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Transition is my favorite Coltrane LP.

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1-7 would make a nice box set.

Love Stepney, especially his work on those Terry Callier Cadet albums. I also never really got into Seawind, despite trying hard a few times.

Dan, yes. I have all his 50's leader dates and enjoy most of them quite a bit. Hard to go wrong with Blue Notes from that period. But my favorite Morgan's are from later: 'The Gigolo', and his last album, the one with Billy Harper

My intro to Morgan was Blakey's "Toys in the Attic" on my local jazz station (WRTI - Temple University) later in 1972. Led me to go buy "Live at the Lighthouse", my furdt jazz purchase.

Not sure how 'A Love Supreme' or 'Transition' can be so easily dismissed.

They probably could have worked it out. Seems like a lot of BN albums from that period had one hit-attempt tune and five more substantial cuts.

Agreed, "Happy/Sad"," Blue Afternoon", and the "normal" album side of "Lorca" are really good. I am a bigger fan of the first two albums than you, especially "Goodbye and Hello". "Dream Letter" was stunning when it first came out. It was the first of the posthumous live albums. I haven't tried to rank those live albums, they're all good.

You can safely skip the two post-Greetings albums (and I'm not big on "Greetings" itself, either). "Sefronia" is OK, kind of creepy, a couple of decent covers on it. "Look at the Fool" is an abomination, sort of a parody of a deep soul album with Buckley doing a lot of falsetto. HIs voice and artistic vision were both shot at that point. "Starsailor" was a train wreck, but at least an ambitious, interesting one. But after that, while the live material continued to be pretty strong, the last three studio albums fell off a cliff. I have a ton of the live albums that have come out from the "Blue Afternoon" era and before, and they are uniformly strong, and vary enough in feel (if not repertoire) from each other to each be worthwhile.

'Blue Afternoon' was the first Buckley album I bought, back ca. 1970 when it first came out, after hearing "Blue Melody" on our hip FM radio station. I was not aware of 'Goodbye and Hello' yet (that one is his masterpiece, and one of my five favorite albums of all-time). The initial CD release of 'Blue Afternoon' was not in print very long, and went for crazy prices on the secondary market. I sold my CD of it at that time, then later on bought the "Original Album Classics" set to get the CD of it at a reasonable prices (bought the five CD set just for that one), but the "Complete Albums Collection" is a major upgrade, and Buckley is important to me, so I went that direction, and cleared out all of the CD's it made redundant. That enabled me to sell off my Rhino/Handmade CD.

Just gave them all a listen. I agree that "In Search of My Heart" is excellent. The rest of the cuts, I can live without. Not offensive in any way, just not compelling.

You are the true Renaissance Man - king of the now sounds! BTW, that Rhino/Handmade collection is great! Also included in the beautiful box of his albums they put out in Europe, which is what I have standardized on for that Buckley material.

I actually like Norman Connors albums (some a lot more than others), and Hyman has always been on my list as a subject for further research. But I like McCoy Tyner records a lot more. Will check out the tracks above, thanks.

That's the only Tyner-led album I'm aware of that I have not bought (though the are others from the 80's on I could live without at this point). I have never heard it, should probably check out youtube. Have never seen the CD for under about $10-12, and there's always something else I'd rather have for that amount.

Indeed, I can't stand "Om". I do like "Kulu Se Mama". I think this 2 CD set is basically obsolete at this point due to all the material being available in much better mastering in original form (individual CD's of "Ascension". "Kulu Se Mama", "Selflessness", "Om"), isn't it?

Fresh Sound did nice twofer CD"s of the Hadley Caliman and Gary Bartz albums from the label. Excellent records. My favorite Caliman. There are still several other excellent titles in the catalog, especially the magnificent Waldron/Peacock "First Encounter" album. No idea who holds rights to them.

Yep, I read it in school:

I can believe it. She was 19 when she married Gilberto, who was a decade older. She was probably just pulled in by her husband into the recording studio, with it presented as a lark. She was 22 at the time. I suspect she would have left things like contracts in her husband's hands at that point. For that matter, it may have just been considered sort of a package deal. Not that it is excusable. Not getting a contract with Taylor for the CTI album is another matter - she should certainly have known better by then. I do have trouble with the concept that she was the only reason for Getz/Gilberto being a smash, given that the Getz/Byrd jazz samba album had previously gone to #1 on the pop album charts. Seems like Chilton went over the top in his writing to try to reinforce his thesis of how mistreated and victimized she was.

Being discussed here:

If they get around to a CD release eventually, I'm in. And when will we start having "CD Store Day" exclusive releases? Still hoping for that Nathan Davis ORTF set to make it to CD.

Well, the Town Hall debacle would not be one. Nor, for me, would Pre-Bird. But it looks like those "selections" are what they had rights to. No Atlantic, no Columbia, no Debut.

Me too. They could have fit another song or teo on just by editing out that section, which would have made it a basically perfect album. But those were the times...