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I'll check it out. I love PYHT.

No.

Billy Higgins & Butch Warren on Blue Note is the classic pairing, but when Billy played with Ornette he really took on new dimensions. I'll always enjoy him most in that context.

It's a quintet session from 1962 with Evans, Zoot Sims, Jim Hall, Ron Carter, and Philly Joe Jones. It was first issued as a Japanese LP. It's been issued in the U.S. on CD as Loose Blues. Oh, that's a nice sleeve! I never saw that one before. Same artist who did 'Matador'. MG The actual cover is a somewhat lighter shade of green than the color in the image I posted. I figured it was that stuff. Thanks.

Jimmy Lyons Quintet - We Sneezawee (Black Saint) Stanley Crouch's notes are completely dickheaded, about how the avant grade lacks masterful instrumentalists, and how the inept cloak themselves in made-up concepts & theories. Classic example of extrapolating one's own experiences to the whole?

What's on that one, Paul? The Bill Evans, that is.

I would say its purely aesthetic. I would be surprised if the mastering was different from the CDs.

Jazzwerkstatt has begun releasing select titles on 180g vinyl, including Touchin' On Trane in case anyone ever wanted that one on LP.

Is that from the same Ronnie Scott's engagement as the PAUSA album?

Good place to start! Glad to have another modern jazz fan on here.

"Day Dream" - Hodges "Angels" - Ayler

Didn't know about that Dwight Andrews. Line up intrigues It's great. Turns up on eBay a lot for less than $20.

Maybe, but early ECM is full of interesting one-offs.

Paul Bley - Copenhagen & Haarlem (Arista/Freedom)

Warne Marsh - s/t (Atlantic stereo) Dwight Andrews - Mmotia: The Little People (Otic)

Good batch, but very disappointed to see Jimmy Lyons, Billy Bang, and Ran Blake neglected again, though I guess the Cyrille should include 3 of the 5 Lyons. Farmer & Lake are favorites of mine, but I think they could've made more interesting choices. (WAH WAH WAH DO WHAT I WANT)

It is a green label. So is this an early stereo pressing then?

I'm rarely picky about pressings or even formats- I generally just want what's cheapest for the music inside. I grabbed an LP pressing of the Marsh Atlantic for $5 and was wondering about the pressing. It's stereo with a big stamp on the front saying as much. The label is green and the vinyl was in a rice paper sleeve. The rice paper sort of suggests Japan, but the heavy, hard, almost 78-like vinyl suggests something older. I'm guessing this is just a 60s repress, but would be interested to know for sure.

Damn, I want that one. The large ensemble one, too.

Wow.

I have zero photoshop skills but I've always fantasized about mocking up covers of classic albums as though they'd appeared on other labels (a la Unit Structures on Prestige or some such).

Ha! I'm surprised he didn't lop off a couple cuts just for fun.

Another ludicrously good batch from clean feed: Mark Dresser Quintet - Nourishment w/ Denman Maroney (p), Michael Dessen (tb), Michael Sarin (d), Rudresh Mahanthappa (as), Tom Rainey (d), Trumpets & Drums w/ Wooley, Evans, Lytton, Black Joe McPhee - Sonic Elements for Pocket Trumpet & Alto Saxophone Nate Wooley Sextet - (Sit In) The Throne of Friendship w/ Dan Peck (tba), Eivind Opsvik (b), Harris Eisenstadt (d), Josh Sinton(bcl), Matt Moran (vib)

My guess? Never. Same with 75% of the "Upcoming Releases" that have been sitting there for more than half a decade. As it is, he's clearly having a very hard time getting anything put out at all-- new releases have been pushed back twice this year, following a plea for investors in the label. An update is due in August-- we'll see.

very close to the top of my 'to buy' list. Is it as good as I suspect it is? Yes, it's absolutely wonderful. I was lucky to score all of Lyons' Black Saint LPs as a lot on eBay some years back. They're all very strong, but this one and Nuba (with Cyrille and Jeanne Lee) are the best of the lot. It really is almost like a CT Unit with everyone else stripped away. Well, OK, maybe circa '66, less so the unrelenting late 70s stuff.