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Yes: Do not buy a single other record until you buy all of the following: Don Pullen Mosaic Select Don Pullen Black Saint/Soul Note Box Set Carter-Bradford - Flight For Four Carter-Bradford - Self-Determination Music Carter-Bradford Mosaic Select Carter-Bradford - No U Turn Horace Tapscott - The Dark Tree If you think I'm kidding you're mistaken! as colinmce says. Please do not sleep on the Carter/Bradfords....great music, consistently. I'm slightly less of a Pullen fan but the Black Saint box will give you hours of very valuable listening with some excellent musicians contributing throughout

Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble - Visitation [Sackville] this had eluded me for quite a while. Remedied now and certainly meeting expectations

Someone buy this! It doesn't get any better than this music or presentation-wise and that's got to be a give-away price if it wasn't transatlantic I'd buy it to give to someone and open their ears

Globe Unity - 73 Live in Wuppertal [FMP] sheer musicianship, individual and collective shines through the 'authentic' live recording It is that. I bought it without knowing what to expect. The fact that it's not collective playing was a surprise but a very pleasant one

Christmann. Dudek, Mangelsdorff, Rutherford, Schoof, Wheeler - Horns [FMP]

Horrible news.....very sorry to hear this. Enjoyed so many performances and recordings over the years.

Pleased he's still active. Saw him a looong time ago - with Max Roach in the 60s and Woody Shaw in the 70s. I'm jealous - have never seen him. I REALLY would have liked to see the Strata East reunion in London earlier this year! STRATA EAST LIVE SOUNDS SUBLIME AT BARBICAN It was very good and great to see Cowell in the flesh

Good on Dan. Works for me

I'm pleased to read these largely positive comments about DG and vinyl as I've just bought vinyl from them for the first time. The clincher for me was their int'l postage rates which are lower compared to everyone else stateside to the extent that they charge less for LP postage than others do to post a CD. How can that be?

saw that had been released. Very fond of solo McPhee. How is it?

Elton Dean's Ninesense - Oh! For The Edge [Ogun]

Just jumped on a DG copy too. Nothing nearer to home and I'd been sitting on this for far too long. Got me a Tapscott LP to keep it company on its transatlantic journey (How do Dg manage to offer such more reasonable int'l postage than nearly all other US sellers?)

Just checked the line up. Looks intriguing. How's it sound Leeway? Good, not great. I actually like the larger line-up on Side B rather more; I find it a little more exciting. Kuhn's an interesting character, with an Art Pepper type life story, so the disc is interesting although not essential. Thanks. I like interesting. Read about his life earlier after your first post http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/dec/10/lists-abundant-life-peter-kuhn/ certainly "interesting"

Just checked the line up. Looks intriguing. How's it sound Leeway?

Karl Berger & Company - Tune In [Milestones]

Going - II Machinery [Silent Water]

must listen to it again soon

Another one lost. His last ECM was sublime. I really encountered him with Motian and have still to investigate the early work although the Phillips with Gil Evans is a stormer

Tchicai, Kohlhase, Fewell, McBee, Hart - Tribal Ghost [No Business] my first exposure to Fewell. Everything he plays on this is so right. Sad day today thinking there will be no more music from him.

and here. With reviews of two recent releases which are now read with a heavy heart http://www.freejazzblog.org/

Shocked and saddened. He wasn't very old, was he? Only came to his music relatively recently but enjoyed his albums immensely

Dennis Gonzalez & Faruq Z Bey w. Northwood Improvisors Septet - Hymn for Tomaz Stanko [Qbico]

Roy Brooks - The Free Slave [Muse]

Looking like three hot days and no thunder 9so far) in the capital. Now that is a heatwave..... Ashes summer, going to fine until we need some rain to obtain a draw

Just finished series 5 of 'Sons of Anarchy' Compulsive viewing but questionable on many levels. I'm sure my early teen Metal years are resurfacing with all the biker chic on display Two more series to go...... born to be wild