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Only saw him ca. 1989 with his Special Edition group that had Osby/Gary Thomas/Mick Goodrick/Lonnie Plaxico. Not fond of the other players in that group, but DeJohnette himself was splendid.

R.I.P.

1 – A cultural artyfact? Rating: N/A 2 – Third Stream Lives! Strong shades of Stan Kenton’s early 50’s Innovations Orchestra, though this was probably a few years later. Fairly interesting, but definitely overstaying it’s welcome with me. Though I’ll brave it out to the end. I’m ready for that nap you mentioned. Rating: *** 3 - Listening to this one subconsciously through my nap. Jan Garbarek on ECM? #2 sort of worked for me, but this one doesn’t. Sounds more European, where #2 sounded more American (and earlier). Rating: *1/2 4 – The nap continues. No frame of reference at all for this one, though I dislike it less than #3. But is it jazz? Is #3? For that matter, how much of #2 is? I know, does it matter if it is or not? The great part is that these cuts give me a broad runway for what I can include in BFT 261 next month. Rating: ** 5 – I actually like this, and I could (should?) see it being Kenton with one of his female singers. June Christy rather than Anita O'Day or Ann Richards or Chris Connor (I like all four of them quite a bit). Given some more time, I may be able to sleuth this one out Rating: **** 6 – And now for something completely different! Jolted me awake with the up tempo. Good cut, I like all of the soloists. Should be names I know. Jimmy Raney? Rating: **** 7 – Another good uptempo cut. Definitely preferring the “awake” second portion of this BFT to the somnambulant first half. These are newer guys than the ones in the previous cut, and I would guess it’s the trumpet player’s album. Seems modeled those Columbia Woody Shaw albums, but not his earlier, more exciting Muse albums. I may well own this one already. Rating: ***1/2 8 – I like this, despite the static quality of the latin percussion in places. Vinyl-sourced? Fidelity isn’t great, but the strength of the music overcomes it. My favorite cut on the BFT so far. Pianist and tenor player both reached me. Rating: ****1/2 9 – I like this, too. We’re into the afro-cuban portion of the program with these last two cuts. Flute player is strong, and I assume it’s his album. The composition is good, may be a standard I’m not recognizing. Rating: **** 10 – There seems to be a cut like this on every BFT (except mine), an old tenor master displaying his stuff. I tend to admire these cuts more than I enjoy them, but this one is pretty good for me, with the accompaniment being unexpected in some ways. Rating: *** Thanks as always for a bracing listen!

I agree, one of my favorite solo piano albums. He went different directions afterwards, but this was his high water mark.

I especially liked the ECM New Directions albums with Lester Bowie, John Abercrombie, and Eddie Gomez. Doesn't sound like a lineup which should work, but it did, splendidly.

Congrats!

I have the individual albums, but these sets (Smith, Silver, Grant Green) are beautifully done and very affordable. I wish they had continued the series.

I know I saw Beaver Harris live twice in the 70's (once with Shepp, once in a group with Hannibal Peterson and George Adams), and he blew me away in person to a degree that never happened on the dozens of recordings of him. So I don't think it's a totally new phenomenon.

Why did/would Columbia sit on Captain Marvel for three years before releasing it? Great album, and IMO would have made more of a splash in 1972 than it did in 1975 when some of the songs had already been recorded and released by the Airto/Flora/Farrell/Clarke RTF.

Definitely was for me. I need to pull that one out and re-listen, it's been a long time. Looong album sides on that one, 29+ minutes each.

My all-time favorite jazz album:

I know that was the case with the Tyner/Henderson and the Kenny Burrell - I waited those out.

$19.14 at DeepDiscount, with free shipping on $30 orders. Still a lot of money. Using an offer and pre-ordering it some time ago, I got it for $15.10 from DeepDiscount, and it was mailed out this morning to me (I have tracking #).

I will take this if still avialable.

RIP, I enjoyed much of his Passport and pre-Passport work. He was 89.

How good is the book? No shortage of Miles Davis books on my shelves.

FWIW, download is much cheaper on Amazon than on BandCamp ($6.45 vs. $12). I bought it this morning despite reservations about the horn players and the meh sound quality, and will also pick up the 60 Years download. Love Tapscott's work.

I also waited years to get this at a reasonable price. As far as lack of availability of Miles sets, I've never understood why the On The Corner box was not reprinted to meet the demand.

+1, depends on price point and reviews on how much of an improvement it is. I like the 1995 box.

I'm in whenever it eventually makes it to CD.

RIP - I was a fan of their early 1964-1972 run. Very much "of their time", but what a time!

+1

I bought a very cheap copy of this box, and discs 4,7 and 11 don't work. Please PM if you can help me out.

I'm in!