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:Low-priced remastered WEA box of their albums coming in early 2016

BFT03 is what I am being sent to with "Appointment in Ghana".

Sometimes when I open the online player link I go to http://www.thomkeith.com/tkbft/tkbft.html , I am getting 13 cuts displaying, cut 1 is "Appointment in Ghana". Other times, when I open the same link, I am getting the menu, and when I open BFT 142, I get 14 cuts, and the first cut is as described by BillF. Not sure what's going on, but thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Thom may know what I'm opening to get "Appointment in Ghana".

Did a quick preview, and sounds like some great listening, really looking forward to this one! Track 1 is Jackie Mclean's "Appointment in Ghana" from "Jackie's Bag", one of my all-time favorite cuts!

Go with the "complete Epic Recordings" box instead. 12 beautifully mastered and presented discs for about $45 including shipping.

Thanks to all who participated, and may you have a blessed 2016! 1 – “The Inner Voice” from ‘The Angels of Atlanta’ by the great Hannibal Marvin Peterson. His sister Pat wrote this cut and sings on it. 2 – Michael Session, “Quagmire Manor At Five A.M” from ‘Session ‘N’. My main man Nate Morgan on piano. Love love love the whole Tapscott/Nimbus West L.A. scene. 3 – “Time Will Tell” written by Bobby Watson, who plays alto on the cut. From the obscure but spectacular Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers album ‘Gypsy Folk Tales’. Watson was a monster when he first hit with Blakey in the late 70’s. 4 – “Habiba” from Harold Land/Blue Mitchell ‘Mapenzi’. As rightly pointed out on the discussion thread, this is a Concord album that doesn’t sound like a Concord album. Kirk Lightsey wrote this tune and plays piano. 5 – Lorez Alexandria, “I’ll Remember April”. To me, she is in the first rank of jazz singers, right beside Sarah and Ella and Anita O’Day and Betty Carter, but popular opinion differs. 6 – “Angel Eyes” from the oft-issued, mysteriously sourced ‘Live at Slugs’ by a killer 1968 edition of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, who were never properly recorded in the studio. That’s a young but still ferocious Billy Harper on tenor. 7 – Shirley Scott, “Senor Blues” from ‘Shirley Scott Plays Horace Silver’. I included this because I thought it was unusually aggressive playing by Scott. Met her towards the end of her life, and she was a lovely lady. She was playing piano rather than organ at that point. 8 – “You Had Better Listen”, title track from the late 60’s Atlantic album by Jimmy Owens/Kenny Barron. Bennie Maupin on tenor. It occurred to me that almost every member of the board owns or has owned two albums Maupin is on, ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘Headhunters’, yet there is much more to him. 9 – “Greenwell’s Glory” from British Trumpeter Ian Hamer, on ‘Acropolis’. Hamer had a wide and fascinating career. Tubby Hayes on tenor. 10 –“ Circles” from the classic spiritual jazz album ‘The Sojourner’ by the Ensemble Al-Salaam. From the early part of the Strata-East legacy, when that label could do no wrong. It then fell off a cliff, releasing dog after dog in its last few years of existence. 11 - “Work Song” by the Paul Butterfield Blues band, from the iconic ‘East-West’ album, when Butterfield and guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop were gloriously blazing new trails.

Bruce Lundvall, Orrin Keepnews, Gene Norman, Bernard Stollman, Harold Ousley, Lew Soloff, Keith Copeland. From the rock world, John Renbourn, Daevid Allen (Soft Machine Founder), Sam Andrews (Big Brother & the Holding Company), Samuel Charters.. From the R&B world, Don Covay, Allen Toussaint

PM sent on Charles Lloyd "Wild Man Dance" (Promo. Mark through bar code) Gary McFarland "The In Sound" (Japanese) Gary McFarland "America the Beautiful"

Spirit was quite a group. I'm sure some jazz guys took notice, especially with Ed Cassidy on drums. According to lore, Cassidy had played with Cannonball, Rahsaan, Art Pepper, Lee Konitz, and Gerry Mulligan among others. John Locke also had a lot of jazz flourishes in his playing. I still play their first four albums quite a bit, especially 'The Family That Plays Together'. And their soundtrack to 'The Model Shop' is pretty great.

The Buckley and all of the other Music Club Deluxe sets I own seem to have greatly improved sound. Top notch budget label.

The Starsailor anthology contains almost all of the cuts from the original Starsailor album, along with 2 hours of material from his other albums, and goes for less than 1/3 of the insane "Starsailor" prices.

Yes, that is it exactly. You guys are good! I was not conscious of Hamer prior to getting this CD set in a trade (though I actually had stuff he played on), but was blown away by some of the material, especially this cut. Hamer actually had quite an interesting career, credits ranging from the Beatles ("Got to Get You Into My Life") to Joe Harriott.

Costco has Full House - The Complete Series, 32 DVD for $44.99. I picked it up for my daughter for a Christmas present.

Streaming/DL for me, thanks!

Glad you're enjoying it, thanks for the kind words! All except #9 are ID'd. #11 is indeed Butterfield Blues Band doing Nat Adderley's "Work Song". I wasn't looking to fool the crowd on that as much as to have opportunity for us to discuss "is it jazz or not?" and also to admire the musicianship of Buttefield and the guitarists (Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield). "East-West" from that album was one serious groundbreaking recording.

YMMV situation for sure. 'Goodbye and Hello' was the classic Buckley album to me, with the debut, 'Happy/Sad', and 'Blue Afternoon' all ringing in as pretty great, the saner half of 'Lorca' working for me, and the rest of the original studio catalog registering varying shades of "Huh?" to me. I remember buying 'Starsailor' out of a cutout bin and being just horrified by it, and still pretty much am. I think it was Robert Christgau who said that on that album, Buckley sounds like a man having his liver torn out - slowly. Some of his late 60's live stuff is pretty fantastic. Lee Underwood's guitar worked OK for me in this context.

Correct again! Session not led by Hayes, though.

You are correct!

Well done! Seems to be a little-known album for some reason, doesn't seem to have stayed in print very long back in the day from what I can tell. Still waiting on ID for #9. Not an easy task, but you guys have gotten tougher ones than this, even on this BFT! May raise some eyebrows, though.

There was supposed to be a 50 CD box of Impulse stuff come out for the 50th anniversary, but apparently that idea got scrapped. I even remember seeing a listing of the 50 albums that were going to be on it.

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Because what the world needs most is yet another reissue of the same BN titles.

This seems like the right place to bring up the original CD packaging, which put the jewel case in this senseless foot-long cardboard box which you had to wrestle the jewel case out of and then dispose of the box. Senseless murder of many trees. I'm OK with jewel cases, though I agree the new ones are flimsier and more breakable than the old ones. I'm also OK with digipaks as long as the teeth don't break. but really am annoyed when they do.

This may dampen some of the market for the earlier Barron material: