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And he was right, but I would have bought them.

They actually had four albums. Their first, 'Neptune', came out on Cobblestone, then 'In My Youth', 'Rebirth', and 'Motherland' followed on Muse after Cobblestone reverted to Muse. I agree that 'Rebirth' is the pick, but all are good albums, and only 'In My Youth' saw CD issue. These albums would have made a nice Mosaic Select back in the day.

Very good album (Joe Bonner is a big plus) which AFAIK never received CD reissue. I'll go for the download in the absence of a CD reissue.

2026 R&R HoF nominations are posted. Not in: Paul Revere & Raiders. In: Mariah Carey. Talk about unclear on the concept...

I own a lot of these, and have the Red Holloway on order. Nice series.

+1, fascinating album.

I'm a big fan of both her early stuff and her very different 70's recordings. I never put together that she and Roy were siblings!

Thanks for the heads-up! I'm in for the Brooklyn Academy and especially the 1985 Montreux (magic happened there on a regular basis) CD's. Hesitant on the CD with Monty Alexander, seems like both pianists would have to compromise their styles to possibly mesh.

Loving this!

Great to have you back, Allen!

I own the 5 CD version of this from 2016, which focuses on his 60's Verve releases (9 LP on 5 CD IIRC). Interesting listen, though not life-changing. I have no interest in 16 CD version which stretches into the 21st century, though neither version should break the bank in terms of $ per disc.

Yes, absolutely.

Especially the version with young, hot Wynton Marsalis on trumpet and Charles Fambrough and Billy Pierce.

I saw him live twice in the later years, once with Philip Harper, Jean Toussaint, Benny Green (his first gig with the group) in Wilmington ca. 1988, and later with Brian Lynch (who was outstanding), both Dale Barlow and Javon Jackson, Steve Davis, Geoff Keezer, and Essiet Essiet at Penn's Landing ca. 1990=91. I still remember what he said at the end of the Wilmington show: "This music is a gift from the Creator, through us, to you". Found that very moving.

RIP, I am a big fan of the Fish albums and respect the solo stuff. And love the super bowl Pepsi commercial.

Yes, and heavy smoking greatly increases the likelihood of stroke.

Looks like the new one is Lacy/Waldron duet performances, no Workman/Cyrille? I'm out for this one, have so much of this sort of thing already

The cost of heavy smoking. So sad.

And they would not have been all that old, around 60 (Henderson born in 1937, Hutch in 1941).

Agreed. They did Louie, Louie around the same time the Kingsmen did, and had the stronger version (and the regional Pacific Northwest hit, IIRC), largely due to Lindsay.

I know, 2 hits + filler = LP for parents to buy kids for christmas. The kids knew to buy the 45's. Beatles and Dylan were the exceptions, not the rule. This ain't exactly "Kicks" or "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone", though it's on the same album ('Kicks').