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Spirit was quite a group. I'm sure some jazz guys took notice, especially with Ed Cassidy on drums. According to lore, Cassidy had played with Cannonball, Rahsaan, Art Pepper, Lee Konitz, and Gerry Mulligan among others. John Locke also had a lot of jazz flourishes in his playing. I still play their first four albums quite a bit, especially 'The Family That Plays Together'. And their soundtrack to 'The Model Shop' is pretty great.

The Buckley and all of the other Music Club Deluxe sets I own seem to have greatly improved sound. Top notch budget label.

The Starsailor anthology contains almost all of the cuts from the original Starsailor album, along with 2 hours of material from his other albums, and goes for less than 1/3 of the insane "Starsailor" prices.

Yes, that is it exactly. You guys are good! I was not conscious of Hamer prior to getting this CD set in a trade (though I actually had stuff he played on), but was blown away by some of the material, especially this cut. Hamer actually had quite an interesting career, credits ranging from the Beatles ("Got to Get You Into My Life") to Joe Harriott.

Costco has Full House - The Complete Series, 32 DVD for $44.99. I picked it up for my daughter for a Christmas present.

Streaming/DL for me, thanks!

Glad you're enjoying it, thanks for the kind words! All except #9 are ID'd. #11 is indeed Butterfield Blues Band doing Nat Adderley's "Work Song". I wasn't looking to fool the crowd on that as much as to have opportunity for us to discuss "is it jazz or not?" and also to admire the musicianship of Buttefield and the guitarists (Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield). "East-West" from that album was one serious groundbreaking recording.

YMMV situation for sure. 'Goodbye and Hello' was the classic Buckley album to me, with the debut, 'Happy/Sad', and 'Blue Afternoon' all ringing in as pretty great, the saner half of 'Lorca' working for me, and the rest of the original studio catalog registering varying shades of "Huh?" to me. I remember buying 'Starsailor' out of a cutout bin and being just horrified by it, and still pretty much am. I think it was Robert Christgau who said that on that album, Buckley sounds like a man having his liver torn out - slowly. Some of his late 60's live stuff is pretty fantastic. Lee Underwood's guitar worked OK for me in this context.

Correct again! Session not led by Hayes, though.

You are correct!

Well done! Seems to be a little-known album for some reason, doesn't seem to have stayed in print very long back in the day from what I can tell. Still waiting on ID for #9. Not an easy task, but you guys have gotten tougher ones than this, even on this BFT! May raise some eyebrows, though.

There was supposed to be a 50 CD box of Impulse stuff come out for the 50th anniversary, but apparently that idea got scrapped. I even remember seeing a listing of the 50 albums that were going to be on it.

$16.60 on Amazon Marketplace: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EBGBL2?keywords=mike%20westbrook%20citadel&qid=1449860763&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Because what the world needs most is yet another reissue of the same BN titles.

This seems like the right place to bring up the original CD packaging, which put the jewel case in this senseless foot-long cardboard box which you had to wrestle the jewel case out of and then dispose of the box. Senseless murder of many trees. I'm OK with jewel cases, though I agree the new ones are flimsier and more breakable than the old ones. I'm also OK with digipaks as long as the teeth don't break. but really am annoyed when they do.

This may dampen some of the market for the earlier Barron material:

PM sent on that package.

PM sent on all of the CTI's

Correct on both! So name the album (and/or other players) that Owens is playing on.

He was also ahead of everything else being recorded in the entire rock pantheon. Compare his work on the early Butterfield stuff to what "guitar gods" Beck, Page, Clapton, and Hendrix were doing (at least on record) in '65-early '66. Hendrix got there soon afterward, and arguably Jorma Kaukonen did also., Page got there eventually. I'd argue that Clapton and Beck actually never got there (though with the Yardbirds, Beck may have been state of the art prior to Bloomfield, but Bloomfield blew him away). The quailitative difference between the Bloomfield side of 'Super Session' and the Stephen Stills side is stunning. Listen to the title track of "East-West", and consider this was recorded in July 1966!

PM sent.

I have the Aretha box, and I think the mastering is very good on it, all things considered. How good are those recordings ever going to sound, since the master tapes are gone? My biggest gripe is that they left out some GREAT non-LP singles rather than adding them onto the "odds and ends" CD set as bonus tracks, so I still need to hold onto another source for those tracks. "House That Jack Built", "Spanish Harlem", "You're All I Need To Get By", "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Major stuff, to my thinking. I also picked the Otis box, but haven't listened to it yet. If you're not a complete-ist, the 1992 "Queen of Soul" 4CD set is still probably the way to go on Aretha, and the Otis 4CD set from that era is pretty spectacular, too.

I'm reading this thread while listening through Sennheiser HD415 headphones to a 1950's Blakey/Jazz Messengers CD playing on my Sony boombox. This is what I use to listen while I work every day. Total cost of system - under $100. Works OK for me and my 61-year-old ears, though I wouldn't turn down a high-end system if someone gave it to me.