colinmce

I think I might know who you're talking about and that guy is an asshole.

Wow. Interested in the Nate Morgan session, but the Mateen & Hart ones sound incredible.

Always happy to hear your thoughts. I haven't been listening to as many new releases as usual this year.

This was a fine band and I'll be happy to check this out, but when I heard about this series my gut sense was that it would all be pretty recent stuff of potentially mixed interest.

This is an excellent recent-ish disc that's worth tracking down:

as a younger collector (a spry 40) I fully support giving your collection away to someone like myself if you can but in all seriousness this is what I would like to do when my time comes if it’s possible. resale and donation seem only rarely viable, and it would go against my principles to see a record store offering pieces from my collection for arbitrary & predatory “internet” prices.

It appears that this CD also contains the Charles Shaw Moers LP Streets of Saint Louis, which is wild! I will definitely keep my eyes out for it.

I personally think the Select is perfect, though I agree Montara would fit both spiritually and on the level of quality. Same is true of the Montreux recordings but both those and Montara stand well alone on their individual CD issues. Linger Lane and Natural Illusions are worth a listen for the curious and completist but I have never been able to get much out of them over time. Head On quite frankly never did anything for me either, though I know a lot of people like it quite a bit. My final bit of unsolicited opinionating is that I would lop San Francisco off the new Mosaic. It's quite a good date but I don't find it to be on the level of the rest, the sound is spiritually just a bit different; the run from The Kicker through Spiral/Medina is just as perfect a program of music as you could ever ask for.

I came across this a couple years back in a dollar bin and grabbed it. I would say it's probably of limited interest to any jazz fan, but it's fun to have: https://www.discogs.com/release/27294612-George-Braith-Turn-Of-The-Century Has anyone heard Double Your Pleasure - Live At The University Of The Street? It's a jazz-centric session released by Bellaphon in Germany in 1992:

Unfortunately I have found that the sets released in the last decade or so tend to be the ones that go for the most on CD these days. I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that very few were actually manufactured and sold, certainly well below the limit. This is when the sets started to only be around for months, if not in came cases even weeks. Referring to, for instance: Coleman Hawkins, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, Chick/Ella, Louis Live, Beehive, Savoy/Dial, Woody Shaw Muse, Condon/Freeman, Teddy Wilson. The last two Selects (Tolliver & Rivers) are the same-- based on how much I see them on the resale market vs. the other titles I would really wonder if more than a few hundred were even made. If I recall these went OOP pretty much immediately. Some that directly precede this era also go for quite a bit, but I think this has more to do with the popularity/desirability of the music, i.e. Braxton, Threadgill, Mingus 64/65, Clifford Jordan, Ahmad Jamal. Otherwise, with a few exceptions previously mentioned (Ferguson, Basie Live Roulette, Nat King Cole, etc.) I find a lot of the 90s/early 00s CD sets especially do not go for all that much anymore. I have acquired a bunch in the last year or two for $50 or less. Frankly the only thing keeping some of these sets above bargain prices at all is the Mosaic aura. Much of the music is losing its audience rapidly. As far as most valuable non-monetarily? If we're talking about the sweet spot between musical quality and (lack of) availability of the material, I would posit the Mingus Workshop set, where some of the material is *only* available there and is all of astounding musical quality. I would also never want to give up my Bradford/Carter Select due to the extra tracks and unreleased session. One final gripe! Most of the Singles do not go for much at all, except the Helen Merrill/Dick Katz, which people try to sell for absurd sums online for reasons I frankly cannot quite grasp. I have both of the EmArcy EU CDs of this music, but I would love a copy of the Mosaic someday as well.

Just saw this, which should be excellent: https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-fingers-remember-mingus

Yes, it's tremendous. I might still give the original Intakt disc the edge by a hair but it's truly wonderful music. Others may feel differently, but I find that the blending of classical and jazz forms by this ensemble is at a stage beyond what anyone has achieved in the past. It feels as though it could be Guy's life's work.

A few off the top of my head: Reggie Johnson Vattel Cherry Motoharu Yoshizawa John Lockwood Ed Schuller Jay Oliver Doug Matthews Earl Freeman Lisle Ellis Russell Thorne Chuck Domanico Alexander Frangenheim Kiyoshi Tokunaga Hans Schneider These folks are maybe just outside the bounds of both obscurity and underratedness, but I will still throw in 3 of my pantheon bassists: Sirone Alan Silva Buschi Niebergall

He mostly plays cello and appears on several excellent recordings by Joel Futterman and Paul Murphy.

