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Jim, I assume you meant James Newton rather than Anthony Davis on #12, and I agree that's who it sounds like to me also! Nice BFT, look forward to doing some more exploring on it. I'm thinking Cecil Payne on #4. #5 sounds like Hubert Laws.

Well, that ruins the entire thing for me - I'm returning my set and demanding a full refund! In seriousness, it's a great set. It and fills out the corners nicely! And very low priced.

Thankfully, Columbia seemed to realize what they had in Nyro, and gave her a lot of freedom. Great writer ("Eli's Coming", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoney End" , etc.), but even more a very wonderful singer. Her first batch of Columbia albums are awesome, and the second batch (more jazz-oriented) are really good, though not as iconic. The girl-group album with Labelle is a very moving listening experience.

The core group was Cavaliere, Dinelli, Buzzy Feiten, Annie Sutton and/or Molly Holt, and Robert Popwell. That was probably the touring group. I can't find anything specific on the touring group for that era. 'Peaceful World' has some great moments, but I can live my remaining years quite comfortably without hearing 'Search and Nearness' and 'Island of Real' again. On a different note, I've heard that version of 'Africa' and it's tremendous, but makes for a very short (and legally grey) CD, under 30 minutes, and the sound is not particularly good (though certainly listenable).

All I did was copy/past the Real Gone blurb! Anyways, in addition to this, be sure to pick up 'Transfiguration', her great live trio date with Reggie Workman and Roy Haynes. Features a 37-minute version of "Leo".

And I'll grab it when importcds has it available on ebay (20% off $60 and free shipping when you order from them there).

The one I'd like to hear is the Reuben Wilson, since it's unissued rather than rejected. Very few rejected BN's have ever been subsequently issued. The Bobby Hutcherson below is the only one that comes to mind. Dozens of unissued sessions have come out, and some (like 'Jacknife' and 'Infinity') are some of the greatest albums they ever made.

Details below from the Real Gone Music newsletter email: Now, to more serious musical matters. It is our great honor and privilege to present to you Alice Coltrane: Spiritual Eternal-The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings, a 2-CD set we have created in cooperation with the Coltrane estate. Featuring notes by Coltrane scholar Ashley Kahn, and produced by Real Gone's own Gordon Anderson together with acclaimed jazz reissue producer Zev Feldman, this collection brings together for the first time the three albums-Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana, and Transcendence-that Alice recorded for Warner Bros. in the mid-to-late '70s. Coltrane never stopped evolving as an artist, and this is some of the most challenging, spiritual, and, ultimately, rewarding work of her career, as she gradually left the jazz world behind to focus on the devotional Hindi music she was creating at her Southern California ashram. Her sound anchored by the otherworldly sounds of 1971 Wurlitzer 805 Centura, whose pitch-bending ability allowed her to echo the sounds of the harmonium that is used widely in Eastern music, Coltrane (who adopted the name Turiyasangitananda or Turiya for short by the end of her tenure at Warner Bros.) created a unique fusion of raga, qawwali, jazz, African-American gospel, and even classical that has to be heard. Spiritual Eternal-The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings offers a fresh examination of this groundbreaking work, inside a sumptuous digipak package that pays homage to one of the most fearless and uncompromising figures in modern jazz.

I like that album quite a bit, will have to go back and listen to Cables on it. Also like the next one, 'Horn Culture', with "Sais".

The Joe Henderson September 1970 Lighthouse material on Milestone ('If You're Not Part of the Solution...' and part of 'In Pursuit of Blackness'). I will give you that Cables sounds good on Woody Shaw's great 'Blackstone Legacy'.

Say what you will about Chick Corea (I both love him and loathe him at times), he knew how to get a wonderful personal sound on the Rhodes. Herbie Hancock, too. I agree, there are jazz pianists I like on acoustic who I can't stand on Rhodes (looking at you and your ring modulator, George Cables) and others who just became totally bland (Kenny Barron, for instance).

Understood. No one except the initial quoted author has made any disparaging remarks, it's just that we don't know. BTW, my first male cat was Mingus, and our current cat is Aisha.

Maybe because of the projections of what was going on in his mind and heart during the last 12-18 months of his life, when we don't really know.

Also, just in case people are aware of the original. As with "I Say A Little Prayer", Aretha took a great original in a different and equally satisfying direction.

True that.

And don't forget the clear influence Coltrane had on my favorite trumpet players - Hubbard, Tolliver, and a certain Woody somebody!

That seems like a critic who likes to hear himself talk. Alice Coltrane was not McCoy Tyner, who was/is? She was a one-of-a-kind talent who made some utterly stunning albums on Impulse on her own (and some of the work on WB was also wonderful), and was instantly recognizable on three different instruments. Her harp playing was stunning, and she had a wonderful sense of composition and some unique (if sometimes overblown) arranging abilities. I've never been sold on Ali, but would certainly never belittle something like 'Interstellar Space' by calling it 'Flailing About'. Coltrane's 1966-67 albums didn't meet the standards of his 1964-1965 albums? No, they certainly didn't, but neither do hardly any other albums ever made! They were the next (and final) phase of the journey, not wholly successful, but wholly fascinating.

agreed, as far as web sites on old pc, what happens when you refresh page?

Understood, np, thx.

Found it, but looks like the link to the music was removed: httpos://inconstantlysol.blotspog.com/2014/04/prince-lasha-sonny-simmons-clifford.html

My understanding is that there never was a successful take on Monk's "Brilliant Corners" on the Riverside album, and they had to piece it together from multiple takes.

good to know. sometimes the whole is less than the sum of the parts. Like those Eric Dolphy Douglas albums that had Lasha, Shaw, etc. only playing choruses on a couple of stray cuts.

It's a fine Shirley Scott/Grover album. What do you think of it as a Dexter Gordon album?