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This conversation makes me feel very old. Bought a 2017 rather than 2018 Honda Accord to have a CD player in it, have four boomboxes as well as a component CD player (and a turntable) in the house, two of our four PC's (I even still have a desktop PC, though it will be my last one) have built in CD/DVD drives, and we have external CD/DVD drive for the other two. So I guess I'm redundant and obsolete at the same time, good trick.

Understood. I'm a CD guy.

Joe Walsh's revenge, much like Mardi Gras was John Fogerty"s revenge.

+1 (and you can add in 1969, their debut album and Woodstock breakthrough), but Sony is not that enlightened. That being said, don't miss the Japanese deluxe edition of Lotus with the extra cuts and improved audio.

"Enough is Enough" with Donna Summer. Classic disco. One of the best Streisand albums.

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.

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