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4 – This is beautiful and I’m sure I own it, but can’t place it.. Whoever did it has heard the Dolphy/bassist duets. 5 – “Red Clay”, nice guitar. 6 – Tenor is unmistakably 50’s Coltrane, so I was able to ID. “The Outer World” from ‘The Art Blakey Big Band’ on Bethlehem. 9 - Really like this 10 – Good tenor player, but don’t like the vocal asides. 12 – This kicks! 70’s! Feels like I own this. Reminds me of the 70’s Prestige Blakey albums with Shaw, Walton, Jefferson, and Bass. 15 – Totally up my alley, Coltranish modalish wonderfulness! Must acquire if I don’t already own it! Feel like I know the tenor player. 17 – “Mode for Joe” from the Eastern Rebellion album with George Coleman. Classic! 19 – “Bumpin’ on Sunset” by Wes Montgomery. Must be a single edit. Love what Brian Auger did with this one in the 70’s. 24 – like the tenor player, even in this context. Sorto bizarre vocals. 29 – “Michelle” of course.

When I did a weekly jazz radio show at college in the mid-70's, I named it "Expansions" and used Smith's "Expansions" and Charles Earland's "Leaving This Planet" as my theme songs.

I KNEW I owned that Nathan Davis track! I was the one who guessed Woody Shaw. That Davis twofer is a gem, I need to pull it off the shejf and listen to it. Wlsh the Beck, Greenwich, Sato, and Tchangodei were readily available on CD. Great BFT, thx!

Yeah, that's my favorite Pharoah cut ever. The adavantage of his later playing is that he no longer felt the need to insert the formulaic, often gratuitous "freak out" section into every solo. I think I could make a great 2 CDR set out of the prime cuts from his Impulse sides, should do that. "The Creator Has a Master Plan" and "Black Unity" would fill one disk. The other one would have "Upper Egypt", "Hum-Allah", "Elevation", and some of the other mid-70's stuff, including the first side from 'Village of The Pharoahs'. The gems on 'Thembi' for me have always been the title cut and "Morning Prayer", which is largely a Lonnie Liston Smith feature.

What I said previously basically stands, I ordered two of these Impulse Master Sessions digipaks earlier this year and they were old stock. I just noticed one disc that does have a CD-R warning on amazon.de. Alice Coltrane's A Monastic Trio which is listed with a January 2013 release date (unlike the Pharoah Sanders disc). Buying from an Amazon Marketplace seller should eliminate the CD-R fears. There are a lot of reputable sellers listed for that 'Thembi' listing. Better prices than Amazon direct also.

There's some good and some not so good on it, but it is a relic of a fascinating musical era. Worth it if you are into that era. I am, big-time.

Those are really good albums, especially MF1. Not the commercialism of his later Columbia sides.

sign me up pls!

Also my understanding that they fought all the time, yet they moved together to Cream. I was astonished at how artistically successful the Cream reunion concert DVD was, and I play it a good bit.

Actually that is very helpful for me, as I seem to "get" Tristano. Thx.

I picked up the Jeremy Steig, it's great, and I had never heard it, thanks so much! I also have the Julius Hemphill, which is also wonderful. Look forward to the other releases, which I hope to come by over time. The Tapscott is a seminal session. I own the West Coast Hot CD which contains that album plus Bradford-Carter tracks, but would really like to upgrade, and your release represents a major quiality upgrade. And I think I certainly need to check out the Bill Dixon, which I have also never heard. And the Carter-Bradford. Can anyone give me a reference point on the Clare Fischer, so I would have an idea what it would be like? It must be really good, but I'm not sure what to expect.

Here is my take: In general, CTI went down the tubes artistically as the 70's went on, due in large part to the dropoff from Don Sebesky to Bob James to Dave Matthews. So I'd tend to pass and stick with the CTI.

Per the Dex discussion, thanks Chuck for the insght. The latest convincing recording I'm aware of is 'Gotham City' from 1981. 'American Classic' from 1982 has always been a disappointment to my ears. Was 1981 the last really strong year for him, or did he play Dex-level well later than that?

David, I like the Howard McGhee tracks quite a bit. I own them on this, but they are available on several CD's.

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Yeah, quite a band, but check out the band on the Round Midnight CD's, and those are so bland as to be virtually unlistenable to me. Though the length on these tracks seems promising. Don't know if Dex could still bring it in 1987 or not, as I have no recorded proof that he could - any thoughts on his 1987 playing?

Couple more that come to mind. Loved Miroslav Vitous working with Eric Gravatt on the early Weather Report stuff, and Gary Peacock on the album he did with Mal Waldron, 'First Encounter'. Wish someone would put out a CD of that one!

Thanks so much. I've wanted this box, so just ordered it at that great price.

Off the top of my head Reggie Workman on "Prayer for Peace" from Charles Tolliver - Live at Loosdrecht Alex Blake from the title track of Charles Sullivan - Genesis Charles Mingus - on "Hora Decibutus": from Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, "Haitian Fight Song" from The Clown

If it weren't just Monk. I think the days of Blue Note rereleasing music by John Hardee et al are long behind us. Guess I should have opened the link instead of just reading the label. No interest in either of these. They are just Concording the BN vaults, same old same old with a tiny little twist. I'd rather have a John Hardee 2CD set!

Ah, but do you think it should have stayed in the can?? Yes. The ongoing lowering of standards is unfortunate. But aren't "nice try, but no cigar" sessions often more interesting to hear than a lot of competent "same old, same old"?

That 47-52 set might be really interesting, if there are cuts that did not make it onto LP/CD previously. May also have quite a stylistic range, Sidney Bechet to John Hardee to Babs Gonzalez to Monk?

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. You can get the bulk of the Dial and MJQ materal from elsewhere, and the Threadgill to me is very hot (Novus) and cold (Columbia).

I picked this up recently at a great price. Cardboard box, cardboard sleeves, and a booklet with discographical information. Get it, and donate your iron box to the center for tetanus research. Yep, I did pick that one up and have been trying to move along my iron one ever since. I guess it will end up in ebay wilderness, though I've gotten to the point where I really don't like ebay, and have note sold anything out there in five years or so.