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I came across a few (Beatle-ish, Monkee-ish) as a kid that weren't bad. I've also listened to enough garage-rock covers to recognize enthusiastic incompetent-bad. This cut is subversive-bad, like they wanted it to be horrible. Which, come to think of it, would be so Lou Reed. Metal Surf-machine Music.

Whole thing sounds like a bad joke.

My favorite album of his from the last 35+ years (since 'Infidels'). The other one that sticks with me is 2020's 'Rough and Rowdy Ways', which was SO timely.

Have you listened to the trio one with Hampton Hawes recently? Mingus never released a "bad" album, but that one is so "plain". Compare it with "Money Jungle" and two different worlds. As an example by contrast to the completely "fine" Hawes trio, the 1962 Town Hall recordings are a train wreck, but a fascinating one.

Thanks. Those aren't going to draw me in to a repurchase.

White hot 1969 live concert, a month after his incendiary Woodstock performance. Musically, he was maybe the actual star of Woodstock (check out the Columbia set of his full performance), but it is viewed more as a cultural event than a musical one.

Any thoughts on what the four bonus tracks would be?

Thanks, Lon. I'll wait and order from them.

Pre-ordered, thx Jim!

I'm in for all of these if they ever make it to CD. Not going back to vinyl.

Same here.

That's good news, thx. I have had that set for decades, and did not put together this new release was from that.

Great news on both the new release and 'Prime Element'! I'll finally have all the Elvin BN's on single CD's and be able to sell of my Mosiac. Now if they would just release J-Mac's "High Frequency" on standalone CD!

And now there's the upcoming 1967 Elvin Jones vault release on BN.

10 of 10 here.

Only would have been a good idea if the original album configuration/mix had also been included. That whole /RCABluebird CD reissue series was a mess, as were the concurrent ones on CBS and Universal. They all chopped up albums ("let's give them 7 of the nine cuts from the original album plus four from another couple albums." Thankfully, more sanity came into play later on.

+1

I used the title track as one of my two signature cuts when I did a jazz radio show in college. The other cut was "Expansions" by Lonnie Liston Smith. Ahh, the 70's!

HIs "Black Talk" is my favorite organ combo album ever!

"Blue Note and later Larry Young", so not his early Prestige dates.

Charles Earland for me. But DeFrancesco was outstanding, just often shot himself in the foot with the trumpet and the vocals (or CBS did him in early on with the overproduction and the poor repertoire). But Jimmy Smith single-handedly invented the whole style (in a warehouse less than five miles from my house), and all credit due to him. Everyone else except maybe BN and later Larry Young was refinement and extension of Smith's invention. Waiting for the incoming flack, but that's my line of sight.

That's a GREAT set. The Peter Green-led masterpiece "Then Play On", the three wonderful Danny Kirwan-led albums, an excellent live session with the Bob Welch-led version which far surpasses the studio albums of that version , and three other albums of the Welch version. Excellent remastering, nice packaging.

"Meditations on Integration" by James Newton is spectacular. And of course a lot of the Danny Richmond and the Mingus Dynasty albums are excellent.

Always been a favorite of mine, and probably the Stylistics' greatest moment (among many). Works for me.

And the stork delivered Ritchie.