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I hope somebody reissues the duo album he did with Gary Peacock.

The guitar and bass playing was fine. My concerns were singing (one Jorma vocal per Airplane album was OK, but not a steady diet), material (not a country blues guy), and Papa John Creach (never did get him).

Greg Walker is a good singer for sure, but don't know that he would have fit on the first three Santana albums. Much more M.O.R./Adult Contemporary group when Walker was with them, and I think he would have sounded way overly mannered with the original group.

Well, certainly a much much better album, if not a good one. They left some really good work off their albums through the years. I also like "Blows Against The Empire", "Sunfighter", and "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland" fine, and am OK with "Baron Von Tollbooth". I'm also OK with the first three Jefferson Starship albums (love "Caroline" and "St. Charles"), but those were something totally different (and less) than the 60's Jefferson Airplane. But I never could really stand Hot Tuna.

It is a great album, but they are very different albums, with Baxter's being a more unified whole and Volunteers more a collection of songs (to me, anyways). I wouldn't want to be without either of them (or any of their other 60's albums - though I can certainly live without Long John Silver or Bark) .

Mine also. That was their musical masterpiece as an album. But 'Wooden Ships' is the moment for me, and I still play it very frequently, especially in the car. "If you smile at me, I will understand, cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language". Post-apocalyptic beauty. Go ride the music.

I liked his singing for what it was, his guitar playing did what it had to do, and he was an outstanding songwriter and a visionary. The Airplane in the 1960's were WAY more than the sum of their parts. He, Slick, and Balin had amazing harmony mix. In their prime, they were the best there was. And he was by far the best thing about the Starship. And "Wooden Ships" is my favorite record cut ever, and that was pure Paul Kantner. I'm 61, and I assume we are from different generations, but boy, you hit a nerve with your post. BTW, Richard Thompson and Ian Anderson are the best at giving interviews.

Or Alex Ligterwood, who definitely still can, based on the new live Oblivian Express. But I would think/hope the vocals would belong to Rolie on this, provided he is still up to it.

DL please, thanks!

Hey, just the fact that Rob Thomas, Michelle Branch et al aren't invited is progress! Abraxas Pool was really good without being totally retro, so if Santana will give some freedom to Rolie, it could work.

I'd pre-order that. The guy I'd like to hear more of from the live recordings is Leon Patillo, who replaced both Leon Thomas and Richard Kermode. Saw them at Atlantic City Racetrack opening for CSNY in 1974. Wish their set had been released in a box rather than the CSNY set. One reason to be hopeful for the new release is that the Abraxas Pool CD from 1997 is excellent. Rollie, Schon, Shrieve, Carabello, Jose Chepito Areas, and Alphonso Johnson.

Michael Shrieve also thought Automatic Man was good

And the Shepp CD I am referring to is a Universal release.

Or it could end up being a Journey album (actually, I like the early Journey albums fine)? Not sure about the concept of 70 year old rock and rollers, but I guess we'll see. And it's got to be better than what they've been doing individually. But I certainly don't expect anything approaching the power and majesty of early Santana. All except Carabello were also on 'Caravanserai' (possibly my all-time favorite album by anybody), but since it isn't mentioned, that approach is probably off the table, which is probably a good thing given the lateness of the hour.

So I thought that CD's only could hold 80 minutes worth of content. The new Archie Shepp twofer on Impulse! shows as running 81:14. Can that be?

As suggested, try opening in a different browse, like Google Chrome, and see if that corrects the issue. If so, it will be worth finding out how to reset preference for site on Firefox.

Will wait for reviews on the sound quality. If that's good, I'm in.

Even thought I have mixed feelings about their work from 'Black Market' on (and not just because of Jaco), I will find this fascinating to watch. And the production values on the film appear to be very high.

I'm in for this one eventually. From theseconddisk.com LOS ANGELES, CA – While jazz flautist Herbie Mann is often remembered as a pop-jazz player, he was actually a pioneer in popularizing world music and even prog-rock with recordings released on his own Embryo imprint (as part of Atlantic Records). And in the late ’60s, he was fronting one of the most progressive and electrifying bands in the world: guitarist Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous on electric & upright bass, saxophonist Steve Marcus, drummer Bruno Carr, and vibraphonist Roy Ayers. Together, the sextet cut the dynamic Live at the Whisky A Go Go album in 1969, drawn from a four night run at the legendary nightclub on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. Though the band’s repertoire was quite varied on these dates, just two side-long tracks, “Ooh Baby” and “Philly Dog,” surfaced on the Atlantic Records release. Now, reissue producer Pat Thomas has unearthed the multi-track tapes for these shows (never before mixed), and has programmed a double-CD set that shows this high-energy jazz-rock outfit stretching out – sometimes, on Sharrock’s solos, way out – with, as an added bonus, the appearance of Linda Sharrock on songs that appeared (in studio versions) on the seminal Sonny Sharrock album Black Woman released around the time of these live shows. All performances are previously unreleased, including a 23-minute jam of Donovan’s “Tangier” blending into Tim Hardin’s “If I Were A Carpenter” and a newly discovered take of “Ooh Baby” that clocks in at 21 minutes! Sonny Sharrock’s searing lead guitar work is featured on songs first recorded by Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, and Simon & Garfunkel – plus “Black Woman” and Portrait of Linda in Three Colors” with Linda on vocals. Live at the Whisky 1969–The Unreleased Masters presents two CDs filled to the brim with explosive, yet ethereal innovative jazz-rock at its best. Fans of Bitches Brew, The Inner Mounting Flame, early Weather Report and similar-era titles will quickly realize that Herbie Mann was not just a pop-jazzbo – but a force to be taken more seriously than history has accorded him. File this CD between Soft Machine 3rdand the jazz-funk of The Crusaders. Packaging includes several previously unpublished live photos of this band in action, with notes by Thomas. A huge jazz find!

Have not heard it, wish I had.

The Shepp's are complete. This series has been good about that, not like the early 90's chop jobs. For Moncur, the stuff under his own name, his work with McLean/Hutcherson in the early 60's, and the 70's 'Lee Morgan' album come to mind as good examples of his playing, especially his twoBYG albums. 'New Africa' is the best thing that label ever did to me. I wish someone would put 'Echoes of Prayer', his work with the JCOA, on CD.

Just with Shepp, or overall?

Not at all from what I remember. Still well worth picking up.

"When you hear music, after it's over it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again." Same with some of the threads here, that's all.

And I sure look forward to it! And I sure look forward to it! Also, PM sent on the William Parker.