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If anyone goes and sees a good price on the Jimmy Smith box, please let me know!

I picked it up very recently, have not listened yet. Not expensive or hard to find in USA. $9.99 on Amazon Prime. Looks like Elegia release has been postponed to September 20. And I do hope Tori makes it to CD in these reissues.

Thanks Tom, I am definitely interested in checking out the book, will look tomorrow on Amazon for download, unless you have different instructions. With your background, you are certainly in position to have very meaningful thoughts on the subject! https://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Jazz-Part-II-Educational/dp/198078454X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=stealth+jazz+party+ii%3A+educational+dystopia%3B+2019&qid=1562173185&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0

That is a fine fine version of the MIngus tune. I'm not placing it. Thought maybe it would be from a Dannie Richmond group, but that does not exist. I see a version on an incredibly obscure Abraham Burton album, and I really like Burton. Is it from that? #4 made me think of Woody Shaw more than Freddie Hubbard, based on the writing and instrumentation. I have a lot more listening to do on that track and the whole BFT.

I bought and read the Cole book back in the 70's. You got what you could find when you found it back then. Cole is hardly the only person who was jarred by 'On The Corner' and some of the other Miles releases of that time. I was quite dismayed by it then, and while I've been able to make my peace with it over the decades, I still prefer both what came before and what came immediately after. A lot of his releases back then were puzzling, with no personnel listings, different cuts from different years (we now know) etc. The one that was really a breath of fresh air for me then was 'Get Up With It'. For whatever reason, I took to that one immediately. I also did OK with 'Big Fun' , which came out right before that.

I look forward to checking it out - thanks for sharing!

I'm not sold on the bossa nova titles he did in the 60's, but the rest (the ones I've heard) are pretty fabulous. Wish they were more readily available, and less expensive. So much music, so little time and money...

CDJapan shows a lot of low-priced reissues from Flying Dutchman and other labels coming July 24. Nothing earth-shaking at this late date, but some nice, reasonable obscure titles for under $10 each. See link below, towards the bottom of the first page, then the second page. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/release/music/jazz-fusion/month/2019/07?periods=3

Patrice Rushen is quite a talented and interesting musician, from those teenage albums on Prestige up to the present. Very convincing for both jazz and R&B.

Ordered the Tingen book. Another $9.50 shipped. This is getting to be an expensive thread for me!

Thanks, just ordered #4, which looks really good with the Mick Rogers version of the Earth Band, which I greatly prefer to the latter Chris Thompson version. #3 looks too strange to me with all the film fragments, etc. Can't buy/own everything.

Just ordered the reader and companion books recommended by Jim. $17 shipped for 4 books now (those two, the Chambers and the Szwed). Gotta love the internet!

I was underwhelmed by Cook's Blue Note book when I read it several years ago. Is this better?

I've just ordered used copies of the Chambers and the Szwed books (cost me $4 each, so not a big indulgence), look forward to seeing them. Thanks to all for the suggestions.

I am too, relatively speaking, so good fit for me.

Is the Chambers biography the one I should be reading rather than the Troupe book? BTW, I read "The Making of Kind of Blue" by Ashley Kahn recently, and enjoyed it quite a bit, probably more for what it offered on the process of making and marketing the album than for anything it revealed about Miles or the other musicians. The photography and layout were also very attractive.

Is the Troupe a good read? I have had it for years after picking it up as a remainder, but have never gotten around to reading it.

The extra tracks make it much stronger than the original 2 LP release. Flows much better. Still pass over "Moby Dick" every time. Life's too short to waste on rock drum solos.

Wonder if our younger board members even recognized the thing, a "typewriter". I've had 30-somethings who have no idea what this is. BTW, it's to play these:

I'd enjoy having it if not already taken.

@Teasing the Korean Very interesting back story. Thank you for sharing it. The context added greatly to the thread.

and he's typing left-handed while holding a cigarette. Would make a good dream sequence...

I enjoyed their monthly catalogs and some of their reissues. I usually dropped about 100-150 on them during their annual January sales

Percy Sledge - The Atlantic Recordings box set:

Why would they buy a Resonance Wes, rather than, say