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Steve Perry was the singer on all of the monster Journey hits. Interesting history of that group, which began as a progressive offshoot from Santana with Gregg Rollie and Neal Schon, also Aynsley Dunbar and a very talented Bay Area guitarist named George Tickner. They then transformed into the hitmaking bohemoth they were (and I do love "Who's Crying Now" and "Separate Ways" myself).

Happened a good bit 30-35 years ago when the industry wanted us to buy cassettes or CD's instead of vinyl. "CD only bonus tracks" or "cassette only bonus tracks".

BGO is a UK company. It got delayed a month (common occurrence with BGO), but did finally come out (they always do from BGO). Haven't ordered mine yet, but expect to do so soon. Available from several reputable sellers.

Just got released on a nice BGO twofer. Love that company!

Off by one letter, sorry. The Real Gone Jazz replacement is Reel to Reel. See example of the old and new below (there are dozens of others)

Reel to Real is just a rebranding of the EU Real Gone Jazz label, from what I can tell.

From theseconddisc.com https://theseconddisc.com/2018/10/and-on-the-third-day-jack-bruce-joins-gary-burton-michael-gibbs-on-live-festival-69-concerts/ And On The Third Day: Jack Bruce Joins Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs On Live “Festival ’69” Concerts OCTOBER 9, 2018 BY JOE MARCHESE LEAVE A COMMENT BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Later this month, Cherry Red’s Turtle Records is turning back the clock almost 50 years for the first official release of two 1969 concerts from longtime friends and collaborators Michael Gibbs and Gary Burton. Festival ’69, due September 28, is a 3-CD set of performances from Gibbs at Lancaster University (February 1969) and Burton with Gibbs at Whitla Hall in Belfast (November 20, 1969) primarily featuring Gibbs’ own compositions. Students of Herb Pomeroy, trombonist Gibbs and vibraphonist Burton met while attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Burton’s early fusion records on RCA such as Lofty Fake Anagramand Duster (both 1967) featured Gibbs’ compositions and a heady blend of jazz and rock that translated to the stage as heard on Festival ’69. The first two discs present the Belfast concert which was split between straight Quartet performances (by Burton, guitarist Dave Pritchard, bassist Steve Swallow, and drummer Bill Goodwin), and songs with an all-star British big band consisting of Gibbs and Chris Pyne on trombone, Kenny Wheeler and Trevor Barber on trumpet, Alan Skidmore, Ray Warleigh, and Tony Roberts on saxophone, and Chris Spedding on guitar. Almost all of the material performed was written by Gibbs, Swallow, or Burton, and many of the songs were familiar from Burton’s recordings on Duster, Tennessee Firebird (1967), Throb (1969, Atlantic), and Country Roads and Other Places (RCA, 1969). One lone cover, a vibes solo by Burton of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Chega de Saudade,” had first been surveyed by Burton on his 1966 LP The Time Machine. The third disc of the collection features Gibbs’ Lancaster University big band performance sans Burton, but with a very special guest in the form of Cream’s Jack Bruce on bass. Gibbs and Bruce had previously played alongside each other in the New Jazz Orchestra, but Bruce brought all of the rock energy he’d invested in Cream to this performance, dynamically soloing on the closing “Some Echoes, Some Shadows.” For this 55-minute set, Gibbs and Bruce were joined by a strong line-up of British jazz’s best players including John Marshall on drums and John Surman on both baritone and soprano saxophones. All seven songs played were penned by Gibbs, who went on to record many of them on his own albums for the U.K. Deram label. The three CDs are housed in individual sleeves within a slipcase, and a 24-page book features copious liner notes by Colin Harper. Simon Murphy has remastered from best available non-compressed files which have been restored for the first time, under Mike Gibbs’ supervision, to the correct speed and original pitch (improving upon previous unofficial digital issues). Note that sound is generally good on the Lancaster show and less so, though still listenable, on the Belfast discs. This release is historically significant both for documenting an early onstage collaboration of Gibbs and Burton (who would go on to release the joint album In the Public Interest for Polydor in 1974) and for capturing Jack Bruce’s appearance at a Gibbs set. This historical value should outweigh the sonic deficiencies for most. Festival ’69 is due from Cherry Red’s Turtle Records imprint on September 28. It can be pre-ordered at the links below! Michael Gibbs with The Gary Burton Quartet, Festival ’69 (Turtle Records TURBXM 503, 2018) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) CD 1: Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, November 20, 1969 General Mojo’s Well Laid Plan Announcement Arise, Her Eyes Announcement Ballet Announcement And On the Third Day Chega de Saudade (Vibes Solo) Announcement Portsmouth Configurations (Portsmouth Figurations) Announcement CD 2: Live at Whitla Hall, Belfast, November 20, 1969 Announcement Tanglewood ’63 Sojourn/June the 15th, 1967 Walter L Nowhere Announcement Doin’ the Pig CD 3: Lancaster University, 2/69 Sweet Rain Family Joy, Oh Boy! Nowhere Fly Time Fly (Sigh) Feelings and Things/June the 15th, 1967 And on the Third Day Some Echoes, Some Shadows

