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Asha is the pick of the litter, although all three are outstanding. He also has had outstanding careers as a painter and photographer and professor.

I've listened to it on youtube. It's fabulous.

I've never figured out how to do that! I'm all for it, will need to do some google searching. I wait years for a good price sometimes.

Thanks, but all are grossly overpriced once I factor in shipping to USA, IMO.

Me too, one of the very few CD's I'd pony up that kind of $ to buy.

Please PM me if you can sell/trade me the CD of Stanley Turrentine "In Memory Of" at a reasonable price. Looking to retire my Turrentine Mosaic box, and this is my one remaining missing CD to do so.

"September Gurls" is one of the all-time great songs. Love the original by Big Star, and equally love the covers by the Searchers and the Bangles.

Yeah, I agree that's a good one.

Agreed, much better than what came after. He did some fascinating work before these, much more eclectic and much less predictable. "Sunday Walk", "King Kong", "Open Strings" especially jump out from memory.

I was thinking that myself about Criss Cross. Seeing something on that label is an inherent guarantee of quality.

Here's the best way to do that. I agree that one is a cut above his others from that era for the writing and for great Daryl Stuermer work.

Much cheaper from importcds on ebay. The Tom Rush is really good, 'Circle Game' is a classic early singer/songwriter album. The two earlier albums are an eclectic mix of his folk and rock tendencies. The Korner and DD&B stuff (pubescent Hollywood sons of Dean Martin and Desi Arnez) are not particularly noteworthy. Korner's important work was a decade earlier, in the group with Dick Heckstall-Smith, Cyril Davies, and Long John Baldry.

importcds has been my go-to since the mysterious caiman.com disappeared and amazon got more expensive/less competitive.

Yet they use slightly different business models on ebay. importcds offers 20% off $65 purchase, where deepdiscount does not. Their single CD prices are basically the same (deep discount generally a penny cheaper), yet deep discount breaks out $1.99 of the price as separate shipping, where importcds loads it all into the CD price and ships free. I guess they kept those distinctives from when they were different companies. Collectors Choice was always something very different, even using their own reissue label. They seem to have a presence on discogs as pop.market from what I can tell.

I agree on the tactile thing, but the CD-R provides a semblance of that for me.

Me too. For my car, I just make compilations of my favorite cuts by an artist, and play that. I have one by the Byrds I made which I've probably listened to 100 times, others by Spirit, Springsteen, early Steve Miller, etc. I listen to a lot of jazz at home and work, but find rock is what I want to hear in the car, and shorter songs. Just got a car with Sirius/XM after not having it for 6-7 years, so have been listening to that. And they do not serve jazz well at all.

J.O.S. for me.

$14 on ebay

Yep. I find it jarring to hear the end of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" without "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" kicking in.

Well, you threw two right in my wheelhouse! #1 is "Holy Waters" from Norman Connors' 'Love From The Sun' with Dee Dee Bridgewater, and #6 is "Jihad" from Doug and Jean Carn's "Revelation". Great performance, but I can see how Jean might not have been too happy singing those lyrics, and she split soon after. Her next stop was Philly International Records with Gamble & Huff, quite a change in direction (though she still sounded great on those underrated PIR albums). Lots of other fascinating sounds on this BFT, which I look forward to exploring in more detail. The pianist in #7 sounds like he spent a lot of time listening to the early Cecil Taylor albums, and the group in #13 sounds like they spent a lot of time listening to the first few Mahavishnu Orchestra albums. Looking forward to spending time with this BFT and to the ultimate reveal. I like the organ in #14. I hope others here are willing to let your BFT stretch their ears.

Except that one of the 11 on the US version is "Paint It, Black"!

Nice on the Milt Jackson Impressions!