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On my "I'll get around to it eventually" list. For all the Corea material I have (and I have a lot), I tend to keep going back to "Inner Space" and "Now He Sings..." and the two Airto/Flora RTF's and "Crystal Silence" when I actually go to listen to him.

Ordered mine today, can't wait to get/hear it. Love Szabo from that period, and "Lady Gabor" and "Sweet Georgia Bright" are favorities. Always have wished that Mosaic would have done a box of Chico Hamilton's recordings with Lloyd and/or Szabo, which have had very scattershot availability despite their great musical value.

Then I was absolutely right on my comment on this - "In a totally different universe than I am".

My second package arrived today, so I'm good, thx!

I got one of two packages (which were mailed together!) on 9/8, still waiting for the second one, and I live about 15 minutes away from Alan!

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Interesting to me that 14 is Booker Little, who I think of myself as liking, yet I disliked this. He was very young, and mastery of ballad playing seems to come with age. Also interesting to me that I own 1,3,4,6,8,11, and 14, but did not nail any of them. I did get 2,5,7,10, and 15, but that's still not a great batting average.

I'll say yes and no on our takes on guitarists. A lot of this test is outside of my typical boundaries for that sort of stuff. Notwithstanding Sonny Sharrock, I'm very much a Grant Green sort of guy. I'm with you on both Sharrock and Green, thx!

Thanks, I'm in then.

1 – Good tune, good tenor solo, really dislike that “modern” guitar sound. The players obviously can play, but the guitar tone is so offputting to me, I can’t enjoy it. 2 – lovely. Very nice piano. 3 – Don’t normally like the sax quartet thing, especially on slow ones, but like this. 4 – Fun. I likely know the players, but would likely guess wrong. Hamiett Buiett? 5 – Lost on me, especially the vocal. The tenor player has a beautiful tone and control. 6 – In a totally different universe than I am. 7 – The artist really can play the baritone well, though I am less enamored of the rhythm section. But overall very pretty. 8 – Enjoyed this one, like the pulse, though it went on too long for me, the percussion solo lost me. 9 – Find the guitar offputting in this one also (though I like the chording at the end of his solo), but there is so much going on I like (especially the bass/drums, especially especially the bass player) that I enjoy this quite a bit and am very interested to find out who it is. Trombone makes me think of Ray Anderson. 10 – Pleasant without leaving any impact on me. 11 – Like the cello player a lot. Very interesting lineup, the violin player doesn’t grab me and the guitarist leaves me utterly cold. I love that cymbal-happy style of drumming that is used in places on this. Interesting BFT, though not up my alley for the most part. Good educational opportunity for me. We have VERY different tastes in guitar players (likely a generational thing at least in part). Really look forward to finding out the details on #9, hope someone identifies it so that I don’t have to wait a month!

The Lyons and Blackwell go directly on to my "must have" list. People's thoughts on the Hamilton, Lacy, Trovesi, and Sun Ra? I'm not familiar with Trovesi, what is the music like? Is the Sun Ra the retro stuff he was into late? Is the Hamilton set all Cary DeNegris? My impressions of the Black Saint Lacy's is that they are pretty heavy on Irene Aebi. Is that the case? Thanks for your input!

I actually got my Coltrane Concert In Japan at a cool little indy place near where I work. With policies like that, you can understand how they went out of business early in the game when the big guys moved in, but that store was great at the beginning of the CD era . When I want to hear Trane live from that period, that is the title I tend to go to.

They did get more expensive at the end. The store by me was charging $1 over list price, and nothing was ever on sale except for the latest pop hits, and they no longer carried the deep catalog they had earlier. And they had stopped publishing the Pulse! magazine. It became just another store, and I actually stopped going a year or two before they closed. But in their prime, they were a marvel.

I have these, only seven: Muhal Richard Abrams featuring Malachi Favors: Sightsong (Black Saint) Walt Dickerson: Peace (Steeplechase) Al Haig: Trio and Sextets (OJC) Julius Hemphill: Raw Materials and Residuals (Black Saint) Elmo Hope Trio: Meditations (OJC) Joseph Jarman: Song For (Delmark) Charles Mingus: Jazz Portraits (Blue Note)

Happens to me all the time on the BFT's

Those were the days. I miss the thrill of going into huge brick and mortars and coming out with undreamed of treasures. I remember my first trip to a Tower Records - Fisherman's Wharf area in San Francisco, ca. 1977, I think. And being blown away by the three story + annex one on South Street in Philly. And my amazement when they opened one in suburban Philly (King of Prussia) walking distance from my house. Always looked forward to the monthly Pulse magazine also and the all-label sales in January. This is the golden era as far as being able to locate/obtain stuff, but not in terms of the shear enjoyment of the quest.

