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1 - Nice version of McCoy Tyner's beautiful "Contemplation". The bass player (Reggie Workman?) and tenor player (John Stubblefield? David Murray? Could be a lot of good guys) had me at “hello”, and I like the piano (John Hicks?) but the drummer Rashied Ali-ish) doesn’t necessarily do it for me. This is a nice to have, nice to add cut. 2 - OK, I can see already this is going to be a really expensive BFT for me. Love this. The bass vamp with the percussion is great to my ears. Could just listen to them play time and dig it for an extended period. I really like what the tenor player is doing over top, and love his tone. Glad they didn’t try to fit any other instruments in, this is perfect just as it is, with space for all the players to be heard. This is a must-have, must add cut. 3 – “You Stepped Out of a Dream”. You’re specializing in really good Tenor players so far in this BFT. I assume this is of recent vintage (which to me means anything from the last 35 years or so LOL) based on the bass sound. Quite a nice performance, and would be nice to have, nice to own. 4 – And you’re sub-specializing in really interesting bass/percussion motifs. I like this one quite a bit, even though it is outside my usual sweet spot some, with that vocal. Not sold on each musician individually, but the overall feel is awesome. Does not flag in interest at all throughout the entire 13+ minutes! This is another must-have, must add cut. 5 – 50’s or ealy 60’s Cal Tjader, I would think. No chance I’ll identify past that. I likely have it already. 6 – You definitely put nice thought into the flow of this BFT as a listening experience, thanks. This is not “jazz”, is it? Pop music from a different culture. Interested to know where and especially when. It’s a fun listen, but not something I’d ever think to go look for. But they definitely seem to be really good at whatever it is they are doing. 7 – I listen to and own stuff like this, though I’m never quite sure why. And I tend to limit it to time and place (NYC in the 60’s, Paris in the late 60’s-early 70’s). 8 - This is not “jazz”, is it? Good blues guitarist. – I listen to and own stuff like this, though I find a little goes a long way for me. And I tend to limit it to time and place (Chicago in the 50’s and 60’s, mainly – and this isn’t from there). I see I have developed useful templates for my responses, might as well utilize them 😊. 9 – I like this. A lot. 50’s, I assume. Could even be early Sun Ra with John Gilmor, though it could also be players thought of as much much more conservative (and there’s a lesson/statement here). . This is a very nice to have, very nice to add cut. 10 – The beginning really threw me, thought it was going to be something very different than it turned out to be and is confusing to as far as the vintage. I would think something much older otherwise, but beginning pulls me toward newer. I like it a good bit, not sure who or when or where, look forward to finding out. Good tenor solo! This is a very nice to have, very nice to add cut. 11 – Very similar in conception to #2, and l like this, but I liked that one a lot better. The rhythm feels more static here, though the tenor player is really good. I assume this is older than #2. This is a nice to have, nice to add cut. 12 – Fonkey, man! I do like it, even over the course of 16 minutes, but can also live without it at that length. Am curious for the reveal. Reminds me of what Azteca was trying to do in the early 70's. 13/14/15 – Wow, this is Gary Duncan’s and John Cippolina's guitar solos excerpted from "Who Do You Love" on Quicksilver Messenger Service's classic "Happy Trails" album, live at the Fillmore West, 1968/69. Hearing this is like breathing for me, has been for 50 years. Desert island disc for me. Will be a huge case of YMMV for others hearing this.

Tracking down that Christine Jensen CD now, thanks for enlightening me! Is the whole CD that strong? Is her other work like that? I've always appreciated Ingrid's playing.

That was all true at the Tower near me for the last year or so they were open. And they had also stopped publishing the Pulse magazine. They became useless.

Watched a nice movie with my flu-bound wife last night. "Last Chance Harvey", starring Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson. It struck a lot of chords with me on alienation, the impact of divorce on kids, aging, career "settling" , elder care, etc. Look foreward to seeing it again. Filmed ca. 2009.

Great to know that is actually coming out!

It's not. TOCJ-9198.

Just saw this, blessings and condolences. Very complicated emotions for you right now on many levels, I'm sure.

