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Agreed it looks better this year, but apart from the Coltrane kids, don't see much tie-in to his music. Dianne Reeves? Dirty Dozen Brass Band? Sheila E.? Lee Ritenour?

Robin Williams Robin Wright Robin Lane (and the Chartbusters)

Also available on this 4CD box set on Rhino, along with some other crucial non-album cuts. Beautiful set:

Just listened to Braufman's "Valley of Search" for the first time last week. It's pretty wonderful, wish there was a CD release of it.

I think same comment would fit for any of those years, just substitute the album from that year and the key songs from the album. I was still hearing them on both AM and FM radio into the early/mid-70's. But as Jim pointed out, it would very possibly depend which songs he was playing by them.

Will pick up that Myers book, thanks for the heads-up!

Yep. For that matter, you can go back even way earlier (pre-"Pet Sounds") in the Beach Boys recordings and find plenty that ain't the basic sound you think it is. And a lot of interesting stuff on "Wild Honey", "Friends", "20/20","Sunflower", and "Surf's Up" (especially the gorgeous title track from the last one, which was the centerpiece of "Smile". Also, understood on "Cabinessence" and "I Went To Sleep", which would never make sense as radio fodder. Although neither did a lot of things back then. I mean, I heard this on WEBN in Cincinnati ca. 1968:

Interesting. Beach Boys were consdidered AM/FM credible in 1969 with the 20/20 album and "Do It Again", "I Can Hear Music", and "Bluebirds Over The Mountain" from that album.

that's a great cut. Love both her version and Dionne Warwick's, and they are so different from each other's versions (just as they were both wonderful but very different signers).

Good and bad, I define these terms Quite clear, no doubt, somehow

To me, this is one of the seminal recordings in the history of music. Staggering talent that hits on all cylanders on this, glad she escaped Columbia and found Jerry Wexler/Rick Hall/Muscle Shoals.

I wouldn't be so sure of the legitimacy, at least in the case of Sun Go with the collections on Varese or Rhino. I'd choose the Varese for later vintage/mastering and many more cuts: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Sun-Sessions-Roy-Orbison/dp/B00005LNGM/ref=pd_sbs_15_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00005LNGM&pd_rd_r=4620f90b-9da9-11e8-8a22-f3d4eee18e06&pd_rd_w=iB5Wk&pd_rd_wg=hA8Ne&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=8702255303818932494&pf_rd_r=SE5V9T6JVFRCWSFZCC1E&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=SE5V9T6JVFRCWSFZCC1E

Not that I can think of. Then Matthews pushed it towards the disco dance floor. And I don't dislike good disco, but his weren't that...

I basically agree, though even the Bob James-era ones were notably better than the David Matthews-era ones that followed.

Yeah, some of those early album covers (the Deodato Prelude was a favorite along with the Jackson) were awesome, but some were, shall we say, a bit twisted (looking at you, Stanley Turrentine's Sugar). But they were all attention-getters, for sure.

There are really a few eras of CTI. the A&M era, the standalone label when Sebesky was the main musical guy, the brief time when Bill James was, and the David Matthews era. My deep affinity is for the Sebesky era in the early 70's. Freddie Hubbard had a bunch of wonderful albums on the label such as "Red Clay", "Straight Life", "First Light", "Sky Dive", and "Keep Your Soul Together" Turrentine's "Sugar", Milt Jackson's "Sunflower", Jim Hall's "Concierto", "Beyond The Blue Horizon" "Body Talk", and "White Rabbit" by George Benson, Weston's "Blue Moses" are all pretty great, and there are lots of other good to excellent recordings. Hubert Laws early work, Airto's "Fingers" and "Free". Some of the Ron Carter records. And plenty more, as well as the Kudu label recordings with

"Moon Germs" is really good. To me, basically the equal of "Outback" and ahead of the first one (though there's no denying the greatness of "Follow Your Heart").

No, I don't truly "enjoy" any of them, but I stand in fascinated awe of them in a certain sense (like watching a car crash), so am more likely to listen to them than to a bland, well-played-by-the-numbers mainstream date from the past 35 years. Does anyone really "enjoy" Plan 9 From Outer Space? Or make any claims to it being anything other than awful? I even own the Coltrane and the Byrd (though the Byrd was just the cost of business to get the attached Grant Green/Larry Young album on the Verve CD).

If they don't like Jackie, what are the chances they even know who Rene is? That being said, they are very different musicians. Maybe a Woody Shaw fan somewhere fills the bill, as Shaw played with both of them.

There is good commercial and bad commercial jazz. My collection is chock full of really good CTI albums featuring brilliant Don Sebesky arrangements, 70's John Klemmer albums like 'Touch' and 'Barefoot Ballet', plenty of Joel Dorn Atlantics, etc. The McLean is horrid commercial, and a desecration to McLean. The cover alone is reason enough, but here's a sample: