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Me too, even the albums I dislike are really interesting in context of the journey and the man.

Lon, what are your thoughts on New Morning?

His all-time best!

It would be the same Rhino - they design the WEA Catalog releases at this point, but I also didn't see a word about it.

Amazon has it: https://www.amazon.com/Mingus-At-Carnegie-Hall-Deluxe/dp/B093B2L4J9/ref=sr_1_2?crid=14988OVGGMZ0Q&dchild=1&keywords=mingus+carnegie+hall&qid=1619657200&s=music&sprefix=mingus+carnegie+%2Caps%2C160&sr=1-2

Great thoughts, thanks. I'm with you on all of them. "Self Portrait" did inspire/outrage Greil Marcus to write my favorite record review of all time in Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/self-portrait-107056/ I've always found "New Morning" to be charming, in ways that "Nashville Skyline" isn't, where Dylan no longer needs to deconstruct himself and can just settle in without dealing with unreasonable expectations from his audience. No one could follow up Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde on Blonde/John Wesley Harding, even Dylan himself, and clearly he chose to not even try to do so. I don't blame him, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to Nashville Skyline/Self Portrait.

Correct AFAIK. Just the jams of "Perdido" and "C Jam Blues". Will pre-order ASAP, thanks for the notice!

Good point on if we heard it live today. I had Roach's "Members Don't Get Weary" on LP in the early 70s but that may have been a cutout. Never knew the Hasaan album existed until the CD era. Savoy is also a good point. I like that Valdo Williams album a lot.

Hypothetical question, can't really be answered with certainty but maybe interesting to speculate. Had this been released on Atlantic in early 1966 instead of on Omnivore in early 2021, how much attention would it have received? How much attention did the trio album with Roach receive when it was out? I do like the album, don't get me wrong on that. But I like hundreds of albums from that era.

Finishing up listening to this now. It's very good, but certainly would not have been revelatory in late 1965. It most reminds me of "The World of Cecil Taylor", which was recorded five years earlier. And Odean Pope on this album finds himself in the same situation as Archie Shepp did on that one. A good young player who has not yet fully found his personal style, overwhelmed in some senses by a very very strong pianist. This also happened on many of the mid-late 70's McCoy Tyner albums (and when I saw him in performance in that period), where he just ate sax players alive. The Hasaan is recommended as an interesting listen, and I'm glad to have it, but it really has also been overhyped IMO.

I remember the same comment from Cuscuna.

Nice. Especially love that Curson. Bill Barron alert on that one!

Also the title of a really good mid-60's Ahmad Jamal album.

That Catalyst label had horrible distribution. Blink, and they were gone if you even got to see them in the first place. There's a CD of two Hadley Caliman albums from that label which is very worthwhile.

This was a really good group, though. As long as sound quality is OK, can't imagine it being a disappointment. Here's a sample from the album they recorded on Catalyst.

Ammons/Lewis for sure on Blue Note. Not sure beyond that, out of my wheelhouse. Several Mosaic sets, and several PD issues of the material. The guy whose work I really like from the era is John Hardee.

The Complete John Belushi Plays the Beethoven, Smokey Robinson, and Ray Charles Songbooks.

Tones for Joan's Bones was on Vortex, an Atlantic label used for their more adventurous jazz releases in that era. Inner Space was the expanded 2LP reissue in the 70's. Atlantic butchered the CD release of Inner Space but Collectables of all people got it right some years later.

Maybe just The Complete Oregon on Vanguard and Elektra. You really want to pay $17/disc for those ECM's?

That's actually a great idea. You could limit it to the ones with guest leaders, since the first one and Escalator Over The Hill are easily obtainable on ECM.

Pre-ordered the Bartz, thanks for the heads-up!

The Complete Recordings of the Kenny G Quintet Featuring Michael Brecker.

Count me in for the Dixon. Along with the Bill Barron.