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For those who are interested, Real Gone Music (the legit one) is reissuing this classic album on vinyl. Below info from theseconddisc.com The Horace Tapscott Quintet, The Giant Is Awakened [Limited Black Vinyl Edition] (originally Flying Dutchman LP FDS-107, 1969 — reissued Real Gone Music, 2020) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Your Local Record Shop) Side 1: The Giant Is Awakened For Fats Side 2: The Dark Tree Niger’s Theme

One of many worthy Archie Shepp recordings from the decade.

He and Danny Kirwan did amazing work together in Fleetwood Mac, and IMO Green provided the best guitar of John Mayall's career . RIP.

On the flipside, I just received one from Russia this week which mailed the second week of March. 133 days...

All too rare feature for Frank Strozier and Ronnie Mathews

No problems getting the CD out of mine.

Beautiful thing to see here. Welcome, the_eleven and Sweet Dreams!

Just received mine today and noticed that. I like it! (the packaging, haven't listened to the music yet).

It is very good, I got it at Third Street Jazz back in the day. That's my go-to version of "African Drum Suite". Desperately in need of CD issue, but I've given up hope.

Yeah, I see that one seller. And the fish ain't bitin'. I sold a few sets on ebay earlier in the year, and got less than half of what they are hoping for (and was not unhappy with what I got for them).

I took the same road, not as unusual for our age group. Went right from "Eight Miles High" to "A Love Supreme" and "The Inner Mounting Flame" (courtesy of the LP browser in my college library). And yes, most of my earliest jazz purchases were from places like Woolworth's and Marshall's cut out bins, where my scare dollars stretched much further!

I keep singles of the Miles Davis Columbia's that are also on the box sets I have, and the same in a few other select cases of keeping favorites on single CD while I also have them in box sets, partly for the artwork, partly for convenience, partly for historical context, etc. But those are all CD's. I don't have the space, the listening setup (90% of my listening is through headphones while I work), or the inclination for vinyl, and I continue to actively seek to move the vinyl I do have (time permitting).

Jim, do you like Shepp's work "Fire Music" through, say 1970? I do.

Has anyone done better work over the last 30 years?

I like this one. "Nuttin' Out Jones", a Sonny Simmons feature, is a favorite of mine, but really nice albun overall. It's an Elvin Jones album, not sure why Garrison got the co-billing.

Love that "Eastern Rebellion" album. George Coleman sounds great on it, and excellent selections.

Great for kicking back and reading on a Sunday afternoon. Great song selections on this ("Jordu", "Cubano Chant", "Daahoud" are all favorites of the era for me). Recorded 1960. Excellent sound quality, which is true of this whole series.

Don't do well with a lot of it, but she's free to listen to what she wants, even if I'm around.

I've always liked the two Montreux albums that came out on Arista-Freedom. He seemed to be sort of beginning to straddle both sides of the fence on those and during that period (1975-1976). Later in the decade, he seemed to really head into the changes period you describe, and the Shepp of, say, 1978 was definety something different than the Shepp of the first half of the 70's. Some of that was not plainly in view at that time because a lot of his titles recorded during the late 70's were on the Japanese Denon label, which was not readily available/affordable in the USA if I recall correctly. And he had a LOT of albums released 1975-1980 (the Freedom's, the Horo's, the Denon's, and a lot of one-offs on other smallish labels), so it was hard to keep up in near-real time, even with access to Third Street Jazz.

Thanks, forgot about the Kenyatta being ECM (and boy does that one need a CD issue), and have never heard of Vesala.