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I hold parts of all of the opinions here. To me, the truly magic Smokey was the really early stuff, like "I'll Try Something New" and "Way Over There", but I get plenty of enjoyment out of his recordings through "Quiet Storm", and do love "Being With You" (which I think is awesome writing myself).

I own it. Not perfect, but pretty great. Canonical live stuff to me along with Winterland and Band of Gypsies (I'm not a big fan of his Monterey or Woodstock performances, especially Woodstock).

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The Andrew Cyrille set comes readily to mind as essential. I would also recommend the Mingus Dynasty and George Russell and Mal Waldron sets. Lots of other good ones, and I own a dozen of them. Beware of used copies of the first David Murray set - the first edition of it had mastering errors, which others can give the details on.

Pricing always seems to be all over the place on these sets, Amazon and elsewhere. Well worth shopping carefully. Import CD's has had sales on them a few times which have been really good.

Agreed. I use it every day, so well worth much more than that to me. I'll look into that.

Won’t even attempt ID’s, will just give my impressions, and look forward to the ID and discussions on a most stimulating BFT. This is my favorite type of BFT, where I know I will learn about a lot of music that I really like but have not been familiar with. 1 – Well, they certainly listened to “In A Silent Way” more than once. The drummer has the Tony Williams thing down cold. 2 – Beautiful, will certainly look to add this to the collection if I don’t already own it. What amazing control of the clarinet. 3 – Monk lives! Great version 4 – Good, solid stuff 5 – Too loose for my tastes. Sounds like tuning up to me. 6 – Spunky and squeaky. Mixed feelings on it. I like the bass a lot. 7 – Love this one! 8 – Atmospheric. I have a lot of this sort of thing from the 50’s, and generally enjoy it quite a bit. I like this, too, though it is of later vintage. 9 – Very busy. Lost me around the time of the bowed bass lead. 10 – My transmission made a noise like that right before it died. 11 – I know I’m familiar with this compostion, but not placing it at the moment. I think an old Blue Note track. I’ll kick myself on the ID. I like the cut, though the guitarist has some strange tremolo and gets on my nervers (for reference, I find guys like Scofield and Fiuczynski unlistenable due to their tone). Enjoying the bass player. 12 – Bread and butter. What’s not to like?

I have specific trusted resellers I use on amazon. Looking up box sets on ebay will show a lot of Asian and Russian counterfeit sellers.

Same here.

There are no Nobel's inside the Gates of Eden.

Live in Amsterdam has especially inspired song choices on it. Those Japanese Titles really need to be on CD. Would make a great Mosaic Select.

Any of the Verve sessions.

Bob Dylan played piano with him pre-NYC, and remained fond of him.

Yep, HORO 22 and most of HORO 21. Here is a bad translation: Product introduction 1975 recording work of George Adams / Don Pullen will be the first on CD from A RECORDINGS appeared in 300 limited edition! Until the M1 ~ M5 is, as it is recorded, "JAZZ A CONFRONTO 22" George Adams name than the masterpiece series of Italian "HORO" master. M6 ~ M8, like "HORO" Don Pipuren name than the series from "JAZZ A CONFRONTO 21", recorded three songs with the exception of only piano solo song of Don Pullen. Both Adams, Pullen, David Williams, in playing in the quartet by Daniel Richmond, recorded in March 1975. Sale-vendor provides materials (2012/03/29) Information of work Main Artist: George Adams , Don Pullen Quartet Contents The number of constituent | 1 sheet 1. [CD] title time WMA Flash credit 1. Cry For The Montain 2. Song Of Adam 3. Requiem For A Slumlord Four. Payday Blues Five. You Name It 6. Calypso In Roma 7. Sploogie Doo 8. Dee Arr

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Jazz Concert: Heaven in a Nightclub Friday, October 21, 2016, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location: Christ the King Presbyterian Church, 325 Fayette St, Conshohocken, PA 19428, Conshohocken, PA US 19428 Cost: Adults: $12.00, Students: $7.00 Download: Download Event On October 21st at 7PM our church will be hosting the next event in our CTK Arts Series. This event will be a jazz concert entitled, Heaven in a Nightclub. The music and program will be performed by six musicians and will feature Dr. Bill Edgar, who is widely known as Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary, and Jazz Vocalist and Composer, Ruth Naomi Floyd.

Well yeah, but it is cut on a Haeco Scully lathe with Westrex RA1700 series amps, Westrex 3DIIA cutting head and Telefunken U73B tube limiter; Maselec master control and equalization. With love from the folks at Gearbox Records.

Relistening to the "Chronicles, Vol., 1" book on CD on my work commute. Fabulous writing by Dylan, and Sean Penn does a great job narrating.

I have it and like it quite a bit. Pullen was at his best in that period. Seemed to get a little formulaic later.

For whatever else the sixties were or weren't about, they most certainly were NOT about standing aside from the political (or cultural) spheres. The song was about the changing of the guard in society from the Eisenhower 50's, the individuals in the song were merely props to illustrate the cultural upheaval of the generations. The woman wasn't an individual, it was a mindset. The entire era was overshadowed by the Vietnam War and the draft. The same dynamic has not existed since then, and will not again any time soon. There was certainly a lot of hypocrisy and naivete, but idiocy? Look around today and compare.

Went and looked up all of the Nobel Literature winners between 1970-2015. I've heard of two of them - Toni Morrison and Saul Bellow. And have never read a full book by either of them. Whereas Bob Dylan's best lyrics were and are a major influence on me. "Voice of a Generation" thing is romanticized, but I like and carry the myth, so therefore it works for me (we live our lives on that basis a lot more than we will want to admit). And there is so much still to find in the most compelling of his songs (for instance, "Rainy Day Women" is based on a biblical proverb about complaining wives (27:15), among other things - it's not actually a drug song - and the John Wesley Harding album is steeped in Biblical imagery). I could spend a good chunk of my lifetime just exploring the meanings of the first first 10 songs on "John Wesley Harding". So while I understand some of the concerns, I will celebrate the Nobel Prize presentation to Dylan.

I was at a Dizzy Tribute concert at Penn's Landing in Philly in the early 90's, just before he passed. David Sanchez was feeling his oats, I guess, from the premature Columbia contract, and played what he considered a hot-shot solo on one tune. Veteran Mario Rivera was up next for his solo. He played Sanchez's solo note-perfect, then played a vaudeville version making fun of Sanchez's solo, then played his own solo. The trumpet section for that concert was Jon Faddis and Freddie Hubbard, each good-naturedly trying to out-showoff the other one, and Wynton Marsalis, who clearly did not approve and played very close to the vest.