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Strata-East was modeled after Strata in Detroit, correct?

Is #12 Nicole Mitchell?

Sound quality is plenty good enough for what it is, can't wait for the release! Well, at least the ones that get released. Hard to release a tape that remains lost!

I'll give another thumbs up on Tyner's 'Fly With The Wind', which is pretty stunning.

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Wow! As long as the audio quality is listenable, I'm in, thanks for the heads-up!

Agreed. Prime late 60's - early 70's work by a master, 10 full albums for $45. And the box presentation is very well done.Essential for any post-bop collection.

PM sent on the Woody Shaw Muse Mosaic and the Mingus Complete Candid.

Yeah,Stan Getz Focus is awesome! As fare as the other type, I'll take the Clifford Brown with Strings anytime.

The McCoy Tyner 'Cosmos' set has some pretty interesting string arrangements on some cuts. I like the Max Roach double quartet recordings also.

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Jim, I assume you meant James Newton rather than Anthony Davis on #12, and I agree that's who it sounds like to me also! Nice BFT, look forward to doing some more exploring on it. I'm thinking Cecil Payne on #4. #5 sounds like Hubert Laws.

Well, that ruins the entire thing for me - I'm returning my set and demanding a full refund! In seriousness, it's a great set. It and fills out the corners nicely! And very low priced.

Thankfully, Columbia seemed to realize what they had in Nyro, and gave her a lot of freedom. Great writer ("Eli's Coming", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoney End" , etc.), but even more a very wonderful singer. Her first batch of Columbia albums are awesome, and the second batch (more jazz-oriented) are really good, though not as iconic. The girl-group album with Labelle is a very moving listening experience.

The core group was Cavaliere, Dinelli, Buzzy Feiten, Annie Sutton and/or Molly Holt, and Robert Popwell. That was probably the touring group. I can't find anything specific on the touring group for that era. 'Peaceful World' has some great moments, but I can live my remaining years quite comfortably without hearing 'Search and Nearness' and 'Island of Real' again. On a different note, I've heard that version of 'Africa' and it's tremendous, but makes for a very short (and legally grey) CD, under 30 minutes, and the sound is not particularly good (though certainly listenable).

All I did was copy/past the Real Gone blurb! Anyways, in addition to this, be sure to pick up 'Transfiguration', her great live trio date with Reggie Workman and Roy Haynes. Features a 37-minute version of "Leo".

And I'll grab it when importcds has it available on ebay (20% off $60 and free shipping when you order from them there).

The one I'd like to hear is the Reuben Wilson, since it's unissued rather than rejected. Very few rejected BN's have ever been subsequently issued. The Bobby Hutcherson below is the only one that comes to mind. Dozens of unissued sessions have come out, and some (like 'Jacknife' and 'Infinity') are some of the greatest albums they ever made.

Details below from the Real Gone Music newsletter email: Now, to more serious musical matters. It is our great honor and privilege to present to you Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal-The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings, a 2-CD set we have created in cooperation with the Coltrane estate. Featuring notes by Coltrane scholar Ashley Kahn, and produced by Real Gone's own Gordon Anderson together with acclaimed jazz reissue producer Zev Feldman, this collection brings together for the first time the three albums-Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana, and Transcendence-that Alice recorded for Warner Bros. in the mid-to-late '70s. Coltrane never stopped evolving as an artist, and this is some of the most challenging, spiritual, and, ultimately, rewarding work of her career, as she gradually left the jazz world behind to focus on the devotional Hindi music she was creating at her Southern California ashram. Her sound anchored by the otherworldly sounds of 1971 Wurlitzer 805 Centura, whose pitch-bending ability allowed her to echo the sounds of the harmonium that is used widely in Eastern music, Coltrane (who adopted the name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya for short by the end of her tenure at Warner Bros.) created a unique fusion of raga, qawwali, jazz, African-American gospel, and even classical that has to be heard. Spiritual Eternal-The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings offers a fresh examination of this groundbreaking work, inside a sumptuous digipak package that pays homage to one of the most fearless and uncompromising figures in modern jazz.

I like that album quite a bit, will have to go back and listen to Cables on it. Also like the next one, 'Horn Culture', with "Sais".

The Joe Henderson September 1970 Lighthouse material on Milestone ('If You're Not Part of the Solution...' and part of 'In Pursuit of Blackness'). I will give you that Cables sounds good on Woody Shaw's great 'Blackstone Legacy'.

Say what you will about Chick Corea (I both love him and loathe him at times), he knew how to get a wonderful personal sound on the Rhodes. Herbie Hancock, too. I agree, there are jazz pianists I like on acoustic who I can't stand on Rhodes (looking at you and your ring modulator, George Cables) and others who just became totally bland (Kenny Barron, for instance).

Understood. No one except the initial quoted author has made any disparaging remarks, it's just that we don't know. BTW, my first male cat was Mingus, and our current cat is Aisha.

Maybe because of the projections of what was going on in his mind and heart during the last 12-18 months of his life, when we don't really know.

Also, just in case people are aware of the original. As with "I Say A Little Prayer", Aretha took a great original in a different and equally satisfying direction.