Great price on the RRK box, a prized possession in my household.

Second Clifford on Tenor, in my opinion it's the greatest of them all. I'm glad it's getting a reissue, hopefully it will get some attention, though I'm going to assume that Black Magic Man will be the one people want to talk about most. Variations On A Blue Line and Graphics are two other excellent early McPhee solos on Hat Hut. As Serious As Your Life is incredible, but it's not strictly saxophone. That FJB list is pretty thorough but I would especially call out Lone-Lee as an essential listen, particularly in its unedited CD form. This one just really gets my mind humming. I like Ken Vandermark's solo music quite a bit. Furniture Music might be the place to start, but A Knife In The Water and The Field Within A Line are strong as well. Charles Gayle's Unto I Am is mostly sax/reeds and is great. Seymour Wright's Seymour Writes Back is a masterpiece Kang Tae Hwan – Live At Café Amores and Makoto Kawashima – Homo Sacer are both fascinating Ab Baars has a few very good solo albums (Verderame, Time To Do My Lions, And She Speaks) Haven't listened to too much solo Mats but Torturing The Saxophone is a blast. The Steve Lacy tribute is also deep.

Correct, + Lyons, Grimes, and Cyrille.

Not linking it, but for interested parties there is a European CD of this performance around now, inexplicably crediting Donald Byrd, Steve Lacy, Denis Charles, and Wendell Marshall as the group. Tells you rather all you need to know about the credibility of the pressing but carpe diem if you see fit. (inexplicable in that it's clearly not true, but this is a mish-mash of credits from the 1957 Newport recordings)

I'm a big fan of this one, however for some reason or another I got rid of it at one point and it's not so easy to replace for the amount I bought it for the first time:

I find the Mooscius 2xCD to be fine enough, I certainly didn't notice anything when I listened to it. Like all of these Revisited endeavors, this pairing makes little sense and is redundant, especially given the very handsome 1990s Impulse! CD edition of Three For Shepp which was of course remastered from the original master tapes.

I came across the first two volumes over the last couple years and really enjoy them. I should seek out the rest.

Yes, all in the US. I have them all as well, so I don’t think I will be getting this either. It always surprised me they didn’t do this one in the 90s before some of these were reissued, it would’ve been major. But I’m likewise glad Michael committed to getting all of this music released into the general market.

Throwing my 2 cents in to agree with Clifford. Flaherty is definitely an American original. I personally feel that the first Dragonfly Breath CD is one of the greatest free improv discs of the last 20 years. His two duo CDs with Marc Edwards on Cadence are both great and might scratch an itch for someone who's not all the way on board with Corsano's approach. Fat Onions is another good Cadence title that you could test the waters with. Also agree with mjazzg re: Jumala, very good record.

His debut Score is sort of evenly split between excellent burning hard bop and very corny proto-jazz rock, but it's worth a listen for the strength of the former. And he is heard extensively on the Pendulum Mosaic Select, which is incredible up and down. Some others I can think of: Everything Is Everything - Just Flash In The Cosmic Pan (Columbia Japan) - more free than straight ahead (don't forget he was in the JCO!). Desperately needs a reissue. Horace Silver - In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note) Hal Galper - Reach Out (Steeplechase) Marc Copland Quintet - Stompin' With Savoy (Savoy) Marc Copland/Randy Brecker - Both/And (Nagel Hayer) John Scofield - Quiet (Verve) Lew Tabackin - Tenority (Concord) The Mingus Dynasty - Mingus' Sound of Love (Soul Note) Richie Bierach - Some Other Time: A Tribute To Chet Baker (Triolka) Miroslav Vituous - Universal Syncopations II (ECM) And I agree his playing on those great Grolnick albums is excellent.

Pretty silly & inconsequential article that doesn't really say anything much at all. I've tried to listen to her playing as widely as I can. Sometimes it really clicks, other times it doesn't. Bahkti is a strong recording, and I've particularly enjoyed some sets from YouTube with gabby fluke-mogul as a foil. I saw her play a truly stunning duet with Joe McPhee a few months ago that proved she has an advanced ability to listen. It just doesn't seem like she puts herself in the position to do that very much right now. I will just say that what I heard of the Beings album did not do a thing for me and leave it at that.