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I always LIKED the Buckinghams a lot (especially "Kind of a Drag", "Susan", "Hey Baby, They're Playing Our Song", and a b-side called "Foreign Policy"), I also like Rhodes and a lot of Disco (especially the Chic family of artists, love the rhythm). But that's certainly not the response you are looking for. But I realize that what I like is just a personal snapshot of what I like, and does not begin to complete any comprehensive picture of the overall aesthetic value of anything (I don't "do" rap/hip-hop , but that doesn't mean there isn't "good" and "bad" ideas in that genre), and maybe that is closer to what you're getting at.

Agreed from the opposite side, I'm an old guy too, but generally enjoy the label and love the Harold Land's and the first two Buddy Terry's.

Agreed on both points. Different era, different label, I would pass on it, but that era/label are meaningful to me past the absolute musical content of the album.

Noticed that today out on the site, had some expiring points to look to use, ordered the McPherson, Dave Hubbard, Kynard, Coles, Galper, Barry Miles.

I don't think he ever went after it. I have had short exchanges with him twice over the years, and he is truly a renaissance man, and I think he has been even more drawn to art and photography than to music. Here is his wikipedia biography. Having studied Art and Zoology in Morehouse College, Atlanta, he moved on to be the first recipient of Howard University's MFA degree. in 1963. In 1964-5, he did further study in Lithography at Paris' L'Ecole Nationale Des Beaux Arts. During his residence in France, he spent a considerable amount of time with Pablo Picasso and his wife, Jacqueline in Cannes. He has also studied music composition privately with the composer Hale Smith, music theory and flute technique with the jazz musician Eric Dolphy, and classical flute technique and repertoire with Harold Jones. McNeill taught at several institutes of higher education, and is Professor Emeritus of Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University, New Jersey, having retired in 2001. Through the 1970s, and in addition to his position in Art, McNeill also taught Afro-American Music History, private flute lessons, and was instrumental in launching the Jazz Studies Program at Rutgers University. McNeill has exhibited his paintings and drawings at several galleries and colleges in the U.S. Northeast. He published two volumes of poems: Blackline: A Collection of Poems, Drawings and Photographs and After the Rain: A Collection of New Poems. In 2007, Lloyd McNeill was chosen by the USPS to design a postage stamp for the celebration of Kwanzaa 2009.[2]

Anything new coming from Black Saint/Soul Note?

Don't hesitate on Washington Suite. You need it.

Grab them while you can. Utterly beautiful albums. I put "Asha" on my first BFT - no one ID'd it and everyone loved it.

Now $13.99 on Amazon.

Elaborations/Light Blue/Put Sunshine in It coming as a twofer. https://www.bgo-records.com/albums/bgocd1304-elaborations-light-blue-arthur-blythe-plays-thelonious-monk-put-sunshine-in-it

#3 is "The Mooche" from Herbie Mann's 'Today' album. I have a lot of happy listening ahead to try to figure out some other titles, and #10 is going to need to be added to my collection if it isn't already there. I don't doubt the technical shortcomings pointed out, but my untrained ears just go for this. Enjoying the drumming immensely. Billy Higgins?

and Joe Chambers

Yes he did. Remember the first (of only two) time I ever saw him live, late 80's ish. The Opera House in Wilmington, DE. Benny Green's first gig with the Messengers. Philip Harper on trumpet and Jean Toussaint on tenor if I remember correctly (though both or either may be wrong, but pretty sure about Harper). Blakey, at the end of the show, came out and talked to the audience, and was mesmerizing. I still remember him saying "This music is a gift from the Creator, through us, to you.". They were still doing "Moanin" and "Blues March". The other time I saw him was at Penn's Landing in Philly. Couple years later, totally new and very very young band. Geoff Keezer, who was just a kid, Brian Lynch, who killed it on trumpet that night, Steve Davis on trombone, Javon Jackson and Dale Barlow both on tenor. I think the bass player was Essiet O. Essiet, though that is hazy. Very near the end of Blakey's life, and he was pretty clearly deaf, but still on fire. Nothing like that press roll. And more stories. And a couple months later he was gone. Very thankful for him and his music. Is there a good biography or documentary on his life anywhere? Had six kids of his own and adopted six others if I remember correctly.

On later Trane, after first listen, I tend to skip over the Garrison, Ali, and Pharoah solos, and just listen to the Coltrane's solos and the the ensemble sections. Only way I can bear it. I really like Pharoah Sanders, but not what he was doing in that context. I'm not a fan of the Seattle recordings at all, though I haven't listened in years and maybe should go back. And that recording was done the night before the bad acid trip which is 'Om'. Tyner and Elvin already sound like they'd given up the ghost to me at that point. 'Meditations' is, to me, an utter miracle given the chaos of what was occurring three weeks earlier on the aforementioned recordings. But as far as I can tell, that was the last of Elvin and Tyner in the group. I like Alice Coltrane a lot, and she was a better match for Trane going forward than a disheartened McCoy Tyner, but I've never "gotten" Ali, and find the Sanders work with Coltrane to be horrifying (perhaps intentionally so?).

I could certainly live just fine without ever hearing "Hey Jude" again. And I liked it when it first came out, but enoughs is too much.

I have both boxes plus the two 4-CD releases of the U.S. albums, which I bought when they came out earlier. Feels very redundant on some levels, but I haven't seen fit to move any of them out.

Huge fan of the golden eras of the band (Duane Allman era and Warren Haynes eras, with both Dickey Betts and Derek Trucks). 'Live at the Fillmore East' fried my 16-year old brain like nothing else. Some beautiful music along the way, such as "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed". RIP.

BGO is fairly often a month or even two late on their releases. But I don't know of them ever outright cancelling one.

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Amazon USA and a few reputable resellers (such as oxfordshire) have it listed as available. The price will come down if you wait a few weeks.

Looking for a digital source (CD, download) of this album - any leads appreciated, thanks!

He played drums with Shirley Scott during a benefit concert at the Ethical Society in Philly back ca. 1990. Got to talk to him for a good while, and he was very kind. Quite a drummer, entered my consciousness in the first two jazz albums I every bought in 1972 (both on the same trip to Franklin Music), Lee Morgan's "Live at the Lighthouse" and the Blue Note "Best of Herbie Hancock". Led the house band for many years at Philly's Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, though I never got there. RIP.

I saw her at the Keswick theatre sharing a bill with McCoy Tyner, probably in the late 90's though I am not totally sure of the time frame. She played beautifully and did great in the obiligatory duets with Tyner, as mentioned by others, knowing who she was and wasn't. I also loved her Marian McPartland-ness, and also enjoyed much of her late-career playing quite a bit.