. Classic quartet Tyner/Garrison/Jones. This is an excerpt from a studio version rather than the more famous VV live version. Great stuff. 4 – I know this well and have owned it like forever, but am not directly identifying it because I’m old, tired, and distracted, and it keeps dropping into the background for me as I listen to it, but it’s great fun. This is where BFT’s really annoy me, because I should know this one! 5 – Beautiful. I believe this is Charlie Mariano with Mingus, “IX Love” from the ‘Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus’ album on Impulse. If you love this, you need to get ‘The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady’,maybe the most purely beautiful album ever made. I need to pull these out and listen to them. 6 – The classic tenor spot. This is where I guess someone else and it turns out to be Sonny Stitt, except last time I guessed Sonny Stitt and it turned out to be someone else. I admire this sort of thing, and own a lot of it, but don’t actually listen to it much. 7 – Well it’s an Ellington piece, but it’s not Ellington. I’m going to guess Kenny Burrell from that Ellington session he did in the 70’s. 8 –Grease indeed. I often can’t differentiate the organ players, but will guess Jack McDuff in this case. 9 – Outside my domain of listening. I almost couldn’t finish this one. Wasn’t the guitar player that drove me crazy, but rather that background drone of the electric keyboards and voices and mechanical handclaps. I actually liked the guitar solo, and assume it is the guitar player’s album. Curious to know who/what this is, but not so I can buy it. 10 – This sounds like a Swingin’ Big Band modernizing itself in the 60’s. Maybe Buddy Rich? I actually like it quite a bit, and listen to more of this sort of thing that I would expect to. 11-14 – Yes, I suppose it could be the same pianist from different settings in different decades. Not someone I listen to a lot. 11 – Ol’ school. I enjoy this, but am not prepared to name anything about it. 12 – I’m not the best at standards, but believe this is “I’m Beginning to See The Light”. Too old of a style for me to be fluent in, even if it’s names I know. 13 – “That Ole Devil Moon”. I like this arrangement, though I’m not knocked out by the solo on this, even though I like the playing of the melody. 14 – Doesn’t really work for me, feels a little clichéd in the tinkling, though the pianist is obviously good at what he does. 15 – Very nice, but I’m not placing it. 16 - As Harrison Ridley Jr. used to say on WRTI, “Alrighty, Yes Indeedy”. Gotta like this, and no doubt it’s a famous player and something I likely have at home, but I’m not able to name it, but I sure enjoyed it. Wonderful fun and enjoyment on this, and I look forward to the feedback from others and the answers. Thanks Dan!

Gave this a listen, definitely a huge improvement over the studio stuff, sounds more post- 'Ethiopean Knights' than pre- 'Black Byrd' to me, definitely more substance than those dreadful studio albums. Even with the Mizell Brothers in the band. Having Nathan Davis and Henry Franklin on board had to be a good thing, though Franklin doesn't really distinguish himself here. I was able to listen the whole way through, and could even see myself buying this and playing it again if it came out on CD.

Mixed bag. Some of it is really good. The stuff with the horns and guest vocalist may be the worst stuff ever to appear on a "legitimate" Hendrix archival release (and me, I'll take the Curtis Knight and Lonnie Youngblood cuts with the bogus guitar overdubs ahead of those cuts on this new release). Not something I'll go out and buy new, but something I'll likely eventually buy used.