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I think I have the files lined up right. Initial thoughts: 1 – Sounds like Lionel Hampton to me. I like this quite a bit. 2 – Sounds like an update on Lionel Hampton to me. I like this quite a bit. The bass player would not be someone Hampton would use. Jay Hoggard on vibes? (take 2) 3 – Good stuff, maybe Milt Jackson with Oscar Peterson? 4- love this! Can’t wait to find out what it is. Bobby Hutcherson? Probably sitting in my collection somewhere already. 5 – Very very nice. Maybe Lem Winchester with Johnny Hammond Smith? 6 – huh? One of those old tenor masters I never get right. Ben Webster? Yet some Mingus-y shades to it. This isn’t something I would choose to listen to. 7 – No idea. Pretty interesting. 8 – Not really up my alley, thought no doubt players I’m familiar with and own stuff by. 9 – Didn’t like this at first, but it got moving pretty well. 50’s vintage? 10 – I do like this quite a bit. Again, sounds like 50’s vintage. MJQ? 11 – Another oldie. Very nice, of course. 12 – “Tenderly”. Well played for what it is, but does not translate well for me. 13 – Same vibist as 12? Same comment. 14 – Reminded me of those Tyner/Hutcherson cuts on ‘Time for Tyner’, but not quite at that level. 15 – “My Funny Valentine”. This is lovely. Reminds me of how nice those Walt Dickerson/Richard Davis duo albums were. 16 – Latin feel, hard to place. Gary Burton? 17 – Maybe something like Grant Green/Larry Young/Bobby Hutcherson? This one is a highlight for me. No doubt there are players like Lem Winchester in here. Very enjoyable set (especially #4), and I greatly look forward to the reveal!

Note that somehow they managed to not include "I Go To Pieces", the Del Shannon composition that was one of their two really good singles, on this set.

And then It's a Beautiful Day took Deep Purple's "Wring That Neck" and turned it into "Don and Dewey." Quite the interesting transatlantic cultural exchange there.

DL for me please, and I can show Page how one can listen to this stuff for 41 years and still be clueless at this. I don't call myself "Old Wooden Ears" for nothing. One word of advice - guess "Sonny Stitt" on everything, and you'll be right more often than you would expect.

And was still recording as late as 2008. Thankful for his music, and love the recordings by the group with Lloyd and Szabo.

Yeah, I have cuts from those sessions on the Model Shop CD, the Time Circle anthology, I think on the "Clear" album CD, that don't seem to overlap.

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I do hear what you mean, just needs some electric violin. It actually sounds really good.

Yep, that's also on the first album (and this live set).

Cyrille/Farmer/Bley/Murray Vol. 2 pre-ordered, thanks so much!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Znf2oa_rGo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-giw9ma68fU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Tc0-U1Ijc

Got this off Amazon. Haven't watched the DVD yet, but blown away by the CD. The sound is amazing for what it is, an obviously very very fine soundboard recording. Musically, it's seven of the nine cuts from their classic 1969 debut (which to me was the best rock album of 1969, period), and three other, lesser cuts. The cuts from the first album are longer here for the most part, with the seven cuts running about 60 minutes. The full CD runs about 79 minutes. If you loved their debut album, or San Francisco 60's rock, or electic violin (a la, say Sugarcane Harris), don't miss this;

Wes box arrived today for me also, listened to two discs already. I added in "It's A Beautiful Day - Live at the Fillmore 1968" to get up to $35 for the free shipping. How's that for contrasting tastes?

No, that was genuine - my copy shipped today (was on backorder) & at that price I got notice yesterday that mine had shipped @ $28.10.

I agree that 'The Family That Plays Together' is their best, followed by their Debut and then '... Dr. Sardonicus'. I like their later live stuff fine, find the later studio stuff very hit-or-miss. But all the later stuff is really Randy California solo using the Spirit name (which he had every legal and ethical right to do). The four Jo Jo Gunne albums (the group Ferguson and Mark Andes formed when they left Spirit) are available on a low-priced 2-CD set, and well worth picking up. But start with those first four albums, which really form the canon. The fifth, 'Feedback', really had nothing to do with the "real" spirit, as neither California nor Ferguson had any involvement. Sort of like the James Gang without Joe Walsh, or Mott The Hoople without Ian Hunter.

Not aware of those Italian sets, thx. Just a Capitol Adderley alone would be mind-blowing, but I don't expect it either. More of a Daydream because it would be so jarring by the end.

Universal is doing some similar sets, but it seems they all come out of Italy (and they include Concord/Fantasy material, as Universal is their distributor in Euorope). Oh well now! That means you could have a set covering Cannonball uninterrupted from first Capitol to last Fantasy, and...people who find the Herbie Columbia run maddeningly inconsistent because the only single answer to it all is that there is no single answer to it all would be sent running and screaming to the nearest asylum with a one-way ticket in hand by that thing. Listening to 'The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free' or either of the 'Zodiac' albums uniterrupted would be enough to send me running and screaming to the nearest asylum wiht a one-way ticket in hand...

Universal is doing some similar sets, but it seems they all come out of Italy (and they include Concord/Fantasy material, as Universal is their distributor in Euorope). Seems like those have all been EU public domain type of material, haven't they? I have the Parker, am aware of the Fitzgerald and a couple of others.

Cannonball box would be awesome (even though some of the latter stuff is at times borderline unlistenable to me when they decided they were vocalists). but only Sony seems to have seen the light on these kind of boxes. I'm amazed I'm getting this Hancock box for $3 a disc.

That's a loooooong way down from here.... But no doubt pays better, Still, there is much of value in his Columbia catalog.

The Jordan could have been one disc shorter without splitting albums across CD's. I'm thilled to get it either way - the bigger loss to me is not including 'Reasons in Tonality', but I understand why it's not there.

Amazon came back and gave me an estimated shipping date (Nov. 21-23) on the Montgomery box, so I'm hopeful.

Grabbed that one as soon as I saw your post, thanks so much. Showing as "temporarily out of stock", so we'll see if it gets delivered.

$99.99 new from Marvelio on Amazon.com Marketplace. No one else there has it lower than $170. Ordered mine, there are two more left from them.

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