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Tolliver also played on Andrew Hill's "Dance With Death", but I agree the McLean recordings were a great feature for him, including some spectacular writing (love "On The Nile"!).

Asking price lowered to $65. Will keep lowering it every day this week, then take it out to ebay if no one wants it.

Go ahead - take the leap Yep, you'll not regret it. Something like 17 or 19 albums worth of primo material.

Asking price lowered to $70

Price lowered to $50 October 29. I have come to possess the 3CD set "Strings With Evan Parker" on the Emanem label. It is apparently quite rare, going for $135 on Amazon Marketplace. It is also totally outside the pale of what I listen to, so I would like to find a good home for it. I certainly don't expect $135 for it. I guess I'll offer it with "asking $75" and will lower the price daily until it finds a taker. I'm also open to lower offers and trade offers, anything reasonable in return. So if this is a set you would like to have, please contact me at john.felser@verizon.net or via PM and let's see what we can work out. Thanks.

Received this via email from the Miles Davis site. Hope I don't get trampled by the hoard rushing to get in on this now-bargain purchase: Genius Of Miles Davis Price Reduced At Legacy Recordings, we value feedback from our fans, and have been reading some of your comments about The Genius of Miles Davis pricing. For that reason, the price of this item has been reduced to $749 US.

Breakin' Away and the first live album are the two I've always liked by him. The last 30 years, he's left me pretty cold.

No sound quality difference whatsoever, just the blemishes to the artwork as described. I'm big on Newbury Comics and -importcds. Have had nothing but good experiences with blowitoutofhere, but haven't gotten nearly as many from them as I have from -importcds. I've had a couple of not great experiences with MovieMars, tend to stay away from them if another reliable seller is in the same price ballpark, though they also are normally fine. I probably end up getting around 50% of my total Amazon purcases from -importcds at this point.

It will stand, indeed.

Those two and 'Where' have been the Carter "keepers" for me through the years. On many of his other leader recordings, I've found him to be much too enamored of his own bass playing as opposed to the total impact of the music.

Which also doubles as the best Simon a& Garfunkel song. Very efficient, Allen. I also didn't vote, as my favorite is "Live at Blues Alley". Have found him basically pompous (to varying degrees) on every release I've heard since that one. I like his initial work with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers quite a bit, and think how different it could have all been if he hadn't become so "important". I did like his contributions to the Ken Burns Jazz series, and liked that series, admitted glaring flaws and all.

Arrived in excellent condition, thank you!

So is the Phil Spector set.

Quick couple of thoughts: 1 - I really like the first two Chicago albums and the first two BST albums, especially the first one by each. 2 - England had some great horn bands. My favorite was If, with Dick Morrissey and an excellent guitarist named Terry Smith. They made some fine albums. I also really liked another one, more obscure, called The Greatest Show On Earth. 3 - It was a wonderful time with jazz and rock and pop mixing together seeking something new. Columbia marketing Soft Machine III as a pop album was incredible in retrospect.

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Did he say who that one was?

And the only thing I would add to that is that, when it comes to human beings, never understimate the true depth of neurosis and self-defeating behavior, in all it's various forms (some much more "socially acceptable" than others). In my experience there's always more than meets the eye. And that goes for me as much as for anyone else.

Legit? Depends on your point of view (don't want to start the debate here yet again). Worth owning, at the price those things sell for? Absolutely. I own it, am quite pleased with it. IMO, better yet would be a Mosaic of the sides with Lloyd and Szabo, as the Columbia's have never made it to CD and the Impulse's were butchered.

Yeah, Workman is just about the star of that session. Also check out Workman's solo at the start of "Prayer for Peace" on Charles Tolliver's 'Live at Loosdrecht' album (reissued on Black Lion CD as 'Grand Max'). And Alex Blake gets off a great one on the title track on Charles Sullivan's 'Genesis'.

Can you provide the songs and times for part 2? thx/

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I'm not sure about the provenance or even if my memory is a little clouded, but I feel pretty certain that I saw a CD copy of Step By Step in the LA Amoeba several years back. It could have been an import, if the artificially high used CD price was any indication. It was out on German label Bellaphon a long time ago. A number of Strata-East titles were. I picked up Billy Harper's "Capra Black", Clifford Jordan's "Glass Bead Games" and a bunch of Tolliver titles back then.

FWIW, The Strata Web site recently reported that Tolliver's "Paper Man" was to released as part of a multi-disk set in the future. That website has listed that album as "coming soon" for the four years I've been checking it. Do they have something that is newer info somewhere? I did notice the website showed a 2010 update date.

For me also. If I could only own one Tolliver (a sad thought), that would be the one.