Mint condition classic Lou Donaldson Blue Note RVG Mini-LP's "The Time is Right", "LD + 3", "Here Tis". $50 shipped in USA for all three or best offer or interesting trade or sell/trade separately. "The Time is Right" is the most valuable of the three. PM if interested.

Great news! Blessings to you and your wife!

In my prayers. Please let us know how it goes.

Thanks, looks like a fascinating article which could end up costing me a lot of money!

Also Mingus "Let My Children Hear Music" and Jarrett "Expectations" and George Russell/Bill Evans "Living Time" and Bill Evans "The Bill Evans Album", career highlights all (my very favorite Jarrett album). Then they purged all of them from the label, all at once.

My parents still refer to me as Cookie Monster!

Love the Rain Parade albums he led. Like Mazzy Star quite a bit. ("Fade into You" is one of those out-of-time songs I discovered and fell for years later, as I had stopped listening to pop music in disgust by then. Others are "Under The Milky Way" and "There She Goes"). Have heard very little of the Opal material, which is not readily available to my knowledge, have not had opportunity to warm up to it. I belatedly discovered the whole Paisley Underground scene a few years ago and have become a big fan and semi-completist. Still a lot that needs reissued from then, including we need a good anthology of early Green on Red, when Chris Cacavas was doing his magic with them. Anyways, 61 is too young, and RIP to Roeback, who seemed like a troubled soul from my limited line of sight.

I also don't do jazz in the car, need something more immediate and shorter duration.

I guess I should do ancestry.com - maybe I'm part Japanese! Me too. I would go to a church meeting or visit my girlfriend (wife since 1993) in Philly, then go down to the store on South Street afterwards. South Street was empty that time of night, and I could literally park right in front of the store.

I remember hearing that album for the first time my first year of college. The first cut, "Meeting of the Spirits", immediately blew my mind! I had not heard the Tony Williams Lifetime "Emergency" album yet, so absolutely nothing prepared me for the experience! 'Birds of Fire' would also have been a great choice, but nothing holds the shock appeal of that first album.

My first CD purchases were some Blue Note cutouts of classic titles from Tower Records in Philly in early 1988. I didn't even have a CD player yet. The thought of missing out on those BN titles drove me to finally jump into the format. My first non-BN CD was also purchased there, Teena Marie's "Naked to the World". Amazing music, and I still have that CD 32 years on.

Go ahead and give us a summary of which still need identified, and whatever clues you want to start with. Participation level in BFT's is often very disappointing. Those of us who present them understand your feelings.

I think there will be more of that to come as he works his way through the decade. Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Weather Report etc. debut recordings were later than early 1971, I believe, and that is where he is in the rundown right now.

They opened up the store on South Street (forget if 5th or 6th Street was the cross street) in Philly in the 80's. Three stories tall, plus two separate related Tower stores (classical annex and book/video store) across the street. Then, in the early-mid 90's, the miracle occurred. They built a fairly large store less than a mile from my house in King of Prussia! I used to look forward to the big all-label sale every January, and for the months when Blue Note and OJC were on sale, and enjoyed stopping in every week to look at the new releases on the shelves and appreciated the Pulse! magazine every month. They died a year or so before they closed the doors, became just another CD store with high prices and limited inventory, rather than the marvel they had been. My first visit to a Tower was in San Francisco in the 70's. They had a third store in the Philly area, out in the Northeast, and I visited there a few times when I was in the neighborhood, back before the King of Prussia store opened. I remember visiting one on Decatur Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans (while on a business trip to Platforum, held in the Earl K. Long convention center) a very few years before Katrina. Decatur Street also was (Is still?) home to the Cafe Du Monde, and was by far my favorite part of the French Quarter. Very very different from Bourbon Street, which runs parallel just a block or so to the West. My most memorable Tower Records visit was to the store at Picadilly Circle in London while there on a short-term mission trip in July 1991. Picked up a bunch of British label CD's that were unobtainable in the USA. Philly had a chain called Sam Goody (originally out of New York, I believe), and back in the early 70's (and before, I assume) they seemed to have the same philosophy as Tower, of trying to stock "everything", though their corporate structure made them "just another chain" much earlier on.

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