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Agreed on that Mingus track, it was actually one I did consider when I posted the Tyner. Great album.

Yeah, that's a ton of great music for $90.

"Ancient Ritual" is the most miraculous album ever. One because it's great. Two because Simmons had dropped from public view (or at least my view) 20 years before. Three because it was put out on Quincy Jones's Qwest label. I couldn't believe it when I saw the CD in a store on a college campus in Philly. I agree with all of the above recommendations, would probably start with the Contemporary titles, go to the ESP's, and keep going.

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Also need to add the Liebman - Lookout Farm; Abercrombie - Timeless, and the two DeJohnette - New Directions albums. That's a big 3, 5, or 10!

That Gumbs album is an underrated treasure, one of my favorite solo piano works. And that is a good Charles Sullivan (I also really like "Genesis" on Strata-East).

Yes, she was, though a tragic figure (suicide at 28, third attempt). But that's not her on the list, it's someone named Beverly Kelly. I made the same mistake at first glance. As for Kenney, we of course aren't permitted to recommend European PD releases without a ton of backlash, so I won't recommend this set collecting all six of her albums in one package:

The one I can recommend is the Honi Gordon. She did an album on Prestige with a small group which included Ken McIntyre and Jaki Byard, and she sang well on it.

Quickly done, may have missed a few, but gives a sampling of my tastes: Mal Waldron - Free at Last Chick Corea - Crystal Silence, Piano Improvisations Vols. 1 and 2 Jan Garbarek - Witchai Tai To Stanley Cowell - Illusion Suite Julain Priester - Love, Love Ralph Towner - Solstice Enrico Rava - The Pilgrim and the Stars Keith Jarrett - Belonging

Yes, #7 is Joe Henderson, the title track to "Power to the People", 1969 on Milestone. Great stuff, and couldn't get any more in my wheelhouse than that!

Mine has been shipped by importcds.

Interesting on #12, it does indeed evoke Sanders, now I know what I was hearing when I first responded to the BFT. Cuber has always struck me as a strong player in whatever contexts I've heard him, going all the way back to those ancient George Benson Columbia sides, though I've never sought out his leader work. Definitey on the lookout for #'s 9 and 10, which would never have been on my radar otherwise. Thanks as always for stimulating BFT!

Here in Philly, that's "Yo, Al".

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On it, thanks! This is another good "stealth" Billydate. I included a cut in a BFT a few years ago: https://www.discogs.com/Mark-Masters-Jazz-Orchestra-With-Billy-Harper-And-Jimmy-Knepper-Priestess/release/9176093

Count me in on the McPhee and the Pullen/Graves! Ordered them and the Beaver Harris CD directly from the label's website.

Thanks Dan. Were those commercial silver-backed CDR's, or the blank green-backed ones we buy in bulk?

Honest question. If the CD-R is silver-bottomed, what is the difference to the consumer (me) compared to a CD. I understand the manufacturing difference, but will the sound quality or the life expectancy be less for the silver-bottomed CD-R than for the CD?

The Compost albums hold period charm for me - I'm glad to have the CD's. I like the first Dreams album a LOT, find the second one to be a total waste (available as a twofer on BGO with great remastering). Have only heard youtube clips of Archie Whitewater, and thought they sounded good there. Dreams and Compost were both on Columbia, as were Chicago, BST, Ballinjack, etc.

I have never had to return anything to them, but they are producing a lot of CD-R's at this point and selling them as CD's. I placed a couple of big orders a couple years ago picking up a lot of Hank Crawford/Fathead Newman/Les McCann etc. from their Collectables label at $2.98-$4.98, so I was OK with some (maybe 20%) being CD-R's, at that price point. Their big warehouse is about 10 minutes from my house. This area (suburban Philly) has been hit pretty hard by Covid-19 and is still largely shut down, so your return may be sitting in a pile of unopened mail. Also, I doubt they were doing very well as a company even before that, as they seem to be grossly overstocked from what I can tell. They've been desperate to dump inventory for years and years, a lot of clearance sales.