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Great cut. Sullivan always brings the goods on his albums. Surprised he hasn't been more high profile or prolifically recorded. Love his Strata-East and this one, and the Arabesque is really good.

Never heard of it, but now #1 in my Amazon Prime queue - thanks Chuck!

I have a lot more appreciation now for things like Brubeck and early 70's CTI than I did then, when it was all about the fire for me. I do like those Lookout Farm albums, and the first one is in desperate need of a widely available CD issue! Surprised to hear that, as groups like the Byrds and the Jefferson Airplane idolized Coltrane. And it was that name recognition that caused me to listen to 'A Love Supreme', which opened up the world of jazz to me (specifically Elvin Jones' entrance on "Acknowledgement"). Yes, all those mysterious OOP Blue Note albums I had never otherwise heard of, like 'A Fickle Sonance'. This was 25 years before the internet, and Schwann catalogs only showed in-print albums. The Sam Goody in center city Philly was a wonder in the 70's. Could find just about anything there.

US CD's - 'A Bluish Bag' covers the Feb 17 and June 9 sessions; 'Return of the Prodigal Son" covers the June 23 and July 28 sessions. 22 cuts combined on the two CD's, clocks right in at 2 hours of music. Good enough for me.

Record Museum used to get Atlantic and Prestige and ECM promos in the 70's. sold them for $2.49, buy 3 get one free. That even included double albums.

Huge waste of Jimmy Owen's. And he seemed to know it, was gone by the time they recorded their obscure second album. I actually like them both, but that's more time/place/style rather than anything specific to those albums.

Good news!

Mine could be had. I'm not a huge Evans guy.

Really interesting musician. RIP.

There's also a Euro Universal release of it - legit but ugly packaging, which runs even cheaper. Hard to believe that Bill Evans is a premium item, with that horrid rusty box...

I was in my teens and in college, so price was a big one. Blue Notes in a cutout bin were a must buy then (early 70's), became more problematic as the UA era ended up as cutouts. Connect the dots definitely. I knew to spend a dollar on Jimmy Heath's 'The Gap Sealer' because Kenny Barron was on it. Also had a kind, knowlegeable guide who worked as a sales guy at Franklin Music in Plymouth Meeting Mall. He occasionally offered me full credit if I didn't like a record he strongly recommended if I was hesitant. Those included John Handy Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Charles Tolliver Live at Slugs. So I was buying Strata-East stuff my first year of collecting the music. I also subscribed to Down Beat almost immediately, and paid attention to that. I avoided "old fashioned" guys like Ellington, Basie, Brubeck, MJQ at first, to my loss. Specially priced 2LP sets, such as the Miles Davis albums of that period, got preferential treatment in my budget.

Actually only went twice. I live in the western suburbs, so Princeton is a long trek, and I wasn't that impressed either time I went. There were a lot of used record places a lot closer to me, with Plastic Fantastic in Bryn Mawr being a favorite.

Be careful what you wish for!

Looking forward to this hopefully being available online or DVD.

Me too, Jerry Gordon magic! Headed down there on the subway every payday when I worked in Center City Philly!

3 ID's! (I identified #'s 4,6,7). This is a GREAT BFT, I do hope more people join in. I know Thom and Bill will.

J.C. Fields was 57 cents for good cutout albums. A store in Philly had cutout Blue Notes and Cobblestones, etc., and everything in the store was a dollar.

https://www.discogs.com/Fats-Navarro-Featured-With-The-Tadd-Dameron-Band/master/305897 https://www.discogs.com/Charlie-Parker-One-Night-In-Birdland/release/2753341

Tiny Grimes, not even close for me. Strata East or Black Jazz? One had higher highs, but lower lows. The other never released a bad album.

There are some Tadd Dameron airships which came out on one of those 1970's Prestige twofers, and those tend to be my Fats go-to. Will post picture and more details when I get home.

Yes, how would he have responded to the sea change in the music half a decade later? Beautifully, I suspect. Stunning artist.

Right in my wheelhouse (I own the entire Ultimate Spinach catalog, first two Strawberry Alarm Clock albums, etc.). What you need to understand is that quad releases did not become common until the early/mid 70's. So the quad release of that legendary 1967 album was done long after the initial release of the album on the poorly distributed Spartacus label. The quad mix was done from the master tapes by a sound engineer who did not understand the subtleties of the group's music, and was more interested in showing off the quad technology than faithfully representing the art of the MGW. As a fold down of that quad mix is the one that is now commonly heard on the 1992 Collectables CD, it is a great disservice to the legacy of that groundbreaking group. A good copy of the original vinyl on Spartacus will set you back a couple of hundred dollars, if you can find it at all, but is well worth it for true fans of this masterwork. The album cover of the original release has also become infamous, not "appreciated" by the 1960's censors, who thought they saw "drug references" a la "Eight Miles High".

I may need to bite the bullet and buy the download.

Any CD release of this?

The Fleetwood Mac is beautifully done, and has a lot of great music on it. 'Then Play On', 'Kiln House', 'Future Games', and 'Bare Trees' are all pretty great, a lot of wonderful Danny Kirwan. And the live CD of the McVie/Welch version of the band is much stronger than any of the remaining studio albums that version released. Money well spent on all three purchases.