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I am a cat person through and through. In the immortal words of Mary Weiss, cats are "good-bad, but not evil". Ours is Aisha, who sits on my lap and then sleeps under the covers with us on cold nights. She is a total joy.

I'm good with what I want, unless something drasticly downward happens with prices. Barring that Bill Barron set, of course...

Remix came out in 2017, stunningly good.

I've experienced it at Bethel Woods (where Woodstock was held - mourning and celebrating the lost pipe dreams of my sub-generation), and in Nashville, at Ryman Auditorium and at RCA Studio B there. Subjectively moving experiences beyond objective reason. Also felt it some the first time I ever went to Camden Yards, which I much prefer to our stadium here in Philly. Strangely, felt just the opposite at Yankee Stadium, was creeped out by the experience.

You're gonna get two CD's of her gorgeous Epic work with Mickie Most, etc. including "To Sir with Love", "Best of Both Worlds" and "Morning Dew", all spectacular records. You're gonna get two CD's of her fabulous work on Atco records, including "Oh Me, Oh My', another fine record, and you're gonna get a CD with two really good mid-70's albums produced by Wes Farrell, which include her take on "The Man Who Sold The World" and other good songs you might not associate with her, but that she does beautifully (5 CD's total). You're gonna get stunning remastering, and beautiful packaging. And you're gonna get all that for under $40. Carpe Diem.

Exactly. Most classic rock stuff has been revisited over and over again in the CD era. This is still the gold standard for this material, 23 years on.

I own and highly recommend both. The Lulu is beautifully done, the Spencer Davis is still by far the best collection of that group, even thought it's been around a long time.

Someone should jump on the Woody Shaw!

what is a guess on the year of the photo, given that a youthful Phil Schaap has been identified? mid-70's?

Will try with Gary first, since he contacted me first, then with Wayne if Gary and I can't work it out. Thanks to both of you.

It's a really good album.

So I ordered what was supposed to be a CD from Amazon UK, but they sent me an LP, which I can't use. They demand I return it to the UK, and the shipping cost net of their refund is prohibitive, to the point where I would show a further loss. I paid $41.83 total for it (talk about buyer's remorse - it was an indulgence as a birthday present to myself), will sell or trade for best reasonable offer, or will take it to ebay if no legitimate interest here in our neighborhood. PM if interested, and I'm sure we should be able to work something out.

Through the kindness of a wonderful individual, I am listening to and digging the Don Sleet "All Members" album with Jimmy Heath and a hybrid of the Miles Davis rhythm sections of the time (1961 - Kelly/Carter/Cobb). Marvelous album, but Sleet truly stands out. I knew nothing else about him, but come to find that he played with Stan Kenton at like 16 years old, did recordings with Lenny McBrowne I need to track down, etc. Any other thoughts on this marvelous but mainly forgotten musician?

And for a couple of them (Liebman, Holland), it did. But definitely looks like one of those "whole is less than the sum of the parts" cases, given the fascinating front line. I wouldn't mind owning it, for time and place sake, but not at $25-30.

Tom, be sure to ping me when it becomes available. I may well be interested.

Thanks Ken, that's helpful to know. Tom, send me your address, and I'll send it out to you gratis. I'll hang the Shorter on a wall myself, and don't anticipate anyone here being interested in the Marsalis.

2016 RCA Canadian import with the bonus tracks has been readily available in USA. https://www.ebay.com/itm/JEANNE-LEE-RAN-BLAKE-THE-NEWEST-SOUND-AROUND-NEW-CD/382255776013?epid=220883762&hash=item590038410d:g:pZcAAOSwLNVap53L:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true

Agreed. Also lead me to Rendell/Carr.

This, their first two albums on one set. Karl Jenkins and John Marshall went on to Soft Machine around Soft Machine Fifth (Marshall) and Six (Jenkins). https://www.amazon.com/Elastic-Rock-Well-About-Later/dp/B0000072M0/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1547342683&sr=1-1&keywords=nucleus+cd The set with their third and fourth albums is also well worthwhile, with Allen Holdsworth (also later of Soft Machine) showing up. https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Plexus-Belladonna-Carr-Nucleus/dp/B00006CY64/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1547343035&sr=1-1&keywords=solar+plexus+belladonna

Per Mr. Sangrey's cogent post in the wish list thread, I fear it will just be more Binglerosey, and that the Strata-East was my last Mosaic set.

One of my very favorite Adderley works.

I reallylike the three smaller Prestige sets that Fantasy put out right before they sold out (in every sense) to Concord, and settled on those and sold the big 16-CD set. So no need for this, which appears to be selling for about $70. I also really liked the Miles Davis Prestige Classic Quintet box and the Bill Evans Village Vanguard box they did, and wish they could have finished those catalogs with similar corresponding boxes. Concord certainly won't.

Do yourself a favor, buy this version, typically great BGO mastering, and save yourself tons of $. This will run you about $$15 for the two-CD set.

So sorry. I just finished working through the big ECM AEC box, which heightened my appreciation of him/them even more. Giants.

If Stephen Stills was dead, he'd turn over in his grave (unless he's getting royalties for it, of course).