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The 'El Pampero' album was a landmark listening experience for me. It was the first thing I ever heard by him, and it has remained my Barbieri go-to album. I saw him at the Tower Theatre in Philly in the 70's, and maybe one other time at a smaller venue. RIP.

I was able to pick up that and some of the other Catalyst LP's at Third Street Jazz back in the day, but they are long gone from my collection at this point. Wish they would come out on CD, especially this one and the Waldron/Peacock "First Encounter".

It's Bill Hardman's "Politely", and I believe it's from the "Jazz Messengers 70" album with Hardman, Carlos Garnett, Joanne Brackeen, and Jan Arnett.

I have repurchased a few over the years, as I find I'd rather spend the $4 or whatever than keep thinking about it. And the originals then do eventually turn up on mis-shelved somewhere.

Thanks for the lead, picked up a version of the Animals album!

Also have been waiting patiently for Larry Young's "Heaven on Earth" for less than $40+. And from the non-jazz world, Temptations "Solid Rock" and Everly Brothers "The Mercury Years" and the Animals "Animalism" (the original album that came out on Hip-O Select).

The Babs Gonzales can be found for under $10. Never heard of that Ward, sounds good. http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Lullaby-Babs-Gonzales/dp/B000008B0P?ie=UTF8&keywords=weird%20lullabye&qid=1459186089&ref_=sr_1_sc_1&s=music&sr=1-1-spell

For years, one of mine was Jimmy Heath's "Love and Understanding", and a kind board member helped me out on that one. Has always been unclear to me if the Charles Tolliver "All-Stars" album with Bartz/Hancock/Carter/Chambers (also known as "Paper Man) has ever been on CD. I've seen it listed, but never available. The Max Roach mid-70's albums with Billy Harper ("Live in Tokyo", "The Loadstar", etc.) are another "grey" item for me. And Hannibal Peterson's "Naima", always listed at CDJapan, always cancelled from my orders. That is a GREAT CD!

Allmusic says that it's his true 1963 Newport concert, supplemented with rehearsal takes with added fake applause.

I'd like to hear the Lee/Blake. Any thoughts on the Solal?

The Gilberto fills a gap for me.

Thomocity for me also, thx.

It's a good deal and some pretty decent albums, but not where I would recommend starting with Tull. Start with 'Stand Up' and 'Benefit', then "Aqualung' and 'Thick As A Brick' and 'Living in the Past', then 'This Was', then some of their later 70's albums found on this set.

I would love to hear this!

Agreed. I do like the Montreux album.

Lloyd/Jarrett/McClure (or McBee)/DeJohnette. Boy, bet there are some divergent opinions in our community about THAT quartet! I liked them fine, but they didn't change my life. OTOH, I loved Lloyd and Szabo with Chico Hamilton.

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Great stuff to ponder, thanks. As I was older and several years post-college, I didn't get overexposed to the IRS stuff, so that still sounds fresh enough to me, and remains by far my favorite chapter. The early Warner stuff was very good, but somewhat hit ("Orange Crush", "Losing My Religion" etc.) and miss ("Stand" etc.) for me. And they lost me at 'Monster' (except for "What's The Frequency, Kenneth"). Check out those last two albums some more, they're pretty wonderful.

Well, you are certainly the anti-me on that anyways - other listeners can decide which of us is weird! Give me "Driver 8" or give me (musical) death! Or we may be from different generations. I'm 61, and think popular music died in 1990 when grunge and new jack trampled it.

Enjoyed their early albums a lot. They and U2 sort of defined much of 80's rock for me. I liked some of the other Athens/jangle stuff, like Guadalcanal Diary and Dreams So Real, but it's really much faded in my memory at this point except for R.E.M. themselves. After a lot of bad albums late in their career, starting with Monster, they came back to their signature sound at the end and went out with a couple of gems, 'Accelerate' and 'Collapse into Now', and a nice live album.

Me too, Record Club of America, RCOA, who started off great, but ended as ripoff artists. Got this one, "Who's Next", and "John Barleycorn" in one package if I remember correctly.

That's the way I would go also. Very challenging, beautiful music on many of the albums. 8 CD set has something like 15 albums of material, so an incredible bargain at the current prices (around $55 shipped from Amazon marketplace). "Joe Henderson in Japan" is a favorite of mine.

Same for me.

But still less expensive to order them from jazzmessengers.com!

Very surprised and sorry to hear this. While much of his music has not necessarily aged well, it brought a thrill and broadened horizons back in the day.