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Some truly wonderful Charlie Haden on these sides.

Lots of reminiscence on here today! One of the first jazz albums I heard was the Mulligan/Baker 2xCD thing from the BN West Coast Series and it blew me away... it's still some of my favorite music. I followed the trail in the usual directions, but ultimately don't have loads of West Coast style music in my collection. I'm most partial to the Mosaic Selects-- Curtis Amy, Carmell Jones, Shank/Cooper, PJ Piano Trios, Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan. I also really like the Jack Sheldon WCC CD.

I kid ... I actually like Keith Jarrett ('s music) and would give this album an honest shake. I just couldn't resist!

Good timing on the bump of this thread as I've been running through these albums the last couple weeks (though I don't own the last 4, the electric ones. No bias, just haven't gotten around to them). If you had asked me 3 weeks ago I'dve said Speak No Evil or Etc but now I think I'd say The Soothsayer. Honestly I've never really warmed to Adam's Apple or The All-Seeing Eye. I find the latter too cluttered and the former a little dry-- I really don't like "502 Blues" or "El Gaucho" and much prefer "Footprints" on Miles Smiles ... I dunno, the record feels slight to me. Obviously many others disagree.

When I was pretty young, my mom had a few jazz albums around. She preferred Kenny G, David Sanborn, John Klemmer, et al at the time, but I stole away a few others: Blossom Dearie on Verve and a Miles Best Of with material from BOTC and Blue Note. My grandparents came of age in the swing era and loved Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, so I heard a good deal of that as a kid, too (and liked it). Later on I picked up a few things here and there that I mentioned in another thread: some Coltrane, Ornette, Mingus, Ayler, Don Cherry. At that point I felt like rock-based music was getting to be a dead-end, that I'd heard all I wanted to hear. I spent several months only listening to instrumental music before committing to jazz. That was 7 years ago and it's consumed every day since!

Before I "listened to jazz" I owned a few LPs: A Love Supreme, Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Ornette!, Where is Brooklyn?, New Grass, Mingus^5, This is Our Music, etc. When I made a concerted decision to really listen to jazz, I bought Brilliant Corners and then these all at once: Out To Lunch!, Unit Structures, Ascension. Jumped off the deep end, I suppose.

I'm assuming the title refers to his bullshit.

May already be too late (always is), but there's a $54.99 Don Pullen Select at DG. This is a seriously good box set. http://www.dustygroove.com/item/678287 There's also a Dexter Gordon at the same price. I know someone from JazzLoft posts here from time to time. I am seriously considering this, but am wondering if the promos are CDs only, or if there's art. Makes or breaks the deal for me.

Randy Weston/Billy Harper - The a Roots of the Blues is out on Universal Jazz France. Hopefully they'll put out Ran Blake's Chris Connor album as their next jazz release. Only 1 at a time, heaven forbid...

Sounds cool. I love Angelica Sanchez.

I listened to A Round Goal. It's fun.

Looks worth it for the Bradford disc alone.

By and large (...) a trustworthy panel. Makes me think, though, of an anecdote Steve Lehman shared on the 5049 podcast. He was a freshman at Wesleyan and was talking to Braxton about his future plans. He said he'd like to play like Jackie McLean and cut an album with a few standards, a few free originals, etc. Braxton said "Great! Then what?"

That's a Threadgill I can get behind.

As far as my .002 goes, the Threadgill is very nice, but not necessarily essential. I dunno ... between the availability of the other About Times, the Mosaic, the Black Saint box, etc. I don't see this fitting your niche of one-of-a-kind, long-lost albums.

I like these ones. I, for one, have never seen one that wasn't a promo.

There is a Joe McPhee/Evan Parker duo LP upcoming Rune Grammaphone.

I was so enjoying reading accounts of his late resurgence. I'm glad he got his flowers while he was here. RIP.

Dusty Groove is listing a CD reissue of the ESP date. Not sure if it's from ESP themselves or what.

Into Somethin' is a great record, don't sleep on it.

I mentioned it upthread: Ingrid Laubrock, Ralph Alessi, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis http://www.skirlrecords.com

If it's been re-pressed by Emanem, then it should show up elsewhere.

It'd be nice to see downloads though I admit I would have no interest in them. But it seems thorny, rightswise, and it furthermore seems preferable to make the entire catalogue available from 1976 on, which would be a massive undertaking for such a small operation.

JD Allen's Matador & The Bull was recorded in Feb. 2012 and came out in June or July. I did a double take on that one.

Agreed, it wouldn't be huge: Trickles, Troubles, The Condor, The Cry, Vespers, Revenue ... I think that's it-- 7 discs.