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Mark, safe for you to assume that buying Heavyweight Champion is pretty essential! 30 pounds on discogs.

Abebooks has one at a good price, and Amazon has some fair prices on them. Well worth picking up.

I'm good with the Heavyweight Champion box (a beautiful set, as are the Ornette and Mingus Atlantic boxes).

Larry Kart's "Jazz in Search of Itself" has some very good writing about the 70's (as well as before and after).

I have the following if anyone has interest in a trade or something: 1 - Johnny Hodges, discs/inserts/book (no box) 2 - Sam Rivers discs/inserts (no box or book) 3 - Joe Pass partial set of discs/inserts (no box, no book) 4 - Kenton Holman/Russo discs/inserts (no box or book)

And a really really good one at that, love the Pharoah Sanders bit.

Thanks so much. Not really familiar with a lot of them, but at those prices and with the funds going to a good cause, I'm in for trying them out.

PM sent on ECM 1933/34 9870670 Battaglia, Stefano Raccolto --------- $4 ECM 2120 271 3754 Battaglia, Stefano & Rabbia, M Pastorale --------- $4 ECM 1768 549 610-2 Alperin, Misha At Home NM- $4 ECM 1588 Louis Sclavis Sextet Les Violences de Rameau $5.00 ECM 1805 Louis Sclavis Dans la Nuit $5.00 ECM 2044 Trygve Seim / Frode Haltli Yeraz $5.00 ECM 1764 Trygve Seim / Øyvind Brække / Per Oddvar Johansen The Source and Different Cikadas $5.00 ECM 1991 Dino Saluzzi / Anja Lechner Ojos Negros $5.00 ECM 1616 Dino Saluzzi Cité de la Musique $4.00 ECM 2155 Dino Saluzzi El Encuentro $4.00 ECM 1816 Dino Saluzzi Trio Responsorium $4.00 ECM 1639 John Surman Proverbs and Songs $5.00 ECM 1802 John Surman Free and Equal $6.00 ECM 2180 Amina Alaoui Arco Iris $5 ECM 1907 Gianluigi Trovesi Round About Weill $5 ECM 2217 Gianluigi Trovesi / Gianni Coscia Frère Jacques - Round about Offenbach $4 ECM 1703 Gianluigi Trovesi / Gianni Coscia In Cerca di Cibo $5 ECM 1827 Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto Fugace $5 ECM 1286 Shankar Song for Everyone (O-Card) $5.00 ECM 1586 Egberto Gismonti Meeting Point $4 ECM 2017 Tord Gustavsen Trio Being There .... $6.00 ECM 1101 Gary Peacock Tales of Another $9 ECM 1354 Oregon Ecotopia card sleeve $6 ECM 2080 Stefano Bollani Stone in the Water $6 ECM 1734 Charles Lloyd The Water is Wide $4 ECM 1642 OM A Retrospective $8

And I'm holding out for CD release.

There were years in the early/mid-90's when it felt like I was buying 10.2 million Blue Note/OJC CD's during Tower Records all-label sales myself. One hit CD could sell millions of CD's itself back then (looking at you, Norah Jones) Sad state of affairs now.

It's in the next batch of ENJA CD reissues.

Love the McBee's, great Chico Freeman playing. Criminal that 'Compassion' has never been on CD.

I'm in for this, and for future installments through the 60's and 70's.

RIP. Impressive discography (show below from Wikipedia, ranges from Sonny Stitt to Alan Shorter), and never disappointed to my ears: Discography[edit] As leader/co-leader 1985: First Edition – JR Records As sideman 1965: Fire Music – Archie Shepp (Impulse! Records) 1966: Hold On, I'm Coming – Art Blakey (Limelight) 1966: Buttercorn Lady – Art Blakey & The New Jazz Messengers (Limelight) 1967: Booker 'n' Brass – Booker Ervin (Pacific Jazz) 1968: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra – Jazz Composer's Orchestra (ECM) 1968: Total Eclipse – Bobby Hutcherson (Blue Note) 1968: Bish Bash - Walter Bishop, Jr. (Xanadu) 1969: Orgasm – Alan Shorter (Verve) 1971: Coral Keys - Walter Bishop Jr. (Black Jazz) 1971: Spring Rain Rudolph Johnson (Black Jazz) 1971: Head On – Bobby Hutcherson (Blue Note) 1972: Black Vibrations – Sonny Stitt (Prestige) 1972: Choma (Burn) - Harold Land (Mainstream) 1972: Constant Throb – John Klemmer (Impulse!) 1972: 'Round Midnight – Kenny Burrell (Fantasy) 1973: Both Feet on the Ground – Kenny Burrell (Fantasy Records) 1977: Tin Tin Deo - Kenny Burrell (Concord) 1977: Mapenzi – Harold Land-Blue Mitchell Quintet (Concord) 1978: Handcrafted - Kenny Burrell (Muse) 1979: Spiral – Bobby Hutcherson (Blue Note) 1980: Medina – Bobby Hutcherson (Blue Note) 1981: Jaw's Blues – Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (Enja) 1981: Pannonica – Horace Parlan (Enja) 1982: New Morning – Johnny Coles (Criss Cross Jazz) 1983: Two at the Top - Frank Wess and Johnny Coles (Uptown) 1988: Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 – Mingus Dynasty (Soul Note) 1988: Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 – Mingus Dynasty (Soul Note) 1990: Epitaph – Charles Mingus (posthumous) (Columbia Records)

I have always considered this to be much less than the sum of it's parts (Gilmore, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, John Hicks, Victor Sproles, Blakey), but at least it's another small group setting for Gilmore.

Freed up my used copies of the CD's, PM me if interested.

And I remain even more taken with the three albums where Danny Kirwan was the main guy. 'Kiln House', 'Future Games', and 'Bare Trees' are just lovely albums. Jeremy Spencer had major contributions to 'Kiln House', Bob Welch and Christine McVie to the other two.

That's the only one in this set Green plays on. Danny Kirwan is the big draw on this set, with lots of Bob Welch and Christine McVie, and the best Jeremy Spencer on record from Kiln House. Yep. For that matter, pre- and post- Peter Green were like two different bands, and then Buckingham/Nicks was something else again. All have their substantial pleasures.

This may help also - I think Christine McVie's early Fleetwood Mac work was far superior to her Buckingham-Nicks era work, which I always found too sugary.

Agreed. Those last three Coltrane box sets, the Miles First Quintet box set, the Evans Village Vanguard box set, Stitts Bits, the Sonny Rollins Prestige set, the Dolphy Prestige set, the Joe Henderson, all things of beauty. A McCoy Tyner set would have also been great.

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Charles Tolliver and Hannibal Peterson too. But again, not many sideman appearances.

Maybe we'll see "John Fahey Plays for Lovers", a 34 minute compilation, next Valentine's day. That seems to be their approach now.