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Wow, not familiar with him, but looking at the credits, bet he's the only guy that ever played with all of the following: Woody Herman, James Brown, John Lennon. Quite a trifecta.

Yeah, White Elephant was technically first but operated at the same time, 1969-1971 was a Mainieri project that included Rodgers and the Brecker Bros at times, but had a rotating cast. I've heard it, not nearly as strong as the first Dreams album. Others included Red Beans and Rice (Ray Draper, etc.), Compost (DeJohnette, Harold Vick, Bob Moses), third iteration of Blood, Sweat and Tears (Joe Henderson, Larry Willis, Lew Soloff, Dave Bargeron), Ars Nova (Jimmy Owens, Warren Bernhardt, Sam Brown), If (Dick Morrissey, Terry Smith), third iteration of Soft Machine (Karl Jenkins, Roy Babbington, John Marshall) and plenty more I'm forgetting or not aware of. Tim Hardin's backing band on Tim Hardin 3: Live (his best album) was a small group which included Mainieri, Bernhardt, and Eddie Gomez. Richard Davis and Bill Lee did a lot of session work on "pop" albums for companies like Vanguard and Chess. Cyrus Faryar used Oregon as the backing group on his debut Elektra album. It was all very fluid and exciting.

+1 Good twofer can be had on BGO. The first album was really quite interesting, with some good pop on the first side ("Holly Be Home" is actually quite stunning, and along with some strong and interesting jazz on the second side, though very of it's time (ca. 1970). Jazz guys (Breckers, Abercrombie, Cobham) along with some basically invisible rock guys whose future credits included playing bass for Billy Squier, playing with Clarence Clemons, studio work with the Weather Girls. The second album was actually pretty awful, as they brought in Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the M.G.'s to produce, further muddying the already opaque waters.

Thought she deserved her own thread rather than being buried in the Phil Spector thread. Thankful she escaped him. The nightmare start to 2022 continues.

RIP Ronnie. Glad you escaped the talented monster and went on to an interesting life.

A lot more? Do you remember what it is? Thx

The links work for me in Chrome.

Understood, but maybe he didn't like starving! "Alkebu-lan" and "Juicy Fruit" are indeed universes apart. His reach on the black consciousness music was staggering, though the results always felt less than the sum of the parts to me on the two albums he did as a leader in that style. The "Alkebu-lan" album clearly could have used rehearsal time, but was likely a one-time event, and glad to have it. It is expansive, if flawed. "Rebirth Cycle" is sort of all over the place.

May be. Columbia does reissue some of those boxes. Cheap Trick 14 CD box getting reissued in next few weeks. The Weather Report 71-75 is a great set, and those boxes are really nice and amazingly priced.

Up with edits. Glad to consider trades for CD's as well as sales.

Count in my and my wife's extended family (two dozen people): Literal results - every unvaccinated person has gotten covid and every vaccinated person has not gotten covid. Just sayin'...

Carrott played live and on record with my friend Ruth Naomi Floyd, and I had a really interesting conversation with him during the recording sessions for one of her albums. Amazing player, I've never heard him captured nearly as well on record as he can play live. Jamal was a favorite of mine, have enjoyed so much of his work over the past five decades. Never got to see him live, even though I'm in the Philly area.

Saw Miles around that time at the Tower Theater Can't tell you for sure who the musicians were, as I was new to jazz and there were no stage announcements and it's been almost 50 years, but I believe Liebman was in the band, and maybe Pete Cosey and Reggie Lucas. Update: The concert date was March 2, 1973. Who would have likely been with Miles then? Stevie Wonder played there 3 weeks later. Tickets were $4-$6. The good old days...

Sounds fun! Just now found one buried in one of those ebay "you choose" multi-title listings (for "smooth jazz", LOL). Will report back after I receive and listen.

A loss. The Strata-East release really needs CD issue. It will go 2 CD's anyways, so they could add on his obscure album on Jerry Gordon's. Third Street Records.

Wouldn't we all! Though I'm no Lovano fan.

I'm sure they didn't. Membran feels exceedingly shady overall, and the sound isn't all that good, but is adequate. Here's a useful overview: https://kendrasteinereditions.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/charlie-parker-records-the-complete-collection-30-cd-set-membran-germany/

It's overall a really interesting set, some fascinating obscuraties. Haven't listened to it in a few years, but my memory was that ths sound was certainly adequate. I doubt there will be any great sounding sources fir the titles on that label.

I'm looking to repurchase it, but at an agreeable price. Patience is no problem for me on that.

This album is also a mess on the mixing, but the music is so exciting l overlook that.

About $11,000 in today's dollars. Did concert incur a financial loss?

About $3400/week today. A lot more than I ever made, though I also never had the cost of living in NYC.

Running Don McNeil out on miscontextualized PC charges didn't help in that regard. I recently non-renewed my subscription to NYT, kept my WaPo subscription for national news and my Philly Inquirer subscription for local/regional news.