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Description sounds like it could be Steve Turre, but I don't believe this is him. Has to be a big name to fit that claim, which would seem to eliminate Frank Lacy, who it sounds like. The modern guy I really like is Conrad Herwig, but this isn't him.

Well, you can also give me John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon (and Eric Alexander) over Hank Mobley any day, but I'm still glad for Hank Mobley.

Amen.

#2 is the title track from this: I remember it being a prettty schizo album (haven't heard it in 25 years), but this is a great cut!

This has always been for me the most satisfying by the Alice Coltrane/Pharoah Sanders version of the band.

I saw Miles Davis ca. 1973-4 and Jean-Luc Ponty/Gil Scott'Heron and Gato Barbieri/Flora Purim ca. 1975-6 at the Tower Theatre in Philly, definitely a rock venue (David Bowie recorded that live album there in 1974), and they all went down very well indeed. Also saw Gil Scott-Heron/The Visitors at the Main Point ca 1974-5, and that also was very well received.

It's not "jazz" per se, but it's also not "muzak for people with low standards". And my old ears like loud mastering we all have been through the mastering war discussions enough). It's a different hybrid that won't work for everyone. A lot of hip-hop-based music, for instance, does not work for me at all, and I think lowly of that structure, but it speaks to others, who are better qualified to judge the relative merits of a given work within that sub-hybrid. IE, if I don't like rap at all, I cannot distinguish between "good" rap and " bad" rap. Maybe same thing here for you. You know you don't like this sort of hybrid thing, but if you don't like any of it, you won't be able to distinguish between good and bad examples of it. And the Kamasi Washington work is a very very good example of it. I liked the last one also

70's following his Atlantic contract - lots of us were old enough. I remember mysterious releases like "The Loadstar".

Still as disturbing and fascinating as when I first heard it 45 years ago

Picked up the Washington and listed through it today - really enjoyed it. Getting to the hidden disc was a pain - what dumb packaging!

I like Eric Alexander a whole lot, but he and Harper are apples and oranges (Dexter Gordon vs. Coltrane). I'm glad to join the Billy Harper write-in campaign, wish it actually had a chance to succeed. I'm sure he's not, and he was a monster.

I voted for Bobby Hutcherson. Consider him the greatest ever on vibes, no idea how he can't already be in the HOF. Also, obviously, I have great agreement with the Billy Harper support.

Yep, Cochran's two Prestige albums are really good. And he was very young. Later formed Automatic Man with past- and future- Santana drummer Michael Shrieve. They put out two dog albums of some funk/jazz/rock hybrid later in the 70's. The other young jazz pianist who put out two contemporaneous Prestige albums with excellent writing/arranging (and Hadley Caliman and Joe Henderson on the first one) was Patrice Rushen, who also got into something else very different, but at least she was really good at the something else.

Pianist aka Hotep Cecil Bernard. Played with Hugh Masekela before and after this date, played on the excellent Hadley Caliman albums on Catalyst, played on John Handy's 'Hard Work' (ugh), studio work on the Byrds' great 'Younger Than Yesterday' album, played on the excellent Jackie McLean 'Jack Mac Attack Live' CD. That may have been a hastily assembled group for Montreux, or he may have been subbing. I'm sure others here will know a lot more about both the pianist and about who Hutcherson's working groups were in that era.

That's where I first saw it back in the 70's. And I was a regular customer at Jerry Gordon's Third Street Jazz in Philly back then. And he/they were totally on top of Blue Note releases - I would have seen it and jumped on it, as I was (am) huge on both Shaw and Hutcherson. As mentioned, it's a great album. And the others from Montreux (Bobbi Humphrey, Marlena Shaw, Ronnie Foster) are really good, much better than I ever would have expected. Agreed, especially the McCoy, which is one of my favorite albums by him (along with 'Sahara'), and therefore one of my favorite albums period.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/release/music/jazz-fusion/month/2018/08?periods=2 Some of the best of the UA-era Blue Notes are being reissued in Japan on August 24. Link to CDJapan listing above. Nothing on it that I want and don't already have, but it also raises hope for additional batches - still looking for Larry Young - Heaven on Earth and a couple of the very late Elvin Jones Blue Notes on CD (as well as that mysterious Jackie McLean High Frequency session)..

Of course! It's "Awakening" from this! And certainly I have it at home, but haven't listened to it in years - will rectify that shortly. Now on to solving cut #2!

Me too. I've never listened to a Blue Note reissue on the Blue Note label and thought "I'm not enjoying this as much as I could because of the remastering, and I've got almost all of the reissues from the late 40's- early 70's. If you want to hear music ruined by the mastering, pick up some of those Blue Notes on the Applause label. Sound like bad needle drops (which is probably what they are).

Is #7 Sonny Fortune?

1/13 sounds like a train wreck to me! The piano is fine, but the trumpet grates. 2 - sounds like a McCoy Tyner cut from something like Sama Layuca, but I can't place it. 3 - good for what it is, I'm not often huge on the islandish lilt thing 4 - also good for what it is, I'm not often huge on the moody balladish thing 5 is great for what it is. 6 - Has that 70's indy sound, John Hicksish sound love it, something like John Hicks 7 - tip of my tongue, know I have some version of this somewhere, thinking it may be a Kenny Barron comp, love this version 8 - also sounds so familiar and so 70's, Pharoah Sandersish 9 - I had ID'd this as Lloyd McNeill, one of my musical heroes! 10 - to me, overlong and underrehearsed. I'm not big on most trombone styles, just sort of do the JJ/Fuller/Moncur things 11 - feel of some of the earlier Elvin Jones work, love the trumpet player! 12 - Now this is a trombone style I'm more in sync with. Like the cut! Great BFT, thanks so much, can't wait for the reveals on 2/6/7/8/11/12, feel like I have most or all of them already, especially #2, makes me crazy!

agreed on both counts.

or the Ultimate Spinach - long live the DOA Bosstown Sound!

I have it - well worthwhile and sounds great.