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Billy Bang is the one I always hoped for.

And it works beautifully.

The McBee companion set, "Compassion", has never been on CD. Still waiting for that one.

A little.

Jon Lord and Keith Hartley

Stunning, especially the 20 minute closing track, "Oh My My".

I pre-ordered from ImportCD's directly. $4 cheaper than Amazon pre-order. + 1

Stranger things have happened...

I have been 100% online music buying for years, so no personal loss to me. I do miss the sensations of finding an amazing bargain, or going even further back, to finding a prize in a cutout bin or crate that you never even knew existed (a lot of cutout 60's Blue Notes came my way in the 70's via that route).

And this is also much in need of CD reissue:

I think what makes sense is a Betty Carter box of the 1970-1982 BetCar/Roulette sessions. The Verve sessions are all very easy to obtain, as are most if not all of her 50's-60's recordings. And both the Verve sessions and the 50's-60's sessions are different chapters than the BetCar sessions. No need to run up the size of the box at $17/disc, that limits the potential buyers. I would be OK with including the excellent and hard to find "Inside Betty Carter", so the box could be something like "The 1964-1982 Betty Carter Small Group Recordings", though the 1970-1982 box would be more focused.

I am thrilled to hear this! My favorite Scott recording by a long ways!

I was a Malo fan, have the box set. RIP.

They hopefully have spent the past two months rethinking their business model, at least for the interim.

Same in PA.

Sorry to hear that, they could be a ripping good time. And count me among the "SF Sorrow" fans. RIP.

I'm pretty much with Rooster. When I want to hear Monk, I want to hear him played by Monk. Doesn't sound quite right to me without his unique presence, with the exception of Eric Dolphy's "Epistrophy" from 'Last Date' (and Dolphy was also a unique presence, both he and Monk were not like the other kids). Strictly subjective, no objective value judgments intended. I know something like Waldron/Lacy playing Monk is probably technically superior to Monk himself, but it's tangibly different for me.

Fascinating, but doesn't sound much like what you'd expect. More sort of Madchester/Trance. But really really good of that type.

Yes.

I read that Erin Bromage article in the NYT earlier in the week. Excellent. I sent it to my management at work for consideration.

Can't throw enough superlatives at this. Utterly spectacular, and the pinnacle of her fascinating (though admittedly somewhat uneven) career. Also possibly my favorite recording of the decade, all genres included.

Excellent and fascinating, can't put it down, and I'm not even to Butterfield/Love/Doors etc. yet. Label actually started in 1950 (when Holzman was 19) as a folk and eclectic label. Also tells a lot about the recording industry as it morphed over time, and about America. Told in first person by Holzman and others. Holzman is a really interesting guy, and seems to have a lot of integrity along with the obvious vision and ambition (which he does not seek to disguise).

Also "Before The Flood". I was reading a Greil Marcus book on Dylan last night which indicated that Asylum did no publicity for "Before the Flood" at all.