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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.

Thankfully it's more of a smorgasboard than an exam, we shovel what we like onto our plate regardless of whether it is the chef's specialty or not. And for all music, including the stuff I love the most (Harper, etc.), it's all YMMV.

Am I correctly counting five ECM's?

MIne were the Sarah Vaughan, Getz quartet, both Grant Greens, Freddie Hubbard, and Montgomery Seattle. I already own the Lloyd, Young, Jones/Lewis, Dolphy, and Montgomery France.

I"m aware of that. To each their own. I'll take Andrew Hill over Meade Lux Lewis and Wayne Shorter over Sidney Bechet. Others feel quite strongly in the opposite directions.

That's actually my favorite of the bunch, though I do appreciate the Impulse titles also. You could make a decent argument that this one made it five, complete with another compelling Semenya McCord vocal.

She adopted it when we got together in the late 80's and we went to a lot of top notch concerts together including Billy Harper, who she "got". She likes a lot of it and has become reasonably conversant on it, but she thinks I have too many CD's.

Absolutely.

It's not a classic era, and I would argue that ended in 1967 when Alfred Lion exited, and didn't begin until around 1955-1956 with the advent of the LP. But it's a nice album, and BN did many good (and many more bad) and some great albums throughout the 70's.