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Totally agree.

Agreed on both Thomas and DeVaughn. Be thankful for what you got indeed. Thomas never had another cut that came close to this, but didn't need to. Sade and Steve Winwood did strong covers, and Winwood featured the song in his live gigs. I had the Thomas cut in my 2020 BFT. Was surprised at how many here didn't know it (it was a #3 pop hit in 1972), but everyone really liked it. And it is timeless, as relevant today as it was 50 years ago when it was released. RIP.

I love the Byrds Pre-flyte through Notorious. Hot and cold after that. I like Dr. Byrds/Mr. Hyde, and (Untitled), especially the expanded version, quite a bit. But that's a different group altogether, not the Byrds. "Triad" was part of the nightmare Crosby had become for them (as was his Monterey nonsense), and it was an ugly divorce. But "Tribal Gathering" fit the record perfectly. TTK, I'll burn and listen to your running order. "Goin' Back" from that album is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. "Triad" could have been, too. if the lyrics weren't so narcissistic and repulsive. As it is, it's beautifully creepy, up there with "Don't Fear the Reaper". Thanks for the fascinating post.

What Acrobat does really well is curation (compilation and documentation). Honest question - what is the actual downside of having a CDr rather than a CD? Asked that before in a different thread, and never got an answer that seemed very compelling.

I don't question that at all! Will be glad to relisten. Thanks for introducing my ears to his music!

Got the Bowden and gave a listen to it. I only like 3 of the 7 cuts, but I REALLY like those three, and they run 35 minutes total, so all good.

I have some Strata-East titles on P-Vine, and they are also pretty wretched.

No official release on the Tapscott that I can find. Count me in for a pre-order if it ever does become available on CD!

Ordered the Bowden off Amazon, $16, but seems like that will be well spent. Here is a youtube link to the entire Tapscott concert, in great sound quality.

Me too!

I find the Dex/McLean a lot friskier than the McLean Montmartre, which was a huge disappointment to me (15 minutes of "Smile" and 19 minutes of "Parker's Moon" from the man who breathed fire on his Blue Note albums).. There were actually two wonderful Left Bank albums, the one shown above and this one. I wouldn't want to be without either of them.

To me, the Doug and Jean Carn CD's are the jewel crowns of the Black Jazz catalog, but it's all at least interesting, some wonderful. It is the only label that I own a complete run of their music (I don't count the 21st Century Doug Carn solo set). I'm less enamored of Tribe on musical and sonic terms. Some interesting music, but some seems awfully indulgent to me. The Marcus Belgrave is my favorite from that label. I admire what both labels were about missionally, and both hold great historic interest. Strata Records (the Kenny Cox label which inspired Strata-East) was also out of Detroit in the same era, and should be in the same conversation, though their catalog was also all over the place, even more than Tribe's, though to me it had more high points than Tribe. YMMV on all of this.

I don't find Pope's leader work all that compelling. Don't like his writing. His work with Max Roach was pretty great.

My understanding was that the laws changed to not allow past 1962, likely largely due to the work of a certain moptop quartet taking hold in 1963 in the UK and 1964 in the USA.

I like that Joanne Brackeen album a lot.

'Warming Up' is a 1964 recording, so outside of Fresh Sound's 1962-and-before P.D. availability. Some other companies like Enlightenment seem to have (or at least feel) the freedom to go up to 1964.

Yeah, that was all pretty confusing, though one profound classic song ("Every Grain of Sand") came from it. But his spiritual/moral stuff that really hits me is on 'John Wesley Harding'.

Dylan seems to love being a non-thing, enjoying recording a cheesy christmas album and a 3-disc Sinatra tribute, doing his great radio show, etc.

Have never heard that one - have seen it in discographies.

He did a lot of albums on MPS, and they're quite adventurous and pretty great overall.

So we still have 3/4/5/7/9 to ID. Gonna guess Gary Bartz on #3, based on both my ears and your cryptic clues "Avenue" "Neighborhood"?

I hear you, but it was such a loss to us to not have the UMGAA scene recorded more. OK, I think I have #4, it's cut #4 from this , and I am not otherwise familiar with that bass player, who knocks me out on this cut! I have the CD, but haven't listened to it in 15-20 years, need to remedy that. So much music, so little time. What a blessing to have that "problem".

I'll finish Randy's good work on this cut. It's track #3 on this . Wonderful album from a wonderful label. Nimbus West did incredible work in L.A., not sure why Allbach moved the base of operations to Europe, as there seemed to be so much more to do with Tapscott & Co.

This may be my favorite Ponty. With Joachim Kuhn and Philip Catherine:

Galaxy was trying to sell mainstream jazz in the late 70s, a tough push. I thought Keepnews did a nice job with the label. Seems like most of the albums came out on Fantasy OJC series CD's in the 80s and 90s.