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Wounded Bird has just reissued CD's of the Elvin Jones albums recorded on Vanguard in the mid-70's (in roughly descending order from my decades-old memories: "New Agenda", "The Main Force", "Time Capsule", "Summit Meeting"). They previously reissued the Elvin Jones/Oregon album along with their other Vanguard Oregon titles. Not essential Elvin, but I'll pick up most of them.

This is one of the greatest live 60's rock albums: Interesting history on that group. They lost me then, also (I can't stand most of "Brothers and Sisters", for instance), but regained me 15 years later when Warren Haynes came into the group and revitalized them. I consider him the greatest musician to ever come through that group, which has had plenty of great ones (Duane, Gregg, Betts, Derek Trucks, etc.). Not the original that Duane was, but added onto Duane's work, plus great vocal and songwriting chops.

I do, always have a lot more than I listen to the Dead, and actually have this Warren Haynes work on right now:

I actually loved it in the Allman Brothers, but generally agree with you.

Legit and under $30

I don't really disagree, yet there was a certain something that got sort of homogenized when Mydland came in. For that matter, I can't say I've ever been impressed by any of the GD vocalists or their harmonies, all ride on the verge of being "unlistenable" to me (especially Garcia). My wife thinks they're awful. And yet I listen, over and over again for 50 years. That group was always about feel more than anything IMO. Feel and telepathy and a great bass player.

I'm not a die-hard fan, but do have a good bit by them. And like you, Keith and Donna are my cutoff point. Something definitely changed and lost when they left. If I could only have one GD set, it would be one of the live ones with a looong kick-ass version of "The Other One", as well as some of the "Live/Dead" type stuff.

From the original Nuggets set - the best Dylan parody ever!

Great stuff. An original, though in the long run a wasted talent.

The one-est of one hit wonders:

No idea how "Don't Look Back" didn't become a huge hit. Re: QMS - they became a very different group afterwards,with the addition of Nicky Hopkins and then Dino Valente. Some very good cuts, some not so good cuts, but all a whole different bag than the first two albums.

Nobody sounded like John Cipollina. "The Fool" is still absolutely stunning and unique 50+ years later, as is much of the rest of the first album and almost all of the second album. I agree with that. They each brought an important aspect. Yet I never found their live work nearly as compelling as their studio work (and it was very different).

His composing. He had a style. "White Room", "We're Going Wrong", "As You Said", "Deserted Cities of the Heart", "I Feel Free", "NSU".

For that matter, I might argue Felix Pappalardi was the true visionary. I do own a lot more Bruce solo than Clapton solo.

I have always thought of this as one of the basically perfect box sets:

One of my goals is to develop my grandson to be the 1 in 100. So far, he's good with Disco and Motown at 18 months old, but "Kind of Blue" is lost on him. Won't be trying "Ascension" anytime soon.

and that is the collection to own by them

Columbia had Johnny Mathis, "Sing Along With Mitch" , the "West Side Story" original cast and movie soundtrack albums, etc. They were not depending on Miles and Brubeck for survival.

I assume someone like Wilbur Harden on Savoy?

I remember reading somewhere that the initial release of Tina Brooks' "True Blue" sold under 1000 copies, which would certainly explain why his other albums stayed in the can.

Awesome!

They would have outsold Jimmy Smith?

I'm so very in on that one.