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Amazon physical media music prices were competitive at one point, but have not been the past few years.

Yeah, they did a nice job repackaging some CBS/CTI titles, such as Blythe, Hubbard, Farrell, Turrentine, Laws into very efficient sets with good sound (their mastering tends to be excellent). They also have a good package of John Surman's first three albums.

And also to Winwood/Capaldi/Wood. 'Alone Together' and 'John Barleycorn' were classic unified albums. The first couple of Traffic albums were somewhat schizo collections of songs. Incidentally, amazing how much stronger the US version of the first traffic album is than the British version (out: "Utterly Simple" and "Hope I Never Find Me There" in: "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", and "Smiling Phases"). Weird fact: 'Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' did not chart in UK, despite going Top 10 in USA.

This.

'Alone Together' is a GREAT album, and he did some good (though admittedly spotty) work before (with Traffic) and after.

And another here.

And consider that, with this being the introduction to the series, the remainder may sound even worse.

I'm excited to pick up some of these titles on CD Online Day (sic) in a week or so. Starting with the Henderson, Lateef, and Terry Callier.

Red Records put this one out without any advance hype AFAIK. I'm in, of course, and I'm sure many others here are also.

Yeah, Earland, JH Smith, Lonnie Smith, Reuben Wilson, etc. I play Earland's "Happy Cause I'm Going Home" in heavy rotation to cheer myself up.

That Earland cut is spectacular!

I was never really a fan of the label despite some intriguing looking releases. The whole often seemed to be less than the sum of the parts, inadequate preparation, less than stellar sound and mixing (I know Cliff referred to no multitracks).

Stunning stuff: