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So I look at the Blue Note description, and prepare to make a snarky comment. Then I see a Jimmy Giuffre composition and Gabor Szabo's "Lady Gabor" in the titles, and I reconsider. Then I see Arto Lindsay, Sonic Youth and Annette Peacock with writer credits and all those string players, and remember that I never have liked anything else I've ever heard by Cline, and I decide to make the snarky comment anyways. Jim and I are the same age, so I suspect I'm also too old for this. Had this nightmare where, at Ike Quebec's instigation in 1962, Blue Note dropped Jackie McLean from their roster so that they could concentrate on wider distribution for Dodo Greene's 'My Hour of Need'.

Are there any of the Roach Quartet recordings with Harper that are available on CD? I've never seen them. I have 'Lift Every Voice and Sing', but that's a horse of a very different stripe.

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Nice set if you are a completist for her work from that era (I am, but irrationally so), but otherwise you are better served by a good best of, as she was not really an album artist then. Gets even more maddening because her US and British albums varied in content, so there is no clean way to get it all without a good bit of overlap. I do strongly recommend this 30 cut beauty, available for $4.99 and shipping on Amazon Marketplace.

Agreed, not to be missed!

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Looks like we've come a ways from Larry Willis and Joe Henderson, let alone Al Kooper and Steve Katz.

It's pretty good, writing is meh. Not nearly as striking as what came before (on Imperial) or after (the monster hits on Philly International that helped define an era). BTW, here is a great Philly International album cut that was spectacularly popular here, even though it was not a charting song.

I think Wilbur Little and Gene Perla brought a lot to those Blue Note albums with their bass playing. Wonder if that was Jones's conception of how he wanted the bass to be played? My favorite is 'Coalition' for the great versions of 'Yesterdays' and 'Simone', but I really like all the Blue Notes. Farrell, Coleman, and Foster all did great playing with him, in all cases as good or better than anything they ever did otherwise. Liebman and Grossman also did themselves proud, especially given their ages (especially Grossman in that regard).. I find parts of 'Heavy Sounds' very self-indulgent, and the live stuff has too many long drum solos, but all have value. Don't remember him ever making an unworthy album, just different levels and degrees of goodness.

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Those box sets don't even list personnel. Bad even for their genre.

Received her 'Aquarius' CD in a trade with another board member, and love it. Was not familiar with her prior to this. What else do I need to hear by her, and what else has she done with that "Ice Crystal" group? Thanks.

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Accidentally ended up with 2 copies of this one. $25 or interesting trade shipped in USA.

"Sightsong" is, to me, one of the two or three best albums he ever did ("Young At Heart/Wise in Time" on Delmark is my absolute favorite by him).

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Yeah, that's probably the only one I'll go for (I already own "Sightsong" by Abrams and the three Roach quartet sets).

wish someone would reissue those Roulette sides he did (and Blakey's "Gypsy Folk Tales"). Love his earliest stuff, especially the writing. "Time Will Tell" especially.

1 – Quite the bass player. Reminds me of a british guy named Colin Hodgkinson, who played in a group called Back Door. Haven’t heard them in 40+ years, but he left a lasting impression on me. 2 – Another impressive bass player, but the island groove is not my kind of groove overall. 3 – N/A to my world. 4 – Another island groove lost on me. 5 – Don’t think this is jazz. Sort of a Leo Kottke groove but not Kottke, too sprightly for John Fahey. 6 – Dirty Dozen brass band? Certainly learned their JB lessons, whoever they are. Good trumpet for what it is. 7 – Raucus “On The Sunny Side of the Street”. Ancient. Did I hear that first line correctly? 8 – Very nice. 9 – Tasteful for sure, but doesn’t do a lot for me. I’m sure I know the trumpet player and pianist. Flute player sounds off his game to me. 10 – “It Was A Very Good Year” by Philly’s own Trudy Pitts and Pat Martino from ‘Introducing Trudy Pitts’. First thing on the BFT that falls into “love it/gotta have it” territory for me. Thankfully, I do. Don’t sleep on the Prestige Legends of Acid Jazz CD that has this set. 11 – One of those pre-bop tenor players who grew up on Coleman Hawkins. Could be Hawk himself from the bossa nova album he did on Prestige. I’m not good at that breed of player. 12 – Oscar Pettiford on cello with Julius Watkins and Phil Urso from ‘The New Oscar Petttiford Sextet’. “Pendulum at Falcon’s Lair”. 13 – I like this. Benny Golson with Curtis Fuller? Not placing the tune 14 – Great control of soprano, enjoy the walking bass Vibes sounds like Lionel Hampton, so I am going to assume it is a later album by him, as something this old sounding would seem to be from before the soprano caught on for modern jazz. Very clean guitar. Sort of recognize the tune as swing era? Look forward to the ID. 15 – Annoying guitar player. John Scofield? He annoys me like that.

Really. I paid like $105 for mine and felt great about it at the time.