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Jackie McLean "Jacknife" and "High Frequency", Lee Morgan "infinity", and the Elvin Jones with Lee Morgan are favorites of mine

I thought Jones played well enough with Mingus (though his albums as a leader do nothing for me). Faddis isn't a big turnoff for me though he certainly isn't a plus.. Glad to have another Mingus group documented, especially with the mysterious Foster.

"My Favorite Things" Newport 1963!

And there's another batch coming in November. See CDJapan site.

I'm in.

Nothing by Ammons by Concord, not even the expected "Gene Ammons Plays for Lovers" 34 minute CD.

Spectacularly, I'm sure, but not CCR spectacularly. BTW, Blue Note had the same situation later with Norah Jones bankrolling all those amazing Conn and RVG reissues.

Correct unless you want to count the live date "The Scorpion", recorded late 1970, but not released until 1995. I basically fall where you do on all of this.

Intro to the cut is hilarious. That's Philly Joe himself doing the Dracula bit:

Those albums are fierce!

$118 on amazon, $73 on importcds. Still only tempted, not that hot on their albums later than the original group (many of the originals then went off and joined Soft Machine). Probably more tempted by the Barbara Thompson, just because I don't have anything by her, as I have the run of 70's and early 80's Nucleus albums

My understanding was that Shaw replaced Cook as co-leader with Hayes, and McLean replaced Cook in the lineup.

Price dependent for me. About 4+ prime CD's for me, the rest is increasingly marginal. $150? No way. $80? Maybe.

I remember reading a quote by Shaw, I think on the liner notes to one of his Columbia albums, where he threw shade on the Louis Hayes/Ronnie Mathews/Stafford James/Rene McLean group he had left as not being good enough musicians for him. Thought that was pretty arrogant.

Agreed. Though I'm a big Eric Alexander guy also.

Count me in for this one!

Most famously, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" starring a very young William Shatner. He also wrote the fascinating time travel novel "Bid Time Return", which was dumbed down to the merely pleasant love story movie "Somewhere in Time".

More specifically then, #7 is the opening cut from this .

I certainly agree in the case of Carter. Hubbard only compared to his monster earlier playing, I still found him quite enjoyable in that era.

The McBee is fabulous, from back when Chico Freeman breathed fire (what happened to him?). The Berger is also really good. The Waldron's and the Tolliver and the Hannibal are, of course, no-brainers if you don't own them. The Tolliver is a totally different album than the Strata-East of the same name.

And why would anyone pre-order it for $27.98 + shipping and tax?

And Gene Harris is nowhere to be found on it !