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Love it! And East/West was even better! All of their albums except the last one were excellent.

Those are some pretty tasty crumbs. Love that Mingus set.

Any thoughts on these two books? I have a LOT of Miles Davis books already. Is this one special in any way?

My friend Ruth Naomi Floyd studied with him, considers him a major mentor and influence, and has nothing but props for him. He recorded with her on her "Root to the Fruit" album.

Mark I was THE Purple for me. Rod Evans ruled! Much stronger set than I expected. Have come close to pulling the trigger on the 4CD version several times.

That may explain those final Albert Ayler records

Strange happenstance, I started listening to the exact same concert in my car yesterday, continuing today - working through a stack of old CD-R's I had burned many years ago but never got around to hearing. Nice to see it sandwiched by two excellent Billy Harper compositions.

Very underrated Athens group. I really enjoyed them back in the day, and their albums have held up well.

I haven't either, and I would have jumped on it if I had seen it.

black coffee. all day every day at work.

Not according to Discogs. Yes, excellent set, a favorite of his for me. Vinyl seems easy enough to come by, but would love to have a CD of it.

Calling all Smiths fans. This is amazingly inventive and good. To me, Marr was the one who made the Smiths really special.

The US Shepp CD is cheap on discogs and ebay. https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1414791?ev=rb

From theseconddisc.com NEWS Traneing In: Never-Before-Released John Coltrane Tapes Set To Arrive on “Blue World” AUGUST 21, 2019 BY SAM STONE 1 COMMENT Jazz aficionados worldwide have good reason to celebrate with the news of a new John Coltrane album that features lost performances from 1964! The album arrives on September 27 through Verve/Impulse! and is entitled Blue World. The 8-song collection features Coltrane's "Classic Quartet" as recorded in a newly unearthed session at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in June of that year. The sessions that make up Blue World were commissioned by Quebecois filmmaker Gille Groulx, a rabid Coltrane fan

Disc 11 SANTANA Featuring/CARLOS SANTANA: guitar • GREGG ROLIE: vocals, keyboard • DAVID BROWN: bass • MICHAEL SHRIEVE: drums • MIKE CARABELLO: timbales, congas, percussion • JOSE “CHEPITO” AREAS: trumpet, timbales, congas, percussion 1. WAITING [5:11] 2. EVIL WAYS [4:34] 3. JUST DON’T CARE [4:21] 4. SAVOR [5:22] 5. JINGO [5:45] 6. PERSUASION [3:25] 7. SOUL SACRIFICE [13:04] 8. FRIED NECK BONES AND SOME HOME FRIES [6:33] 9. Chip Monck – "Wheat Germ, Holly has your bag" [16:19]

They're all worthwhile. Though if you have the 2CD Legacy edition of the first Santana album, you have all of their Woodstock performance except for a weak "Evil Ways", and a lot of other good material. https://www.amazon.com/Santana-Legacy/dp/B00064ADNY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20YR0DFB3X8CF&keywords=santana+legacy+edition&qid=1566358084&s=music&sprefix=santana+legacy%2Cpopular%2C126&sr=1-1

Finished out the 10CD set today, Grateful Dead through Hendrix. Glad to have heard it and to own it, don’t feel a need for the 38CD set now – this is plenty. Again, most all of the performers had some really good moments, and some not so good moments. The person who was most done wrong by the historical rewriting of Woodstock was Johnny Winter. He was on fire for his entire set, these cuts today were a reminder. I strongly recommend the “Woodstock Experience” CD which combines his entire Woodstock performance and his first Columbia album (and don’t sleep on “The Progressive Blues Experiment, his amazing Imperial Records set recorded just prior to his Columbia albums, and his masterpiece “Second Winter” – if history had been just, he would have been in the movie, “Second Winter” would have sold a couple million copies, and who knows?). Joe Cocker’s “Dear Landlord” is a great performance, and his entire set is strong. The Grateful Dead were not good at Woodstock – that is one lackluster “Dark Star”, and the other selections are worse. Blood, Sweat, and Tears sound really strong, especially on “Smiling Phases”. Creedence played really well. Butterfield Blues Band sound great – their entire performance is available on their Complete Elektra Albums box set, though that has somehow not seemed to draw much attention. Joplin’s band is tight. Nothing can match her Monterey “Ball and Chain”, but she played a really good set at Woodstock. Ten Years after sounds good. The Hendrix set is a mess – the backing band doesn’t cut it, even though he seems to be in good enough form, especially on "Purple Haze". And I may be in the minority, but I always found his “Star Spangled Banner” quite off-putting musically, and consider his Band of Gypsies “Machine Gun” to be a much stronger musical and much stronger political statement (and that one resonates anew in 2019). The Who come off well (Abbie Hoffman doesn't ). I love the Jefferson Airplane set, own the whole 100 minute thing on their “Woodstock Experience” release. They aren’t at all tight, but they are inspired and full of fire. Willing to let the whole 50 year anniversary thing have a rest now, hope some more full sets get released this year, and realize this is probably the end of the hoopla in my lifetime (and am OK with that).

It is excellent.

From the 10CD set:

Be sure to check out that Keef Hartley album.