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I've never found Blue Potato to be a stretch. I got mine for about $8. Just a matter of it showing up. I've been pretty focused on my complete Ran Blake collection lately and have most of the rarer/pricier ones out of the way (the two Horos, the ESP, Blue Potato). I'm about to go to the mats on both volumes of Painted Rhythms. The private press Take 1 & Take 2 LPs are the real tough cookies. As far as the whole shebang of 40ish titles, I'm a bit over half way.

Jim, I got a copy of the Blake for $11 on eBay last week.

Just scored the Dunmall on eBay for $13. Thanks all for the tips. Still on the hunt for No Try. I've only ever seen it for sale once...

I've been particularly stuck on the Mysteries section: 4 tracks from 1990 with Urs Leimgruber & Fritz Hauser. Beautiful stuff. There's so much variation in that music, all kinds of groupings and styles spanning 1979-1990 with so many incredible players. I'm interested to hear these songs which are so engrained in my mind played by others.

I've been waiting for that one, I knew it had been recorded. I have been spinning the Po discs lately, actually. Never ceases to amaze.

PM on Hope, Dorham, Chambers, & McLean

Not sure I'd agree 100% on Jackie, but Jimmy for sure. His 1965 tenor playing is a revelation. I really, really wish he got more documentation in that period.

I don't see that happening.

Yes. "The Rosetta Stone of modern jazz" they called it.

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One of my favorite Braxton stories is the one about him performing with a huge bucket of fried chicken onstage in Paris. I always superimpose that onto the This Time... cover in my mind.

If I thought *I* could get $45-50 for my Noah Howard At Judson Hall I might sell it.

I agree, but surely see room for all three.

Ditto. If I had to make the distinction between NY & the New Haven scene, I might say that while the former is fairly gritty city loft music, the latter is more like living room music. I imagine the stuff being recorded at someone's house, though of course little of it was.

I'd wish your friend good luck, but he doesn't need it. I might try to throw down on Gardens of Harlem but won't get my hopes up. Had no idea about that Charles Moffett Savoy.

It seems like Affinity must have been a godsend in the pre-CD/mass re-issue era.

Good for Keith & Abersold. Hurray, hurray for Anthony & Mr. Davis!

Ran Blake Quintet - Duke's Attic (unreleased) New York Art Quintet box set ($$$) Anthony Braxton - Solo (Paris) 1985 box set (unreleased) Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1966 (unrecorded) Steve Lacy's Japanese LPs ($$$$$$$)

They're truly wonderful.

Checking in again to see if anyone would part with either of these two hatOLOGY titles: hatOLOGY 503 Dunmall/Adams/Sanders - Ghostly Thoughts hatOLOGY 509 Leandre/Leimgruber/Hauser - No Try No Fail I'm offering $15 apiece.

Any preferences? Does it matter? Or is this just the kind of thing that only guys with 2k turntables and tube amps care about?

I think Foxy is what it is, so I feel like "overindulgent" is a non-starter as a criticism. He set out to do his own personal "Chasin' The Train" and that's what it is. It's no challenge to Sonny, Trane, Sam Rivers, et al, just an homage. It's also just as much a showcase for Barry Altschul who is relentlessly good on it. I can maybe see why you might not want to listen to it, or even might have problems with some of his moves. I'm held rapt by it, personally. Different strokes, but the suggestion that its arrogant or showy seems a little off the mark, or even beside the point. Just my two cents, of course.

With most India Navigation titles the LPs tend to be both cheaper and much easier to find. Of course, I said "most" ...

His group work in Mostly Other People Do The Killing tells another story FWIW.

I think he's just referring to the physicality of Mr. Taylor's playing, which must be draining at 84.