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The Buddy Terry Mainstrean albums are pretty wonderful. I'm surprised. Admittedly I've only heard one (Lean On Him) but that one was pretty dispensable. 'Lean on Him' is a bad misfire, but the other two are incredible. 'Pure Dynamite', as pointed out by Free For All and Jim, and 'Awareness' are early 70's gems. Here's the allmusic.com description to 'Awareness" (sounds like a Dustygroove blurb) "Awareness teams Buddy Terry with an all-star cast including trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater, pianist Stanley Cowell and percussionist Mtume to forge a far-reaching, audaciously free spiritual jazz suite far removed from the signature Mainstream label aesthetic. Terry moves from soprano to tenor to flute and back again, exemplifying the soul-searching restlessness of his music--at the same time, the individual players fuse seamlessly, channeling the righteous fury of Terry's vision to create a coherent, deeply righteous whole."

The Buddy Terry Mainstrean albums are pretty wonderful.

You can get some hard to find Billy Harper albums at $2.97 each on Amazon (a bargain because they're figuring $.99 per track, and each album only has three tracks).

Wasn't this already done on the 2-CD Impressions from years back? Yep. The hope would be that they would present the tracks both ways, the "real" versions for music's sake, the overdubbed versions for historical reference.

This is a desert island disc for me, gorgeous stuff from 1969, my favorite flute music ever, and worth the price of admission for Eric Gravatt's drumming alone (though there is so much more). I've had this on LP for 40 years, and it's never lost it's magic. Listened to the CD this morning, and it sounds great, full liner notes, etc. Asha on Amazon site

All signs of Bill on KBCS showlist, facebook postings, allaboutjazz postings seem to have ceased around April 20 from waht I can see. I can't find more, and also miss Bill and his good spirits. I've sent him an email, will let you know if I hear from him. Hoping for the best, but fearing the worst.

Agreed. Horrid sound, but the music is so good I've always held onto the CD.

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With you on that actually. His work with the Jazz Messengers was outstanding!

Thanks Jim, very helpful on a number of levels. I withdraw "hideous" as inappropriate and short-sighted on my part, and substitute "lost on me", which takes the discussion out of the realm of objective and into the more proper realm of subjective. What he was doing in the 80's, I don't have ears to hear. And that is true of the vast majority of music of all forms the last 25 years for me. Probably means that I'm stuck in a musical time warp, but I think I can happily live the rest of my music listening life there with plenty of new (for me) pleasures.

Wrong. Help me understand how to appreciate it then. What am I missing ?

I don't find much of anything he did for Columbia to be of any interest or substance. 'Native Dancer; and the first 4-5 Weather Report albums (up through Tale Spinnin') are about all I can imagine ever listening to again, which means I got off the train in 1975. The 80's solo stuff is pretty hideous lost on me by any standards, let alone Wayne Shorter standards. Don't know what happened to him.

Sure wish I had held off on those recent Wounded Bird reissues of his later Columbia albums. But who knew?

I particularly liked that detail. Didn't expect to see that it had a USA location for the seller...

PM sent on Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian - Live at Birdland (ECM) $7 Oliver Nelson - Live from Los Angeles (Impulse!) Impulse! Originals 2005 reissue $4 Charles Tolliver - The Ringer (Black Lion) w/S.Cowell, S.Novosel, J.Hopps $7 Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon - Quartet (Free Factory) w/10 bonus tracks from other sessions by Shepp and Dixon's separate ensembles $7 John Tchicai Trio - Real Tchicai (SteepleChase) $7

I like Herring's Landmark recordings, and he is a dependable sideman. He is not an innovator in any sense, but is very capable and uppretentious, and I enjoy his work.

Lon, by marginal I didn't mean insignificant, it was just my finance/econ double major-speak coming through. The original prices for the Mosaic Vee Jay's were of course, reasonable. Some of the later resale prices I've seen are staggering. Glad you got them back then, and glad you're happy with them! I'm sure they're very nice.

There's also a Best Of CD being released at the same time Best of what? Do you mean a smaller, one disc version of the 3 discs in this set? Or something else? I hear that Concord is going to lease some of the material and release a collection called 'Miles Davis Bootlegged for Lovers'. One 35 minute CD, edited versions. I would love that, something like live stuff from the 'Caravanserai' and 'Borbeletta' eras. To me, Leon Thomas didn't really fit well with Santana, so 'Lotus' always felt like it could have been more, great as it was. Leon Patillo always seemed like the far superior fit to me.

But at what marginal cost difference? You're not alone! I enjoyed them too! Stuck with their reissues from VeeJay. Fine sound, alternate takes. That was good enough here. Also enjoyed their CD reissues of rare items like The Cool Gabriels, Rocky Boyd, Anthony Ortega, Jomar Dragon and others... I also like the Blue Moon Vee Jay's. Those are what I have as my Vee Jay core.

Rc'd the 2 CD's in good order from Dusty Groove, ordered the DVD from Amazon.

PM sent on 6 Gene Ammons Friends at Montreux [Live] (OJC-Fantasy) 7 Philly Joe Jones Mo Joe (Black Lion) 7 Shelly Manne (Jazz Gunn / Daktari (Collectables)

Well worth the plunge

No, never even heard of it! Sigh...

The 'Believer' I got from them was from the fan club, but silver-backed. Not sure if 'The Believer' and the other two ever actually came out on CD otherwise. I've never seen them.