To my ears it is much better. But of course the previous releases were all over the place, and may have varied widely in sound quality.

Great to hear, I'm certainly in! I went back and read your previous posts in this thread. We'll hope they don't add gratuitous reverb (in case that's what they did with Tokyo).

Thx for info. Will hope for the best, but this sentence from the description may be a caveat emptor as far as sound quality, especially considering the reports on the Tokyo sound quality on the release from the same company (and they put that one out first): " The band lasted only until July 1983, so every newly discovered recorded performance by them is a gem to be savored."

PM sent on the Art Pepper Mosaic Select.

The DeJohnette New Directions CD's seal the deal for me.

I went ahead and pre-ordered it. I can cancel if I change my mind, and really, how far wrong can I go on it?

Tempting, but I have most if not all of the actual AEC CD's on ECM, and believe the "associated" titles would probably have diminishing returns for me, and need to draw the line somewhere. But very tempting at that price, and a further price drop could certainly do me in...

I have a Michel Ruppli Savoy discography coming, and will dive into that when I receive it.

Thanks, I do have those three "Chicago, The Blues Today" sets, haven't played them in years, need to pull them out. All, will look at getting around to some of those other titles, thanks.

Yeah, I like it quite a bit, thanks again! I'm a huge fan of that era, modal stuff with fender rhodes, and Joe Henderson-influenced tenor. Highly recommended to like-minded listeners, though not essential to the less-inclined. Me, I can't get enough of it, and this is a well-written, well-played CD of it.

Chuck, if you did have to recommend one of the recordings, what would it be? I know conventional wisdom goes that his initial Cobra sides were great, and that everything else pales in comparison. I have the Cobra sides (which I like a good bit), have not heard much else.

The Green/Clark and the Nichols were great, recreated entire Mosaics onto a nicely priced, compact 2 (Green/Clark) or 3 (Nichols) CD set. They did the same with the Ike Quebec organ sessions. They also did nice job with the leased Transition material by Donald Byrd et al, and with the Stanley Turrentine Minton's sessions.

What Kate said

Wonderful set, beautiful packaging. It and the Herbie Hancock set were two of the finest packages Blue Note has ever produced.

Yeah, really! Lots of titles from that label I'd like to see on CD, but the Harper and the Peterson top the list for sure.

Great stuff, thanks for sharing. Love the 16 minute version on the Loosdrecht 2LP set (Tolliver/John Hicks/Reggie Workman/Queen) with that MONSTER Workman bass solo at the beginning. But this version is wonderful also, and a treat to hear Cowell and Tolliver together on it.

Me too. I have only purchased one music download in my life, and it was this album.

It's really good, but a relative disappointment given the personnel (Tolliver, Bartz, Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers) and era (1968). 'The Ringer' is the great Tolliver album pre-Strata East. That being said, I'd love to have a CD of it.