'Awareness' and 'Pure Dynamite' are wonderful albums - you'll love them. "Baba Hengates" on the latter is especially wonderful. Underappreciated player. RIP.
Almost always, but the Tower Records at 610 South Street in Philly did it differently. They had a separate floor for jazz (three floors total), and a whole separate store, across the street, for classical (and yet another store for movies, books, and magazines).
Well, it does spare you and others from having to wade through lengthy discussions about, say, the relative merits of individual Jefferson Airplane albums (which a few of us enjoy). Think of it as an efficiency courtesy .
I think "arcane" is a very good description for that section of the site, very few of us dare hang out there on a regular basis!
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4CD set coming in January. Discussed in a more arcane corner of the site. Here are details. Don't think I need six live versions of "White Room" from the same tour, etc, at a $70 price tag, never found them that compelling live (Clapton is not all that high on my guitar heroes list). Felix Pappalardi added a lot to their studio recordings. Anyways, here is more info:
https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/cream-goodbye-tour-1968-4cd-set/#more-154871
"Hair", "Aquarius", "Walkin' in Space", "Where Do i Go", "Easy to Be Hard", "Good Morning Starshine", "Let The Sunshine In", :I Got Life". Amazing songs from that play. The story has not held up, but some of the music sure has.
Totally agree with you on the Max Roach album. Criminal and bizarre that it never made CD. The version of "It's Time" on there is one of my all-timers. I need to check out that Mary Lou Williams album when the CD becomes more readily available/affordable and the Amina Claudia Myers also if it ever becomes available on CD. Also Connie Crothers (who I was not previously familiar with) seems like a good subject for further research. That Rikers Island album has never really worked for me for whatever reason. Thanks so much for the stimulating BFT, and yes, please check out BFT 189!