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Just a perfect microcosm here of where the jazz reissue market stands today. The original CD line was broad, idiosyncratic, and risky. This LP line is nothing but what's in style, reifying the dominant taste, packaging up the music people already know. What a joke.

Something tells me this won't look all that much like the CD series.

I love the Hackett and both Teagarden sets, but I can see why that might not be everyone's cup; luckily both are on the smaller end. I did have the Johnny Mercer Select years ago, and I recall liking it. I was thinking about re-buying it recently and gave it a listen on Spotify .... absolutely dreadful. I definitely would have regretted that.

This one made little impression on me when I owned it, so I passed it on. I'm thinking I could give it another chance.

For these, yes, though unlike most Corbett still does many CDs so I can't feel too put out. Also $20.99 is basically as cheap as it gets these days!

Very possible this is a minority opinion, but I think these and his Blue Note dates are some of his best work; I return to all of these very often (speaking broadly of what you would find in the Complete Prestige box). It's less polished than the late 50s/early 60s stuff; mostly squarely in the bebop idiom, but with Miles' famous slowness within the form. I hear a lot of searching in this music, which is not a quality you necessarily find again until the second great quintet. Bag's Groove is a well-established classic, but I would easily put Walkin' in my top 5 Miles albums. From what all I have read, I think this album's reputation has dimmed a bit from what it was when it came out. Some posit it as the precursor to hard bop, and there's definitely something to that. But it's also just as purely enjoyable and vivid as jazz gets.

Should be out sometime in the next week. Really looking forward to both of these. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/129572?sf=tomeka+reid&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=tomeka+reid&sort_order=artist https://www.dustygroove.com/item/129583?sf=tomeka+reid&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=tomeka+reid&sort_order=artist

If anyone still needs a copy of this fantastic set, there's currently an algorithmic race to the bottom happening on ebay-- 3 copies at $16-$17 each, free shipping. One is ex-libris, but the other two are not.

Inspired me to pull my copy out and take a run through the whole thing. No qualms here about the extra material, I could go all day with this stuff. Pretty incredible that something like this was able to be released to the mass market at one point in time.

Very nice work, these look great. Always regret not trying to stop by his studio in Lafayette all those years I lived there.

serpent.pl has a number of excellent Not Two items deeply discounted. Shipping rates are very favorable and USD is ~1:1 with the euro. https://www.discogs.com/seller/serpent.pl/profile?sort=price%2Casc&limit=250&q=not+two

I hear this a lot about Ware, which I find a little hard to understand, but I would recommend reading him talk about the process behind his playing and composing, he was very eloquent and thorough on the subject. There was a lot more going on in that music than meets the eye; to me at least the Coltrane Quartet comparisons don't even make sense on their face. Shipp plays like no one else, Dickey & Ibarra play like no one else, and Parker certainly does not play like Jimmy Garrison. Dimensions and extensions! They were cutting a new path through an old forest.

No surprise, I agree with Steve. I feel almost the exact opposite. I think the 90s was a time of great flourishment across different styles in modern jazz, I never get tired of digging though that body of music and finding more-- in fact next to the 60s I would rate the 90s as a favorite period for this music. What I would say myself is that these tributaries began to dry up as the new century dawned; I think the 2000s period sounds more like what you describe; a lot of the great players and ensembles of the 90s split up or moved on and the newer generation that came to flower about 10 years ago was just getting their feet under them. More highlights from the era I would mention (also must say that Gayle and Ware are two of my favorite musicians ever-- I listen to them as much as Ayler or Sonny or Coltrane): Bill Dixon's albums with William Parker, Barry Guy, and Tony Oxley Cecil Taylor's FMP recordings Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree & Arabesque albums Marilyn Crispell on Music & Arts Clusone 3 Myra Melford's trio and various groups John Lindberg on Black Saint all the great music on eremite from Glenn Spearman, William Parker, Raphe Malik, Jemeel Moondoc, Denis Charles, TEST, Marco Eneidi et al Dave Douglas' incredible Soul Note quintets Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim Black on hatOLOGY Don Byron's Tuskeegee Experiments Thomas Chapin's Knitting Factory albums Franz Koglmann on hatART Matthew Shipp's early music Thomas Borgmann Trio the Wobbly Rail label Rudiger Carl/COWWS on FMP King Ubu Orchestru Sam Rivers Rivbea All-Star Orchestra on RCA Mal Waldron on Soul Note & Tutu The Herbie Nichols Project Ab Baars Trio etc. etc!

Thanks for the heads up! So many great titles on this label. A few favorites beyond what you listed: Elton Dean Qt w/ Roswell Rudd - Rumours of an Incident Elton Dean/Howard Riley Quartet Zaum - Above Our Heads The Sky Split Open… Paul Dunmall - Quartet & Sextet/Babu Trio Paul Dunmall - Peace & Joy Paul Dunmall/Tony Bianco - several Coltrane discs John Law - Exploded on Impact Joe McPhee/Paul Hession - A Parallax View Unsolicited Music Ensemble - Bulbs ARC - Out of Amber

I have a so-so/in & out relationship to his Impulse! work; some I love, some I like, some neither. But Coltrane’s 1965-67 music is the center of my universe and Pharoah had a considerable part in making it what it is. His solo on “Naima” from Live At The Village Vanguard Again! is just otherworldly. What he accomplished in that music burned at a heat light equal to Trane’s cataclysmal vision quest and has, in some way, never been matched in this music.

Does anyone know if they ever repressed the Larry Young CD in a normal-sized package? The one I have fits absolutely nowhere that makes sense and it's just enraging.

PM re: Brotzmann Chicago Octet/Tentet -“1/2/3 (numbered/ digipak) Okka OD12022 $22

Jealous that you're hearing Tentet for the first time! Such a great record.

Good, hopefully they'll begin to fill the catalogue out. I've heard from many people who dabble more heavily in downloads that the lack of online options has been a barrier. btw the new Jeff Parker trio disc with Eric Revis & Nasheet Waits is excellent. https://roguart.com/product/eastside-romp/205

I recently replaced my long-gone copy of this set, it's a really enjoyable one that rewards repeated listens. If anyone is in the market, there's a very affordable one here: https://www.silverplatters.com/p/872065/liebman-beirach-mosaic-select-3-cd I would also highly recommend this release from last year, which seems to have flown under the radar. 5 discs: solos from each, a duo, a trio with Jack DeJohnette, and a very interesting quasi-electroacoustic quartet https://www.amazon.com/Empathy-Dave-Beirach-Richie-Liebman/dp/B096TN7FTM

The same thing happens in cycles, maybe has to do with aging out of the time you came up in. I was deep into the underground/indie rock scene in the 90s, which I felt (and still do feel) was thriving then. I felt like by the early 2000s that something had shifted in that music in the same way; less interesting by far. Hence, also, my turn to jazz.

Dusty Groove tends to regularly reorder JP titles until they’re no longer available. They’ve been getting in the last batch of Blue Note discs every few weeks for the last year or so.

Feldman is releasing 3 two-disc sets on a new label from private tapes. The first two (1963-64) and (1965-66, the one with Fournier & Nassir) are supposed to come out in November, though there's no other information about them anywhere yet. A third covering 1966-68 will come out later.

I would definitely rank this among my favorite BN fifties dates, it’s very distinctive stuff. I have and enjoy several others of his, and of course many sideman dates, but The Opener is one I go for often. I’m glad it got a US CD release right under the wire.

Dusty Groove has these listed now as well. Looking forward to finally picking them up, I've only ever had Putting It Together since these albums didn't get much circulation on CD in the US outside the Mosaic which has always been very pricy secondhand.