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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.

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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.

Those are definitely of interest!

Into the Jordan river?

One of mine too. I think the title track from Hubbard's 'First Light' may be my very favorite CTI cut.

Behind paywall. Can you give us details?

Lee Morgan - Live at the Lighthouse, and Best of Herbie Hancock, both BN twofers bought on the same trip to Franklin Music at Plymouth Meeting Mall in late '72 or early '73.

How is the sound quality?

Olivia him alone!

Incredibly, it got played on top 40 radio in Cincinnati when I lived there in the late 60's. Pre-figured the later success of the Benedictine Monks, I guess. If I had the Dells album I would play it through, at least once. At this late date, I'm willing to seek out "interesting" instead of "safely good". And yes. I think they were mocking the Rolling Stones, though perhaps affectionately. Same with Bacharach on the Dells album, right down to the album title. YMMV.

Baltin: Who are those artists for you that really best exemplify collaboration? Lesh: The basic inspiration for The Grateful Dead was the Miles Quartet with Coltrane or Trane's quintet from the early Sixties. So that was pretty much the inspiration for the way we approach our music. It was the careful exuberant freedom that they had, the way they listen to one another and how everybody is improvising all at the same time, there's nothing that's fixed. I heard a performance of Trane's Quintet in '62, in San Francisco. It totally transformed my life and my view of music, because it just kept evolving. It just kept changing and evolving and yet you always were aware wherever you were coming from. It was the finest thing I'd ever heard [chuckle]. And I grew up in the classic music scene, so I hadn't known how deeply improvised music could go and how powerful it could be and that really opened my eyes, my ears, my heart. Baltin: You're doing this festival in Chicago with Wilco. Do you see how that early inspiration from listening to the Trane Quintet or the Miles Quartet still influences you today? Lesh: Absolutely, it's like a fundamental building block of how I approach the music that I make. That was the transformative experience. And I've kind of tried to live up to that.