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First ever issue of this material on December 9. I am semi-interested, will spring for the CD. On the one hand, you have the Mizell Bros. present. On the other hand, you have Nathan Davis (!) and Henry Franklin. http://news.theurbanmusicscene.com/2022/11/donald-byrd-live-cookin-with-blue-note-at-montreux/

PM sent on Prima Materia (Rashid Ali/Wm. Parker & others) Peace on Earth (music of John Coltrane) (rear insert trimmed) KFW 158 $5

MIne is shipping.I have a tracking #.

Check out the Columbia albums with Charles Lloyd and Gabor Szabo.

Just recently realize he had played on Zappa's The Grand Wazoo. I have a few things by him decades apart, seriously talented and underrecorded/underappriciated guy. RIP. 94 is a good run.

I have a (low) price point where I would get it, would like to hear the live disc.

I have 6,7,8, may need to look into 2.

I'll cash in on some of the low-hanging fruit that others have left: #2 is cut 4 from this #6 is cut 5 from this #7 is cut 6 from this #8 is cut 7 from this #10 is cut 4 from this

I have everything previously released up through "Jazz-Blues Fusion", so I can probably sell off enough of those to pay for the set.

Thanks! Order placed, hope they honor it!

That album was my introduction to Lloyd ca. 1972/1973 courtesy of the Norristown/Montgomery County Public Library. They also had the amazing 'El Pampero' by Gato Barbieri - those two albums left a lasting impression on me. Can't remember what other jazz albums I borrowed from there, but they had several.

'In The Soviet Union' with a great 18 minute "Sweet Georgia Bright"?

Love that Pharoah/Phyllis Hyman cut. Have never heard that album before, will need to pick it up. One of a handful of his I don't own.

How are the 2022 donations going?

Love Child Hippiness holds period charm for me. I like his Columbia work (leader and Hamilton) best, but do like the Atlantic's fine. And the decades later ECM (and some of the Blue Note) are outstanding.

So #1 would be cut 3 from this. Thankfully, I do have it (and, I think, everything else by that group and their various guest stars). Spectacular drummer!

BFT 224 1 – “Miles Mode”, certainly sounds like it’s the drummer’s album – he’s an animal, whoever he is. Spectacular version! First tenor soloist sounds like he has the Coltrane-era Pharoah Sanders thing down, and second tenor soloist also really good. Thought at first this must be the Idris Muhammad version, but it’s not. I need this! 2 – This is good stuff. Another cut without a pianist. Very facile bass player, with those double stops and all. 3 – This is amazing! No guesses. I need this even more than I need #1! I will be revisiting this cut often. 4 – Love the concept, but not so much the execution. Has to be from the 70’s. Don’t think it’s Airto and Flora, but whoever it is memorized their records. I like the trumpet solo. 5 – Pretty, though it fades into the background some for me. I do like it. Very nice touch on the piano. 6 – Older, I assume 50’s. Well done for what it is. I enjoy this, but not in my wheelhouse. Lockjaw? 7 – Verve-era Betty Carter? Fabulous, whatever it is. 8 – Solid, so good. That is one clean trombone player! Interesting that there are vibes rather than piano on something that sounds this straight ahead. I have to think this is sitting on my shelves somewhere, as these are obviously big-time musicians. 9 – Piano duo, which is generally not a favorite format of mine. I recognize the song, but the title isn’t coming to mind. 10 – Well done for what it is, but again, I’m generally not a big duet guy. I like my rhythm sections! 11 –Vocal is lost on me. Band can play, but not something I would choose to listen to. 12 – This is the Carla Bley type of thing, which is generally (and in this case, specifically) lost on me. Guitar player especially gets on my nerves. Worst cut by far on the BFT for me. 13 – The singer ruins the cut for me, to me painfully bad. Her Broadway credentials would seem to be in order. The sax solo also doesn’t do much for me. The composition and orchestration are beautiful (though the lyrics sounded a little loopy once I started paying attention to them). Looking forward to reveal to see if anyone else has done this song. Thanks for the stimulating BFT! I liked the earliest cuts best, not sure if that means anything. Can’t wait for some of the reveals, especially #3, also #1,2,7,8.

Marsalis is a very eloquent speaker, so I can understand the appeal of getting him as a talking head. Wish his recorded work of the last 35 years was less self-consicously "eloquent".

MIne too.

It's great. That and his solo piano stuff are my favorites by him, especially the solo side of 'Young at Heart/Wise in Time'.

Yep!

Received and listened to the 2 CD set today. Stunning, though short, about 75 mins total. But essential listening, even if you have the original. Also has remixed Paperback Writer/Rain.

Agreed, and they had the wisdom to leave off the 19 minute foolishness of "Revelation", which wasted half of 'Da Capo', where they could have put a whole side of fine Bryan MacLean compositions. I had that set in the early days of CD's, eventually replaced by remastered versions of the individual albums. And Arthur Lee/Love stayed interesting throughout, no matter how trashed he/they got. 2003's 'Forever Changes' concert is fantastic, and miraculous for being so. Grab the DVD.

Great stuff, especially "You Set the Scene".

RIP