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Abbey Lincoln - World is Falling Down with Jackie McLean, Jerry Dodgion, Charlie Haden, Alain Jean-Marie, Clark Terry, Billy Higgins and Ron Carter.

Same, so: Max Roach - Percussion Bittersweet with Abbey Lincoln, Art Davis, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy, Julian Priester, Clifford Jordan, Mal Waldron and Carloses Valdez and Eugenio. What a band.

The above-cited blog indeed lists John Gray, in addition to Arthur Wright and Moises Obligacion, who seems to be an actual conga player from the era. I can't find a recording or release date for the 45, but Sounds of Broadway and Hollywood, Amy's other recording on the Palomar label was released in 1965. Sounds about right for a cut like "Bongo Blue" as well. lso, from what I've seen, recordings for two-bit labels like that don't seem to be spaced out between years.

Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits with Bob Cranshaw/Larry Ridley, Clifford Jarvis/Pete LaRoca, Kiane Zawadi, McCoy Tyner/Harold Mabern, James Spaulding, Joe Henderson/Hank Mobley. And Big Black.

"Theme From 'Hot September'"

I can't imagine it gets around much!

Neat! You can hear it here, if you like http://www.officenaps.com/jan_14_2008/curtisamy_bongoblue.mp3

So it seems. One poster (I forget who or where) was told by a record store owner that it never really went out of print-- it was just unavailable from the distributor, for whatever reason. Hopefully it will stick around and deflate the outrageous second-hand prices.

Marginally related to this is my absolute #1 pet peeve: anachronistic photographs on reissue jackets. Those Prestige two-fers from the 70s are egregious offenders (i.e. 70s Miles on a package of 1956 Quintet tracks) but there are others. This also bugs me in books. You're talking about Sonny Rollins' 50s heyday, yet the picture you have of him is from some cheesy festival in 1982. Yuck.

Yeah, next time make sure to label it "M VINYL: Mantovanni- Mathis"

I'm 95% sure that both CDs and LPs should be safe in a moving truck. It's more direct heat that causes problems. I will be loading roughly 1000 LPs and 1500 or so CDs into a truck next month from Iowa to Louisiana and have no worries. As far as the apartment goes, how hot are we talking, really? In any temperature fit for living they should be fine. If the apartment is sealed off with no cooling mechanism, then I don't know. But I don't see why that would be the case.

I'll follow Dan with Art Davis - Life with Pharoah Sanders, John Hicks and Idris Mohammed. One of the most underrated bassists there is. I'll buy anything with him on it.

Joe Henderson - Inner Urge with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Bob Cranshaw.

Frankly I can't say I disagree!

Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental. Philly Joe Jones and Paul Chambers appear on the bulk of the record, but the CD features another cut from that knot of sessions by Grant Green, Sonny Clark, Louis Hayes and Sam Jones.

Wow, very cool. Every decent weekly should have something like this.

Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, with Jerome Richardson, Charlie Mariano, Dannie Richmond, Jay Berliner, Don Butterfield, Dick Hafer, Rolf Ericson, Quentin Jackson, Jaki Byard ...

Ahmad Jamal - The Legendary OKEH & Epic Recordings. I was new to jazz and liked the name and the cover. Having only known jazz to be horns and/or piano and rhythm up to that point, it was amazingly eye-opening and perhaps the most influential record on my tastes thus far. There have been many others, for certain, but that one resonates with me. Often I'm at least familiar with the name (or someone else who played on it) but this I went into on image alone.

Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore - Blowing in From Chicago with Art Blakey, Curley Russell and Horace Silver.

Life Time with Gary Peacock, Ron Carter, Bobby Hutcherson, Sam Rivers, Herbie Hancock and Richard Davis. One of my favorite recordings ever.

I can't remember my first Braxton-- I think it was the inauspicious Seven Standards 1985 Vol. II, but I can't be sure so ... Fuschia Swing Song with Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Jaki Byard.

Well, if I went with Sonny Clark, we'd be back to Cool Struttin', so I'll stick with Dex: the peerless Our Man in Paris with Bud Powell, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke.

For reasons of cost, I do a great deal of my buying in the used bins-- both at record stores and thrift shops or consignment stores. That definitely brings you back to "the chase", as there's no telling what will (and will not) turn up. Indeed, I prefer shopping this way precisely because it limits one's options. Sure, I'll buy stuff on the internet or head over and browse the (new) stacks at the local jazz place but it's definitely not as fun and waaay more overwhelming. Also, let's not underestimate how many things are still out of print these days, even if they were around during the go-go 90s. That still makes for some pretty jjaw-dropping discoveries every now and then.

Bennie Maupin, Jewel in the Lotus with Herbie Hancock, Charles Sullivan, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Bill Summers and Freddie Waits. That should help things ...