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I was a frequent nominator in the period it ground to a halt, so may have been somewhat to blame for its demise, but not many other people were volunteering to nominate at the time. The album that finally killed the experience for me was John Handy - Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival. There should have been meaningful conversation and perhaps healthy disagreement about the place of that album in the jazz pantheon. Instead, there was just a couple of snarky comments and then silence, and I had to say why am I spending 30 minutes of my life trying to come up with a meaningful presentation of an important album if no one here gives a rip. I don't see value in the discussion being along the lines of "Is Jackie McLean's Capuchin Swing a really really really good album or just a really really good album". I tried to generate fruitful discussion on some albums I felt there could be multiple valid viewpoints, such as Gary Bartz's "I've Known Rivers", Leon Thomas's "Live in Berlin", Gato Barbieri's "El Pampero", and the 1970 Atlantic Joe Zawinul album. But people didn't seem particularly interested.

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It was! But there are levels and degrees....

For Beck, it was all downhill after "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" as far as I am concerned. The other guitarist on that record did OK for himself afterwards....

From 'Extensions of a Man"

Agreed, it was a retro move, and even seemed like it then. I saw them at the Tower Theatre in Philly back then. Good show, didn't change my life. I saw RTF with Corea/DiMeola/Clarke/Williams at Playhouse in the Park, maybe a year or two before, and that did more for me. As did 'Land of Make Believe' era Chuck Mangione, with Gap, Gerry Niewood, Esther Satterfield et al, also at Playhouse in the Park.

Enjoyable, There was one on Polydor, and one on Columbia. I prefer the Polydor one, which is more Corea. The one you show is more Hancock.

And will prove to be well worth the wait. Thanks!

Regardless of what you think of Norah Jones musically (I have no strong feelings positive or negative), we can all be thankful she put so much money in the Blue Note coffers, which may have let them continue the reissues of classic albums longer than they would have otherwise.

This is from the Tommy James entry in wikipedia, about how "The Hanky Panky" ended up on Roulette: The men made the rounds of the major recording labels, getting initial potential offers from most companies they visited. One label, Roulette Records, gave no initial response because its head, Morris Levy, was out of town until evening; Roulette was one of the last stops on their visit.[3] By the next morning, Mack, Rubin, and James were now receiving polite refusals from the major record companies after the enthusiasm for the record the day before. James said, "We didn't know what in the world was going on, and finally Jerry Wexler over at Atlantic leveled with us and said, 'Look, Morris Levy and Roulette called up all the other record companies and said, "This is my freakin' record." (laughs) and scared 'em all away – even the big corporate labels.'" Their only option would be to sign with Roulette.[4]

And he recorded that Mingus Three album with Hampton Hawes on Roulette. Levy seems to have known how to play George Goldner for all he was worth. Did not realize (or remember) that Levy also owned Birdland. Hit Men is one depressing book, especially since it rings true...

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It was originally planned to be a 50-CD box to mark the 50th anniversary of the label ("50 at 50") but now is five years late and apparently has been truncated to 25 CD's.

The Hines and Scott are the only two titles I don't already own, so don't see any need for this. The original config had Sam Rivers - Streams, and a John Klemmer. Sorry to see those gone.

Which is really strange that M'Boom would make it to CD and this one, far superior, wouldn't.

The best part of the Bridgewater/Pope Roach groups for me was Tyrone Brown. He is a beast on bass, also a gracious guy when I met him. Pope and Brown, along with Eddie Green and Sherman Ferguson, made up Catalyst, a great early 70's Philly group. Brown played with my friend Ruth Naomi Floyd for awhile. He was really good in and of himself, but the right bass player for what she does has proven to be a guy named Matthew Parrish. Bobby Zankel, Bryan Carrott, and James Weidman have all played major roles in her concerts and recordings at different times. Zankel at first clashed with her so badly in musical terms, but was able to adapt beautifully over time. Weidman was her musical director for awhile, and did really nice work for her. I've never been big on either of the Bridgewater brothers, though I consider Dee Dee a major artist, but Roach obviously liked what Cecil brought to the table. Pope is what he is, take it or leave it, but again, Roach seemed to appreciate him. Billy Harper is, of course, an impossible act to follow anyways.

I love this one, so glad to have it.

My CD collection loves Ari Brown, I have several he plays on, as a leader and in the Ritual Trio. I agree that he should get a lot more love, as should Andrew White for that matter. Brown's playing on that track is so mature, I just assumed it must be the older White, who I thought was a good bit older. I only picked up on Brown in this century, so need to go see what he was doing in the 70's and 80's. As far as the Roach Columbia, you would think that at least it would have come out on CD in Japan, but no. I also love that Abrams, actually have it, but missed ID'ing it. I have a whole lot of Parker in the house, he is a monster.

Jack Walrath - Master of Suspense CD. 1987 Blue Note. With K.Garrett/C. Jefferson/Turre/James Williams/Cox/Burrage. Mint condition. $20 shipped in USA or best reasonable offer or interesting trade. PM or email john.felser@verizon.net if interested, thx.

"I Got You Babe" and the rest of their good 60's work was on Atco. The Caeser and Cleo singles were on Vault and Reprise. The excellent 60's Cher solo stuff was on Imperial.

Yeah, the Ertegun's Jazz stuff was on Atlantic (and, briefly, Embryo), not Atco. Atco was for Coaster's records (And then Vanilla Fudge albums).

One of the great Robert Christgau album reviews (though, from what I remember, I can't stand the album itself): The Insect Trust: Hoboken Saturday Night [Atco, 1970]Thomas Pynchon, Louis "Moondog" Hardin, and an unidentified child (who else would say "busketty" for "spaghetti"?) are among the guest composers, Elvin Jones and an unidentified child among the guest musicians. Former president James Garfield makes a cameo appearance. Vocalist Nancy Jeffries applies her tobacco voice to a feminist lyric called "Trip on Me" that I recommend to Janis Joplin. The blues scholars in the group have been listening to a lot of Arabic and Eastern European music lately, but this doesn't stop Elvin Jones from sounding just like Elvin Jones. In short, these passionate humanists also sound friendly and have come up with a charming, joyous, irrepressibly experimental record. And every experiment works. A

Correct, they went to the post season five times 1976-1983, five times 2007-2011, and three times (1915, 1950, 1993) apart from those two eras. And that's going back to like 1876. We still recognize (but don't celebrate) "Chico Ruiz day" here. http://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-21-1964-chico-ruiz-steals-home-begin-phillies-collapse

Glad you came out of it, but depending what it was, your worst may be ahead. Prayers and best wishes out to you.

Not exactly a glorious era for them. Carlton in '72 notwithstanding.