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Then I stand corrected, thanks.

There is a boot order set into the bios of the machine, telling it what order of sources to try to boot from. They tend to default to external drives first, the reason being that if your hard drive crashes or becomes infected, the machine can be recovered from an external boot disc.

Yes, it may be initially trying to boot from that external drive, which of course ain't gonna work.

Lloyd McNeill was/is another renaissance man, award-winning photographer, college professor, painter who studied with Picasso, and flautist/composer who made some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, especially "Aisha". I have the ESP-Disk Watts, would love to hear the Savoy. Surprised it never made it to CD. I owned that Savoy 'New Music: Second Wave' set on vinyl in a previous lifetime, but don't remember much about it.

It got handled, Organissimo board style. Something for everyone, those who made the connection (I did, and thought it was very funny), and those who didn't. All good.

What operating system? How much free disk space? How much memory, what processor? Is it a really old machine? If an old OS, do you defrag the machine? Does it run slow after it comes up?

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for letting me know. "Deep craziness" (in the good sense) is a fine description of Mr. Sangrey

yes

And the shame is that Fantasy started doing some really interesting historical boxes just before they sold out to Concord.

And a poor one at that. Don't even list personnel.

Concord wants to save those recordings for possible inclusion in their upcoming 34-minute "Gene Ammons Plays for Lovers" special Valentine's day release.

"Journey To Enlightenment" and "Let This Melody Ring On" are in the same vein as "Black Love", and even better albums. Carpe Diem while they are still available.

I'd jump at that one.

Hey, it's a WISH list!

The Carlos Garnett "Journey To Enlightenment" and "Let This Melody Ring On" are wonderful albums, but vocal-heavy, and not pure jazz. 4 or 5 stars each. for sure, for those who are willing to open their barriers. "Cosmos Nucleus" is more generic, and 3 stars. The Connors "Slewfoot" album also isn't pure jazz and isn't really a good album, but contains one of my all-time favorite cuts (regardless of genre), the definitive reading of Carlos Garnett's awesome "Mother of the Future" with a great Jean Carne vocal.

A set of the Max Roach Quartet 1970's Horo/Denon/Victor/Baystate recordings would be awesome.

Me too. It's pretty great all around.

I have CD's by all of the above except Galas, who creeps me out too much.

Thanks Jim, it's yours.

This is also a nice set: I contacted them years back about a complete Hutcherson/Land set, which could pull in the Land sets on Maintstream and Cadet, as well as the Hutcherson Blue Note titles. I also think a Gary Bartz Milestone set would be really good.

It would mean a lot to the people preparing the BFT's if those people would take 30 seconds to either send an IM to the person who prepared the BFT or make a post that says "Hey, enjoyed it, thanks" or something. From the posts, I have no way to know if anyone other than Bill, Thom, Jim and myself listened to or even noticed the BFT. Apart from my BFT itself, the reveal should have generated some sort of discussion on cuts 5 and 6 if anyone else was paying attention. I'm gonna take you up on that some time! I have a friend in Nashua we also want to visit, not sure how far that is from you.

I'm going to retire from presenting BFT's since I am getting so little response to mine. We can open up December for someone who will present music of more interest to the community here.

I am announcing my retirement from BFT presenting, to open the month up for someone who will post music of more interest to the group here. Thanks for those who have participated in my past BFT's.

Thanks to the few who participated, and to anyone else who may have given it a listen, and thanks to Bill and Thom for their work on coordinating and hosting/posting. Have a safe and blessed New Years. 1 – Billy Parker – "Dance of the Little Children" A nice upbeat cut from his Strata-East Album "Freedom of Speech". Lonnie Liston Smith's little brother Donald Smith on piano and vocals, the Bridgewater brothers on the horns. 02 – Charles Earland – “Happy Cause I’m going home” From his album “Intensity”. Just a song that makes me very very joyful to hear, and it seemed like a great follow up to the first cut. 03-Charles Rouse – “Bitchin” Unusual cut for the Monk stalwart, from his Strata-East album “Two is One”. 04– Cedar Walton/ Hank Mobley – “House on Maple Street” From the Cobblestone album “Breakthrough”. I love the Walton/Jones/Higgins rhythm section on this one from early 1972 (was this their first together?), and of course they went on to record many classic albums throughout the rest of the decade. 05 - Kings in Exile – “Bullwimp” From the Dennis Gonzalez released album “Witness”, though he does not play on this cut (or on a lot of others on the album). Burnett Anderson is the trumpet player here. The tenor player is our own Jim Sangrey. Mark Menikos plays violin and composed the cut. 06 - Trio Encompas – “Jetlag Blues” People compared that the sax player to Chico Freeman, Arthur Blythe, and David Murray, and gave this very high marks. It is actually our own Thom Keith on tenor. 07 - Elvin Jones –“Lycra Too” From the wonderful Atlantic album “Midnight Walk” with Thad Jones, Hank Mobley, and Dollar Brand/ 08 – Art Ensemble of Chicago – “Fundamental Destiny” From the album of the same name. It was new to me, and has become my favorite AEC album. Don Pullen guests on piano on this album. 09 - Gary Bartz – “BAM” From the marvelous “Home” album, live at the Left Banke. Woody Shaw and Albert Dailey. Where’s the CD? People looking for a gem to lease and reissue, how about this one? 10 – Hastings Street Experience - “Yes Lord” From their self-titled mid-70’s album, which I love beyond all objective reason. Wonderful Detroit time and place vibes. Vocals by Motown ace Kim Weston. 11 - Rascals – “It's Love” From the “Groovin” album, which went top 5 pop in 1967. Hubert Laws and Chuck Rainey guest. This is the album where the Rascals opened up their sound, and it sits as their masterpiece. Classic singles in “Groovin’”, “How Can I Be Sure”, “A Girl Like You”, and the earlier recorded “You Better Run”, and lots of wonderful experiments. 30 minutes of bliss. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore (and rarely did then). If at all interested, don’t sleep on it.