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Amazon has 30 sec snippets, check it out (you can hear Miley Cyrus singing Thrill is Gone.)

In my opinion the sound is fantastic for this vintage, I also listen with headphones. Fantastic stuff, Roy Haynes especially shines.

This one, has some great as usual playing by Mr. Ed Bickert. We all dig Bickert, don't we?

I think John Zorn did threw something at some pesky photographer. That almost counts as kicking ass. Or she could have given a vitriolic lecture like Keith Jarrett. (OK, maybe that's too much.)

Jack Bruce Band Live '75, with Carla Bley and Mick Taylor. It was a good band.

And then the effect of drugs wore off?

I do. Interesting album and the reissue has attractive presentation but definitely not essential.

Currently probably this one: There were only 500 pressed and I think it's kind of rare by now, some 45 years later. Maybe some recent release I've got among something 6000 CDs and 1000 LPs I've got is more rare, so to say, but pressings nowadays are more scarce anyways so they don't count.

It’s common for Japanese to import CDs and print Japanese translated inserts and OBIs to them and sell them under new catalogue numbers, considerably more expensively.

I dropped a $3 bottle of whisky yesterday and it shattered. I was so mad.

Funniest clip and interview here, where Calvin Hill says he came to Italy to play with the greatest trumpeter he's ever played with, Enrico Rava, but it's worth it even if he has to play with two of the worst musicians he's ever known, Massimo Urbani and Nestor Astarita: Of course, things are not quite as bleak as can be attested from this absolutely smoking outfit, which consists of Enrico and Massimo alongside with three Scandinavian beasts, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen and Bobo Stenson (a Dane, a Norwegian and a Swede) :

But those voting for 80's or 90's are just idiots or trolls.

Afro-Jazz was reissued on vinyl. Did not expect it, but it was not a disagreeable surprise. https://www.discogs.com/Guy-Warren-Of-Ghana-Afro-Jazz/release/13495528

More likely by Archie Leech from A Fish Called Wanda.

The topic here is LPs that have never made it into CD, not "never made it into cheap CD".

This Hannibal album has been out on CD. Japan 1997.

I am currently in Japan and the vinyls were available in various jazz shops in Osaka and Tokyo as of today (try Disc Union.) A bit more expensive than elsewhere, though.

Also this Japanese thing https://www.discogs.com/Tatsuya-Nakamura-Quartet-Song-Of-Pat/release/2591908

Looking at the tracklisting of those 2 albums, Fantasyjazz has only 11 tracks (no "Du" there) vs. 12 tracks on Ace, while Ace's "Blue" is missing 2 minutes from the end. Tough decision. Even worse is the Japanese paper sleeve version of Uhuru (UCCO-9465) that would have room for all the music but still uses the same edit as Ace. Pathetic.

Liebman's albums flow under the radar easily, since he releases so many of them. This cast is almost the same as on "First Visit," one his 1st solo albums from 1973. (Richie Beirach instead of Kenny Werner.)

The BGO CDs are fine but ugly as hell. For record fetishist with limited shelf space like me those Japanese miniature LP sleeve editions are godsent. Now I'm glad I did not get the Jazzman vinyl box, and even more glad I did not shell out extortionate prices for it in aftermarket.

Can't go wrong with Steve Swallow.

Sugimoto, like many other Japanese jazz men, had good understanding of what's currently hip in America, and as such some of his later works are on a bit slick side. But those early 70's recordings are good in my book. I like Babylonia Wind a bit more than Country Dream but both are fine. I like this one a lot, too (though it might be hard to track down): Quintet Live at Mingo's Musico (1973). https://www.discogs.com/%E6%9D%89%E6%9C%AC%E5%96%9C%E4%BB%A3%E5%BF%97%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%83%83%E3%83%88-%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96-%E5%85%AD%E6%9C%AC%E6%9C%A8-Mingos-Musico%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A6%E5%8F%8E%E9%8C%B2/release/10155860

That Herbie Hancock album is an obvious bootleg. Probably some more as well. Elvin Jones is probably not but still, "Doll of the Bridge?" Yeah right. Standards have sunk kind of low.

Realized that Garvin Bushell might also be the missing link between Miles Davis and Jack Johnson. He was on those 1962 sessions with Gil Evans Orchestra that produced a.o. much maligned Quiet Nights LP.