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It focuses on the Mingus-led sessions, excluding his sideman work, and adds in the essential 1966 "Right Now - At The Jazz Workshop" album with Jordan, Handy, and Jane Getz. It is a much more solid set - there was a LOT of dross on the Complete box (IMO, YMMV, etc.). I sold the Complete box, bought this Leader box and the most important (to me) of his sideman Debut sessions - Paul Bley, Hazel Scott, the Trombone thing with JJ etc. I got the John Dennis CD as a cutout. I already had standalone Quintet and Powell Massey Hall CD's. I have not regretted my decisions.

Yes.

Great question. I would subjevtively add Brenda Holloway to the list, "Every Little Bit Hurts" still sends shivers through me when I hear it. Also Martha Reeves maybe. YMMV.

Great singer, fascinating life. RIP.

Yes

Yes, and quite a funky departure for him. I used this on a BFT several years ago: I'll go back and relisten (good excuse anyways). The Billy Parker CD sound is criminally bad, I remember being angry when I received and played it. Agreed that needle drops can be done well.

$22 for the regular CD release from CDJapan.

The "Strata-East: The Legacy Begins" sampler is now available online. Incredibly generous, free access to over four hours of S-E music. If you're not familiar with the catalog, check out the offerings. https://mackavenue.com/collections/strata-east The Billy Parker and Descendents of Mike & Phoebe Japanese CD's I have are (bad) needle drops, and cost me a lot. There may be more.

You're right, Ruppli shows it as unissued, so I was misremembering.

Sounds great, musically and sonically!

Agreed. IIRC, that first Bobby Hutcherson album, "The Kicker", was marked as rejected, but sounded good to me when it finally came out on CD 35 years later.

The Rouse, Tolliver, and Cowell are available for pre-order on Amazon for top-dollar prices. I'll wait out to check other sources before ordering.

My last three finally arrived yesterday.

I'm in for the CD set.

I'm on Windows 11, and also use Firefox for my browsing. I do use Duck Duck Go as my search engine at this point - not totally sold on it, but I no longer trust Google.

RIP. Larks'.... may be my favorite King Crimson album, though I like so many from their initial 1969-1975 run. It certainly hit hard when I first heard it.

I especially like the two albums she did with the Oyster Band.

Wish you could have experienced the 1970's-1990's golden age of WRTI, when it was 24-hour jazz, had the revolutionary "Freedom Sounds" format playing the great music, and then later had great on-air personalities like Harrison Ridley Jr. ("Alrighty, yes indeedy") and Kim Berry playing serious jazz. The past 25 years, where they split the programming between jazz and classical, and sought for a more "popular" mix of jazz, have actually been a pretty big disappointment to me, and I seldom listened in, though my wife still continues to often tune in while cooking dinner.

The LP's used to show up in cut-out bins in the early/mid 70's. That's where I got my first dose of them - thrilled by some, horrified by others!

Five CTI's and three BYG's for me.

I just wish they would have had more complete music footage in it. I was always surprised they never came out with a deluxe DVD/Blu-ray set of it that included extra footage, featurettes, etc. I think that would have sold well.

Yes, there are Kudu titles such as the Johnny Hammond Smith and Esther Phillips. I actually preferred the Kudu cover art overall, sometimes found the CTI cover art a little strange and creepy (or in the case of Turrentine's Sugar, more than a little strange and creepy), though the packaging was indeed lavish. IIRC, the list price on CTI albums was a dollar higher than standard albums, no doubt to support the packaging and music production costs.

Sunflower is a good one. I quite like most of the Hubbard titles. The Randy Weston is a favorite of mine. The whole label output from the early 70's/Sebesky era grew on me as I have aged, and I own most of the titles from that era at this point, still missing most of the titles from the label from before and after that period, as the Bob James era represented a step down to me, and then the David Matthews/disco-ish era represented another big step down. The 60's A&M titles are not easy to come by, so I don't have a lot of them.