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Me too, but it would seem to fit the bill here just fine. And Mingus never made a boring album. Early Larry Coryell records would work also. I especially like 'Fairlyland', 'Barefoot Boy', and 'Offering'.

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I got a sealed box set of the Archie Shepp Black Saint/Soul Note recordings from a huge Amazon reseller. It was empty inside the sealed box, no CD's. They gave me a refund, no questions asked.

They only had one monster hit for the label, and never made a good album, but this sure was one for the ages. And they made other good records on Verve (especially "Go Ahead and Cry"), but popular taste moved on.

Understood. For instance, I think these are brilliant and (in their own way) groundbreaking. albums, even though totally "commercial". And these are two exceedingly talented musicians. Not that many people could have made them.

Don't think either of them were actually huge sellers (chartwise they didn't do great - the Hardin's did not chart at all, though maybe as back catalog they had better shelf life. And I'm sure Hardin sold a tad better than, say, Gil Melle or Alan Shorter). The Zappa's did sell, and they had some sizeable one-shot wonder success with the Hombres, Friend and Lover, and Janis Ian (who also was later much more successful at Columbia, though her early Verve stuff is much more interesting). They missed out letting Laura Nyro and Rare Earth get away after their first albums, but didn't know how to produce either of them as well as Columbia and Motown, The Verve Folkways/Forecast labels impact goes well beyond their sales. The Blues Project, Richie Havens, Tim Harden, Paupers albums should have sold more than they did. The Paupers had a chance to be big, but stiffed at Monterey.

I just ordered one off abebooks, thanks for the reminder. I forgot this one existed.

Yes, that's a really good one, much better than I expected.

Final up with edits, about 130 gone, thanks all!

Lots of them I appreciate and own, but the Tolliver's and the McCoy Tyner, are my favorite, and the John Handy and Grachan Moncur are great.

Takes a lot more than a spelling mistake to offend people around here, but almost anything can bring out their/our sense of humor. We learn to just roll with it and have fun! to the list of excellent female musicians, I would add Nicole Mitchell (don't think I saw anyone else mention her). Love some of what I have heard by her.

Yeah, I bookmarked those as soon as I saw them. I already have the Foster and the Land on CD, though the Land is an ancient Sony CD, so I plan to upgrade.

There's another set of these coming on March 21, including Harold Land Damisi and Frank Foster The Lound Minority. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/release/music/jazz-fusion/month/2018/03?periods=3

My bad, thanks.

A few broad brush comments. Most of the Reprise stuff (65, 66, Mary Poppins) is rancid. I like the Columbia, Verve, RCA and the Fantasy stuff quite a bit. "Afro-Eurasian Eclipse" is spectacular. I also don't disagree with the recommendations of any of the bolded items. I'm much higher on Soul Call" and especially "Cote D'Azure" than aparxa. "Money Jungle" is incredible, lives up to the hopes and more.

None of those originated with Blue Note. The Legge was a Vogue session, I assume the Sims was. The Sinatra is Capitol recordings that got released on CD on the Blue Note label.

That was a CD reissue of a UA album. Kenny Cox in the Liberty era (and don't sleep on those two albums). Barbara Carroll, Robbie Krieger (of the Doors), and Dom Minasi in the bleak 70's UA era.

I stand corrected! Knew to put a question mark at the end of my guesses .

Looks to me like Roy Brooks, Gene Taylor, Blue Mitchell, and Junior Cook?

Some great jazz studio guys on this one, and wonderful performance: Largely forgotten that Jerry Butler had the hit single version of "Moon River". I like both versions a lot.

Ordered today.

He and Norman Whitfield did some incredible work together. RIP.

My set arrived very quickly and in perfect condition, and I have really enjoyed getting to know Gary!

Sounds like you married well . I think many recordings like this can't possibly live up to our hopes/expectations, we have a lot of been there/done that in our listening experiences at this point. And by 1965, Montgomery was not breaking new ground the way he was on Full House. The release that absolutely did knock my socks off was the Larry Young set they put out.