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I am so in for this, thanks!

Khan Jamal is pretty great, but a very different player than Hutcherson. Dickerson seems to be the main influence on Jamal to my ears. Neither were ever going to be widely appreciated across boundaries, but I really like them both. The Japanese seem to rarely do bonus material.

May be that the 'Now' album, with the Eugene McDaniels cuts, opened some doors, but I'm not sure what would have lead BN to believe a breakthrough was imminent (though he certainly did some great music). Seems like the only break in his discography into the 90's was when he had his hand injury in the early 80's. He was a different player when he returned, 2 mallets rather than four, etc. Generation later, but the guy who could really play vibes at an awe-inspiring level, though I never heard recorded proof of it (saw him live) was Bryan Carrott. Yes she was, saw her live with Zappa. She was critical to his sound, and perfect for that group. But she never recorded as a leader or wrote material, etc. AFAIK.

Not sure who else would have merited the attention those three received.

I don't think it's that simple. Helen Moore seems to have not spent any post-trial jail time. I suspect Morgan was incredibly abusive. Eddie Jefferson was a drive-by shooting victim for having fired a dancer. Jaki Byard was murdered by a nephew or something like that. Don Myrick (EWF) was accidentally shot by police. King Curtis was killed by junkies he confronted outside his house. Philip Wilson (AEC) was murdered in his apartment. Depends on your views of humanity and the divine. I've learned to expect both more and less from humans than from nature.

Linger Lane is a different kind of commercialization, a Jerry Peters production along the lines of what Peters was producing for Donald Byrd and Bobbi Humphrey on BN at the time (1974ish) and I greatly prefer it to "Natural Illusions". Hutcherson/BN were trying some different things then, with some differing results. But I'm always going to have a soft spot for any record with an extended "People Make The World Go Round" on it.

I think of it like a subpar CTI record. If Hutcherson playing "Sophisticated Lady" etc. with a bunch of string arrangements by Wade Marcus turns you on, go for it.

And I didn't know that until right now!

I hear that! Quebec had a short, hard, messy life, and I'm sure by extension Greene did, too, during that period. Quebec died the same month that Greene record was released. That seems to be the underside of the whole Blue Note thing - a lot of troubling human stories behind the great music.

Well, Peterik wrote it, as well as charting it. And he was like 20 years old. And he also wrote and charted "Eye of the Tiger". And in the 60's when Peterik was in his teens, the Ides of March were a top garage band in Chicago, along with Shadows of Knight, Buckinghams, Cryan' Shames, H.P. Lovecraft, etc.. Quite a local scene (and the Curtis Mayfield-driven soul scene was amazing, with Gene Chandler, pre-Philly Jerry Butler, Barbara Acklin, Barbara Lewis etc. etc.)

Agreed. 'Caravanserai' is a Desert Island Disc for me. As for 'Borboletta", Leon Patillo was my favorite Santana singer ever. Too bad in one sense he didn't stay on, but he had a higher calling., which I fully respect.

Yeah, he had that style Down!

Understood on Greene, but I was/am not part of that market/society, and have no interest in additional listens to the album (I did listen twice). And it certainly is a musical outlier in terms of the various things Blue Note was recording in 1962 (as was the Sheila Jordan album, which I like quite a bit) and widely considered very subpar in terms of that BN output. I don't own any Gloria Lynne albums, either, have heard her. I'm much more drawn to someone like Lorez Alexandria from that period. We all have our many musical areas where we choose to remain uninformed,which is not a crime or a sin or a denial of life being involved. Life and time are short. Someone like, say, Jim Peterik (Ides of March and, much later, Survivor) was also clearly part of a different market/society (actually a few), and had talent and stayed active for a long time, yet the vast majority of members here will choose to remain uninformed about him/them and about that market/society.

This is where I most often go for my live Hendrix (plus "Machine Gun" from 'Band of Gypsies')

"A New Perspective" is pretty great, but not the others.

Well, that's one of the problems. Hendrix is just lost musically with the people he had on hand (I won't call it a group). I'm not going $800 either, pre-ordered the 10CD set from importcds for $109. If you ever saw Havens live (I did three times), he did a LOT of talking between songs (charmingly so) telling long stories and such, and at an event like that, given the various circumstances, that was probably even more true, so I could see him filling a few hours with 11 songs.

IIRC, she was able to record the album because she was Ike Quebec's girlfriend. One of the few BN's from that era I have given myself full permission to pass on (another is Donald Byrd's "I'm Trying to Get Home"). I dutifully own those Blakey sessions, but have only played them once, nothing to draw me back to them.

Or this guy, who DID play with Roach?

RIP. Mod Squad was my only exposure to her, when I was 13-17, but I cerntainly remember her.

You can thank Stanley Clarke for influencing a whole generation of bumblebee bassists.

The Walt Dickerson and Khan Jamal titles are generally excellent, and of course there is a treasure trove of top-notch live Dex, not in the box. And I really like the Joe Bonner's, though he is a personal taste that may not be shared widely. The Clifford Jordan and the Cedar Walton titles are fabulous. And, of course, the Billy Harper's are spectacular, for me the crown jewel of the label.

Agreed, they really were tight at that point, and some really good songs - mostly spread over "Beatles '65" and "Beatles VI" in the USA. "Every Little Thing" is one of my very favorite Beatles songs of all time (as is the even earlier "There's A Place").

He was married to Merry Clayton, who has had quite a career, but is mainly known (and rightfully so) for the "rape murder, it's just a shot away" sequence in the Stones masterpiece, "Gimme Shelter". She absolutely steals the documentary "20 Feet From Stardom" from the other participants, especially with her story of how she came to participate in that song. She also cut a few fine solo albums in the early 70's. Amy was 19 years her senior, but it all seemed to work: