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Excellent musician, I love the Colosseum albums. RIP.

Agreed, some great Bryan Carrott/Don Byron on there,the best I've ever heard either of them on a recording. Bryan played live at the Painted Bride Art Center in a group led by my friend Ruth Naomi Floyd in the late 90's, and blew me away (she also had James Weidman as her musical director and Charles Fambrough and T.K. Blue in the group, and I think Craig Handy was still with her at that point, forget the drummer who was a local Philly guy, but Carrott is the one who made the most impression on me). The quaility I heard in him that night has never been captured on any recording I've heard. Also spent some time talking to him at one of her recording sessions around the same time, and he was a very interesting guy. On another note, I've heard/owned almost everything on the list of releases here,, and none if it is essential to me except maybe the Superblue. The Onishi Vanguard sessions that Stefan mentioned are fabulous, too bad they aren't on there.

The Green/Kirwan/Spencer Fleetwood Mac and the Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac were two totally different animals with different purposes, and each excelled at what they did. I wouldn't want to be without "Then Play On" or without "Rumours" in my collection, but listen to them in very different moods from each other.

You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain

Yep. Kenton was "uncool" when I started listening in the early 70's so I shunned his work, but now that I have heard what he was doing during that period, I know it is major stuff and a great band. I have that Redlands set in permanent collection, along with some other material that came out posthumously. And I have learned to appreciate much of his old stuff, such as "West Side Story".

I am a huge fan of his work with Fleetwood Mac in the 60's/70's. He was a troubled soul, and flamed out so early, around 22-23. But I still listen in regular rotation to a compilation CD I burned of his greatest Fleetwood Mac music. And he and Peter Green certainly pushed each other to some incredible heights, especially on those Boston Tea Party takes. Cut below is my very favorite of his work.

Yeah, I found out a lot more about Stan Kenton than I wanted to know while looking up some of this.

Listening to a collection of 1958-1961 albums by Ann Richards. She sang with and had a very ill-advised, troubled marriage to Stan Kenton, and caused him a lot of heartache toward the end of the marriage. Seems to have had a very haunted life and committed suicide in 1982 at 46,, but had an amazing voice, and the collection is really good. Any other thoughts on her music? Here is a prime example, a song I love in almost every version I've ever heard:

Ken, what are your favorites? I can't objectively rate ALS, as it is the album from which I discovered jazz. Hooked the minute Elvin Jones comes in on the first cut. "Transition" is probably my Coltrane desert island disc, or maybe "Live at Birdland", but there are so many (including ALS) that I treasure, even some of the Prestige titles.

It's great.

Now shows as being released on June 29, available for pre-order in both single disc ($13.98) and 2CD ($19.98) versions. Here is what Amazon says about it: Unknown until 2004 and unheard until now, these recordings by the John Coltrane Quartet are, as Sonny Rollins says in the liner notes, like finding a new room in the Great Pyramid. Featuring the Classic Quartet – John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones – and recorded at the end of a two-week run at Birdland, the music on this album represents one of the most influential groups in music history both performing in a musical style it had perfected and reaching in new, exploratory directions that were to affect the trajectory of jazz from that point forward. The standard version (available in CD and LP formats) incorporates 7 tracks, 2 of which are two completely unheard, brand new original compositions as well as Coltrane classics like Impressions and Vilia. The deluxe version (also available in CD and LP formats) incorporates 7 alternate takes of some of the tracks from the standard – a must have for any Coltrane fan.

I'm in. Was that the timeframe when Coltrane was having reed issues?

Make it three. The one to have if you're having only one for some reason.

same here on both counts. The whole was much less than the sum of the parts. That being said, the title in discussion here, "Well Kept Secret" sounds more substantial as I listen to samples.

Understood, but Russell had some really good teams around him also. LeBron is a one-man-team in the playoffs this year. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ftw/2018/05/06/snl-roasts-lebrons-teammates-in-hilarious-sketch-about-the-other-cavaliers/111160618/

I'm reminded of (truth or urban legend) Sonny Rollins' response to the scholarly Gunther Schuller analysis of Rollins' great 'Blue Seven' solo. Something along the lines of "Really, did I do all that? I thought I just played my saxophone"

Yep. Concord more likely to do a single 35 minute compilation disc called "Maybeck Pianists Play for Lovers".

Concord could make it a $300 box, but wonder what the market is for that.

Great point, their first three and #7, so four double LP's for them. And the first two were glorious.

Elton John did it twice (Yellow Brick Road and Blue Moves), as did the Who to spectacular results (Tommy and Quadrophenia), but overall you are absolutely correct.

What were typical sales for something like a Blue Note Mobley LP back in the 50's/60's? I remember reading that Tina Brooks' "True Blue" sold under 1000 copies when it came out back then, but can't verify that.

And an old cliche is the double album "that could have made a great single album". And a full CD is a double album in length. Of course, some of the sprawl of double albums was part of the thrill, but there are a lot of 75 minute CD's that don't have that artistic sense. 2 LP's of the Mothers of Invention's "Freak Out" had a purpose, as did Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde", the Allman Brothers's "Live at the Fillmore East" and "Eat a Peach", the White Album, the Byrd's "(Untitled)" etc etc etc regardless of what you thought of the purpose.

I don't claim to be representative of most people, but I have no problem with length provided the music justifies it to me (of course, totally subjective). Finishing up a 4CD/5 hour box set of Zoot Money 60's recordings right now, all done in one sitting while I work. Other things I can't stand 2 minutes of.

So anyways, back to Mingus.

Added to my Amazon wish list, thanks for the heads up. Includes "Song of Songs" and "Theme for Maxine".