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RIP, I quite enjoyed his first decade of albums. Gave the world Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jon Hiseman, and others (Clapton was already known from his work with the Yardbirds). Cream, Colosseum, Fleetwood Mac, Keef Hartley Band (and, regretably, Mark-Almond) all come directly out of his groups.

Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" was the best musical moment of the whole festival (of the music I've heard). Performing in front of 400,000 people, and their first album hadn't even been released yet.

RIP. Some amazing musical moments. Second record I ever bought was "Baby I Need Your Lovin" (first was "You've Lost That Lovin Feelin" by Righteous Brothers, first album was 'Beatles 65'.

PM sent on the Hemphill and both Bill Evans.

Great price, STUNNING music!

Val Shively in the Upper Darby section of West Philly was/is notorious for running customers out of the store. 4 million records. I've never been tempted to make the 30-40 minute journey, and it occurs to me that I literally can't remember the last time I was in a brick and mortar store to shop. Has been years, maybe more than a decade. https://clippermedia.org/inside-the-worlds-greatest-record-store/

Oh man. I just ordered the AEC, Barbieri/Band, Cowell, Noah Howard, Steve Kuhn and Jym Young titles yesterday (I already own several others in different Freedom/Black Lion CD releases), and now I have to go look again at the additions! This board is an expensive place to hang out sometimes!

PM sent on the William Parker.

Horace Tapscott - Legacies for Our Grandchildren

Same issue here, so many books/CD's/movies, so little time. I think I have the Didion book (have a few by her), have not read it. I read part of Gilead, but put it down because it was so grim, meant to eventually get back to it. My wife has read the Frederick Douglass book. And that's it for the culturally behind-the-times Felser household.

Thanks. I own the Monk, Rollins, and Baez/Dylan books, but have not read any of them yet, as my retirement years are not proving to yield nearly as much discretionary time as I had anticipated (but life is good, filled with meaningful endeavors including raising our grandson, helping my 90 year old mother, working in domestic violence ministry, and more). The Berry and Mitchell are certainly of interest to me, but so many books, so little time...

Just stick with this then:

Massive 27 CD set on Columbia. $130 pre-order on Amazon, may be cheaper on the ImportCDs/DeepDiscount/CCMusic family of sites once they list it. At under $5/disc I'm in, for old-times sake if nothing else.

The Bermuda Triangle of packages is the Jersey City distribution center.

Very talented musician in the space between jazz and R&B. Some nice albums from the period you mentioned, including one on Strata-East. Music Director/Bandleader with Nina Simone for a spell ca. 1969. Co-wrote "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" with Simone, and wrote a score named 'To Be Young, Gifted, and Broke'. Passed at 58, much too young.

RIP, so sorry to hear!

I hope Amazon or somebody eventually offers a download of that track. I'd pay my $1.29 or whatever to hear it. Are there any huge differences (such as much longer running length) on any of the new alternate takes in the box.

I could "go" for those!