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and several great Max Roach albums with Billy Harper.

Yes, I pre-ordered from Amazon UK and it came out to under $70 shipped for the set. Delighted by that.

Highly recommend that MJQ set. It is my usual go-to set by them when I want to hear them.

I just ordered this for under $13 shipped on ebay. Most efficient way to get the "Hold On" album (which I've never heard). Also haven't really heard the Muscle Shoals album.

Maybe Francis Wolff was selective in what he was willing to shoot?

Any thoughts on what to expect this to sound like? Obviously won't be a return to the Black Jazz days.

"Merry-Go-Round" escaped you because it never has been domestically released on CD except for the Mosaic box, was on Japanese CD for about five minutes a decade ago. You'll be happy with all three;

Dex was not originally scheduled for the show I went to, it was the Roach and Hutcherson groups. Dex had just come back to America, and was a late, impromptu add-on, using Hutcherson's rhythm section and, I believe, Henderson. So I'm thinking it was very late 1976 maybe.

It is interesting stuff, but she was a VERY different singer in the mid-60's. All lightness and air. Any word on price?

Same excellent company (I have dozens and dozens of their soul and rock CD's, always beautifully executed) did this one. I don't own it, but do own several of the cuts on it in different configurations.

I have it, and can second Jim's recommendation. He's the one that hipped me to it some time ago. BTW, thanks for the lead on that Masters Porgy & Bess set. Ordered it this morning, $5.98 Amazon Prime.

Yes, Max and a pianoless quartet - Max, Harper, Bridgewater I believe, Workman (who took an amazing extended solo similar to his Prayer for Peace solo with Tolliver). Hutch had West Coast guys - James Leary, Eddie Marshall and I believe George Cables and Manny Boyd. Dex used Hutch's rhythm section, and had a trumpet player (I think Eddie Henderson - it wasn't Woody, who I never saw live). As reference for date, Jon Hendricks was performing "Evolution of the Blues" at a theatre nearby - I saw that the same week.

Yes, it is pretty spectacular! And Harper is also on it (though not featured as such)

Were you at the show that had Hutcherson's group and Dexter Gordon as well as Roach's quartet with Harper/Bridgewater/Workman? I was there!

This is a little known gem with a whole lotta good Harper going on. And affordable to pick up. Had this one in my BFT a few years ago, but of course almost no one listens to my BFT's https://www.discogs.com/Mark-Masters-Jazz-Orchestra-With-Billy-Harper-And-Jimmy-Knepper-Priestess/release/9176093 The Steeplechase titles are all great and available (Europe, three volumes of Far East, Destiny is Yours). Somalia is really good and dirt cheap. Soul of an Angel is worthy and easily available.

That's the one album associated with them I've never heard. Doctored outtakes from an album I don't particularly like (Division Bell) 20 years after the fact did not sound like a winning proposition to me, but with all the praise of it in this thread, I'm getting curious.

Indeed. In fact, for some of us, the very "datedness" of some music forms we love, the fact that a given work is so very much of that time and place, is a large part of the appeal of it. I like a lot of 60's psychedelic rock in part because it is so clearly identifiable as 60's psychedelic rock. OTOH, I love Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" because it is great music, and it is timeless, not clearly of the mid-70's. Pink Floyd's earliest work is clearly of it's time, and I love it for that. Pink Floyd's middle work (Dark Side through Animals) is not of a time. I value the early work every bit as much as the middle work (and so much more than everything from "The Wall" on).

Youtube is your only friend. There's a Mosaic waiting to happen there. I own and really like both of them. Definitely recommended without reservation. And not just because of Harper's involvement - I really like Thompson.

Be sure to pick up the three "Live on Tour in the Far East" CD's on Steeplechase, along with some of the other titles being discussed. And the final Lee Morgan album on Blue Note with a great version of Harper's "Capra Black" (that album was my introduction to Harper).

Me, I'll just heartily agree and point to what my avatar has been since the day I joined this board in 2005. No musician's music has touched my soul like Harper's has. I understand how he has absorbed Coltrane, and I LOVE Coltrane's music, but there's something in Harper at his best that hits my soul even deeper still. Hannibal Peterson at his best in the mid-late 70's also reaches me that way, and McCoy Tyner for a season in the 60s-70's also (say, roughly "Expansions" through "Atlantis"). Charles Tolliver in his "Ringer" through "Loosdrecht" prime. But especially Harper.

PM on these, and very jealous to have missed out on that Ted Daniel and Marion Brown! The Art Ensemble of Chicago -- Live in Milano (Leo) $4 Anthony Braxton -- Donna Lee (America) $12

Got mine in mail 2 hours ago.