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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.

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.