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Really interesting read, thanks for posting!

"Asha" and "Washington Suite" are the two greatest McNeill albums, and thankfully both have had good CD reissues. "Treasure" and "Tori" are also both really good, but MIA as far as CD reissues. "Elegia" has some good stuff, but also some serious misfires with "classical vocals". But overall, McNeill is an underheralded renaissance genius who has also had some serious accomplishments in the worlds of painting (studied with Picasso IIRC), photography, and poetry. Also, remember that Kwanzaa postage stamp? That was his design.

I own or have owned 2, 5-10 , but didn't recognize some of those! The Lacy and Brackeen cuts are wonderful - I will hunt down those discs if not cost prohibitive. And that Bridgewater Bros. sure looks tasty. Thanks as always!

Found it, "Settegast Strut" from this. Will definitely need to check out those early Frank Lacy albums!

Probably noteworthy that once Trane got to Atlantic, pre-McCoy he did not use Garland. Used Flanagan, Walton, Wynton Kelly. Though I guess that could have been a contractual thing with Garland being exclusively signed to Prestige or something? I think there are several noteworthy Trane's, and he became the first one probably around the time of recording with Monk, and the whole sheets of sound thing (which I like quite a bit). And his writing really came into focus with the 'Giant Steps' album ( I LOVE "Syeeda's Song Flute").

Looking for the 5CD set "John Coltrane The Impulse Albums Vol. 4". Missed some low-priced ones on ebay. Hoping to come in with total price in the $40's. Any leads appreciated, thanks.

Received the Max Roach set. Beautiful condition, excellent communication, and lightning fast shipping, thanks!

Playing doesn't sound like JJ to me, but I'm not much of a trombone guy, so who knows?

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.