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Importcd's still at $59.52 + $2.99 shipping. Amazon still at $71.99 .

1966 release, so the Europeans can't get it in the PD sets - those have a 1962 cutoff.

I agree with all of that. My extensive experiences with importcds have been outstanding, but I understand others have had issues. Importcds is 59.46 + 2.99 shipping (or 1.49 for each item after first). They don't lower pre-order prices.

Got my shipping confirmation from importcds. Won't see the set until next week, I'm sure, but saved $11 from Amazon price.

Check out "Let My Children Hear Music" from the early 70's. A masterpiece.

Alice and Ali were all in, where Tyner and Elvin were heading to the exits. I actually like Concert in Japan quite a bit, my go-to for that group (along with the VV Again "My Favorite Things").

Recorded radio broadcast of George Russell in Venice, 1980. Amazing stuff.

Correct. The last "new" title was the Horace Silver Music of the Spheres thing, LT-1033 in late 1980. The LT reissues went as late as Joe Pass - Joy Spring, LT-1103 in 1981.

$59.52 on importcds.com. I think those two sites are related at this point, with popmarket.com also being in the umbrella.

I was not able to grab that one in time, and it is prohibitively expensive now . Me too. The samples sounded interesting enough, and I love that era, so I went ahead and ordered it. Not like Japanese reissues of obscure jazz titles lose their value or anything... The Hamilton's are interesting. Very non-commercial use of "commercial elements". They don't sound like anything else. But certainly an acquired taste (I was horrified by them when I got cutouts back in the 70's). Check out samples and see what you think. I went ahead and ordered them, they sound intriguing to my ears now, 45 years later . Ordered 19 CD's total, including four of the Cannonball titles, the Maneiri, these two, and other various BN's for various reasons (in the case of Turrentine and Reece, allows me to complete the single CD's and sell the Mosaics. Quick $220 spent there, but not like these opportunities come along very often.

Talking about A Love Supreme 3cd issue can. 2012, which has about 15 mins of extra outtakes not on the 2CD set (which had room for them). Milk that sacred cow 'til it"s dry... .

Can't say it's my absolute favorite, but I like it quite a bit. Can't go wrong with Flora Purim and Airto. Badly in need of CD reissue.

Fills some BN holes (especially some 70's titles) nicely for me. Especially glad to see Turrentine's "In Memory Of", which will enable to to sell off the Mosaic. Have to check out some of those Cannonball's.

Me too.

can't wait for 12 minutes of "Bass Duet" . Bet that really went down big with the club crowd. Re: Pharoah in that period. 'Tauhid' is a very interesting album, and his playing on it does not sound like what he was doing with Trane.

Prestige has a catalog that rivals Blue Note's. But their cover art wasn't particularly attractive. Contemporary had a nice look, which was theirs. Riverside was pleasing and distinctive also.

I like Alice's playing on those albums.

And 'Linger Lane', though I'm always a sucker for "People Make the World Go Round", and that album has a nine minute version of it. He tried to make a commercial CTI-ish album with that one.

Then, to your credit, you never bought "Natural Illusions", thinking "Hey, it's Blue Note, it's Hutch, it's gotta be good". I wasted hard earned part time job money on a cut out of it.

Agreed. Tyner sounds like he has already checked out on that record (Alice was a much better fit by then) and Sanders' work with Coltrane (except for 'Meditations') has always been totally lost on me. And I fast forward through any bass or drums solos. Never have really "gotten" Ali, but Elvin Jones also was not right anymore for where Trane was heading. Can't imagine that Tyner or Jones particularly cared for what Sanders was doing there, given what their own records of the next few years were like. But Coltrane himself is brilliant and challenging during that time. "Om" has always struck me as a bad acid trip which should have stayed in the can.

This is not going to sell 250,000 copies like "Both Directions at Once" or even sell like "Blue World". The DG listing shows it as 2LP/1CD.

Have not forgotten. The advent of the CD era helped a lot.

Fiction is oft times not without aesthetic value! I think Patrick Roques did Miles Reid even better than Miles Reid did, though without the authenticity.