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I'll take the Tuby Hayes as the reissue event of the year. The Doug Carn and the Shirley Scott are great music, but just straight reissues. I've not heard the Monk or the Castro yet.

+1, RIP.

Yeah, really:

7 CD set, you can get for around $30-$40, Also "Newk's Time" on Blue Note. That one and hte Prestige "Saxophone Colossus" are my two favorite Rollins titles.

I vaguelly remember "I've Been Hurt' from the late 60's, hard as I may try to forget. Beach Music had its high points and its low points...

Has its merits, but when I have Sonny Simmons/Prince Lasha/Woody Shaw/Clifford Jordan in the house, I'd like them to do more than play on the chorus. And note the hype on the cover. You really want to put this ahead of, say, 'Last Date' and 'Out to Lunch'? I do like the other album from these sessions, 'Iron Man', a lot better. Also totally with the other posters on the Milestone Jazzstars. I remember the deep disappointment when I shelled out my hard earned $ for that back in the day.

RIP. I really like the solo "Continental Jazz Express" as well as much of his sideman work. Way too much by him that I have never heard.

I like Hutch's list a lot, just like mine (which actually only sort of exists in my head) better!

It might be a very long night...

CNN and MSNBC.

No, I did at one point in my life, and had I managed my vinyl differently, I'd be a richer man today :-). I have a burn of it. George Coleman, Clifford Jordan, Julius Watkins, Harold Mabern. Larry Ridley, and Duke. Quite a group, stretching waaay out in two 20+ minute cuts. I had this up as my last "album of the week" here many years ago, and got zero bites on discussing it, even though it is a fascinating document of Jordan, Coleman, and Watkins travelly well outside of their normal territory. A reissue would be most welcome. These two combined get you the title cut. The other cut is nowhere to be found on youtube:

this one is also quite good, with the same caveats. The other two, "Constant Throb", and "Intensity", are also worthwhile.

I do like that Michael White, and the Walt Dickerson. I'd also make room for one of John Klemmer's Impulse albums.

Agreed, Iron Butterfly and the whole 60's psychedelic thing is of a certain time and place, but that era is ingrained in me.

$18 for 3cd set on Amazon, my pre-order is in, thanks for the heads-up! I think "self-portrait" was a continuation of Dylan's effort to de-mythologize himself and be able to set a new path. "Nashville Skyline" and the last two cuts of "John Wesley Harding" I see the same way. The rest of "John Wesley Harding" is something altogether different in my eyes, due to the lyrical content, and I consider the first 10 songs on it to be his lyrical masterpiece and find it to be fulfilling in its spiritual journey in a way the "Christian" trilogy of a decade later is not.

Depends which tenor player(s). I do fluent Billy Harper, Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, etc.

Well, isn't WWFL more of a challenge? Go for the gusto!

Maybe an Andorran benefactor will win the auction.

For old times sake! Better than you think (except for that 17 minute monstrosity, which is still charmingly moronic).

That's gonna frustrate the heck out of some of us! Hope #4 and #12 aren't part of that.

Gerry & The Pacemakers did some really good British Invasion hits, spectacularly successful in the UK in their prime (3 #1's and a #2 right out of the chute, as well as two other top 8 records). "Ferry Cross the Mercy" is a great record, and "I Like It", "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" and "It's Gonna Be Alright" all hold up well. And their "You'll Never Walk Alone" is apparently a multi-purpose anthem in the UK.

Cedar Walton on # 13? And I'm not aware of Stitt ever recording with just bass and drums, though he probably did a lot of albums that have never made my radar.

Did not realize Concord had picked up the rights to Vee Jay. More bad news there, the catalog will go to die except for, maybe, "John Lee Hooker Plays for Lovers", a 34 minute release targeted for Valentine's day. They also have Savoy and Muse as well as Prestige/Riverside/Contemporary/Milestone. Guess that means I'm done collecting those labels.

Also would add in "Zawinul" by Joe Zawinul. The original version of "Dr. Honoris Causa' is on there, 14 minutes of utter magic.

Dan, I have to say I am flattered by the attention given me in the intro to this BFT! Dan, yours usually draw more comments than mine, I just got lucky on this one, piquing Jim Sangrey’s curiosity and the new guys are great. Pleased to report that I made it all the way through every cut, even (especially) the 16 minute one! You done good by me! 1- Proto Boogaloo. Someone like Willis Jackson. Certainly pleasant enough. Late 50’s vintage? 2* 2- What hath “The Sidewinder” wrought? Again, plenty pleasant, and better for me than #1. 60’s style, but bass makes it sound like a later recording. Mid 70’s or later. 3* 3- Yet again, same general feeling, but even another step up from #2. I like the trumpet player a lot. Could be any vintage from 60’s-90’s. 4* 4- Well yeah, this is for me. A little surprised you would go for it! Is it Gene Harris gone crazy somewhere or something, even playing the inside of the piano? Whatever it is, 5* and I want to own it! Likely something from the past 30 years (which all blur together for me musically)? Whatever, you nailed WWFL on this one! 5- Boppy/boppish/boplike. Well played, but sounds like these guys could play this in their sleep. Again, suspect it is a more recent recording than the style would indicate. Young lion altoist and pianist? All the right moves, which always makes me suspicious. 3* 6- Bop. This sounds like the real thing, by the real guys, digging in on “Star Eyes”, a perfect vehicle. No more “technique” than #5, but to me more feeling, more heat. I’ll guess Sonny Stitt, as he is semi-mandatory on every BFT. Love it. 4.5* If I end up looking like an idiot on #5/#6, so be it, that’s half the fun 😊. 7- A better approach for me than #1. Early 60’s vintage? In the pocket. 3* 8- Love the bass player! And the sax is really good. Drummer doesn’t knock me out. Good performance bringing new life leaping in post-Lester old chestnut. 4* 9- First thing that hits me is how poorly recorded this is, which is a shame. Strikes me as not so good solos by very good players, whole thing sounds underrehearsed. I should probably know what this is. Composition sounds like Jymie Merritt’s “Nommo”, but that’s not quite it. 2* 10- “Willow Weep For Me”, done either very “relaxed” (or lazy), I guess. The bass player and tenor player are both good, but I don’t really go for this sort of thing. Drummer is less than great to my ears (at least on this cut) and sort of kills the whole thing for me. Track would have been much stronger as a tenor/bass duet. 2* 11- Again not a great recording situation, but the music is strong. I know the tune, just going blank because I’m old, tired, and distracted (raising a 2 year old grandson as well as working full time, etc.). Pianist is splendid accompanist and OK soloist, and tenor player maintains interest through a very good long solo. 4* 12- Same group/recording as #11? Same song as #10. I don’t like it as much as I do #11. It’s a good tune, but a really tired one, and the sax player doesn’t have much to say on it, and falls into licks/cliches. Nothing wrong with this, just doesn’t do much. Eddie Lockjaw Davis? 3* 13- First clue is that I assume we have Chick Corea on Rhodes, his tone is unique. It’s another standard I’m going blank on ,quite a fine performance, though I’m not placing the album! Sounds like the Griffith Park Collection, but I can’t find a 16 minute cut on there. Fascinating group. Good drums. I want this! 5* 14- Well, whatever – guess you had to be there! 0* Postscript - Bootsie Barnes was a Philly guy who passed recently, and he could PLAY! Not much of anything on record by him.