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I have no kick against modern jazz Unless they try to play it too darn fast And change the beauty of the melody Until they sound just like a symphony

Either or, Both are irreplacable:

My understanding/experience is that my own CD-R's may fail over time, but have never seen a commercial one fail. Also, for a label like Acrobat, their packaging is great, very complete with liner notes and discographical/chart info, put many other labels to shame.

Will ask again. As a CD owner/listener, what is the downside of them producing CD-R's instead of CD's? Would really like to know in order to make good purchasing decisions.

3CD 40th anniversary edition, includes a live disc. Saw Stewart solo live at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA (famous for the scene from 'The Blob') back in the early 2000's. Wonderful show, he was surprisingly great as a guitar player.

HutchFan, that's a good McCoy Tyner album, with heavy John Blake presence. What about it made it your Tyner pick for the decade?

I'm that way with the Duke Pearson which is included in the Mosaic Select. No masterpiece or anything, but totall listenable.

For all the British Invasion/Beatlemania excitement, no one had a better run of 1964 chart records than Dionne Warwick: "Anyone Who Had a Heart", "Walk on By", "You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)", "Reach Out for Me". 1966 included "Message To Michael", "Trains and Boats and Planes", and "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", 1967 had "I Say A Little Prayer" and the most musically elegant Vietnam Protest Song of all, "The Windows of the World". Her one big misstep was passing on having the original single of "What The World Needs Now" (though Jackie DeShannon's version is perfect, and was career saving for her). Amazing artist.

Even a lot of the Left Bank material that has seen release through the years has not so great sound quality.

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Second recommendation here on both the CD's themselves and ordering them directly from Dark Tree!

Yes, correct. Those Harriott albums from that period ("Southern Horizons", "Free Form", "Abstract") are a great listen.

Correct on the ID (will leave it open for someone to identify the cut and which album it is from). I also agree with your thoughts. I didn't hear Harriot's work here until the past 10-20 years, but the early Ornette albums never sounded all that "radical" to me when I encountered them in the early-mid 70's. They just sounded like great music. Maybe they would have struck me differently if I had heard them in real time 10-15 years earlier, but by 1970 anything radical about them had been fully absorbed. I love the music from that late 50's-early 60's period by Coleman, Cecil Taylor, etc. It was forward looking, but still accessible.

You are correct. No ID of any type on #1 yet. And no explicit ID on #7 yet.

Even got my shipment from ImportCD's yesterday.

It's a good one, I like it a lot. My favorite since 'Time Out of Mind'. YMMV. I like the new album a lot, but give me 'Bringing It All Back Home', 'Highway 61 Revisited', 'Blonde on Blonde' and 'John Wesley Harding' anytime. Or for that matter, 'New Morning', 'Planet Waves','Blood on the Tracks' and 'Desire', with a side helping of 'Infidels'. 'Time Out of Mind' is great, but sits on a chronological island.

No Criss on BFT 201. Assume you are referring to cut #6 or #7? Not Criss!

Vols. 1/2/3 all highly recommended

Understood on the # of posts not being totally accurate, but nonetheless, 2 years ago my BFT 177 only had 20 posts total, and 9 of those were mine, so it is very heartening to be at 75 on this one. The new guys who have joined in have added some life, and the old timers have been active. As far a Sumi Tonooka, she is qute excellent. I saw her perform solo as an opener at one of the Leo Gadsen produced concerts at the Ethical Society ca, 1977 or so. She was barely 20, but was already special. Everything I've ever heard from her is worthwhile This is the best part of the BFT experience for both presenters and listeners, being able to share with each other worthwhile music we may have missed.

I'll add another vote for Nicole Mitchell.

Yep, sometimes you are happy enough to just take your $300 million and go home, especially if you are almost 80. That's almost $500,000 per song, including the stinkers like "Joey" etc.

Have never heard that one, need to keep an eye out for it!