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Thom, I'm interested in picking up that Mingus play along set. I see several different versions of it, in different keys. I'm not a musician, so don't know how to interpret that. Any suggestions on what to get/what to avoid for pure listening purposes?

Does sound good. But....

But, but, but....you are stardust, you are golden, you are billion year old carbon, and you've got to get yourself back to the garden!

Great stuff, thanks. Have owned both the Hayes albums for decades in various configurations. Love the one with Shaw, find much of interest in the other. Funny, I am not familar at all with that Junior Cook album. I was in a buying hiatus when it came out, and apparently missed it in the flood of early 90's CD reissues. Sounds like that Dana Hall raises an age-old questions of what to do about jazz albums that have like one attractive cut. Are they worth the purchase price? Are they worth the shelf space? What will ever make one think to go play them? But that is a fine cut, for sure. Never heard of Hall, though I know of every other player on the album (Stafford is a Philly fixture @ Temple University). I actually like Blake's playing quite a bit on the MIngus cut. Many decades ago, I worked with a woman who had attended Sumner High School in St. Louis with John Hicks (and Annie Mae Bullock - aka Tina Turner). She told me that Hicks had planned to settle into being a studio musician after studying at Berklee, but that his parents pushed him to use his talents to a more public degree. We can be greatful to them, as he was a great jazz pianist! Saw him live twice - once with Bobby Hutcherson Quartet at Penn's Landing in 1988, and once with Mingus Dynasty at the Painted Bride Art Center a few years later. He was wonderful both times. I've heard other stuff by Lupri that has also caught my ear, need to explore him further! Thom, thanks for the excellent BFT. Is that Mingus set a CD? Cover looks like a DVD.

Random google-search image. I've taken one selfie in my life, to show my cat laying on me rather than myself.

It doesn't come out for another two months, so I am waiting it out. Certainly Ebay will show it when released, and I expect ImportCDs and Amazon to show pre-release at some point. Those sites and Discogs are the only places I look.

Jasmine is a (good) PD label, so their material cuts off at 1962.

"Recorded Live" is a great live album! I saw TYA live at the Spectrum in Philly around that time, great show. Nice triple bill, though I don't even remember BTO from that concert, just Climax Blues Band (who were really good, around the time of FM Live, my favorite by them). 5/17/1974 Philadelphia, PA, Spectrum Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Climax Blues Band We can probably safely skip disc 38, which apparently is all announcements and crowd noises. Would have to think through what that set gives me at the margins over what I already own from Woodstock (several of the complete sets by individual artists have been release over the years, as well as multiple other box sets, and I believe I have it all. Not sure if I need to keep the 25th and 40th anniversary box sets after having the new 10CD set - will have to compare content).

Me too. I bought the 10 CD set for a little over $100.

The title track for me. But I listen to the whole album when I pull it out. The cut of that era/genre that is by far my favorite is "Dr. Honoris Causa", especially the version on the self-titled Zawinul album. Utter magic,

Richie Havens - Freedom Santana - Soul Sacrifice Ten Years After - I'm Going Home

PM sent on: Maru Sankaku Shihaku (Circle Triangle Square) 1973 Japanese free music 3 cd set reissued in 2013 $12 Agitation Free - Malesch (Revisited Germany) $10 Guru Guru - Wah Wah (Revisited Germany) $6 Guru Guru - Don't Call Us (We'll Call You) 2 cds on Revisited Germany $14 Guru Guru (1973 self titled album, not the debut album which is a few years earlier) $12

Interesting article, thanks. I was 14 and found out about the festival from Time Magazine, to which my parents had a subscription. It was really the 3-album set which brought it into the forefront of my consciousness. I didn't see the movie for a couple more years, as I was too young to get into an R-rated movie in 1970. We had an excellent FM free form rock station in Cincinnati at the time, WEBN, and I had an older friend very tuned into the rock scene, so I was well-informed musically, if not culturally (which is probably a pretty good description of me to this day). Also read Rolling Stone, Creem, and Crawdaddy when I could get them. And Lillian Roxan's Rock Encyclopedia.

And if you have a United Artists Era room, you are beyond hope!

A landmark work to be sure.

I also lament international shipping fees. I have dozens of titles on Discogs I'd like to buy, but can't justify the shipping. I keep them in my shopping cart hoping seller will end up with additional titles I want. The two places that somehow do have good shipping rates to the USA are Russia and China, for whatever reason.

Correct, hoping for a decently priced single of it so I can sell the box (I have singles of the other material on that box). Actually, some of the 50's titles contained in the Mosaic box, and I would then sell off the box. Though I've never heard the Argo's, and would love to have those also.

Also, a CD issue of the Elvin Jones session with Lee Morgan that appeared on the "Prime Element" 2LP set. That and a single CD issue of "High Frequency" (available on the McLean Mosaic) and of the 1967 McLean session with Moncur that appeared on the "Hipnosis" 2LP set (available on the Moncur Select) are my primary BN wish list. Secondary are some Lou Donaldson sessions and a Stanley Turrentine session ("In Memory Of") that would enable me to unload those Mosaic boxes. But those are minor quibbles, and we are blessed by how much HAS been made available the past 30 years. Amazing times, with many sets in my collection I never dreamed I'd even be able to hear, let alone own.

Original album running order, but not the original artwork.

The poem at the end of Archie Shepp's "There's A Trumpet In My Soul" is an incredibly moving experience, and Shepp made really good use of the spoken word on other albums such as "A See of Faces".

This looks really good: https://www.allmusic.com/album/we-are-on-the-edge-a-50th-anniversary-celebration-mw0003265563

They were actually traded together from the Indians to the Tigers in a deal that also involved Billy Martin.

Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere here. Below is copied from this link: https://theseconddisc.com/2019/07/release-round-up-week-of-july-26/ BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Tubby Hayes Quartet, Grits, Greens and Beans: The Lost 1969 Studio Sessions (Decca U.K.) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Here’s a major discovery from the late, London-born saxophonist. Around the same time he was busy recording MOR covers, Tubby Hayes was still indulging his artistic side by playing in a pure jazz mode for sessions held May and June 1969. Hayes, Mike Pyne (piano), Ron Mathewson (bass), and Spike Wells (drums) cut a number of Hayes originals plus covers of Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh’s haunting “Where Am I Going?” and Duke Pearson’s “You Know I Care.” But the tapes have languished in Universal’s U.K. vaults…until now. Grits, Greens and Beans will be released in 1CD, 2CD, and LP formats, as mastered by Gearbox Studios. The single CD has what would have been the final album while the 2CD version preserves all of the session takes. The 180-gram vinyl edition of the 1CD release was created using an original 1960s-era Studer tape machine and a Scully lathe. The CD appears to be encoded in the MQA format (playable on all CD players).