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Thanks! Pre-order placed.

I think all four. I am going from ancient memory but remember two of them in my head ("Absolutions", "The Bee Hive").

There were spoken introductions on the LP set.

Wonderful box. The CMcVie/Welch/J.McVie/Fleetwood live set included blows away any of the studio we work by that version of the group.

Mono, but pretty good presence for all of the instruments, given it's a 60 year old live recording. Always glad when you can actually hear the bass player on this sort of thing, rather than just sort of sensingg them, though still wish the bass were much louder in the mix. But works for me. BTW, Amazon did not have CD release listed, though the BN site indicated there is one.

Have never ordered directly from them (and based on what I'm reading here, never will), but I've placed a couple dozen orders with them through the years via Amazon, have never had a problem. They've been around a pretty long time at this point.

The first cut, John Hicks' " Zap Carnivorous", works well. I agree with you on the rest of the album, but would still buy a CD issue of it (strangely missing, given it was a BN release). +1

Wonderful pianist for five decades:

That would be very disappointing. Hope some samples come out somewhere.

It did, plus I liked how it contextualized what I already had heard (plus I liked the sound and packaging and price) but I only had one of it, have so many live recordings of the Morgan/Shorter/Timmons/Merritt/Blakey config.

It's Blakey and Blue Note, so of course I'm going to dutifully buy it and certainly enjoy listening it, but I can't imagine that it's going to tell me anything I don't already know about that group.

David Murray sometimes.

Up, willing to consider trades of vinyl for CD's, as long as I can justify the shipping expense.

No, you're probably right. I've never even heard of that one, and Columbia was pushing some of their jazz recordings (Jarrett, Mingus, Ornette, Bill Evans, George Russell, etc. in addition to their big sellers Miles and Weather Report and Herbie Hancock) pretty heavily then, and I was very tuned into the label. Of course, they dropped all those "esoteric" guys when they gave Clive Davis the boot in '73, keeping the big sellers.

+1

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...