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Yeah, that's a great one also. Same era, same producer.

He did some excellent work with David Axelrod at Capitol in the late 60's. This gem from 1966 is my all-time favorite Rawls cut:

Be sure to start with "Asha" and "Washington Suite" for McNeill.

Color me jealous!

"Tzigane is a monster cut!

That's what I said.

I sure liked those first couple of Rickie Lee Jones albums (especially the first one), before her artiness stifled her art.

As did I.

I like the Miles version for instrumental and the Ella/Satchmo version for vocals. And the Bethlehem set is certainly interesting and different. The MJQ version is very nice in its own way.

Kenny Burrell.

Never heard of that album before, looks really nice, thanks for the heads-up?

#6 (already identified) is great, wonderful horn voicings which dynamically interact with the rhythm so nicely. I like the Miles Davis/Gil Evans version of this which never got onto one of the studio albums of the period (available as a CD bonus cut in a few different sets). #11 is also really nice, I should probably be placing it, Sounds like Mal Waldron on piano and Booker Ervin on tenor. Probably some old Prestige album I have on the shelves somewhere and should listen to more. Digging the drummer for sure.

I'm only seeing 8 tracks online. The download does have 13 tracks.

LaMont Dozier Brian Holland Eddie Holland

Due for USA release this coming Friday. On my want list.

Yeah, Jarrett and Metheny were like rock stars for a few years. Their albums were everywhere, and people outside the jazz world knew who they were.

Absolutely do. To me, "Journey to Enlightenment" and "Let This Melody Ring On" are the cream of the crop, even above "Black Love".

Thanks, great fun! I have that Miranda CD, have only listened to it once (it just came out in the past few months), it's a good one. Lots of cuts here from the L.A./ Nimbus West/UGMAA scene, which generated some incredible music in the 70's/80's, and has been by far my favorite after-the-fact find in the 21st century. Lots beyond just Horace Tapscott. I'm with you on Vandermark, sometimes I love him, sometimes I don't even like him, but this was a great cut. Bacharach was the greatest pop composer of the 60's. For all the excitement of Beatlemania and the British Invasion, the artist with the best string of singles in 1964 was Dionne Warwick ("Anyone Who Had A Heart", "Walk On By", "You'll Never Get to Heaven If You Break My Heart", "Reach Out For Me", all composed by Bacharach) The 60's iteration of the Jazz Crusaders were monsters, and that is a great Mosaic (one of the few I have kept). I do like that Eddie Henderson cut. The Cowell cut was a good item for a BFT! Looking forward to coming backatcha in Decemenber!

Soul Brother released all five of the Garnett Muse albums on CD in 2014/2015. I grabbed all except "Black Love", which I already had on Muse CD from the 90's. A small scattering of other Muse product was included at the time, (Dom Um Romao, one Walter Bishop, a few anthologies of other artists such as Charles Earland), and Soul Brother is, as noted, very much a niche label (a very good one at that), much more soul than Jazz.

Even more so in the late 40's/early 50's.

$28 + $5 shipping or reasonable offer or interesting trade for CD's. Please IM or email john.felser@verizon.net.

Had someone contact me by email and ask me how to join the forum community - and I actually have no idea at this late date! Can anyone enlighten me? thanks.

Totally agree with your evaluation of the music. Could have made the sides 25:12 and 13:55, not horrible but not optimal. Columbia was putting out 30 minute + Miles Davis album sides in the same era.

Yes, that Newport '63 "My Favorite Things" is the Coltrane track I listen to the most.

And they were recorded within four months of each other.