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As Late mentioned, I remember these being largely taken up with loooong drum solos. Works for Late, doesn't really work for me. YMMV. I agree with all the other descriptions above. But I would buy a CD set of them and skip the drum solos.

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You should get that Big Star box. $25-30 for four full CD's, interesting stuff.

Tom, all hard stuff. Obviously, your dad would benefit from living in an assisted-living situation at this point, but I assume he is resisting that. And I understand that resistance for sure. Probably a home health worker who would visit daily coupled with a monitoring/alerting system such as lifecall may help. Of course, you want to be VERY careful about contracting home health care workers for safety (physical and financial) sake. We lived through this with my in-law's through each of their ends-of-life. There are no simple answers. Much depends on the financial situation. So sorry you have to carry this alone. My parents are aging (89 and 85) and live on their own, but I have four siblings/step-sibling, and am probably considered 3rd or 4th in the pecking order of who should be primarily involved (though we all try to share it). I'm sure others will have plenty to share as far as both suggestions and their own experiences.

Not sure they would - they got played once a week. How often was "Be My Baby" being played in 1963? Every hour on every station, I would think.

Love their early stuff - Chris Cacavas rules! Desperately in need of a good anthology. Cherry Red and Omnivore, are you listening?

No doubt he is the most HEARD drummer ever. Multiply # of tracks by # of plays per each track by # of listeners to each play. One play of "Be My Baby" on WABC or WINS or KRLA in 1963 had an insane # of listeners compared to those who have heard any given Billy Higgins performance.

It sort of did. Her greatest album ever, "One for Me" on Strata-East, never made it to CD.

A vinyl cutout of Constellation ca. 1974 was my introduction to Stitt.

Yes, mathematically I think it adds up to another 40 or so minutes of music. Plus it's maybe a little closer to being legal. The vol 1's and vol 2's on each label don't exactly correlate with each other. Anyways, great music and plenty decent enough sound.

I have them on ESP-Disk. Great stuff, btw.

Missed that post on that date. Here is KD 1956:

Count me in for Clifford Brown.

I actually think Leon Patillo was, but agree Walker was good, as was Alex Ligterwood (and Buddy MIles in his "Vera Cruz" cameo). But I was always fine with Gregg Rollie.

I always avoided that one when I played "Wheels of Fire". And avoided "Boom" when playing this one (the whole second album was an indulgence/rip-off. At least "Wheels of Fire" had "Crossroads" and "Spoonful" on the second, live album.):

Remember, you said "famous", not "good". We played this drum solo in unison on our lunch room tables at school: And this one was famous and good, "Soul Sacrifice" from Woodstock:

Santana even had some interesting work as late as 1992's "Milagro", but nonetheless he went off a high cliff after "Welcome", and off a much lower cliff between "Milagro" and the Arista mega-platinum atrocities. As far as Blackman, I agree that she's a good drummer, very busy and powerful, but she's a jazz drummer per se, and doesn't really leave room for other percussionists. Lear was able to do that, and I thought he was fine, though of course he's no Michael Shrieve, who was the perfect drummer for Santana (the group). And Santana (the guitarist) proved conclusively on "Swing of Delight" that he is not a jazz player per se. Don't sleep on this, which has a lot of totally unanticipated magic.

Listen to how his drums grow thoughout this one,especially on the later choruses:

Both great albums in their own ways.

I long for the time when Santana was much more than "pleasant". The Rick Rubin-produced album could be interesting. Santana IV and especially the live set with the original band were inspiring, but that's about it for the past 25 years.

We're all getting old. I don't think it's a sign of jaded to not $ up for every alternate take in existence. And those alternate takes are readily available on the much cheaper Ultimate (McMaster) and RVG editions. The Blue Train alternate is 46 seconds shorter than the released version, the Lazy Bird alternate is all of 5 seconds longer than the released version. Not exactly massive re-thinkings of the songs.

Totally legit and usually very high quality remastering.

Just jump on them quickly. Carpe deum.