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Dan would prefer Gene Harris . That Swiss Radio Days series is wonderful. Audio tends to be stunning, and the musicians tend to give superior performances. I'm borderline just because I have so very much 70's Dex already. I'm sure it'll be really good.

Importcds has it for $38 + $3 shipping (for a 6 CD set!). They are always much better pricewise than Amazon on anything from the Cherry Red family of labels (which this release is). Everything on those labels is usually beautifully executed and incredibly reasonably priced. And they are all fully licensed, no PD worries.

Just finished listening to the Bartz Bremen set. It's wonderful. First off, sound quality is outstanding for a 70's live recording. Musically, it's an extension of what he was doing on the "I've Known Rivers" Montreux set. This is two years later, and Charles Mims and Curtis Robertson have replaced Hubert Eaves and Stafford James. Robertson is outstanding, and very well miked/mixed. It is an active joy to listen to hs bass work here. Mims also does a good job. This set is 50% longer than the Montreux set, equivalent to three LP's, and every cut works ("Rivers" had a couple of throways). Even the Isley Brothers cover is lovely, excellent work by Bartz and Robertson especially. "Rivers" was my previous go-to Bartz album, so this will be my new one, though I love much of his catalog. This is different enough in both content and execution from the Montreux set that if you like that, you'll definitely also want this one. And the success of this release makes me ready to go check out the Airto/Flora release.

Me too. Especially given, for instance, the utter obscurities they re-issued from the Debut catalog.

Fantasy was doing some really nice box sets (Miles 1st Quintet, the three Trane boxes, Evans VV, Stitt, etc.) when they sold to Concord. Was sorry to see those stop. They did manage to get vast majority of their most desirable catalog titles out on CD.

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Harvey Mandel, too. Title track of his first album. And on Charlie Musselwhite's first album.

HI Brian, welcome. You a Philly guy? 69th Street Terminal is, of course, one of the big transportation hubs between Philly and the suburbs.

It's my understanding that Universal does own Polygram. So there's a big 3, it seems, Universal, BMG, and Warner, correct?

Can't wait to see "Tyrone Washington Plays for Lovers".

For those who dig this sort of thing (like me), this is now newly available on CD and LP. Just ordered CD from Amazon, arrives tomorrow.

He had not just one, but two creepy "hits" on the topic. Yuck.

No surprise there. Between him and Sangrey, not much gets by.

1 - I like the tone of the tenor player. Rhythm section too static for my tastes. 2 - Good,fleet pianist, tight rhythm section. 3 - No thanks. 4 - Alto player owes it all to Ornette, may be him. Drummer annoys me. 5 - Tenor player owes it all to Ben Webster. 6 - So, how deep is the ocean, anyways? Really good tenor player. 7 - Interesting, pretty soulful. Cut off part way through? 8 - Like the trumpet, hate the guitar, mixed feelings on the cut. Dave Douglas? 9 - My favorite cut so far, and the first one I want to be sure to own. 10 - Way too authentic for my tastes. 11 - Owes it all to Coleman Hawkins. 12 - Before my eras of primary interest, but fun to hear. 13 - Very moving performance, second one I want to be sure to own. 14 - Very strong trumpet who sounds like Freddie Hubbard. Good composition. Keeper #3. 15 - I should probably like this more than I do. Good players, but feels sloppy/lazy. Thanks for the BFT, well done. Quite the variety! Definitely look forward to ID's of 9,13,14. 44 posts in a little over 24 hours? A success!

My bad, LOL!

I agree with your concluding take on human nature, which deeply informs my faith, and I'm fine with "troubled youth" being the operative term for her. But what you call "taking sides" is to me an assignment of relative, not absolute, culpability (they both have it in absolute terms, there's no "good guy" here per se), but while they both bear blame, it is not equal blame, or anything close to it, in my eyes. I probably have a different line of sight on this than almost anyone else here, and don't really expect many here to understand mine (getting to the truth of abuse is in many ways painfully counterintuitive based on the surface appearance), though some others arrive at the same conclusions as me (and others don't). But certainly a meaningful discussion going on here about this, and I'm thankful for that.

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Studies bear out that in these situations women are telling the truth around 95% of the time and are much more likely to understate rather than overstate the issues. The cost of speaking out (as shown by the retaliatory lawsuit here) is often tremendous. My wife has worked extensively with victims (and I have some, and have presented a talk on the subject) and experience bears out the studies. She was a 17 year old kid. He was an empowered 52 year old (apparently married btw)man. She didn't "offer", he demanded. She made poor choices. As stated, she needs help, but he's despicable. I've never been a fan of him or the whole M-base thing, so don't feel the sense of loss some others here do.

And sister Dee Dee is a great vocalist.

Me too, triple bill at Keystone Korner with Dexter Gordon Quintet (back from Europe) and Bobby Hutcherson Quintet. My best jazz night ever! Original booking was Roach and Hutcherson, which would have been great as it was, then Gordon was added late as an extra (used Eddie Henderson and Hutcherson's rhythm section as his group). Will never forget it. Reggie Workman was on fire. ca. Dec. 76 - Jan 77 I believe.

Did any of those "Mosaic Singles" reissues contain any bonus cuts? Don't think any of the ones I picked up do.

Cry of Harper Hunger.