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As do I. I'm sure many of us do. Or a Max Roach 70's set with Billy Harper. My #1 musical wish list dream.

They do it to get suckers like me buying the same material over and over again throughout the decades. For instance, 'Kind of Blue'. I've owned it on LP, cassette, first CD release, corrected CD release, Legacy Edition 2-CD release, metal spine MIles-Coltrane box set, and now in this big box. 'Bitches Brew' I've owned on LP, cassette, CD, 3 disc anniversary edition, 4 disc anniversary edition, metal spine complete box set, and now this big box. And so on. And so forth.

My very favorite Watson album.

Lundvall re-signed a lot of the classic era artists and his new artists seemed closer to that musical sensibility . Was went much further afield.

There was music after the mid-80's? I had no idea...

Some of the artists BN has recorded in recent years (Roseanne Cash, Suzanne Vega, etc.) are true heavyweights at what they do, but it's a million miles from jazz. I have everything Suzanne Vega ever commercially released, and I file it in Pop. To me, there were really three BN's - The Lion-Wolf/Liberty/UA BN (enough continuity in the UA period that I consider it the same label, especially considering the vault releases, though in other ways it was a very different label than what came before it. Tough call.), the Bruce Lundvall relaunch era, and the Don Was era. The Don Was era holds no appeal to me in jazz terms. The Lundvall era had some good albums, but was a disappointment to me. The craft was there, but the magic was gone. There were still a lot of magical releases during the UA era, and much of it has aged surprisingly well.

Got a bunch of cheap Joey DeFrancesco CD's from a seller on ebay. All betwern $1.50 and $3, and can combine shipping.

Wayne Shorter Quintet Wayne Shorter (ts) Barbara Burton (vib, bells, per) McCoy Tyner (p) Miroslav Vitous (b) Alphonse Mouzon (d, per) A&R Studios, NYC, October 13, 1970

RIP. I got the big BBC box, haven't listened to it yet. Only passingly familiar with her work.

If I could adjust the time controls, I'd put 70's Hannibal Peterson on trumpet.

A lot of the horn players on Ascension were under contract with Impulse! already, FWIW. Hubbard. Brown. Shepp, Sanders

And I have 'Winter' second overall (especially the hauntingly beautiful "Peace Go With You Brother"). And 'The First Minute of a New Day' is the third utterly essential Scott-Heron.

Great album, his masterpiece.

Take the opportunity to hear it. At this late date, it's very unlikely to receive reissue.

Yep, the 6 CD set. How is the Marcus book? I've had it for years but never got around to reading it. I love his writing and read and liked the other two Dylan-related books he wrote. And I regularly reread his amazing Rolling Stone review of "Self Portrait".

The deluxe box is worthwhile.

'Rumasuma' is badly in need of a CD issue. Should have been a no-brainer OJC. We've been waiting for over 30 years! The other huge miss by OJC is 'Home' by Gary Bartz with Woody Shaw.

I am on the final CD now, and have not had that problem at all, so they apparently fixed it!

Those post-retirement discs account for not even 10% of the set (7 of 73 discs). Think of the set as the very best versions (latest remasters and most complete bonus cuts) of other 66 discs for less than $4 a disc, plus they throw in the 7 post-retirement discs as a bonus. Does that help talk you into it? Amazon currently out of stock, but there's a set being auctioned on ebay which is currently really low, and several on discogs which are very reasonable priced.

I agree it is by far the best of the post-comeback albums that I have heard.

From the big "Complete Columbia Album Collection" box. This album is better than I remember.

Received them in two days, shipping was only like $8 total for the five shirts. They're great. 100% cotton, substantial, stenciling is well done. You do want to order a size larger than you normally do, they run a full size smaller than what they are listed as being.

1 – Beautiful, right in my wheelhouse. They have Hutcherson/Tyner DOWN! I would think it is Hutcherson, but suspect someone like John Hicks is the pianist. Also a wonderful composition. This is a must have for me. 2 – Shades of Jaco Pastorius or whatever. I did not have patience to make it through the cut. 3 – Nice cut. 1950’s? Someone like Thad Jones? 4 – Interesting East/West hybrid, though it overstays its welcome by half. Joe Harriott-ish, but not Harriott. 5 – Love it, also right in my wheelhouse. And another pianist who has his Tyner down, to the point where it sounds as if it could be Tyner, but it isn’t based on what I know of his discography. But it sure seems like him. Very strong sax playing on this. Must have this if I don’t already. Great cut. 6 – Stride is not a style that works for me. Seems to be well done for what it is. 7 – Huh? No thanks. 8 – Good cut. Very nice, flows well. Actually like this quite a bit. 9 - The old standard, well played. But doesn’t grab me. 10 – This one does grab me at the beginning, but doesn’t go anywhere. Just sort of keeps repeating the same thing with rhythmic variations. I really dislike the drumming. Assume this is from the last 30 years, where the in-vogue rhythmic approaches lose me, and other musical considerations seem to get marginalized. 11 – Again, doesn’t seem to go to much of anywhere. I can enjoy any snippet of #’s 10 and 11, but the full performances go stale for me. I do like this more than #10. Some Mal Waldron influence in this one, but not Mal – he did it better. Thanks for the interesting BFT. LOVE#’s 1 and 5, like #8 quite a bit, look forward to many of the reveals!