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About half are from the 70's. Some of the others are before, some are after. Glad you are enjoying it! I wanted to share stuff that has been meaningful to me for different reasons, which I'll make clear in the reveal, and to try to make a listening experience with a decent flow to it.

Glad you enjoyed it! I'll try to learn better what I'm doing with tags, etc. before I do another one of these - rookie mistake (Merkle, Fred, etc.).

Chris is fabulous but he sure ain't a new, young musician. Now we're on to really old guys, it's time Eric Alexander got a mention. I was just thinking that. You can assign your own value to "it", but nobody does "it" better than Alexander. Was blown away when I heard him at the Philly Art Museum a few years ago, and the guy even sounded great when I heard him warming up in an empty cafeteria there. I think of him as his generation's Dexter Gordon.

Well, that turned out to be the problem for Christopher Hollyday, didn't it? And he had McLean DOWN.

I also have never and never will pay for downloads. In order of frequency, I buy from Amazon, from board members here, occasionally from half.com or ebay for items where they beat Amazon marketplace prices or where Amazon doesn't list the item at all (happens much more than I would expect). Can't think of any sources other than those. I have no brick and mortars that I frequent at all. King of Prussia Mall has 400+ stores, none of which sell CD's or books.

Here's one I really like that has never made it to CD for some reason. Don't know why Fantasy never OJC-LE'd it. Includes Woody Shaw.

How about the Charles Tolliver All-Stars Paper Man album that had Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Joe Chambers? That one has never seen CD reissue for some reason.

Sorry about some ID tags showing, they are a demonstration of my ignorance, I took off what I saw in Windows Media Player. Looking forward to your feedback on the music. I'm more into sharing some things I really like that you may not have heard as opposed to stumping the experts ( you guys tend to be awesome at identifying the material in these BFT's). Hope you enjoy some of the music on this one, and hear something new that you like.

One I've longed for on CD is Sonny Simmons - 'Rumasuma', originally on Contemporary. Don't think Concord's gonna put it out for me

Don't think so, they're "Complete Columbia Albums Collection".

But then they come back in print cheaply. See: Woody Shaw, Mahavishnu Orchestra.

CD and DL link have been sent. If anyone else wants to participate, please let me know!

Those Columbia boxes often do come down substantially in price, but it might take a year or two.

Here's what I have so far: CD Hot Ptah DL Magnificent Goldberg Bright Moments JSngry Hardbopjazz Thom Keith jeffcrom Big Al

Really wish they would include 'Reasons in Tonality', but I know getting the rights on much of that Strata-East material is problematic.

Funny, I have (now had) that Robert Stewart CD on my trade list, had dismissed it without ever making it to the track you included. Thanks! And I'm on the lookout for some Faruq Z. Bey now.

Okay, it's so late in the month, that I'll claim an ID on this, even though I "cheated" on my self-imposed BFT rules. It's this: Mr. Mangione's fourth album, I think, with the great Wynton Kelly on piano. I sure liked that track. And while researching it, I found that Mangione is the trumpet (or flugelhorn) player on the Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star" - a little blast from my own personal past. My understanding has always been that Hugh Masakela was the trumpet player on that one.

But the box, which is very low priced, virtually eliminates any market JLH would have for a single reissue of that title.

I would because It's right up my alley. But truth is, it's been 35 years since I heard it.

I found the first set to be something of the holy grail, making much more explicit the tie between the Beatles and what had come before them. Not sure I'll spring for "remasters" of cruddy sounding BBC archive tapes, but I'll definitely be in for the second set.

I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 60's, so the reference is right up my Forbes Field alley!

bump seeking some takers

Jazz Messengers is a pretty great enterprise. I think they're worth plugging, based on my four substantial orders with them. I suspect he's saying that Jazz Messengers has the Mosaic sets, and is asking if there is somewhere else that has lower prices on them.

Looks like it's designed to be a compliment to the basically-perfect "Someday We'll All Be Free" so count me in!