felser

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.

Those were two of the six I ordered.

Sometimes .

I'm actually under orders from my daughter to not liquidate my collection - she wants it.

Things are good overall here in the Western Suburbs of Philly. Staying stable after having greatly decreased. We also have a governor who has stayed on top of this. My employer, headquarted in KC (14,000 employees there) but with substantial secondary business centers here and in Bangalore, Calcutta, and Brasov, just announced they will not bring more employees back into the offices until 2021 - a great decision. KC is apparently not good right now, and India sees themselves in crisis, though their rates are about 1/4 of the USA.

This one, with Mickey Tucker, Sir Roland Hanna, Richard Davis, and Eddie Gladden. It's a nice set:

I placed an order for six items. Also good opportunity to get the crown jewel of the catalog IMO, the Larry Young ORTF Paris set. And they did the only respectful presentation of the Eric Dophy Iron Man/Conversations material I've ever seen. And of the Wes Montgomery ORTF Paris material.

If you like those, I can wholeheartedly recommend this one:

I've always found JWH's lyrics to be fascinating, endlessly yielding new meanings.

Checked out the sample on Discogs, and it sounds like a great set. No CD?

That was already happening. This reissue is just further confirmation...

Me too. Jerry Gordon had some kind of sources for fascinating cutouts! I remember getting all those Arista/Freedom US releases there, the mysterious Blue Note Montreux albums, some 50's Blue Notes that had seemingly been out of print forever, etc. That was ca. 1974-1981 so I was on strict budget (college, then first jobs), and could stretch my expenditures with cutouts.

Definitely prefer the first cover.

There's music inside them? Who knew?