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On the site MD said it is "awaiting reissue". Not sure if that means through him or just in general. Unfortunately it's probably the latter.

Yes! Every note from Ed Blackwell is precious-- you could get by listening to any album just because he's on it. Walls & Bridges, though, is especially good and is presented in its rare two-disc incarnation.

Great news!

Pepper is monstrous on that record.

No use getting bent out of shape about it-- I see merit on both ends. I just wish music as historically important as the NYAQ material ended up someplace where it could be heard. The CT or Lowe sets are there if you want them, which is fine. But locking up such a crucial piece of the puzzle bums me out. That said, I don't much blame the label-- clearly no one else saw fit to release the stuff.

The Hemphill is mondo essential. Do not hesitate.

Right you are. Oops.

I'd to turn this into an Underrated BN thread but one record which never fails to blow my mind is Anthony Williams - Life Time. To me, this date is equal to any of the vaunted avant albums of the day, and maybe even more accomplished. I sometimes wonder if I'm just untrained or easily impressed or what, but for my money it's one of the most brilliant, ahead-of-its-time records ever made. I don't get why it doesn't have a status equal to anything else-- I find it beyond category. Maybe this is a post for the new Motian thread...

One longtime favorite is Johnny Griffin's Change Of Pace. Some really, really interesting stuff happening on there with two basses. Julius Watkins plays on some of it too but what I really dig is the double bass thing-- Bill Lee & Larry Gales with Ben Riley underneath. They stretch a huge canvas for Griffin to play over. Fantastic art, too.

Geez, this thread got nuts! My two cents: the Golden Circle albums are Ornette's greatest work.

I can't speak to the 70s, but I do look back fondly on the 90s when I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours browsing at record stores both chain and independent. That said, it is indeed worth remembering that the chains-- Tower and Virgin included-- priced CDs through the roof at this time, to say nothing of the Imports section. I remember the ill-fated Blockbuster Music priced CDs at 18.99 in the mid-90s. The dream selection outweighed this, I suppose, but still.

Given present company, I'm not confident I have the depth of knowledge to assemble a suitable list of overlooked recordings throughout jazz, but here are 20 albums from the last 10 years that I think everyone should hear: 2004 Dave Douglas/Louis Sclavis/Peggy Lee/Dylan Van Der Schyff - Bow River Falls (Koch) 2005 Dennis Gonzalez's Spirit Meridian - Idlewild (Clean Feed) 2006 Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - Be Music, Night (Okkadisk) 2006 Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Hamid Drake - Palm of Soul (AUM Fidelity) 2006 Ran Blake - All That is Tied (Thompkins Square) 2007 Tyshawn Sorey - That/Not (Firehouse 12) 2007 Available Jelly - Baarle Nassau Set 1 & 2 (Ramboy) 2007-11 Nate Wooley - Seven Storey Mountain I-IV (Important & Pleasure of the Text) 2007 John Tchicai/Charlie Kohlhase/Garrison Fewell/Cecil McBee/Billy Hart - Tribal Ghost (No Business) 2008 Bill Dixon - Tapestries For Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12) 2010 Taylor Ho Bynum/Tomas Fujiwara - Stepwise (Not Two) 2010 Bobby Bradford/Frode Gjerstad/Paal Nilssen-Love - Dragon (PNL) 2010 Irene Schweizer - To Whom It May Concern: Piano Solo Tonhalle, Zurich (Intakt) 2011 Lee Konitz - Live At Birdland (ECM) 2011 Nate Wooley Quintet - (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed) 2012 The Resonance Ensemble - What Country Is This? (Not Two) 2013 Paul Flaherty/Steve Swell/C Spencer Yeh/Weasel Walter - Dragonfly Breath (Not Two) 2013 Josh Abrams Quartet - Uknown Known (Rogue Art) 2013 Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Shadow Man (ECM) 2013 Dave Rempis/Tim Daisy - Second Spring (Aerophonic) 2014 Mikolai Trzaska/Steve Swell/Per-Ake Holmlander/Tim Daisy - Inner Ear: Return From The Center of the Earth (Bocian)

Great stuff! I have all the Jimmy Lyons albums, but anyone who doesn't is in for a brilliant time. Those are incredible records, all. felser, the Lacy albums are Abei-lite. She pops up a bit on Troubles and The Condor, is on pretty much all of Vespers and The Cry, but doesn't appear on Trickles, Revenue, Dutch Masters, Change of Season, or Regeneration. I think The Cry is pretty for only the most committed Lacyphiles, but the rest of the albums are some of his very best.

A very powerful, moving performance. RIP.

I did, but have been doing that terrible thing wherein I've bought about 25 albums in the last month and listened to them very little. I need to sit down and go through them and stop buying!

I wish, though there are copies for $80 floating around the retailers so I should think about that. It's not for lack of desire! Still haven't gotten word from Reckless. Not looking good....

I haven't gotten around to them so much; I just have Strictly For Our Friends, which I like a lot. I need to pick up some others soon. The story of that disc alone is pretty wild.

PM on the Fred Anderson & Dennis Gonzalez titles. Highest of recommendations for the Jeff Albertson, Rempis/Daisy and Mike Reed discs!

I also like the live one released by Thompkins Square a few years back. From 1967 or so, but very stripped down.

Ran Blake - Grey December a penny + 3.99: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004ULO0WO/ref=sr_1_9_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1409020649&sr=8-9&keywords=ran+blake&condition=used Great album.

Crossing my fingers that I was fast enough to catch Cecil Taylor - Nailed and Looking (Berlin Version) [not sure which one!] from Reckless. I'll be simply heartbroken if they're gone. $9 & $15, respectively!!

Steve Lacy albums 46, 47, & 48: Five Facings Duets: Associates The Way

Huge fan. Outside the regular albums, this CD is a personal favorite. "Sing A Song For You" is heard in a long version that's superior to the short one on Happy/Sad and the demo material for what would become the pretty unfortunate Sefronia is in much better shape: Of the original albums, it's hard to choose between Goodbye/Hello, Happy/Sad, Lorca, and Starsailor. Back when I was listening to Tim Buckley the most, Starsailor was very much a collector's item. I just looked around hoping maybe that had changed, but apparently not save a vinyl reissue whose legality I question given the lack of a CD edition of any kind. Really unfortunate. I guess I'll have to stick with the old CD-R.

I heard from Fred L-Holm. He didn't have any other info either, or know anything about Wadud's whereabouts these last 20 years.

I don't believe he's recorded anything since the material with Hemphill from the early 90s.