Found the following at the end of the Amazon.com listing, which may explain why the release is on Resonance rather than Hip-O or Verver: Resonance Records, which is a 501 ©(3) non-profit foundation, will contribute a portion from every sale to the John Coltrane House, an organization devoted to the preservation of Coltrane's former home in Dix Hills, New York.

They did the same thing on the Self-Portrait set, and I have resisted the deluxe version, even though it is the only major missing piece in my Dylan collection.

Something called a ring modulator was used a lot on electric pianos back then. I remember George Cables recording with it. Woody Shaw's 'Song of Songs' on Contemporary comes immediately to mind re: Cables with ring modulator. Also the earliest Milestone Joe Henderson's. Cables was quite enamored of that effect. I wasn't.

Very late to the party, sorry. Here are my impressions/guesses. I have and recognize enough of these that I think can somewhat drop my self-prescribed "wooden ears" moniker. Great BFT, thanks! 1 – South African. My obvious point of reference is Dollar Brand, but it’s not him. I like it quite a bit, and the 17 minutes passes quickly. 70’s? 2 – “Warm Canto” from Mal Waldron ‘The Quest’. Eric Dolphy and Ron Carter. That album blew me away when I discovered it in the early 70’s. Great cut. 3 – Lovely piano. Assume it is from the 50’s? I’m sure it’s someone I know well and I may well have this CD sitting on a shelf somewhere. The bluesy little thing at the end makes me think of someone like Junior Mance. 4 – Old stuff. Aurally pretty bizarre (poor recording or pressing, variable tape speed), but I do like it some, and find it very interesting. Red Norvo maybe? Or Sun Ra’s 50’s stuff? 5 – Jimmy Giuffre “The Train and The River”, with Jim Hall. Tune is stuck with me forever from that great Newport documentary “Jazz on a Summer’s Day”. Utterly unique and wonderful. 6 – One of the tenor greats, I’m sure. Ben Webster? Lovely. Sounds Ellington-ish, but doesn’t sound like Ellington. One of the Verve Ben Webster albums? 7 – John McLaughlin, “Arjen’s Bag” (later “Follow Your Heart” on ‘My Goal’s Beyond’) from the ‘Extrapolation’ album with John Surman. One of my favorite tunes, especially the Joe Farrell version. 8 – Right up my alley, whatever it is, without being anything special for the genre. Maybe the 50’s Jazz Messengers with Jackie McLean and Bill Hardman? 9 – Well, that’s different, isn’t it? First thought was Rahsaan, just from the bizarre factor, but there are two sax players. I do like it/ 10 – This is the Jazz Messengers, “That Old Feeling” from the the ‘Three Blind Mice’ live sessions. I remember getting this album from a cutout bin in the early 70’s, my first Jazz Messengers album, but far from my last. Cedar Walton is great on this. Love it when Blakey comes in at the beginning. “There it is! indeed”. 11 – Guitarist certainly sounds like Carlos Santana with that sustain, though I can’t place the cut in the Santana pantheon at all. Sonny Sharrock with Pharoah Sanders? Sharrock is also capable of that sustain. 12 – Now that is fine fine alto playing! “Love for Sale” Sonny Criss with Walter Davis and Paul Chambers from ‘This is Criss’. 13 – “All The Things You Are”, but certainly not a version I’m familiar with. Disco era for sure, but bad disco at that. Sounds like it’s being played by a bunch of robots, though I’m sure they’re fine musicians. 14 – Nice tone, but I don’t like the style. Hope it isn’t someone I think is a favorite, they don’t seem to have a sense of how to play a ballad (or at least THIS ballad) (at least to my taste). 15 –Sam Cooke, amazing voice. Or is this a trick somehow?

PM sent on Charles Tyler - Eastern Man Alone - (ESP Disk, digipak)

DL please

He lost me somewhere around the second side of 'Lorca', but 'Tim Buckley', 'Happy/Sad', 'Blue Afternoon' are all big favorites, and 'Goodbye and Hello' is one of my 10 favorite albums of all time. A lot of amazing live stuff and outtakes has also seen the light of day.

I highly recommend the Donaldson and Wilson sets, especially at those prices. Individual CD's of the Donaldson albums have become very pricey, and I've never seen much of the Wilson material on individual CD's (which I find surprising and disappointing).

Another here for the Crusaders set.