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The first jazz album I ever bought (along with the 1971 BN "Best of Herbie Hancock" in the same purchase). Great album!

Alas, certainly is wishful thinking much of the time. My understanding is that this stone classic sold under 1000 copies when originally released, which is why his other albums stayed in the can for 30 years.

You know what would be a really interesting choice? 'Blackstone Legacy'. You never hear about that one anymore, but boy, did it make some noise back in the day!

That's what I called it also, "one of the very best". In my book, THIS is the absolute very best album Muse (and maybe any label, for that matter) ever released, and I most certainly expect it to show up on your blog later in the year!

Including Sonny Sharrock and Ted Daniel.

Thank you so much for deigning to come down from the mountaintop of enlightenment to guide all of us old, misguided simpletons onto the proper path of wisdom and righteousness.

It's quite likely real. Goodwin also played with Tom Waits, at least on 'Nighthawks at the Diner' (the only Waits album I need in my collection) as late as about 2015 considered that his favorite of his own performances, according to others working at the Deer Head Inn, where he lead the house group. He also did studio work with the Jefferson Airplane on the 'Crowns of Creation' album. I've always considered 'Love and Understanding' and the earlier 'The Gap Sealer", along with the then unreleased 'The Time and the Place' to be the most adventurous chapter in Heath's career. Though 'Picture of Heath' and the earlier Riverside albums are very good indeed. "Alkebu-Lan" from 'The Gap Sealer' still gives me chills to this day.

His playing seemed much more traditional to me after the return than it did on those glorious European Rhythm Machine albums.

Love those two. My very favorite Woods album (and era) out of his long career. And the Brooks is one of the very best albums Muse ever released.

Not that I can find. And I have never in my life owned anything made by Apple.

Try this. I haven't had to return anything in a long time, so don't remember exactly what I have done in the past. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html

Count me in as a fan of that Mingus and its companion, "& Max Roach". Seems to be where MIngus found his first distinctive sound. And I agree about Waldron on that compared to this.

I've always been able to work out any issues with Amazon via online chat, and they always have bent over backwards to make it a good outcome for me.

You aren't alone. I only buy CD's, not LP's or downloads.

That's a really interesting lineup on the Slugs set. Found more about it here. Sound is OK, no more, no less. Music sounds pretty routine for the era/genre. Not knocked out by Dewey Johnson's playing here, and he does go on. https://rashied-ali.bandcamp.com/album/first-time-out-live-at-slugs-1967

Hod O'Brien has always been this mysterious figure to me. Showed up on a couple of good 50's albums (Three Trumpets, the Rene Thomas album), then again on Roswell Rudd's fascinating 'Flexible Flyer' with Sheila Jordan in the 70's, then fell off my radar. I see a bunch of later albums by him that I've never heard. Just read his wikipedia entry, and he looks to have had substantial connections in the early 60's, but seems to have been unrecorded in that period. I like his work on the Rudd album quite a bit. Also, would not have expected him to have co-led a group with Cameron Brown and Beaver Harris (think more of that being, say, Dave Burrell territory). Looks like he played with people from Sonny Greer to Archie Shepp. What else do I need to know about him?

Great singer. I believe she was the second British Invasion artist to hit the US Charts, next after the Beatles ("I Only Want to Be With You", January 1964), and her group with her brother, the Springfields, had gone USA top 20 in 1962 with "Silver Threads and Golden Needles".